Today marks the first anniversary of my little blog and I would just like to say it’s been a pleasure to work on it. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and the more than 300 original photos I’ve put up thus far.  Please feel free to send me an email or browse the growing archives.

Over this past week I purchased some plants for my room, which unsurprisingly have become the subject for some photographs. I got a big collection of Mother-in-Law’s Tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata) and split them into a number of pots.  I was inspired after seeing a TED Talk of fresh air and hopefully the plants will make hospitable roommates.

I will be in New York until early next week and so there will not be any posts for the weekend. Sorry to the few loyal fans and I’ll be back soon!

Yesterday, I had the distinct honor of seeing President Obama speak at the Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day. It was a moving experience and I got to sit about 40 feet from Barack. The next few days will be images from that event.

Tilt shift photography usually involves an expensive lens that enables the camera to “tilt” the focus to create a tiny depth of field. It is often creates an artificial perception of miniturization, for example this photo from last year’s Tour de France. I’ve always enjoyed these images, but the resources have always been out of reach.  I’ve been playing around in photoshop and have found I can greatly improve bland images by artifically narrowing the focus.  Going through my archives, I’m hopefully going to dedicate the next week to tilt-shift images.

Just a heads up: I’ll be posting inconsistently this week due to midterms.

Starting today, I’ve decided to put up a number of very informal photographs from an even more informal project.  I’ve casually been taking pictures of my friends in a quick series of eight snaps shots arranged into a single sheet.  The 4×2 arrangement is similar to an uncut Carte-de-visite, an early photographic form.  It also reminds me of photo booths, a favorite and all too rare tradition of mine. These photographic octuplets were taken on my phone with an interesting little Japanese application called the QuadCamera.  Despite how simplistic the images are (and the process is), I enjoy them.