duck blind - Lake Chickahominy, New Kent

yes, we still CAN

you know what I'm talking about

part of this week's work at Studio Two Three

ain't that the truth?!

enlarger box, at Studio Two Three

beginning & after

yes, I was born yesterday
Mr. Snuggles' legacy, with assistance of americana hen

Look at what my amazing VCU Photo/Film students made this spring

Here's a sampling of the astounding final projects created by students in my Photographic Processes & Techniques (Phto 307) classes this semester, Spring 2013, VCU School of the Arts Photo/Film Department ...

Shanaz Bowman - two hand bound books, images & text printed with cyanotype

 Chris Conway - big, blue-red 3-D photographs

 

entire 3pm section working the 3-D look (Hannah Levy's & Brian Noble's work in the background)

 

Caitlin Crow - mordancage  prints mounted in found window

 

 Tito Henriquez - digital projections on white-washed American flag

Kelsey Krest - van dyke & cyanotype printed fabric used in the fabrication of clothing

Noelani Martin - albumen prints with cosmetics included in albumen formula & applied after printed

Arielle Massa - temporary tattoos, this image from our interim critique

Sarah Mattozzi - van dyke prints, in response to the Pre-Raphaelites

Emmett Methven - cyanotype & van dyke combined

Rachel Quick - gum bichromate

Inga Schunn - gum bichromate (including glow in the dark) with cyanotype

Jasmine Thompson - tiny tintypes

Chloe Truong - van dyke on translucent paper, mounted in constructed viewing boxes

Sarah Whittington - lumen prints

Great work.  Thank you for an exciting & inspiring semester!

eggs ahatchin' today

2 peeped, 4 to go

another snakectomy required

Good News:  snake proved to be a juvenile rat snake & not a copperhead
Bad News:  prothonotary warblers hatched in that bird box Saturday morning

no bugs left on our front porch

keeping all those phoebe mouths & butts fed certainly cleared the air

another muskrat & chicken picture

can something with "rat" in its name be deemed cute?