http://www.linaprokofiev.net/

Lina Prokofiev unfortunately has no photographs available to just save because they're all attached to a slideshow. But her stuff is more than just "pictures", they actually seem to tell a story. One picture has a boy standing in the corner, head down with a bloody blade behind his back. In the foreground is a bloody animal on the table. The next picture is similar of a girl head down, in the corner with scissors held behind her back. She is standing next to a pink curtain with the shape of a dress cut out, while the remains are on the floor. I love this picture, its not only pleasing to look at, it brings to mind any number of stories one can come up with in their head. I think its pretty good for someone who calls her photography simply her "therapy". Her outdoor shots are beautiful because they seem to be all natural lighting, but the way she renders them makes them seem heavenly and simple, like the greatest example of how an overcast day can be the most serene, calm day of your lie

Martin Buday

I'm actually putting Martin Buday's photographs up here as an example of something I don't like. Here is a guy who recieved an MFA in photography, and his pictures are completely bland. He is the very reason why there are so many people out there that say "well all you have to do is just point and shoot, anyone could become a photographer". I mean this in the negative sense of course. Its like this guy just walks around and anything that comes along he'll just point and shoot, he doesn't have anything dynamic going on in his pictures. Not to say the scenery itself is nice, but he just doesn't DO anything! No angle treatment, no color enhancement, no effort to give a sense of depth of field, it doesn't even seem like he really bothered to properly frame his shot! Its a good example of having a nice camera, and nice lens, website knowledge and overall media education, but just no vision. I don't know, maybe its just me, but this guy is so boring.

Akif Hafan Celebi

Glamour photography is another thing that I would find fun to do, right after musician photography. It can be fun and interesting, personally i think it can also be pretty ridiculous and it takes itself too seriously. Shiho Hakva takes pictures of beautiful women in high fashion walking down a crummy street. Everything is in high contrast all the time, and the lens blurs everything out only to focus on the subject. Funny thing is is that ive always wanted to do a shoot like this with my girlfriend similar to what Shiho has done. She focuses intensely on the subject and blurs out everything else, it makes the picture more dynamic and all around more beautiful.

Ami Barwell

Ami Barwell is a musician photographer that does promo shots, live shots, portraits and magazine covers, pretty much all i would love to do. If i were to ever nab a career in photography this woul be it. Flowers are lovely and all, but there is nothing more fun then to capture images of your favorite musicians. I've gained a little experience through some friends bands, and Ive had a blast. Her shots are nearly all black and white with a high amount of contrast. You can tell they are photoshopped, but not because she has added large amounts of design, she keep her images simple so they appear to be naturally that beautiful.

Eric Warner

I think Eric Warner is a seriously talented photographer, most definitely going places. He is sort of at the area I want to be at now, but the only problem is is that its just so damn expensive. His works I've seen are at a professional level, theyre clean, theyre composited well, they're not overly photoshopped or under-worked. His black and whites are beautiful are the contrast is perfect, and I'm sure I will see his stuff more in the future.
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Pixels of San Diego

I actually ordered my book last week, i dont know how my progress is coming along but it should be ok. Im kind of worried about the quality of the printing, which is both partially my fault and could be the book order fault. I was not too happy with the quality of my cards. Some pictures were actually 72 dpi. I managed to change it to 300, but Im not too confident that these will be as high a quality as the ones that were always 300, oh well.

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Lake Poway

I haven't yet finished enhancing my pictures from Lake Poway, so here's two pano's from my little hike. Once again, i made the mistake of wearing my usual tight, black pants instead of loose shorts. I went here because a friend of mine said there was lots of growth with colorful, fruitful flowers sprouting everywhere. This was a month ago, but i figured it would still be a good shoot. There actually wasn't a whole lot going on. Lots of dirt for sure, but only a handful of flowers worthy enough to shoot. There should be a lot of pictures later to come.

Lake Hodges

So these are a few shots from when i went to Lake Hodges with Jamie. We were going to go to Pendelton, but she was just a tad late. We then were gonna go to the poppy fields along Del Dios, but we just went to a little area along Hodges that was closer. We took a long hike along the road. For some reason i thought it would be a good idea to go up the little hill that was next to the lake, i regretted it. The damn hill felt like a mountain, i wasn't dressed for it at all, and Jamie is a weird girl, but i managed to get one of the best shots ive yet taken.

Pechenga Resort

Indian Rock

Here are only a couple pictures I took, but what annoys me about them is that I saved them for Web on photoshop, and the result turned out to be extremely desaturated then what they should've been. But oh well.

TED

While I'm not sure what exactly the TED Award honors, I do know that the pictures James Nachtwey were extremely powerful images, the kind you might see on some LIFE magazine spread or the kind you might think of when the horrors of warfare subject comes up. Of course, all of the images were powerful, but extremely depressing. Maybe it was his presentation, but I think he should have focused on the rising-up against a war torn society, even if the residents caught in between are trapped within it. Some people are born into that life, and so they have to make the best of it of course. I'm sure there have to be some moments of laughter or hope, he should have had these in his presentation as well. Sure he showed people getting treated in hospitals, but they still seemed to be screaming in pain. Maybe I am just being a little too optimistic for these people who are doomed no matter what they do, it's all just part of making myself feel comfortable in the midst of tragedy. 

The Removal Act

Well, it was actually nice and  refreshing to hear a female singer/songwriter have more to say in her song then something about love or jealousy or bootyshakin. Women with an actual voice are a rare commodity these days, this ain't the 60's anymore and also the fact that she puts her own personal Native American input into her video as well. Speaking of the video, it was really well done how the drawings came alive, I'm not sure if she did it herself, but if she doesn't make it in the music industry she should try for some computer animation career!

Sometimes, I Get Bored...

This book has no summary, no keywords linked to it that describe what is inside. Just the title Sometimes I Get Bored and that is it. I don't know why, but it intrigued me. The photos inside are pretty mundane in their content. They're really just pictures of nothing. maybe something the author saw while walking down the street, he just happened to have his camera with him so he decided "why the hell not". The thing is, these photographs, are almost exactly the way I take photographs of objects. The content, for example, a couple open doors in a laundromat might just actually be an interesting beautiful photograph if exposed correctly with the natural lighting and the framing of the area was done well. This photograph is exactly my style and now that I've found this book I'm going to have to push myself even further than what I might have wanted to do before.