I went home for Thanksgiving and brought my 4x5 along. It is obvious that I had put the camera down for too long. I like some of the shots, but find the composition to be a little off, or the exposure to be wrong. These were quick scans and such, I am working on making finals of a lot of my work from the past 4 years.

The images from top to bottom: James's Table, Sam and Carley (Newly Weds), Mom's Kitchen, John's Desk, Ava, Home from College.

My little plastic camera is getting way more use then I ever expected. It tends to live in my purse along with a whole bunch of other crap. But every now and then I see something worth shooting, sometimes it takes me a month to shoot one roll of film.....pathetic.

Working at a college I get to witness the way photography is changing first hand. Sometimes a student will ask me "what is all that noise?", and I say "that's called film grain". Or, I will look over their shoulders and see that they are dusting an image at %300 and I say "why are you doing that, you couldn't spot tone at %300" and they say "Oh, I have never spot toned". I proceed to go home and search for gray hairs. But really I am only about 4 years older then the average senior.... the times they are a changin', but that's OK. The point is they still make images, and great images at that. I like making this work because I never dust and I love all the grain (especially in the bottom photo).

This past weekend I went to a wedding in upstate new york. It was the perfect environment to use my plastic camera. It makes everything look so gritty. It has better described the way I feel about my surroundings lately then a large format camera.

This summer I found my self collaborating with another artist to start a small magazine. The magazine is called Shoot:. Shoot: is made up of images by contributors who send their photographs to us after having one month to conceptualize and capture a theme. We send out a theme, or topic, every month. Our hope is that the amount contributors will grow and become more diverse. Please check out our first issue at magcloud.com. If you are interested in recieving the monthly theme and becoming a contributor please email us at shootanything@gmail.com.

Two images from our weekend at Acadia. I am disapointed in my self for not shooting more, I only made four images!!! The one on top is nice; my husband to be working the fire. The bottom one cracks me up! That is me about to hike a mountain. I did not meter very well because it ended up too dark in the blacks. More to come.

I did it, I picked up my 4x5 again after a 6 month rest. I realized that I was getting so frustrated with my 4x5 because I was trying to make all my images with it....there are reasons (good reasons) that there are multiple formats out there. Now that I have loosened up as far as what I make pictures with, I can get tighter with what I make images about and in what format. These are three pics that I made this week. The top one, titled Relying on Ryan for Stillness, turned out to be a happy accident because I just could not stay still for a half second apparently and Ryan can, and that extends into out life and relationship as well, he's my rock. The second image, titled Summer Company Makes for Big Messes, is simply what my kitchen sink looked like after 2.5 weeks of company. And lastly Bob's Bike, this is my neighbors bike glistening in the late afternoon sun, the perfect little jewel to make me go get my camera.

More images from the Windsor 35mm camera. Just some summer snap shots.