Kristy Peet

Current Events

2011-12-19T20:38:00.000-08:00

New things are happening.

Jennifer and I are now co-vice presidents of Box 13.
I'm going to have two pieces in a self portrait show at Lawndale during Fotofest.
My How I Will Die series will also be up during Fotofest at Gallery 1724. The opening will be March 31.
I'm working a new project with a collaborator. Images and details coming soon.

The real reason I love 4x5

2011-12-19T13:55:00.000-08:00

Today I discovered a subconscious reason why I think 4x5 film is the best. I'm working on a new series that I'm shooting on medium format. It was so frustrating at the end of the shoot to not be able to process it right away because the roll wasn't done yet. I love instant gratification. With 4x5, you could shoot just one frame and still get it processed right away.

Plus, I love wearing my dark cloth as a cape. :)

Art Crawl

2011-11-16T16:31:00.001-08:00

Art Crawl is this Saturday. I'll be at Box 13 all day. Come see my studio!

http://www.artcrawlhouston.com/

Texas Contemporary Art Fair

2011-10-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

This weekend I went to the second art fair in less than a month in Houston. I actually liked this one a lot better. It was a little smaller so it was less overwhelming and I though the work was overall better.

My first favorite artist was a photographer named Carol Selter. Her bird images are amazing.

My other favorite Lauren DiCioccio. She used string and objects. This book was awesome and she also had slides where the image was embroidered. Very cool work!

Bug Night

2011-10-21T22:11:00.000-07:00

My office-mate put on a bug night at school tonight. I wasn't sure what to expect but it turned out to be really fun. I got some pictures that I like which is weird because I usually don't do a very good job unless I'm setting something up.

The processor has arrived!

2011-10-19T11:30:00.000-07:00

It's in....and it's taking up a ton of space!

New Work

2011-10-06T15:48:00.001-07:00

art filled weekend

2011-09-18T11:51:00.001-07:00

This weekend I finally started using the studio to make stuff rather than just setting it up. It's so nice being able to spread out. The first shot I did is something I definitely would not have been able to do at home. I'm processing the film tomorrow so images will come soon.

I also went to Houston's first Fine Art Fair. It was really interesting to wander around and see a ton of contemporary art in one place. My favorite thing that I saw was work by a Mexican artist named Hugo Lugo (www.hugolugo.com). I hadn't seen any of his work before, but it is amazing. He used watercolor and string to make his pieces.

Right now I'm in the studio waiting for the black paint on my foot to dry....

The darkroom is dark!

2011-08-28T19:30:00.000-07:00

This weekend, Jenni and I and our awesome helpers worked on making the darkroom actually dark. We got almost the whole room painted and we raised the walls all the way up to the ceiling. Woo!

This weekend was also my last HCP event as Staff. As excited as I am about the new job, I am definitely going to miss it there.

New Beginnings

2011-08-24T19:04:00.001-07:00

This week I moved into a studio and into a new job/office. It's been a big week since I've never had a studio or an office.

On Saturday, Jennifer McNichols and I moved into Box 13. We are planning on building a color darkroom, but out first task was to clean up the space. It was kind of a wreck when we got there.

This is going to be the light area. We are planning on a few tables, shelves and 5500K light sources. We'll also hang some of our work.

Just to the left of where the above picture ends, there is a door that leads into this room. This is will the darkroom part. I love the amber bottles on the window sill. :)

I also started at College of the Mainland as an Assistant Professor. Yesterday I poked around the darkroom. The school has a 4x5 camera and a bunch of TRLs. Yay! There is also the Epson scanner and printer that we have at HCP which is awesome. The darkroom is nice, but needs more enlargers. That might be my first goal.

This is the classroom area. There is also a mini darkroom off of this room that only has 2 enlargers in it.

I also spent a lot of time yesterday organizing my office. I'm super excited about the office since I've never had one before. I share the space with Mark Greenwalt who teaches painting and drawing. I look forward to covering my walls with art-y stuff. (If you want to donate to this cause, that would be awesome.)

More to come...

