Understanding Peace

Yikes! The year has come to a close all of a sudden after working on numerous amounts of photo projects all at the same time. It's sad to know that I won't be printing out projects like crazy for the next 3 months, but I'll be happy for a little break. 


Understanding Peace 


What do you guys make of that? 


For my last photography project of the year in my Photo Arts 3 class, we had to make a final portfolio. I decided to shoot what I love doing best which is exploring nature and waterfalls. I sadly decided not to incorporate any sunsets in this project as Rochester weather has been quite crazy these past few weeks (try having snow a few times over the course of this past week/weekend, and it's May)!! 


I shot mainly around Letchworth State Park down in Mount Morris, NY which is about an hour or so away from Rochester, Corbett's Glen in nearby Brighton/Penfield, NY, and at Mendon Ponds Park  in Pittsford and Mendon, NY. Pretty areas for sure. I also shot images out at the Papermill Waterfalls in Avon, NY but those images sadly didn't come out quite as good as I'd hoped. I however did incorporate an image that ruined the feel of the whole waterfall/landscape thing going on, but its an image of a lone farm next to a cornfield that I found down in rural Avon. The whole class contested to this, and next time, even though it's a good photo, I'll chose not to show it. 


For this project, I chose to show 10 final 8x10" images that I'd printed out with my usual Epson Luster photo paper, and then matted them with a white border. Who knew it was so tough finding the back to support the Window Matte and the photo itself? (Thanks to the photo cage for undocking me for about an hour or so this morning! Appreciate it!) 


Oh yeah, I had to come up with my own artist statement which I'll show in the next post coming up shortly with my images. 


Hope you guys like them! 


More coming soon. -L

Spring at RIT

It's nearing the end of my third quarter here at RIT, and an interesting year it has been! This past quarter has been a better one than my first two quarters here, mainly because of the weather I think. Winter quarter was hectic, and tough especially with all that cold mighty air. 


Funny enough, last week on Tuesday (April 27) we RIT students witnessed SNOW falling down from the sky. Four days later, today, on Saturday May 1st, we are witnessing a day of heat which is alright, but when it's this sticky, it's not too pleasant. 


Going to Imagine RIT today, it was surprisingly full of people scattered among campus. Wow. I must say this is a first that I have seen that has gathered so many visitors, students, faculty/staff, and parents alike from the greater Rochester area. 


Here's a picture that I took of the sunset from my dorm building on campus, and yes, I know the buildings aren't pretty but just look at the sky. So pretty!


Toodles,
Linds.