sunrise/sunset

Fairhope, AL

Just felt like posting this photo here. I took it on Thursday, and I really like it. I'm really intrigued by the silhouetted landscapes created at sunrise and sunset. Beautiful stuff.

And, it's now official. I'm a college graduate. I got my diploma in the mail yesterday. I didn't think I'd be that phased, but I was really excited. All this time I'd been saying that I wouldn't feel like I was really done with school until I had the diploma in my hand. When I got it, I ran around the house sqee-ing. No joke.

Now it's time for Sharon to stop being lazy and get a steady job. I don't think I'll survive on this freelance thing for long.

Oh, and I'm working on some sequential art for this TOP SECRET (not really) art show. Hopefully I'll get it done in time. I'll post the work-in-progress later today.

Final Critique

Yesterday I had what will (hopefully) be my last critique in photography. It went surprisingly well. For our final assignment we did Gum Prints. It's cool process, but a bit time consuming and difficult to master the first go-round.

It took me forever to develop my concept for this project. I had an idea really early on, but I didn't quite know how to execute it on film. Finally I came to the conclusion that simple is better, and worked from there. I'll talk more about it when I get the images back so I can post them here.

After class, we all got together to take a class portrait, like we've done in previous classes. It is photography, after all.



l to r: Rita Skiadas, the instructor; Sherard Robinson, William Bunce, Nikki Bhakta, John Hyland, and Sharon Samples (me). Photo taken by Sohil Bhakta with my camera.

In the beginning of the semester there were 8 students. Then there were 6. Only 5 people showed up for critique. Nikki's prints were awesome. She's an extremely talented photographer, and I'll hope to see more from her in the future. Her cousin, Sohil, is also a photo student at South. He's really good as well. I hope he realizes his dream of becoming a fashion photographer.

My future as a photographer is a bit less certain, but I do enjoy it. Who knows? My minor in photography may do me some good in the future.

Tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. I graduate. Ken's being awesome and attending. I still have yet to try on my cap & gown. If it doesn't fit now there isn't much I can do about anyways.

G-Day approaches.