Current events

2011-08-10T22:00:00.001-07:00

Two exciting things are happening in the next few weeks. First, Jennifer McNichols (http://newworldalmanac.net/_jlfm_all/) and I are getting a studio space at Box 13. We are planning on setting up a color darkroom and using the space to shoot and print. It'll be really nice to not have my entire living room consumed by strobes and softboxes.

Also, I've finally landed a full time gig. Starting in two weeks, I will be a tenure track faculty member at College of the Mainland. Very excited! This semester I'll be teaching two Photo 1 classes and one Photo 2 class, assuming that they fill up.

More to come on each of these adventures...

#15

2011-05-06T10:15:00.001-07:00

We'll be 15th in the parade.

Art car or Why I Was Sweating my Ass Off on Sunday

2011-05-03T11:24:00.000-07:00

The art car is finally starting to look like something. Yay!

Also, we might have a sociopath on our team...

Art Car Progress

2011-04-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Rachel, David, Sasha and I worked on the art car. Things are going much better. Rachel's dad looked at the car and figured out how to make it reverse. Yay! It also seems like we have figured out how to all work together, which is nice. :) And, most importantly, we put something on the car!

Rachel and I are working on paper macheing the front of the car for the map and David and Sasha are working on the brick wall.

Polaroid

2011-04-18T08:44:00.001-07:00

I really miss polaroid. I was looking at some old images today and it made me nostalgic. I love what the Impossible Project is trying to do, but its just not the same.

ID Preview Night

2011-04-07T19:21:00.000-07:00

Last night a group of collectors came by to preview the exhibition. Four pieces have already sold!

Come to the opening reception tomorrow from 6-9 at Darke Gallery!

Art Car: Day 1

2011-04-04T08:27:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, David, Rachel, Sasha and I started working on our art car. Our first task was to get it into our workspace. We did this with no problem, but in doing so, we found out that the car doesn't reverse. Awesome.

We made a work bulletin board with a calendar and sketches. Please don't steal our amazing ideas. :)

We set up our tarp and started taping off where things will go on the car.

The last thing we did (and the thing I was most excited about) was testing different glues.

It did not go well.

ID

2011-03-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

I am very excited to be curating the University of Houston photo/digital media senior show this year. The show is called ID and features 14 artists working with the theme of identity. It will run Apr 8- May 6 at Darke Gallery (320B Detering, Houston, 77007). The opening reception is Friday, Apr 8 from 6-9pm. Here's a sneak peek!

An Nguyen, still from A Butterfly Wade, Single-channel Video, 2010

Lillie Monstrum, Invention No. 19, Archival Inkjet Print, 10” x 15”, 2011

Max G. Trautner, Choice of Salad, Archival Inkjet Print, 15" x 19", 2010

They also got a billboard to advertise their show. It was written up on The Great God Pan is Dead.

http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-was-driving-to-work-last-wednesday.html

Art Car

2011-03-07T07:50:00.001-08:00

This year, Houston's art car parade will change weekends to correspond to the opening of the AAM conference that will take place in Houston. Thousands of curators and museum people will converge on Houston for the week. Because of this the AAM host committee has commissioned an art car to celebrate the diversity of Houston museums and my group got chosen. So, Sasha Dela, Rachel Hewlett, David McClain and I will be building a fabulous art car. Save the date for May 22 to see our creation.

Mission wrap-up

2011-02-08T20:19:00.001-08:00

Two weekends ago I went down to Mission, TX for the Citrus Fiesta Parade to help David with his float. Here is our amazing finished product.

There were three floats that entered out category: Valley Products. The rules were basically that we had to cover out whole float with produce from the valley, especially citrus products. Here is the winner. It's the Catholic church...in Mission, TX. Shocking.

It was still super fun though. :)

Regarding Line

2011-02-08T10:10:00.000-08:00

The drawing show I curated opens this Friday. I hung it last weekend and it looks amazing! It’s called Regarding Line and features the work of John Adelman, Brent Fogt and Kia Neil.

John Adelman

thejohnadelman.com

Brent Fogt

brentfogt.com

Kia Neill

web.mac.com/kiakiakia/Kia_Neill/

The show opens this Friday, February 11 with a reception from 7:00-9:00 pm and will run from February 11 through March 10, 2011.

Annex Gallery

13645 Murphy Road, Suite 250

Stafford, Texas

Come see it!!

