Moses Makes Pictures

Lansing and Tejas walked down to the water to take some photos on a fine Saturday. I got some environmental portraits of Lansing and his film camera that are quite compelling. The three pictures on the bottom are of a kind fellow I met outside Kingsbury. I asked him if I could take his picture out of some sudden compulsion, and he immediately said yes, and that it was his birthday. This was a nice bit of synchronicity. 

Having left class early on the day we shot portraits for the amalgamation project, I was worried that I would be unable to  complete this project. However, I was saved by David's kind offer to come in on Saturday and show me how to use photoshop to layer all these beautiful faces together. I succeeded in making one amalgamation of the more serious photos we took, and now that I know the basic process I will also work on making one with the silly photos featuring our wee canine friend.   This is the first amalgamation that I put together with David's help. We couldn't figure out how to make the background more even, but otherwise it's working okay.

             It was 5 hours from the Walmart parking lot where I left my car and joined Sita and Meenakshi in the Subaru. I hadn't spent a good long time with my mom and sister for weeks, and we had a lot to talk about, so the drive went by quickly. We arrived in Alfred late Sunday afternoon and moved our bags into a classically weird hotel that seemed to have all the air sucked out of it on a regular basis. Sunday night was dedicated to dinner, work on a marathon of a grant proposal, and some well deserved rest, Saturday morning was dedicated to exploring Alfred and taking pictures along the way. Exploring with a camera in hand is a relatively new experience for me, and I liked the way it made me more attentive to the visual interest of any given scene. I found myself going places that I would not have had I left the camera at home.            Something that made a strong impression on me was how people react to someon...