Long time no blog.

Why hello. :)

Yesturday Yama and I took some wedding shots for the Lillywhite family.
There is some type of thrill in being asked to capture such a important moment.
It felt so right to be doing that.
Hopefully I will be doing some more wedding shots later on.
It wasn't my first time shooting a wedding but each time it seems like a new story.
Anyway, I would have to say my highlight of the whole night was watching the couple during the first dance.
I got goosebumps from just watching them.
I felt like there was so much love seeping about the air.
I was truly touched that two souls could come together like that.
Wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
It just makes me look forward to my future moments of when I will get to take more pictures like that and one day experience that dance for myself.

Pictures.

Just a little taste of my recent photographs if you are at all interested in them

and have not checked up on my flickr recently.

Oh what joy.

So i guess i have not blogged in quite sometime.

Anyway, I am completly and utterly sucked into the office so if any of you

happen to have the 3rd season (the episodes played anyway) for me to have i would

love you for life. I should just go have a marathon with my lovely fellow office

obsessors. Today has been quite the day, i don't want to do anything but be lazy and

start my homework but sadly i chose today to be a social day a while ago. Hah.

Quite alright though. I like hanging out with oh so wonderful people.

Alli and i are going to depart to dennys in a little bit and carson's performance for

some play at school. Geez. Honestly. They rip you off on tickets. He better be glad i

bought a ticket. :p School is uneventful as always. I am doing senior pictures for

the next little while at school. Woo HOO. Hopefully they look wonderful.

I love you all, and incase i dont blog anytime soon before valentines day, i wish

you a wonderful valentines day.

P.s. I can't wait till Christmas! er...thats a while away though. *sigh* i wish there

was some other amazing holiday to look forward to very soon.

Printing for a Purpose

I was reading this article about printing with a purpose and i was rather inspired by the message so i felt like sharing a random part

anyway:

One of the most intresting aspects of printing for a purpose that I've observed in my process of doing is how printing for a purpose steers me- cajoles me, forces me- to make artistic commitments. Commitment can be a difficult thing for artists because it implies a discriminating choice that rejects all other alternatives. One might be wrong, or foolish, or trite- a fear which artists dread. (or, perhaps this confesses somthing more about me thatn it does about artist in general.) Printing randomly (like leaving work perpetually unfinished) provides the comfort (read excuse) that the work in its current state is not yet complete and that the "finished" work will be better. "These are just work prints, not for exhibition" is a handy way to dodge criticism. A career of such activity will result in a random pile of prints, but precious little that the artist can say represents their artistic vision.

Now that I am in the "second half of life" and can no longer resonably employ the youthful mythology of immortality, I find myself more and more wanting to print for a purpose, for a finished product, for a definitive statement that expresses my artistic vision in unequivocal terms. I find it more satisfying to look back at a series of defined conclusions rather than a random stack of potentialities. History may very well judge my projects harshly, but it least I will have produced projects-finished artistic statements- that it can judge. I cannot help but think that this will likely be a better conclusion of my artistic carrer than a bunch of mismatched prints that appear to be the results from a handful of artists.

I know that Ralph Waldo Emerson said "A foolish consistency is the hobogoblin of little minds." Consistency can easily become a rut that limits creativity. On the other hand, consistency of structure of the Elizabethan stage; he didn't just randomly write. Hokusai and the great Japanese woodblock printers did series exploring a theme; they produced individual peices that were to be seen as a part of a group. As I think about the great photographers, the great painters, composers, and writers, they all have one thing in common: they produce their work within a structure as they explored- often for their entire life- all kinds of variations within the structure, and always with the finished purpose in mind. That is to say, they created specific things within a specific structure for a specific and predefined purpose. If this is a method that has worked so well throughout art history, maybe we could learn from history and use this idea in our photography today.

By Brooks Jenson.

He poses a very good question about being artistic with a purpose. It is something I think we should all think about. Anyway, my day as been up and down. One minute I was bumming and the next I was happy. (and no I'm not pmsing.)

Winter.

Winter break is ending soon im afraid :(

Despite the totally lame useless drama i have been involved in lately, my winter break has been quite entertaining. I have had a little something to do every day which is nice.

Just last week my friends Justin and Josh took a surprise landing in California. The rest has been taken up by shopping, my family, DDR, those special friends, random excursions to nearby cities, disneyland, and etc.

I hope you all had a wonderful christmas and new year.

Christmas.

Merry christmas all. :)

I hope you enjoyed this wonderful christmas season.

Mine was fast, a bit enjoyable, and something quite memorable.

Pictures.

This place is my studio. you can learn so much about poses and angles there.