Print Sale

2011-01-22T06:52:00.000-08:00

Come out to Caroline Collective tonight for their first print sale. I'll have lots of 8x10s on sale for only $25. What a deal!!

Viva Mission!

2011-01-18T17:33:00.000-08:00

This weekend Rachel, Jane and I drove down to Mission, TX to help David build his second annual float for the Texas Citrus Fiesta parade. This year he is doing a train theme. It's a huge undertaking. David and his brother did a lot of contraction to make the train skeleton and Rachel, Jane and I will do most of the decorating. First though, we had to suit up. Coverall are so bad ass!

These are the wheels we made. We died deer corn and glued them to the pegboard wheels. They will actually spin when they are on the float.

We all got super gluey. I still have some red glue stuck on my arm.

Rachel also made a map that turned out super cute.

Here is the train while the roof was being put on.

The boys try to figure out how to make the train puff out smoke.

It was a super fun weekend. I can't wait to go back for the actual parade.

Check out David's blog to see more.

http://floatingdowntheriogrande.blogspot.com/

Gambol

2010-11-16T14:08:00.001-08:00

Come see two of my How I Will Die pieces at Art League Houston this Friday. 500 entries and both of mine were chosen. Woo!

Artist Statements

2010-10-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

I've long thought that artist statements can make or break a piece. So many times a piece of art can be made much more interesting by knowing more about it. Today's 20x200 piece is an example of the opposite of that.

http://www.20x200.com/art/2010/10/untitled-from-the-series-owner-of-this-world.html

The Center for Fine Art Photography

2010-09-15T08:23:00.000-07:00

My Avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. image has been selected for an exhibition called New Normal at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Ft. Collins, CO. 750 images were submitted and 50 were chosen. (Yay, me!)

The juror was Edward Robinson who is the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He was also the former Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Dept. of Photography at MoMA and curated a bunch of shows there. Wow!

Museum Collection!

2010-08-08T18:01:00.000-07:00

I've made it into my first major museum collection! Last night was the first annual Gift of Gift of event where people could vote on photographs to be purchased and donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. An image from my How I Will Die series was on display and was one of the 8 chosen for purchase. YAY!! So, barring something going wrong (knock on wood) in the aquisition process, I'm in. Woo! I'm gonna be famous now.

Thank you soooo much to my friends, family and complete strangers who came and voted for me. I love you guys!

Vote for Kristy

2010-07-21T06:20:00.001-07:00

Come vote me into the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collection!

Cremaster Cycle

2010-07-14T12:17:00.000-07:00

This weekend, I went to see the Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney at the Dobie Theatre in Austin. The cycle consists of 5 films that total about 7 hours and is mostly about testicals. Like the art nerd that I am, I took diligent notes during the show. I thought I’d share my thoughts on each and some of my crazy notes.

Cremaster 1 alternated between 2 blimps and a football field with dancers on it. Inside the blimps were tables with a lady underneath. The lady would arrange grapes into patterns and the dancers on the football fields would make the same formations.

Crazy notes taken during film:

“White tablecloth, testicle looking sculpture, green grapes”

“Giant lady under table digs hole in table and gets grapes”

“Grapes fall out of shoe”

Cremaster 2 was my least favorite. It had a ton of different stuff going on and none of it seemed to connect. First there was a couple and an older lady at a table. Then there was sex with lots of bees. When the guy pulled out, the end of his penis was a beehive. Then there a crazy drummer covered in bees and 2 Ford Mustangs connected with a tunnel. Then a guy got shot and some cowboys dance. It was weird.

Some of my favorite notes from this one include:

“Woman puts yellow powder on inner thigh”

“Beehive in end of sex penis”

“Man in car has red swollen eyes”

“Dancing man and woman in cowboy hats around saddle in old walled room”

“Stuffed goat inside giant log cabin”

“Houdini becomes part of cage”

Cremaster 3 is the only one that I had seen part of before. In grad school, we watched a section where Matthew Barney must get through different obstacles to get to the top of the Guggenheim. I really liked the part I had seen so this is the reason why I wanted to watch the whole thing. This film actually wound up being my second to least favorite. The whole film was 2 main sections: ascending the Chrysler building and ascending the Guggenheim and a small section involving cave men.

