Recycling the 70's

An experiment with my mother's 1975 Minolta film camera.
Here are the results so far.

The best Key lime cheesecake i've ever eaten. I appreciate wednesday family dinners at City Fellowship. 

Just some pretty trees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

Rain. 

After 10 mins of debate, Rob himself unable to tell, and a text message to mom, we decided that this is in fact Jay teaching guitar at Hartland. 

I love the little kids at Hartland. 

Watercolors. 

My dear friend Terica. 

Kathleen gave my cup some sunshine. 

I have some pretty beautiful roommates. 

Let me know what you think and if you have any film tips! 

This past Sunday I was able to participate in a joyous occasion. Chi Omega, who partner with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, granted a wish to a girl named Candance. She is 16 but due to a stroke at age 4, her mental growth was stunted and functions today with the mind of a 4 year-old. Her was to go to Disney world and her wish was granted. 

Sunday, the women of Chi Omega held a parade, where everyone dressed up as Disney characters. Candance rode down greek row, sitting out of a convertible, living the life of a princess. Then inside the Chi Omega house, there was a pizza party where Candance recieved gifts to aid her travel and ate cake to celebrate. At one point, she started to tell a story about picking out underwear but was quickly shushed by her mother. Her spunk was evident to all who saw her. I enjoyed seeing everyone dress up and support Candance, especially other greek people. As an "independent" the community support was encouraging. 

Here are a few photos from a class assignment I worked on. We were placed in groups and then told to choose an era, it could not be modern, and shoot three people like that. Everything in the frame had to fit. My group choose a 50's greaser theme. Here are some of the photos I took. 

This project was tremendous fun! I enjoyed working with my fellow photographers and the models did such a great job! 

Southwestern Photojournalism Conference

Two weekends ago, I returned to the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference in Texas. This year though I got to participate in the student practicum. My group went and explored the stockyards of Fort Worth. There were cowboys, long horn steer, shoe shiners, and good food. The actual conference was amazing but I won't be able to summarize all of the advice, stories, and tips the phenomenal speakers gave unless I wrote for the next three hours. You'll just have to come next year! It is definitely worth it. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the weekend!

Cowboy Ranch

They of course had some cattle!

 We hopped the fence and explored the field next store that had all these abandoned old cars! 

 

The old west meets modern technology. 

What's a ranch without some horses? 

   

Isn't God an awesome painter?

The Stockyards

Cowboy; Ricardo Rodriquez

As we admired a local art gallery, Whitney inquired about the noise coming from behind a back door. 

The owner said that it was the workshop and to go introduce ourselves. These guys were restoring a table from the 30's. 

All you see is hands but that is what Rodney uses to polish shoes every day on the streets of the Stockyards. He was a character, making up raps the whole time he was shining her boots. 

The entire weekend was a learning experience. I learned I need to work on my stranger skills, on getting close and to explore the photography I enjoy even if others don't. I learned that I love art photography but I also want to explore journalistic photography.