Newsmaker Portrait

Kent Buys, owner of The Troubadour Music Center and Instrument Repair Shop, playing banjo and his son Ryan watches on.

Bicycle!

I was looking at Flickr's Blog thing and saw this photo. It immediately grabbed my attention.

So I love to ride my bike, so this made me think of that. I like the focus just on the bike and the way the background looks. I dunno why the caption is there, but whatever. Ugh now I wanna get out and ride but I still have to write a story for the Commuter.

This photo was taken by Dustin Diaz and posted to flickr.

A random photo

This is a photo I took over the summer while I was visiting Coney Island in New York. I really like this photo, although it has no people in it.

I only take issue with one part of it, the lower right corner. Really it does not bother me much but I do notice it when evaluating the picture. Maybe I could crop it, dunno I do kind of like the sky in the top right but whatever :P

What I do like is the angle and the content. Coney Island was a ton of fun for me. The Cyclone is one of the oldest wooden roller coasters, and it is a ton of fun!

Photo Critique 1

I found this photo browsing through Flickr. It was taken by ENIGMA_IMAGES, and the title is "_MG_0982." This photo was taken at the G20 demonstrations in London. Although it has no real caption and the title is probably just the random number the camera spat out I think this is an amazing photo.

The main subject is a bald man with a few trickles of blood are running down his face while pointing boldly as if making a point. First I thought the main subject was just stunning, the photographer really captured the emotion this man was putting out. I like this a lot in black and white I think it really works for the photo. The two men in hoodies behind him have a truly amazed and stunned look, which I think adds to the over all feel.

News / Feature Photo Fun!

Students watch films about the Holocaust at the DAC on April 6.The list of movies playing at the DAC this month.

First Photojournalism Post

This is Eric Badeau, a fish and wildlife major at LBCC. He was studying in the library when I asked if I could take his photo for class.


This is a photo of Taylor Seidlitz, a business admin major at LBCC. He was buying books for his classes when I came up and bothered him :P

4.0

So my Art History teacher finally put my grades up. I got all A's this term! Yay!

I went to OMSI this weekend and saw the Da Vinci exhibit. It was pretty neat. The exhibit focused on more of his inventions / notebook sketches, which makes sense at OMSI. I liked it :)

After that, same day, I went to the Portland Art Museum. The featured exhibit was "La volupté du goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour." That was really amazing. We got the little devices which tell you history about the paintings. They were so worth it, also they were free there. I learned a lot and I suggest everyone see this if you can.

(Picture taken by robsv)