Weird notes:

“Giant caveman east mice and has gold finger”

“Cars crash into car with dirt lady inside”

“Silver dressed lady in room with potatoes and cat”

“Wrinkled rubber tube comes out of his butt, teeth and goo flow from tube”

“Serra throws melted Vaseline”

Cremaster 4 was my favorite of the 5. It was also the first one of the cycle that he made. It flashed between Mathew Barney dressed as a satyr tap dancing his way through a building on the end of a pier and a drag race between two phallic shaped motorcycles with sidecar. Barney taps so much in one spot that he creates a whole in the floor and falls through into the ocean. Then he finds himself in a narrow goo filled tunnel that he must crawl through. The film ends with a shot of his crotch with clips attached the area where his balls should be. The clips have ribbons coming off them that are attached to each of the motorcycles.

Favorite notes from this one include:

“Slime balls come out of racing outfits”

“Wheel with balls goes onto blue racer”

“Barney buried in white pearls then white goo”

“Crotch with clamps and strings”

Cremaster 5 consisted of an opera singer and under water fairy nymphs. There was also Matthew Barney with another crotch prosthetic. At the end, there were ribbons attached to his crotch and birds flying away with the other ends. There was also a guy on a horse that jumped off a bridge in the end.

Crazy notes:

“Red guards uncover pink ribbon man’s face”

“Black cloak male is nude with large white belt thing”

“Vaginal hole under opera sings leads to hole”

“Nude man, no penis, only balls, petals on legs”

“Pink ribbon guy gets to end of stage and melts”

“Underwater fairies kiss man and put ball in his mouth”

“Goo from opera lady’s mouth drips into pool”

Anyway, I’m really glad I got to see the whole thing. I feel like a more complete artist now.

How I Will Die and Everything has its Place

2010-03-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

It was a busy art weekend. In addition to going to a two day class to learn Lightroom, I went to two fun receptions. The first was my own show, How I Will Die. It was actually a closing for us. I organized the show and I am super happy with how it turned out. Here's me with my work.

The artists in the show were: (from left to right) Laura J. Bennett, Jennifer L. F. McNichols, David McClain, Rachel Hewlett, me, An Nguyen, Emily Peacock and Matthew Manalo.

On Saturday, the UH seniors had their senior show. Most of this group was in the very first class I taught at UH so it was really cool to see what they've made since then. Here are some of them. Thanks to Monica Kressman for letting me gank her images from her facebook page to use here.

Charlotte Boman

Dena Wallace

Rowan Bigham

Stephanie Gobea

How I Will Die - THIS FRIDAY!

2010-03-22T18:28:00.000-07:00

Don't forget! This Friday is a reception for the group show I'm participating in in conjunction with Fotofest 2010 called "How I Will Die." The reception will be Friday, March 26 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the Annex Gallery at HCC-SW. The address is 13645 Murphy Road, Suite 250, Stafford, Texas. Hope to see you there!

Evening with the Artists

2010-03-20T21:10:00.000-07:00

I had a table at Fotofest's Evening with the Artists last night. It went pretty well. More people seemed to like my work there than during my actual reviews. It was pretty awkward standing behind a table while hundreds of people walked by and looked though.

The Meeting Place wrap up

2010-03-17T11:12:00.000-07:00

So The Meeting Place was an interesting experience. Two years ago, I did it for the first time. It was a great experience. People were very enthusiastic about the work and I got my work into a gallery. This time was not as good. The reviews were very mixed, with about half saying the work was too conceptual and the other half saying it was too literal. I'm not sure how it could be both. I was also told that my work is conceptually immature from one reviewer and another asked if I was in therapy. In hindsight, I wish I had not done it this year. I didn't have enough new work to show and wasn't prepared with enough questions for the reviewers. Oh well, live and learn.

One cool thing did happen though. Mary Virginia Swanson, who specializes in marketing was a reviewer. She was super prepared and had already looked at my website before I sat down so she could give suggestions. She thought that it was cool that the blog section was so current because I had my list of reviewers posted and took a screen shot of it during the review. On Tuesday, she taught a marketing workshop. I wasn't able to go, but my friend, Jennifer, said that she showed my blog during the workshop. Awesome!

