community gardens and hello, i am alive!

WELL IT'S BEEN AWHILE EH? life has been busy and sophomore year has been good so far (trying to avoid the alleged sophomore slump): dealing with my weekly existential crisis - learning what it really means to live in the city - chilling out in my awesome dorm - expanding my love of photography through some great classes - and cooking a lot. oh also, i'm studying abroad in LONDON this coming spring and i'm ecstatic as shit. and i photograph for NYU Local so that's cool.

photo wise i don't think i've produced anything that exciting, but i'm not too bummed about that. i don't know if i'd say i was in an inspirational ditch but lately i've been more bitter and critical of the photos i see and the photos i take - but i don't think that should stop my from just shooting daily, because it isss my passion.

i'll upload some kind of summary post of my adventures, probably with iphone photos because lord knows i take too many of those. i do a good job of keeping my instagram constantly updated so i'm going to shamelessly post it again: here are a small batch of pictures i had sitting on my hard drive of my lovely babies: bella, tess, and morgan.

upstate adventure: syracuse, catskills, & skaneateles

since i didn't plan any vacations this summer, i went to upstate NY for ten days to visit friends and get away from home. it really was refreshing to get out of the house and take a break from work and have fun. upstate is so open in comparison to the urban suburbs that i live in. so much green and empty space, my photographic senses were itching. most of the photos were taken on my iphone and 35mm film (a few digital shots here and there). i didn't get to take as many photos as i would have liked, but i got to spend time with my favorite people so that's all that really matters.

adventures in analog II

some more of my homework over the past few weeks :3 i've printed more photos than this but i've only scanned my favorites.

first batch are of my friend morgan from a collab we did with studio lights and medium format. the second batch was taken with 3200asa film for my final project: nightmares. and the last is from the freak one day snow storm we had a few days ago. my homework involved flash so i experimented with different methods with ashley on 100asa film.

updating with an october/hurricane sandy post soon ;)

ilford film with a pentax 6x7

nightmares with ashley & victoria's help.

overlayed negatives.
flash experiments with ashley