Departures

Monday I finally had a pretty big and very exciting breakthrough with the Lumen prints I have been doing for the past four years.
Ever since I saw Jerry Burchfields Lumen prints four years ago, I’ve been following that same vein all along. I’ve never been truly satisfied with that, as it wasn’t truly my work. […]

Here is the latest revision of the statement. I still have to make a few connections and make a better link between the Lumen print and the subject matter.

The Lumen process is serendipitous, unpredictable and liberating. Some plants record their leaves’ vein structure on the photographic paper with great detail and exactness, while others wither […]

Last week we looked at our artist statements in class, and edited my statement down to this:

The Lumen process is serendipitous, unpredictable and liberating. I never know exactly what the results will be—some plants record their leaves’ vein structure on the photographic paper with great detail and exactness, while others wither very rapidly from the […]

I’ve been meaning to write an artist statement for my Lumen Prints for ever, and I’m finally getting to it (an assignment to come up with an artist statement for my Graduate Seminar class certainly helped me get my butt in gear). I’d very much appreciate feedback, and edits, so please leave a comment and […]

Tuesday morning I got a call from Craig Law (the head of the photography program here at Utah State), wherein he asked me if I would assist in teaching a group of Korean teenagers who are here for a brief study abroad program. I was more than happy to accept the offer.
The little crash course […]

Last night I went for a ride up Logan Canyon. I had originally planned on only going to the Canyon Entrance Park to make a few photographs, but once I got there I decided to continue up into the canyon and collect some plants to do some Lumens.
A little ways up the trail I found […]

I just twittered an update on a couple Lumens I have “cooking” but decided to write something a bit more substantial here. (If you’ve never heard of Twitter, or don’t get it, watch this very informative video: Twitter In plain English. I really like it as a micro-blogging platform and once I’m in grad school […]

I just uploaded a blog post about James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith over at 52Photographers.com. A lot of what they say in their artist statement is exactly what I feel about the process, especially this statement:

In trying to strip everything extraneous from the photographic process and get to the very magic at its source, we […]

Here are the scans of the Lumens I did on Thursday and one from last weekend:

These next two are from the same plant. I really like the difference in the two. I thought the plant would hold its shape a lot better than it did, but as they are now, I […]

My dad just gave me this photograph he took on the way to Little Lemhi Scout Camp. It’s about 3 years old, and I thought I’d share. You don’t see too many photos of myself.

Oh, and due to bad winds, we took the day off from work, so I took advantage of the situation and […]