Moving Aunt

I was helping my aunt move this past November and I was able to get these last shots to say goodbye to her old place. I added a few from her new place to balance everything out.

Stella

I have a new photo of Stella where she is just lounging about on my mother's wheel chair.

Boulevard

These are some pictures that I took during my many trips down to the boulevard this fall. There are some that were taken by the Fisherman statue and some by the mini Pavilion beach. I also have a shot of my cousin Ashley staring off into the distance.

Crane Beach

In Ipswich Massachusetts there is a beach by the name Crane Beach. My family and I took a little drive up there and I was able to get these pictures of the beach and the highway on the way back. Hope that you enjoy them as much as I do!

Julia Margaret Cameron

       Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer well known for her portraits usually of celebrities of that time. She started taking photographs when she was around the age of 48 when her daughter gave her a camera as a present. Starting her photography Carree where just after a year she became a member of the Photographic Societies of London and Scotland. Cameron was born in Calcutta India. She was considered an ugly duckling compared to her sisters and other well known celebrities in her family. Such as her great niece Virgina Woolf who said this when asked about her aunt. "wrote in the 1926 introduction to the Hogarth Press collection of Cameron's photographs, "In the trio [of sisters] where...[one] was Beauty; and [one] Dash; Mrs. Cameron was undoubtedly Talent"." ( look to the bottom of the page for the link to the website where all my information was collected at). Cameron was then married in 1838 to Charles Hay Cameron a man twenty years her Senior. He was also a jurist and member of the Law Commission stationed in Calcutta.

      Since Cameron's sister ran a scene for the artistic in Little Holland House Cameron had access to very famous people of the age. People like Charles Darwin, George Frederic Watts, and Ellen Terry all got their portraits done by Cameron. Cameron also did posed pictures which looked like oil paintings. In these paintings Cameron never hid the background even if the person she was depicting in her photograph was supposed to be a literary work.

       Here is some of her work I found breathtaking!

Pictures:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Julia+Margaret+Cameron+Photography&Form=IMGCOL&col=79ec4cd960795f13d355

Information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bresson is well known for his "Street Photography". Bresson was born on August 22nd in 1908 in Sein-et-Marne at Chanteloup. By 1923 he developed an interest in painting and certain parts of Surrealism where he studied under Andre' Lhote. In 1931 he started to really focus on photography. By 1935 Bresson was in New York experimenting with film with Paul Strand. Bresson as then working on a few shows until 1940 when he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He later escaped in1943 where he took pictures artists and writers and was a part of an organization called MNPGD which helped people who escaped or were at one time prisoners. After in 1944-1945 he was working as a part of a team called photographs the Liberation of Paris which was a documentary on on the prisoners of war and detainees. As his life goes on Bresson continues with his photography until 1974 where he starts to concentrate on his drawing. As the later years of his life are focused on his drawing art he dies peacefully on August 3rd 2004 in Montjustin, Provence

Someone who really understood what it is Henri Cartier-Bresson was doing in his art is
Zorkikat who wrote the qote below which just sums Street Photography up so nicely.
      "The common misconception is that street photography is so simple that there is no need to set rules for it. A lot of people with cameras (as opposed to true photographers :) ) think that the 'street' is the genre for them, after perhaps encountering failures and frustrations in other photographic genre like portraiture, still life, or even landscape where there seem to be a lot of "rules". The notion that the street is open, spontaneous, and non-static leads to the belief that the photography used in it should be as 'free' as well- no rules, no standards, and even no composition or graphic consideration!
"Finding one's voice" is difficult if that voice cannot speak in a manner that is comprehensible. Doing nothing but trial and error will lead to hits or misses- more misses likely. And of the hits, they can be best described as accidental: the creator had little to do with it, and thus he is unlikely to recreate the 'success' which his unintended hit had, if he had no grip on its method of creation in the first place."

Here are some of Bresson's work

Here are some links where I got my information:

http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2011/08/22/10-things-henri-cartier-bresson-can-teach-you-about-street-photography/

 http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/HCB_bio08_28_en.htm

Post Shutter Speed Priority

       For my shutter speed priority pictures I was fortunate to have some people jump in my photograpghy class. The hardest part of this assignment was to get the person in motion without getting them blurry and having all hands and feet in the frame. When we were trying the flying or levitating I was having trouble finding the right angle to shoot up from in order to make my subject appear to be flying or floating.