Good morning smoldering porch.

If it wasn't for the mailman coming by, my neighbor Marcus and I probably wouldn't have even known about it in the first place. Awesome.

This was caused by non other than our Sasquatch-hunting neighbor Ms. Daly.
Here's a link:
"I am immortal/I hunt the bigfoot furry things" (to the Highlander theme lol)
Yep, I works magic. :p

We came out to what looked like a smoldering pile of ash. I noticed a lil pee-wee fire so I ran inside, grabbed a cup, and doused the flame with water. It was still crackling as the Turners Falls FD arrived. They then proceeded to cut away the burnt, and still burning, boards and douse everything with even more water. By then all but a few cigarette butts were complete ash but there was enough left to conclude that she probably meant to put the butt out in the empty beer bottle and missed. Maybe she was drunk or sleepy or both. I remembered an old plastic planter bucket filled about halfway with old butts but that container was no where to be found. Maybe it melted away? Maybe she wanted to plant a pretty Jamaican flower or something? Whatever it was, the bucket's still-burning contents were left all over that corner of the porch. Good job.

Now for some pichers of today's events. Enjoy.





Dude inspecting her burnt cigarette butts.











Here's some motion for ya!


So it'll be nice to know that she owes our landlord money for almost burning down the house. I like to think it's just karma coming back at her for making all of us put up with this crap:


'til next time...

I like when I get mail...

So check it out. I ordered some camera equipment online a few days ago and it finally came in! But ho-hum...who doesn't order things online nowadays? Well, that's not the exciting thing...





YUP! I got it addressed to BRYUTAS PHOTO! hahaha. I'm on my way to becoming legit lol.

But hmm..."What is it??" You might ask yourself. Well stay tuned for some mad tyte pichers to find out! :D

Care Package #2

Thanks, Mom!

1 - bag of pan de sal (spamburgers ftw!)
2 - garlic nagarayas
3 - personal shrimp chip bags
1 - thing of yan yans
1 - thing of spam lite (cuz they only have regular spam here)
1 - big bag of spicy nacho doritos. I can't find em here
1 - spindle of DVD-Rs that I couldn't fit in my bags back to TF

Word.

Prospect St, 1st floor + owner

Almost forgot to post this lol.

Lou is in the middle...chillest landlord ever.

Character Study

For this one, we had to take a certain individual and try to portray a certain aspect of their personality (character) through imagery. I shot my upstairs neighbor, Evelyn, for this one. She absolutely loved it!



I think it turned out interesting.

Box o' Luvin'

Ok, this isn't an update on Hallmark or anything but just an entry on a package from home.

So I get home for lunch and low and behold a box w/ my name on it is sitting outside.
Mom sent me a big box of junk food lol! No, I'm not a giant lardo or anything but basically, these are things I can't find here in Turners.



Enclosed:
-1 large bag fritos honey bbq twists
-1 med bag fritos honey bbq twists
-1 large bag doritos spicy nacho
-1 med bag doritos spicey nacho
-1 med bag cheetos jalapeno cheese
-2 sm bags of shrimp chips
-1 bag nagaraya spicy flavor
-2 bags nagaraya garlic (breath kicks HARD after these...but they're soooo worth it.)

Also included was a package of Zest soap. Strangely, I can't find any here. Weird.

Have a nice day.
Save the whales.

Oh yeah, thanks mom!

Phase One Finals

So after a couple weeks of no sleep (and horrible quality sleep), phase one finals are finally over. All in all, 26 Prospect (aka Ethan and I) did pretty well. How the critique went was each section was called up two at a time and had to put a photo up. The teachers would then go up and crit them one at a time while cameras similar to the ones you see at walmart zoomed into them and projected them on the big screens for all to see. While embarrassing for some, E and I were "4/4" meaning that we both got good reviews.

So anyway, Here's some of my favs + they're parameters.

Image 2/10 - Showing Motion


Image 5/10 - Backlit Outdoor Flash


Image 6/10 - Indoor Flash


Image 10/10 - Self Portrait

Got Bored...

Decided to finally get a landscape done.

Enjoy.

Out w/ Jude

So we went shooting today...sorta. We went for our "Fabblesnopff" idea but i ended up wanting to do an HDR. Handheld, 9 shots.

Canon 10-22 winnage.

Now for the real reason we went out:

Focal Points and Viewpoints

So I shot w/ Ginger in Northampton and came across a kick-ass toy store that had UglyDolls! (My sis loves those friggin things.)

This is where we met two unlikely (but lovely) models who were nice enough to pose for me. Thanks again you two! Hope you enjoy these shots. Sorry if they're a bit blurry...a half a second is a long time to hold still haha.




After that, I proceeded with my assignment where I had to take different viewpoints on different subjects as well as break up line and use color and contrast and all that jazz. I didn't feel so successful this time...but it sure was a hell of a lot of fun that day! Ginger went home that day because she felt sick, but I was lucky enough to hook up with some down folks.

Here's a couple other shots:
tried to adjust for color/brightness a tad, but they uploaded funny again. :\

yum





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