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Painting

This has nothing to do with Photo 1 at all, but this is an image of a painting I did for Painting 1. It looks pretty good in small digital form (which is not something that every painting can lay claim to). It does look better in real life though. I decided to put this image and details up here because I uploaded it to my other blog, and I thought this blog needed something new as well. It's a 30" X 50" oil on canvas.

People

For our assignment to photograph people, I walked around the city taking picture of people I don't know. This is the one that I believe turned out the best.

South Dakota

I went to South Dakota over the summer. Lately, I've been scanning the film I shot there. The first photo above is from the Badlands National Park. The second photo was taken from a train near the Black Hills National Forest.

Birds and People

Well, what is a blog by Alexis Kandra without some images of dead birds? Last year, I started taking pictures of the birds that die by window strikes. It will probably be a theme in my work until I leave Temple University. They are extremely prevalent here.

I was taking a picture of this bird outside the library for old time's sake. I used to take a picture of each one as a record, but it's just too much to keep that up. Now I just take a photo if they are particularly interesting. The feathers sticking up on this one and the lighting attracted my attention.

A girl parking her bike at the rack said to me "I hope you're going to bury that when your done taking a picture of it".

My response: "Oh, there's too many of them to bury them all. I found 150 plus dead birds on campus last year" (a slight exaggeration, it was more like 130).

Her response: silence and avoiding eye contact.

Here is the image. I've found found 9 birds so far sophomore year.

Flugtag

I went to the Red Bull Flugtag at the Camden waterfront yesterday. Its an event where teams can build their own flying machines and launch them off a platform. Most do not get very far.

I went with a friend, and we decided to walk across the Ben Franklin bridge. The view from the bridge was so good, that we stayed there to watch the Flugtag. Many other people had the same idea (including this man with his very large camera lens). It was a fun event. There were lots of interesting people jumping into the Delaware River with their flying contraptions, and many interesting spectators watching them.