Marcus Bleasdale

My last photography assignment was to research a photographer that we were assigned and create an image that was in their style.  My photographer was Marcus Bleasdale.  He's most famous for his documentary photography on world issues like the conflict in the Republic of Congo.  I didn't feel like I would be able to mimic those photos so I found another series he did that had a lot of outdoor photos of some interesting places.  Here are a couple of his photos.

Here are some of mine:

Erik and I laughed pretty hard when we first saw "El Bambi Cafe" and so I wanted to take a picture of it, but then it also turned out to be a pretty awesome subject-matter for this assignment.  It was a lot of fun:) 

My Beautiful Mother

My last assignment for my photography class was to take portraits of someone inside using natural light as your main light-source (open windows or doors).  Since we were in Hurricane for the weekend I went to Curves to take advantage of the great window light and got to take some really beautiful pictures of my Mom.  My teacher liked them a lot and thought my Mom was such a great model!  I just love them:)

Stranger Danger!

I got to my class on Tuesday earlier this week and learned that we would be taking a one hour break from class to walk around campus and take pictures of strangers.  The point of it was to get us out of our comfort zone and get use to talking to people we don't know.  Here are a few of them.

Anyway, it turned out to be pretty fun and terribly scary.  Most people were pretty cool... I found out girls are more likely to say no than boys (and if they say yes most of them looked really uncomfortable in the pictures).  And, old guys were more likely to swear at me and keep walking:)  Fun stuff.

Me and My Valentine

 This has been such a great Valentines day.  Erik and I decided that we weren't going to spend any money on gifts this year and it made the everything just way more fun!  I always wake up before Erik because my classes start much earlier, so I had a chance to attack our apartment with love letters before Erik got up.  I left them all over our apartment attached to something that relates to one of the reasons I'm in love with Erik:)  

But the real fun is what Erik gave me.  We are both very busy on Tuesday nights and pretty much swamped for the rest of the week so we decided we would do whatever Valentines celebrations next week instead of on Valentines day.  But, I came home to find this posted above our hallway:

How fun is that!  I get to pick three of those things and then find out what the activity to go along with it is and that will be the things we do on our Valentines date next week!  You have no idea how excited this has made me!  I ended up choosing "My Car", "New York", and "My Shirt" (I'm especially excited about that one;).  I just can't wait for our date now!  I told Erik this is the Best Valentine I've every received!

 Erik's mom brought us a super fun package filled with hearts and love goodness!  She makes the most awesome crafts and it just blows me away!  Here are some of the fun stuff she sent us.

 Of course, for Erik....

 We received specific instructions that the mustache Tootsie Pop was for me and the lip one was for Erik. How fun!

Look how beautiful these are!  And they are are so good!  Erik had already eaten some of them before I had a chance to take a picture:)

Self Portrait

This is one of my favorites.  I had a lot of trouble trying to take a picture of my face that I like (I'm not so great at making good facial expressions on command). Anyway, I thought this turned out pretty good and I like the shadows.

I made the drawings my freshman year for a book cover we made in my 2D design class.  I liked the idea of having one side framing my face with my fingers and the other covering my face.  I wanted to do the same sort of thing this time with my self-portrait assignment but with a twist on the covering the face part. 

The Cuttest Models Ever!

What a fun weekend!  Erik and I spent the weekend at Emily and Bill's with my mom and dad.  

Oh, and did I mention my gorgeous nieces!  I couldn't stop taking pictures of them!  

 Every time I got the camera out Lila couldn't look away.  

Everyone else had a fun time distracting her while I took some pictures.

   

Amanda couldn't get enough camera time! 

  I think she is the best 3 year old model I've ever met!

  I must complain, Grandma and Grandpa were a bit of Amanda and Lila hogs!

And let's not leave out Uncle Erik.  The nieces LOVE him, I'm quite jealous.  

Amanda loves the Little Mermaid because it has "Prince Erik" in it!

Better Late Than Never

          I got a Facebook because I wanted to find friends I'd made while on a choir trip my senior        
          year.  I made a Pinterest because my teacher thought we could use it to organize 
          research for one of my assignments.  I made a Twitter because my boss bribed me with 
          a 5 dollar gift card.  And now, I have finally made a blog because my photography class 
          will be turning in assignments via Blogger from now on.  

          Like everything else, I'm not planning on that being the main use of this blog.  So, yay! :)

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