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Friday, November 18th, 2011
More toys for the gear geek
I’ve been looking at a lot of portraiture lately and noticing that much of what I like was shot on a 4×5 camera. It inspired me to work more with my 4×5 view camera, for one, but that’s not nearly as much fun as buying a new camera altogether. The idea was that with the [...]
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
Cyanotypes
A couple of months ago I was shopping in a Hobby Lobby for supplies to make my photography portfolio when I came across a package of Sunart paper. I clearly remember having those blueish sheets when I was a kid, and now I was interested to note that this was more than just a childhood [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Grad school by Mark Dawson
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Fun with spray paint
A while ago I got the urge to spray paint everything in my sent the same color and make some photographs, just playing with the shapes, colors, and shadows. I made a set with cupcakes back around Valentines Day, then I decided recently to expand the series. It was a lot of fun to run [...]
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Focusing on scuba diving cupcakes
A recent speaker was giving a talk about SEO and how important blogs are to improving it. Made me think “I wonder if my blog shows up in search results at all (i.e., is it even being indexed)?” I decided to Google two words that came to mind which would be on my blog and, [...]
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Certified! (SCUBA, not crazy)(perhaps both)
I’ve wanted to learn to SCUBA dive for a long time. I figured I’d just go on a vacation to Sharm el Sheikh or something (that was much more feasible when living back in Amsterdam) and do a short course to get certified. Boy am I glad I didn’t do that. As the OU SCUBA [...]