Long Shot Photo Marathon, this Friday and Saturday!

In March of this year, after I had moved to Seattle to pursue more photography opportunities, I started volunteering at the local photography center, The Photographic Center Northwest. PCNW is an amazing community with equipment available to the public, including a color darkroom (which sadly is going away soon), a black and white darkroom, digital lab and a multitude of classes and workshops that are offered throughout the year.

This Friday/Saturday PCNW is hosting a 24 hour photo marathon. What does this mean? Anyone can participate, even out of state photographers who are eager to enter images in a show and help out the photography community. You can photograph for up to 24 hours (by no means do you have to do ALL 24, but some people do...) submit up to 10 of your favorite images from this event to PCNW, one of those images will be displayed in the gallery on July 23rd and if your image sells, all proceeds go to PCNW. Check out the website for more details, it rocks.

If anything, this will challenge you as an artist, in a good way. Pick up that camera, tackle those projects and subjects you've been wanting to conquer, get creative, get together with fellow friends and photographers (make it fun for everyone), spread the love of photography!!!!

Sifting Through This Summer's Images

I am trying to organize and edit images from this summer that I took on my own time. I haven't been able to really look at them because of the weddings that took priority. It's been kind of fun looking back at some of the personal work from this summer. This shoot was from the World Wide Photo Walk in July 2010. The first image is a photograph taken by Patrick with my Holga camera.

World Wide Photo Walk - Bozeman, MT

It's the World Wide Photo Walk! I came across this when looking at Doug Loneman's website and became intrigued. Last year I coordinated a few photo walks around Bozeman and come to find out there is a World Wide Photo Walk Day July 24th, 2010. I'm very excited, it is lead by Thomas Lee who is currently the chief photographer at Montana Quarterly Magazine and is one of the founding partners of Montana Photography Workshops. I plan on picking his brain about the magazine world in photography. And, my husband is going to join me! YAY

Glass House Photo Walk at Abandoned Ranch

Images from the Glass House Women's Photography Group Photography Walk. We drove to an abandoned ranch and walked around avoiding rattlesnakes. I love old things and their textures...and black and white filters on Photoshop...

A few more images

A few more images I couldn't stand to leave off the blog from the photo walk (I love some of the colors so much!). Enjoy!

Images from Photo Walk #1 - Success!

Our photo walk around the Story Mill Trail was a success! Bek and David showed up and the only issues we had were that we went the opposite direction of Story Mill on the trail, my battery died a half an hour in and we got attacked by mosquitoes on our last part of the trek. Luckily we found lots of cool subjects to photograph on our part of the trail, David and I just switched off batteries and the mosquitoes didn't kill us. We got to talk photo geekish and get back into the photo mode. Hopefully I'll do another photo walk here in a few weeks and more people will come. Any ideas as to where?

Butte Folk Festival tomorrow with my mom and Patrick, bringing my camera (charging my battery) and ready to photograph good ol' photogenic Butte. Hope to do some people watching and photograph the performers as well. Capturing a sense of place (like mentioned in an earlier update) - this time in Butte, which believe me, is not hard to do. Ta ta!

Photo Walk #1

I need inspiration. In order to do so I actually have to get my camera out and start shooting (it doesn't matter what, I just have to start). Driving through the Gallatin Gateway and having this beautiful weather has gotten my creative eye out of hiding. I am putting together a photography walk. If anyone is interested it will be July 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM (when I get out of work) by the Story Mill. I haven't figured out where exactly we are going to start but we will wander randomly from there. Part of this came from "oh my god I haven't picked a subject for my senior photography project yet", and part of it came from me needing to be inspired in photography in general. I get so burnt out during the school year with my projects that as soon as vacation hits I ignore my camera. Poor thing, must feel neglect and abuse.

I have also been looking into travel photography a little more seriously (food, people, language, and traveling...honestly that's kinda what I love to do) and in order to become a good travel photographer I need to learn to capture the essence and details of anywhere I go. Including Bozeman, MT. If you can't photograph where you live well, how do you think you are going to photograph anywhere else? Enough of my ramblings. Let's get out there and take some pictures.