Beer and Shooting!
Well all, my favorite holiday has come and gone. You’ve got to love a holiday where you don’t have to buy anyone anything, and the only requisite activity is…. DRINKING BEER.
Ryan and I went out with friends last night for beers and food. (and side note… that is NOT wasted beer on my shirt. It is baby spit.)
I just was thinking. When was the last time a picture of me made an apperance on this website? Yeah, not too often. I’m not really good about handing off the camera. I’ve got to do that more.
Speaking of someone who didn’t hand off his camera… Ryan (and his new eyes!) drove me down to Tucson today to the University of Arizona to visit the Center for Creative Photography. They have an exibit of Harry Callahan’s work right now and I love his pictures of his wife Eleanor and his daughter Barbara. He took pictures of places and then just put his wife and daughter in the places as accent. Here are two of my favorites:
Beautiful, huh? I love his pictures of people, but I was surprised at all the odd pictures of buildings he had. Not really that inspired, just pointed his camera at interesting buildings and shot. Could I please do that and be a famous photographer?
Tomorrow I have to do a totally stupid assignment for my photography class. Have I already talked about it? Taking pictures of a white thing under different types of light? Here’s my main issues with that: I only want to take pictures which could turn out to be actual GOOD pictures. I hate the idea of just taking pictures for the sake of learning my camera. You know? I know I have to do it to learn how my camera operates, but I want to do something interesting.
Ryan’s been home for a full week and a day. He goes back to work tomorrow and sadly I am not glad to have him go. Miss that boy. Right now we’re two beers and a shot in and we’re about to have a wild night of BBQ and That ’70s Show. What could be better?
Oh, and before all the beer drinking this weekend, I’ve lost 4 pounds. Celebrate with MORE BEER! 
If success was determined solely by sheer talent, you’d be in Mr. Callahan’s league by now.
The white-subject pictures will help sharpen your other skills. It’s like a piano player doing scales. It seems mundane, but it’s quite fundamental.
You may end up with something frameable. Ya never know!
I totally understand. That project is a really good one, but I was so uninspired when I had assignments that were technically driven. I once shot pics of bananas that was so sad. White on white is, however, what I am into right now… so I could think of a few things. White on white is clean… smooth… How could you make a pic that was so clean and smooth that it accentuated the clean smoothness of white on white? What would you shoot? The other root is to make fun of white on white… how could you make white on white look dirty?
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Looks like you had a fun St Pattys day! I haven’t visited you in a while but your photos are looking absolutely fantastic. Its cool how the classes (even though sometimes you dont know what you are getting from them) really teach you alot. I really really got to take some classes.. now just to find the time… working 80 hours a week doesnt leave me much time to take pictures let along a class. sigh… i have to stop whining
Sounds like a fabulous St. Paddy’s Day! I also celebrated with copious amounts of guinness, but I didn’t take the prerequisite Guinness Head on my Nose Picture. Next year, I promise…
Always good to celebrate with more beer…
You’ve got some great pics on your site. michele says howdy!
Those pictures really were stunning. I was very impressed by the quality.
Bringing back memories of my photography courses. More like nightmares. But, alas, to my chagrin, they did indeed, improve my skills. Good luck. Michele sent me.
Yep, gotta love St. Patty’s Day!
I love those two pictures that you posted. Very nice.
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Love the beer picture!!
Congrats on losing 4 lbs - nice work!!!
Good luck with the photography assgn.
GREAT picture of you and Ryan! I always like when fellow bloggers post pictures of themselves. You two look like you had a blast on St. Paddy’s!
I’ll be curious to see what masterpieces you come up with next for you photo class. I’m sure you’ll find something very interesting…because You’ve Got The Eye!