Welcome back! The beginning of school is always mixed emotionally for me. I am excited to meet new students and to reconnect with the ones I know. I do miss the easy pace of summer, however. Once school begins, it seems that life just moves at a rapid pace. Mr. Schmidt and I are teaching a new class this year, Intro to Digital Design and Photography that is being offered 0 period-a tough time for all concerned. There are 40 intrepid students signed up for this new adventure. I have made a separate blog for that class that can be found on this page. All information for that class will be on that page. As for my beginning and advanced classes, you will still find all the information you need here. We will spend the first week getting all the forms filled out, setting up the rooms, nuts and bolts kind of things. Then in beginning photo, we will head to the darkroom for making photograms. If it stays sunny, we will be doing cyanotypes and lumen prints. In advanced photo, we will start out getting back in the darkroom by printing what you shot over the summer and working on an assignment about breaking all the rules. That one should be interesting.
On a personal note-My book, Considering Nature and a Little Radiohead, has been entered in the Photography Books Now competition on blurb.com. You can check it out below. I also just found out that I am one of 15 excellence award winners in the COLOR magazine portfolio contest. My work will be published in their special issue coming out in September.
