Backyard work [s]

Okay let's get started. Chris? Present. Okay, item one: paint the deck. Behr redwood semi-transparent. Two gallons coated it twice (barely) with each coat taking a couple hours.





Item two: sauna. Why anyone would build wood straight onto concrete I cannot imagine, but that meant the sauna had to go.



Item three: hill behind the fence. Jon wreaked excellent havoc with the sawzall, I simply raked the vertical foot of branches and leaves to the bottom of the grade. I'm hoping the scotch grass I planted will fare well.

And Scotty sent me a bunch of photos from the animal park last week.





Connie's darkroom work, or in her words, 'I gots it in my flickrs!' In fact, I'll leave you with one more quote from the excitable one...

i want an A. i want an A. i want an A. i already calculate getting
docked points for assignment 2 since i turned in one out of two prints
required. that's a C right there. assignment 1 all turned in, but images
not impressive.. at least not compared to yours and curts of solarized
car parts. so that's a B. i need two A+'s to counteract assignment 1 and
2. assignment 3, my metering is all over the place..
.docked points right there!!! I won't get an A!!! i wont get an A!!!!

Solar [i]

One of this week's two assignments is to do solarized prints. I'm somewhat divided on the technique, but it's fun and can make a turbo looks pretty cool (above). Below is a comparison, though they were both printed for solarization, color reversal only took place on the bottom. It's a tricky process if you want to apply any sort of science to it.

If nothing else, solarization adds some mild intrigue to the the still life assignment of finding 'circles and curves'. I might take another crack at it since the weekend didn't allow much shooting and we're supposed to use as much daylight as possible.





The other assignment due next week is the dark room equivalent of a stitched together image. We're choosing a single subject and taking 36 frames such that when it's layed out on a contact sheet it becomes a single 6x6 tiled image. Gulp.