Alterations to Roscoe

The other day, I was playing around and made some changes to some photographs of Roscoe to try to capture the feel of the place, how timeless it is, how beautiful it is. The first is simply a slight alteration to a photograph from Zach's grandmother's house, but the rest are of that wonderful place called Roscoe, New York.

Chain Mail Is BOOMING!

Zach's chain mail 'hobby' is turning more into a business with all the attention and orders he is getting from the chapter of the KMC near us. They love his chain mail and are sponsoring, letting him come over any time, helping him advertise his stuff, got a glass case for his pieces to be displayed, everything. He's not a member, but they treat him like a brother, even call him that. He's even got a nickname there: "Chain-Man." I wonder where they got the idea from.

Anyway, on Sunday morning, while working on my homework, I put together a portfolio of his work along with a typed-up price list to give to the K-men to show around when Zach isn't at the Clubhouse. He got two orders just tonight and sold one of the bracelets he made yesterday. Business is booooooming! I'm so proud of Zach.

Roscoe, New York: The Town the 21st Century Forgot

Hello! Wow... I have photographs, new ones, to show you guys. I hope you like them. These are the best of the best of the photographs from the trip Zach, me, and my family took to see my grandfather in the town my father grew up in: Roscoe, New York. The moment you walk/drive into this town, it's like you have stepped back fifty years, except for the Chevrolet car lot, the town has changed little in fifty years. It is still quiet, slow, and nice. The people are genuine, the food great, the traffic small. It is a good place to go to if you want to not be bothered by the modern world, just so long as you turn your cell phone off, though you probably won't get any signal unless you are carried by a company I can't remember right now. In the fall, before all the eaves fall, the entire area is beautiful with the brilliantly colored leaves on all the hills surrounding the area. I wish I could visit my grandfather more. He is so nice and he's all alone there right now in that big house. It's nice to see him.

We had Thanksgiving Dinner at a restaurant owned and chef-ed by one of my grandfather's students from so long ago. The guy came here from Greece knowing no English, now he owns and runs his own restaurant. He's such a great guy and came out to see us and talk to us. My grandfather was sick with a head cold and couldn't come to eat with us, but we brought him back a whole dinner so that he could still enjoy the delicious food.

We came back Thursday evening and Zach and I had dinner Friday with my mother. Then, on Saturday, we had dinner with Zach's family. Sunday night, Zach and I stopped at his grandmother's house so I could take a picture of her Christmas decorations and her kitten so I could paint her Christmas present.

Beautiful People

Hello. I am sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I haven't taken many photographs in a while. I haven't had the time, what with school and all. Any way, the other night, two of my good friends, Josh and Pam, came into my room and the four of us (my roommate leading the show) had a hair dying party. I was the only one whose hair was not altered, but I helped. In the process, I snapped a few shots of Pam, she is SOOOO photogenic and beautiful (Yes Pam, you!). Josh and she are such a great couple and are so great together.

Also, Zach completed a bracelet for one of his friends and let me snap a picture before he handed it over.

These three photographs all have minor alterations to bring out the beauty... The third has a little more than a little, but I think it only accentuates the beauty of chain mail.

Making Beauty More Beautiful

These are images that I have altered to increase their beauty. All the changes are minor, all that are included in the most basic of photograph-changing programs. I do this because the images can be enhanced so much by simple changes, so much more than by huge alterations.




These are two alterations of the same images, trying to see which would look better. I'm not sure myself. I like them both.

The Beauty That Comes Out Of Design

For a 2-D design class I am taking, I had to take photographs of "architecture" for a photo-montage, though I didn't exactly follow the guidelines. I took photographs of all made-made objects and abstracted them with high contrast and different brightnesses, but it still isn't exactly what I needed for the assignment. But these are some of the images I took (I took over 100 photographs) and messed with a little bit. I really like the capabilities of this computer for allowing me to still have the feel of black and white 35mm photography with the ease of digital.