Fourth of July Weekend....

Alright. These photographs are all out of order, so I'll give you a general story, then direct commentary on each image.

Zach and I went up to his parent's camp on July 3rd to drop off our jewelry to his Aunt's for her yearly craft show. Then, on the 4th, we went to the Oswego County Fair in Sandy Creek to check out the wares and, incidentally, the cars. Then we join a few friends for the Independance Day fireworks at Fort Ontario.

I think most of the cars are self explainitory, like the GMC truck and others that you only get to see parts of because I have way too many images.

This truck was beautiful, though not in the shiny, fully-restored way, but in that it was beautifully designed by an artist, not a computer, and the little details, like the grill and the V8 emblam that was a symbol of the time and the years to come.

Sunset the night of the fireworks. Beautiful with the clouds and the red from the pollutants in the atmosphere. I guess there is one good thing that has come from air pollution.

The moon was beautiful opposite the sun set. I have more that are better, but again, I already have too many images.

This looked like a dandilion flower, except that the puff ball was about three inches in diameter. (see next photo for comparison)

The fireworks. I took quite a few the night before up to camp from a kind of 'home-made' show, though they were not as nice because I was still firguring out the timing and there wasn't the wonderful sunset.

Some interesting textures on our morning walk at camp...

Yes.... This is the Tool Nerve Ending hoodie and grass, but think abotu how the textures interact.... Yeah, now you're getting it...

There were dozens of these little guys going from this bird feeder to the pine trees in the background.

At the Oswego County Fair, there were a few very large trucks parked together. They were massive and just over the top. Again, Zach is around 5'8" tall, maybe 5'10". Yeah, it's a big truck.

We agreed the mascott and the hood ornament matched the looks of these trucks quite well, though the ornament doesn't exactly emphasize the sheer bulk of this truck.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I've been busy with the end of the semester projects and with finding a job for the summer, which I have (yay!), as well as commissions (double yay!) for painting.

I work for AmeriCorp through a local charity organization, mostly office type work. What's weird is how little I am outside now. I don't like being out of touch with nature and with the warmth of the sun. I only took a 20 minute lunch, half of which was outside, so I could take a mental break and update this.

Forgive me for not having any images to show off just yet. I will once I get home, because this morning I uploaded around 700 photographs onto my computer. I took quite a bit of the fireworks I saw this weekend (now that I know how to take photographs at night, thank you Digital Photo I), as well as some awesome sunsets and daytime vistas and a couple of moons. I know I have a bunch that are probably junk, but I haven't been able to go through them all.

I hope to have some images to show in a little while, cross your fingers for me.

Sculpture Project....

Here are some photographs of a sculpture project I made the last few weeks. It is around 6'x6'x6', the images painted on the white sheets are watered-down acrylic. The vertical posts are wood with nails to hold the horizontal PVC pipe that the sheets are hung on. The structure forms a large square with a square off-set within it, forming a geometric spiral inward.

I won't get into the concept because it's a little sensitive, but let's say this project has been cathartic.

As many artist's say, the photographs do not do it justice, but that's fine. I made it so that the structure could be taken down and rebuilt, so it's all good.