Studio, Fires, and Plastic Cameras.

Hey everyone, made it through another week. Hard to believe I only have a month left. We have a bunch of finial assignments to get done before the summer comes to an end so I was working on them all week long. I posted some pictures from studio class so you can all see what thats like. Our teacher, Allison Leech is amazing. She has been an editorial photographer in NYC for many years and has shot all kinds of celebrities. No one thought they would like editorial photography but it's turning out to be everyones favorite. (Just see the group shot, we had to pick a theme, ours was high fashion, lots of fun) We also learned product photography which kinda sucked but it was kinda cool that mine turned out looking like an iPod ad. Almost forgot to post the fire shots. Apparently since it's so dry here every summer they have a "fire season". Well I saw my fist fire (right on the hill next to town!) Kinda creepy but it was cool riding around chasing the fire to get some good shots. Also check out the square photos, they were taken with a cheap plastic film camera called a holga. It's a really fun crap camera but can make some really cool/weird images. I also went tubing! (they call it floating out here) It was awesome, we got a separate raft to hold our cooler of beers + food and it also made a great foot-rest. The water was freezing and to all of our surprise there was some decent sized rapids to traverse which gave us a good laugh. At the end of the day we met a cowboy fishing and he ended up showing us a cliff that people can jump off of. It was pretty high up and there were bare rocks directly beneath but he was crazy and went for it. I wasn't as crazy but after a beer and some convincing I jumped too. (REALLY far out from the cliff/rocks mind you) Lots of fun and totally worth it. Nothing like tubing all day, drinking some beers, talking to a cowboy, jumping off cliffs, and just taking in the scenery. I really felt like I was in Montana.