don’t believe your eyes.

Crazy photographer, Denis Darzacq. I love when I see (or read or hear) things that I can’t immediately wrap my mind around. I nearly always find that I appreciate it more.

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pencil love.

So creative. so innovative. so dainty. More here.

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breakfast and the individual.

I stumbled upon this photographer’s series that I kind of love. It expresses an individual’s personality through their daily breakfast. It also helps that the people look as if they just rolled out of bed. Check it out here.

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through the lens.

(sitting at a restaurant in siena: Piazza Del Campo)

(these vendors were kind of a running joke. you’d see the exact same products down the street [after you thought the first ones were original]. this vendor sells grass sculptures that are really pretty cool, but the concept of them is pretty hilarious. so you go to florence and buy yourself this cool sculpture made of grass. it dries up in a day and by the time it is in shambles you realize you’ve seen 6 other vendors making the exact same little grass sculptures.)

(one of our photography projects was to stay in one place, have your camera set at one specific spot and just shoot away and see what you get. i got this shot of an italian hipster that i like a lot. it sums up a certain side of florence to me. and the contrast to the dudes in the background is a little funny.)

(i am coming to realize that i often obsess over contrasts in images. the complete opposite adjoining in an image really excites me. here, for instance, is the santa croce cathedral next to a vendor’s cheap fans [made in china] with little images of the cathedral on them.)

(the park bench by the river where we sat and talked the first week of class. also the park where i enjoyed reading and people watching. also one of the few locations containing nature such as trees, bushes, and a few patches of grass.)

(often, young couples, as an expression of love, will buy a lock, attach it to the fence and then toss the key off the Ponte Vecchio, into the Arno River. supposedly this will assure an everlasting love. well recently, the city cut off a bunch of them because so many had accumulated so i don’t know if this turns the legend into a curse upon those lovers. fortunately, allison and stephanie’s lover locks are placed at the top of the duomo.)

(sunnil. stephanie’s 5th cousin [i think] who was adopted from nepal and now lives in lucca with stephanie’s cousins/distant family. he spoke not a bit of english, yet managed to play with us for hours. he really enjoyed patty cake [refer below]. i thought it was kind of beautiful how the language barrier didn’t stop him from playing with us the entire night.)

(this is a wall behind the park bench. it sums up a lot of what i love about italy. it is so old, yet so beautiful. the worn off paint and weathered doors make the city all the more gorgeous.)

(another lover’s lock i noticed on the other side of the Arno. it was all alone and very solemn sitting there. mauro and sonia should last a while.)

(i really enjoy the alternate perspective. reflections, shadows, anything that gives one an idea of an scene, but from a different viewpoint. this is at the same piazza [del campo] in siena.)

(so one day the roommates were all talking in jamie and blair’s bedroom when suddenly they hear trumpets in the street. they run to the window, look outside and see a parade coming down via dei neri, the street they live on. they continue to watch the rest of the parade from their windows. that, it turned out, was the opening ceremony for the florentine holiday celebrating their saint, John the Baptist. the festivities include a game that is a mix between rugby, soccer, and football [without any pads or helmets]. basically a game with no rules or regulations other than where to score. the 4 teams are made up of men [mostly ex-cons] from the 4 different areas of florence. there is a tournament, 2 parades, and many injuries. oh how i love florentine tradition.)

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foto critique.

here are my 7 chosen shots for the first digital photography critique:

feel free to give [constructive] criticism.

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