Lajolla Residence

This is one of the many projects created for my creative photography course. The assignment was to subdevide a scene by spending an entire role of film starting in an orderly manner from the upper left or the lower right hand side of the scene (depending on whether the camera starts with the first frame or the last). A contact sheet is made by lining up the strips of film. All of the smaller images of course form the larger picture. I thoroughly enjoyed this assignment. I visited Lajolla a couple of times for this project, and that is never a bad thing.

Los Padres National Forest

Here are some late entries for my trip to the Los Padres National Forest. Unfortunately for the viewing public, I am waiting to develop the rest of my roles of film until I find out whether or not I have the job at North Coast Photographic Services. Photography can be expensive and I can be cheep. I should have some more posted in the *near future.

*"Near" indicates any time from now until the timeframe of Christ's second coming.

Jesus

Lamb

Gujome Park 3

This is the third installment in the Gujome Park series.

crossing the tracks

This is another example of negative overlay. The railroad tracks are right out side of my house. Everytime I cross these tracks I feel like I'm crossing the border. It is a whole nother world on the other side.

Keep it Simple

The name for this piece comes from utter frustration for actually coming up with a legitimate name for the title. I was under time restraints before submitting this to the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery. This piece also aided me in coming up with my blogger profile name, "photo reject". It was rejected, I have to pick it up within two weeks.

Los Padres National Forest (polaroid manipulations)

There were several enjoyable moments during my trip out to Los Padres National Forest, though the most intriguing to me was learning to manipulate Polaroid emulsion. Here is a short description of the process posted by mkaz.com: "Polaroid sells a film called Time Zero or SX-70, it goes by both names. This film is slow to develop and sensitive during this process. The interesting benefit of this is the photo can be manipulated while developing with very interesting and unique results. Images can be created with a painterly or impressionistic look, or completely abstracted or distorted."

Western Harris' Hawk

The Western Harris' Hawks are found in the southwestern region of the U.S. along with in Argentina...as well as the Wild Animal Park located in Escondido, California...which is where I captured mine...I have a horrible habit of being unnecessarily honest...

Mission San Luis Rey

The history of the Spanish missions in California is quite interesting. They were set up to spread the Christian doctrine to the local Native Americans. For more information on this particular mission you can visit the www.sanluisrey.org website, or if you are curious about Spanish missions in general you can type "Spanish missions of California" into the wikipedia search menu. If you are entirely not interested you can visit my dirty laundry basket...