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Long absence

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

So it’s been almost a month since I last posted…  I’ve been rather busy in that month, and not always in a good way.  Not necessarily bad, just too much of the work-a-day world and not enough time for my personal interests.  Hopefully that will change soon and I’ll be back to a saner work/life balance.

I meant to bring the Pentax to campus today to wander around at lunch, but I was still feeling groggy when I left for the bus and forgot to take it along.  I did manage to get the film developed and scanned from the last time it came to campus, though, and some of the images look really nice.

I started my walkabout as I usually do, by coming up through the Hospitals employee parking deck and then through the med school to Columbia.  Here’s a shot of the old trailer that was torn down to make room for the new Imaging Research building that they’re getting ready to start on:

Trailer A goes away

Trailer A goes away

This was taken from the glass-enclosed pedestrian bridge, so you can see a bit of reflection from the glass.

This shot was taken from the corner of Columbia and South.  The sign says it’s the ROTC Armory, but the building is the Fred Brroks addition to Sitterson, the computer science building.  The armory is the building peeking out of the right edge of the image.

Fred P Brooks Building

Fred P Brooks Building

I’ve got more available, but I’ll post them later.  For now, I need to get back to the day job.

Coming up for breath…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

It’s been a while since my last post – I’ve been busier than anything with my job and with the class I’m taking.  Fortunately, the class is going really well – I’m doing better than I expected to be doing, even if I’m not doing quite as well as I really want to be doing.  It’s amazing how much adjustment there is in going back to school, even part-time – heck, even just one class per semester as a benefit of working for a University – after over 12 years of being out.  I’ve got a lot of advantages over the regular undergrad students I’m in classes with (I’m using undergrad classes to prove I have the mojo to take on a few grad classes which I’ll use to get into grad school), but what I didn’t expect was just how many disadvantages I have.

But that’s neither here nor there – the class is going well, and I’m really enjoying it, but this blog is about photography, not classwork or my job or other uninteresting stuff.  Last weekend I updates SCG with Savannah’s shoot – Savannah is a wonderful model, with more experience in her big toe than I have in total, and you can tell she definitely knows what poses make for good images.  Here’s one that I especially like:

Sleeper

Sleeper

The weather was absolutely piss-poor when we shot together, so I couldn’t get any nice outdoor shots, and I still haven’t figured everything on the Pentax out to get higher quality indoor film B&W shots, so no film from Savannah’s shoot.

But I did finish scanning in the B&W from Stephanie’s shoot, and some of those images are (IMHO) absolutely gorgeous.  Here’s just one example:

Zoom?  ZOOM!

Zoom? ZOOM!

The small image here looks good, but it loses the graininess of the full-size scan, which is what I really like about these images.  Maybe I’m a throwback, but damn I like the effects of grain I’ve been getting from this film!