Testing direct upload from phone

Beginning a photo project regarding fruits and vegetables from the garden and relation to human form. Let's just start with some of the more simple ones...

Title: "Shy tomato peeking ironically from the corner of the frame"

Some photographers I like

Since this blog is mostly a reference for me and outlet to look at some of my photos in a particular context, I thought I would start using it a bit more intentionally. Here are some photographers his work I found recently and really like.

1.) http://lumilyon.wordpress.com/ - Nettie Edwards. Does a lot of work with the iPhone but using alternative photographic processes. Totally awesome! Found her in an issue of Black and White Photography (No. 158).

2.) http://carawestonphotography.com/index.php -I like the photography here but more than anything actually like the website itself.

3.) http://www.jennyellerbe.com/PortfolioIndex.html - black-and-white photography again. She has some interesting stuff, an interesting mixture of landscapes and some more abstract studies though probably not as abstract as I would take things.

4.) http://www.alisonturnerphoto.com/#!/index - Alison Turner website. The iPhone on the road pictures are pretty amazing. there is a piece called reflected identities that was highlighted in the last issue of Black and White Photography (No. 158), but I can't seem to find it online. It definitely was what inspired me to try using the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone. now that I have to give them myself, perhaps I will just use my own photos as the inspiration for continuing... as well as my new iPhone lens toys :)

Wood Texture Studies

"SpaceFoetus"

I have an awesome cool new toy I found at the camera shop, the first one I have found in Michigan. It is in Grand River. T
he thing is called olloclip and is basically a series of tiny lenses crafted specifically for the iPhone. Since the iPhone is always around me and I like to experiment with that, it is a wonderful addition to my life! Gabriella and I went to the walking place after school on Monday since Jesse has been busy and while she played I played around with my toy. This shot was taken in a window. Friend Colin said it looked like a space foetus. So I said, well then that's its title!

Michigan Spring Panorama

I stole one of these images and created the other in R, though with basically stolen code (i was working through examples.) The more I get into data visualization, the more I reflect on the places of intersection between them. The similarity in tone and shape between these two in particular - or maybe this painting postcard, which hangs in my office - and any map - made me want to create a little mash-up. So I did. And my usual "brand" name...

Spring Day in East Lansing

At 4H Children's Garden and plant sale. Afterward went to E. Lansing Art Festival. Fun day!!

Evening snow shoot - Potter Park, Lansing

mostly out to practice panoramas. about 18 inches of snow and plowed banks up to my waist. wore snowshoes to navigate but it was still REALLY tough. this was one of the last before dark. could still use some editing...

In case it isn't obvious by now, I really don't often feel like writing on the blog. I really only feel like posting photographs. I don't know if that's really "okay" or not... perhaps I should actually be posting on Pinterest!! I really am trying to post pictures more often, however. Edited photographs mostly. Right now I am trying to do a bit of a project on winter and solitude/loneliness. A joint project with my sister.

The following is another one that I took on Christmas Eve during the huge ice storm that brought down many beautiful tree limbs. Of course the beauty of having brought down the street alone as that I got to touch it and hold it and put it on my car to photograph something ephemeral that I never could have saved otherwise.

Actually really close to home. Got lucky with the pretty little spot of red - someone's buried car, so sad.