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!!!!

Fremont Market

Today, while exploring the Fremont Market, I decided to practice my portrait skills. Things I needed to work on: Asking if I can take some one's portrait and using my 50 mm lens more frequently. So I forced myself to only bring one lens. These portraits are my two favorites from the day. People were surprisingly friendly and okay with having me take their picture. All of this is in preparation for future portrait adventures, including but not limited to, sitting outside of Sakura Con and photographing the amazing costumes that will be going in and out of that convention.

1, 2, 3 Jalapeno!

Today I made 1, 2, 3 Jalapeno Poppers/Bacon Wrapped Cream Cheese Filled Jalapenos! I am calling them that because there is basically only three ingredients (cream cheese, jalapenos, bacon) and it only takes three steps (seed jalapenos, fill with cream cheese, bake...then eat...OK that's 4). They are amazing. And I actually got the recipe off of the Pioneer Woman website which I have not had the privilege of perusing as of yet (although I aspire to one of these days). They are amazing. And they definitely have solved my problem of jalapeno excess after buying the package at Trader Joe's. So everyone must try it! Follow the link!

Flickr

To prevent an overflow of images, I have created a Flickr account. This will also have some of the experimental, personal and fun images that I choose not to post here. So, if you REALLY want a glance into my creative psyche, http://www.flickr.com/people/tessaroche/ is where you want to go. I think.

Holga Fashion Images

Photos from the Holga Fashion experiment from this past summer. More to come once the rest of the film is developed and scanned...

Patrick Portrait

Patrick asked me to take his photo for professional purposes. If the light would have been better today we would have done inside shots, but alas, in Seattle you can't always ask for that. Here is my favorite.

Website Bio Revised

OK all, so after listening to your extremely helpful advice on writing my bio for my website, I have revised it and am much happier with the result. This is the bio I will be posting for now, although if revisions need to be made we can fix those as well. Let me know what you think and if I should use the black and white photo I posted earlier or the one that is up on my site now. Thanks for your help!

I am a commercial and fine art photographer who recently was transplanted in Seattle in order to follow her dreams. I grew up in Northwest Montana surrounded by family and friends who encouraged my creativity and passion of the arts. As a recent graduate of the Film and Photography Program at Montana State University in Bozeman, I am on a quest driven by obsession and…well, employment.

I love photographing people: portraits, nudes, fashion, weddings and children. Capturing moments full of emotion and life is what inspires me in my work. My photography tells a story: the beauty of humanity in all of its complexity.

My dream is to travel to different countries, learn to cook the local favorites and photograph everything along my journeys. Culture fascinates me. I am always looking for opportunities to increase my knowledge – reading books, organizing photo walks, entering art shows, meeting other artists, and experimenting with various photographic techniques and skills.

Inquiries? Musings? Advice? I look forward to hearing from you.