New Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens

Series and Works
I recently purchased a new lens, I've been considering purchasing a 50mm Prime lens for years now, but was never thrilled by the plastic lens mount and the 5 blade aperture of Canon's old 1.8 lens. When Canon released their new f/1.8 in early May, I followed the news and waited for the reviews. Having heard nothing bad about the lens I decided to just go for it. The Speed of this Lens is great, I'm shooting on an older cropped Canon body so the actual focus length is around 80-85. The Stepping Motor is quick to focus and near silent. The only drawback of the Stepping Motor is that it seems tricky to manual focus because there is a slight delay between when the focus responds. But Auto Focus…
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Hiking in Lassen; Terrace, Shadow, and Cliff Lakes

Series and Works
A couple weeks ago I went for a hike in Lassen on the Terrace, Shadow, and Cliff Lakes trail. This trail is one of my favorites in the Lassen area, it offers some great views, and a varied landscape. Not to mention some great looking lakes. It was a rather odd day for Northern California because it was stormy, we were sprinkled on and off the entire hike, and on the way out it was thunderstorming. But the overcast clouds created some great light to photograph in. [caption id="attachment_87" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Headed down from Terrace Lake towards Shadow Lake[/caption] [caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Shadow Lake, from a viewing outlook[/caption] [caption id="attachment_86" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A meadow that the path passes through on the way to Cliff Lake[/caption]  
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Semester Break

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Last week was semester break at CSU Chico, for my break I went home to the Redding Area in Northern California. I had this grand idea of photography all week long, but come Wednesday I was sick with a cold and didn't want to do much of anything. I made some panorama's of landscapes to use in my Hand of Man series, I still have the photographs from the three days that I did go out even though I lost two days to being sick. I process my panoramas lightly using Photoshop's camera raw, then I export them as a tif and load them into Hugin. Hugin is a Open source program for stitching together Panorama's, I prefer it over Photoshop's Photomerge because it gives me control over what projection…
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LAPS Give and Take Print Exchange, Exhibition and Sale

Exhibitions, Series and Works
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society put out a call for Art a while back for an Exchange and Exhibition. Its titled Give & Take, and the exhibition is up from March 18th to May 9th. I made two prints, for the exchange. Both are Serigraphs, on an 8 by 10 paper size. The image size is smaller, around 6 inches on the longest side. The prints are in the Easternizing Western art series of prints that are based on historical paintings. The two for this exchange are both based on Caravaggio's paintings. The concept has to do with how we look at non-western art in comparison to looking at the actual paintings of western art.   [caption id="attachment_31" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Easternizing Western Art: Caravaggio's Medusa[/caption] [caption id="attachment_32" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Easternizing…
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10-10-20 Exhibition and Sale

Exhibitions, Series and Works
The annual 10-10-20 is this week, in the B-SO Space. There will be lots of works on 10 by 10 inch panels that will be sold for $20. This is a fundraiser that benefits the Art Department, and the Art Shop. The panels go on sale Tomorrow the 4th at 10:30am there is a reception and Awards presentation on March 5th at 5:30pm. The panel that I made is out of a new series of photographic works, the Series is titled Hand of Man. It consists of an Inkjet print that has Pronto Plate Lithographs on Japanese mulberry paper that are collage to the inkjet print.
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Valentines Day Card Sale

Series and Works
Print Club did a Valentines Day fundraiser sale this semester, I made two similar but different cards for them to sale. The design on the cards is based off of a painting by Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, better know as Caravaggio. Around 1601-1602 he made a painting of cupid titled Amor Vinicit Omnia or in English Love Conquers All. More on Caravaggio in later blog posts.   The English version of the card shown above was an edition size of 41.   The latin version was an edition of size of 20. The fundraiser was a success, Holiday cards do sale. The cards were drawn, then scanned into the computer. I printed them out and then exposed them onto a screen coated with photo emulsion. I had sixteen cards cramped onto…
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