This one baffled me a bit.  I feel like maybe I’ll have to take this down before long.  Is there something wrong with this assignment page itself? The assignment here was to make an album cover, finding your band name, album name, and base cover photo by way of random url generators on wikipedia, flickr, ...

Best of the best, a set on Flickr   I chose these photos because they’re my favorite ones so far. The story behind the hand is an expresssion of emotion, frustration

Okidily Dokeily let’s get this show-diggz on the road-diggz. This week went a little bit better than last what with the doing all of my work in timely fashion and the lack of crying in the fetal position on the … Continue reading →

Another visual assignment this week was to carry along an action figure or something along those lines and snap pictures of it with you on your everyday outings. I carried this Lego version of Gandalf from LoTR with me for Continue reading →

Confused by the title? Me too. I had to take a common object and manipulate the colors a little bit to make it less common… now do you get it? Yea me neither. I was wandering around and I thought Continue reading →

Another visual assignment I did this week was turning an ordinary portrait of someone into an extraordinary portrait. Naturally, I chose my wife. I picked one of my favorite pictures of her (isn’t she just beautiful!) and made her look Continue reading →

  LIVE Live like it’s your last day on earth….hoping that everything will eventually turn out as you want it to be.                    LAUGH Laugh like you’re watching the funniest comedy movie called life…..featuring you as the main character.                LOVE  ...

My kids. The trees.  Everything.  Except for that bench.  It’s so much smaller than I remember! Once upon a time, my kids were nowhere close to being able to reach the ground on this bench.  When we took this picture, Justin and I had barely been together for a few months (if that). This was ...

Tips: I read over the tips for bettering ones photography. As I mentioned in one of my posts I took a photography class in the summer and the tips were very similar to that of what we learned in class. … Continue reading →

And so ends the week of photos: 11 stars worth of visual assignments: Creepin Color Splash Warholed Myself Big Happy Family Wednesday Inspiration I love my creations. They were a lot of fun to create and love how they turned … Continue reading →

For this Visual Assignment we were asked to take a everyday object and manipulate the colors. Inspiration: Since there has been so much hype around the Iphone5 I decided to incorpate that in my photo. I feel like all Apple products have become apart of our whole society. So I decided to take a picture ...

This Visual Assignment was incredibly fun and random. I was not going to complete this because I already had completed enough assignments to get credit for the week but I just loved what happened. Here are the directions for the Continue reading →

Tips: I read the tips for taking better pictures and I used what I read this week by remembering not to take pictures smack dab in the center.  I tried to use the Rule of Thirds for each of my … Continue reading →

One of my visual assignments this week was to add a “splash” of color to a black and white picture. This is something I have always wanted to learn how to do and it only took Ds10-Awesome to motivate me Continue reading →

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86191482@N05/sets/72157631664226759/ I ended up doing this in my dorm room, because I would have felt conspicuous taking a bunch of photos in the middle of campus. I am not usually very imaginative with spur of the moment things like this, I had a hard time coming up with things that fit the criteria. Although I ...

This week I did September 28 (tdc264) While it’s not technically painted on it is an advertisement that has been there for a year. Cole World was an album released in September 2011, and some people decided to advertise it with chalk, which is common here at UMW but only on the ground, where it ...

  This visual assignment is ‘Art Comes to Life.’  The assignment is to recreate a famous painting in a real-life photo, and represents three out of my 10 stars this week. To try to capture the essence of the Mona Lisa, I did some research on what was so special about the painting, anyway.  I ...

Goodbye week 5, bring it on week 6. Week five has been filled with tons of picture-taking, photograph learning, and visual assignment doing. One of the most important things that I learned about becoming a better photographer is paying attention … Continue reading →

To honor all the many failures DS106 is going to have technologically, I created a simple display picture to be used next time the site goes down. I remember my grandfather getting angrier and angrier as his vintage TV went on and off during a soccer game …SO this one is for papa!! How I ...

Here is my next Visual Assignment called Find Yourself! Assignment: For this assignment we had to find our name in the environment around us. We could either use something that had our first name, parts of our first name, or even the individual letters that make up our name in the environment around us. Process: ...

Friday: Abstract drawing of your favorite animal. I love seahorses. I’ve always had a fascination with them. I did a project on them in the 5th grade and have loved them ever since. I have a set of pastels laying … Continue reading →