Photos With My Digital SLR

I took my camera to school one day recently and noticed this hornets' nest in a tree. The tree had recently lost all its leaves, and no one had yet noticed the nest and knocked it down (though a couple of days ago I noticed that someone had done just that).

Photo from the Forum

I took this one on my trip to Italy in the summer of 2005.

I'm currently taking a course called "Rome and the Caesars". Though I didn't realize it at the time, I've learned that these three columns are likely part of the ruins of the temple of Castor and Pollux. They are located at the Roman forum.

The second picture is an etching by Giovanni Battista from 1775. If you look closely, you can see the columns from the photo standing to the right of the center of the picture.

These two photos were taken with Ilford 100 speed black & white film.

Another couple of examples of me trying to play with contrast and texture. Again, C-41 black & white film, 400 speed.

The photo with pumpkins was taken using the OM-1 and, I think, 400 speed film. The sunflower photo was taken using a Canon A540 Power Shot (point-and-shoot).

When I was in Peru in 2000, among other delicacies, I ate monkey. Though it was not very good, I was usually hungry enough, by virtue of the grueling days spent lugging supplies through a humid jungle, that I accepted it gladly and asked for seconds. I managed to retrieve the head of one of our unfortunate monkeys from the stew-pot one evening, and after cleaning it up a bit, bleached in in a little Clorox.

This photo was one of a series I took about a year and-a-half ago.

Explicatio

My purpose in creating this blog is to have a place to display some of my photos and artwork. I previously had an account with a photo hosting website, but that site has now gone off-line. This format will allow me to not only post pictures, but provide a brief explanation (or other ramble) of them as well.



-Aaron