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Morning Walk TtV

The other morning I went for a walk with my mom and brought the brownie and my point and shoot along to do some TtV (through the viewfinder) photography. Basically I hold my digital camera over the brownie's viewfinder and take a picture of the picture in the viewfinder. Like so:

After I got home that morning, I uploaded the pictures onto my computer and then cropped them. Here are a few:

 

 

I will post more later. Even though I personally enjoy image heavy blogs over a lot of writing I imagine others do not. Also, forgive any grammar or spelling mistakes. I do not proof read nor do I intend to. I have to do that enough for college.

Pottery: Turquoise and Red Brown

I am slowly working through taking images of my pottery and editing them. This morning I sat outside taking pictures of about half of the pots I made in my ceramics class this summer. Just like with photography, I am a beginner at ceramics. The pot shown in the following pictures flew off the wheel while I was trimming the foot and got a nice, little indention on the rim.

 The indention can be seen very clearly in the following picture.

One thing I learned in ceramics is that something that may be a mess up can actually be an attribute. Whether or not you look at the indention as an attribute is up to you, but every time I look at this pot I see the whole chain of events replaying in my mind.

 My professor said that pots will go flying every now and then and it happens to all ceramic artists. He told a pretty funny story concerning a large pot, an electric wheel, a demonstration for high school students, and a foot that accidentally stepped on the presser foot.

I had forgotten to dip the bottom in paraffin wax before I glazed the pot. I had to rub off the glaze, which is why the surface has turquoise in the indentions. I like how that mistake turned out as well. Mistakes can be very beneficial and one of my favorite pots from the semester comes from a big mess up.

Brownie Starflex

Today I went back to an antique store to get a five dollar Savoy Mark II but instead came out with this...

I am an extreme amateur when it comes to photography, so there isn't really anything I could technically tell you about this camera. All I know is that I am really excited to figure things out.

I took the prior picture as well as the following pictures through the top of the Brownie with my point and shoot. I took them in like five minutes because I am just so excited I wanted to share. 

   This is what the camera is pointed towards. It is a sculpture I did using paper clay, wire, white and black acrylic paint,  and the top of a round box.

My Brownie almost had a near fatal accident in the taking of this last picture but luckily nothing was hurt or broken.