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Jackson

"Hey, My name is Jackson...whats yours?"

Mines Becca.

"You gonna take pics of me in the slide today?"

Only if you want me to...

"YA!"

Mr. Jim Gamble

Jim owns a junkyard like no other about a mile from campus.

He is a sweet old man, that could recall what he did everyday of his life.

His stories are interesting, but his property really does his his many stories justice.

Environmental Portraits.

My idea behind my final quarterly review is that of portraits within nature. 

I also wanted to show how minimalistic a portrait can be within a larger setting,

So the images end up being somewhat a portrait of the surrounding environment.

Making the title more literal than anything.

Many more to come...this is just the beginning. 

3:23am thoughts.

I sit here, at 3:23 am thinking and analyzing life. 

It might also possibly be because my bed is a god awful mess that Im avoiding cleaning. 

I just had a good few hour conversation with Josh, about things in general I guess...

which always helps situations, but it gets me thinking about art, the meaning of it and what is acceptable I guess.

What is considered art, or even beauty these days?

Is it broken down buildings and homeless people?

Is is broken windows and reflections of oneself?

Or could it even be things that are happy and typically beautiful all around us?

Do we always have to make the small and ugly sides of the world seem beautiful in a photograph?

The answer is...there is no answer. 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...yes, overused phrase but I guess its true. 

Even though taking photographs of sadness and "lost" things are typical these days, and just the ordinary, if you see them as beautiful, take it...make it what you want.

Because maybe, just maybe...people will then get the chance to see it through your eyes, even if it is for that one moment of time...that one click of the shutter and see it for how it is. 

Just a general message to everyone who reads this...

life is too short, enjoy every moment, every second, every milli-second

you can never get back that time. 

Enjoy everything that is offered to you, enjoy everyone around you...don't be close minded.

Because then, in the end...you would be the only one missing out.

Goodnight. 

Five O'Clock Shadow

Found on a nice walk through Mt. Hope. 

Exploring the subways.

Can you find the man in this picture?