Time to write thank you notes...

The Meeting Place

2010-03-10T13:18:00.000-08:00

This Friday is the official beginning of Fotofest Biennial 2010. I'm signed up to do the first session of The Meeting Place which is a giant portfolio review and also starts Friday. Check out my line up and wish me luck!

New photo

2010-03-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

I'm working on a project involving medical supplies as a component of my How I will Die Series. I made this today. I call it Torture Devices.

Installing a show

2010-02-21T12:05:00.000-08:00

I spent this weekend installing a show at the Annex Gallery at HCC Southwest. I've been the gallery coordinator there for two years. Most of the shows are faculty or student shows, but everyone once in a while I get to organize my own show. Last summer, I curated a show called Substance with 5 photographers that turned out really well. Since Fotofest is happening this year, I asked if I could organize a photo show and I got the go ahead.

My friend, David, has been toying with the idea of a project called "How I Will Die" for a few years now. The idea would be to explore ways that he, specifically, could go. One day, I was complaining about having no ideas of things to shoot, he suggested I shoot how I would die because it would be different than his. From there, we decided to make a group show of it. Now, the show includes 10 artists of varying demographics.

So, I installed it this weekend and discovered why curators aren't suppose to include their own work in shows. Oh well, now I know for next time.

Here's a sneak peek of the space.

The show is officially open Feb 22-Apr 1. We are having an artists reception March 26 from 7-9pm. The Annex Gallery is at 13645 Murphy Rd, Stafford, TX.

Kids today...

2010-02-07T19:09:00.001-08:00

Today was family day at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Houston Center for Photography had a booth there. Since I am now part of the education department there, I got to man the table along with Rachel and Charlotte. We brought several old camera for the kids to look at and some film and stainless steel reels. The weirdest part of the whole thing was that none of the kids even knew what film was. It was weird and I felt old and kinda sad.

2010 Texas Citrus Fiesta Parade

2010-02-02T16:50:00.000-08:00

My friend, David, is in grad school at SAIC and his MFA project is going to be about his hometown of Mission, Tx. Mission is in the Rio Grande valley and produces a lot of citrus and every year they have a citrus fiesta parade. So, this weekend, Rachel, Jane and I drove down to help with David's parade float. His goal was a build an 8-foot tall accordion, a bandstand, a light-up dance floor and a planter with cactus in it. When we arrived late Thursday night, only the bellows of the accordion were on the float.

All day Saturday we worked on the float. 14 hours of manual labor is hard. The coolest thing I got to do was play with a blow torch to burn the spikes off of the cactus.

When we ran out of time, the accordion and bandstand were done. We also made an awesome conjunto sign and decorated the float itself. There were also awesome pinatas that looked like David and Jane.

Everyone that worked on the float signed the back.

The theme of the float was conjunto music which comes from the valley and David has been kind of obsessed with lately. David had arranged for a band of old men to play on the float. The morning of the parade though, we found out that one of them had been taken to the emergency room. So, he called the Conjunto hall of fame and got a 17 year old girl who is pretty well known in that scene. She came at the last minute with her bajo sexto player. Gloria Jean and Raymond were awesome!

LOTS of people came out to the parade. Here are some of them.

There were suppose to be dancers on the float, but they also bailed. David, Jane, Rachel and I wound up on the float during the parade. It was really fun. :)

Top Photographers #1

2010-01-28T21:59:00.001-08:00

And my #1 photographer is.... the collaboration of Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz. I first discovered their work while I was researching for my thesis show. They have a series called Travelers that is all about being away from home, which is what my work was about. I actually sent an email to them asking more about their work. Paloma wrote back and gave me some more background on her work and encouraged me on mine. I love that there is a big sculptural component to their work because I've always thought if I weren't a photographer, I would be a sculptor. Plus they are kinda quirky...

Top Photographers #2

2010-01-27T14:35:00.000-08:00

My second favorite photographer was actually my first favorite photographer ever. It was the first work that I saw and was instantly in love with. I first saw his work at Photographs Do Not Bend gallery in Dallas, which holds a special place in my heart because we used to go on field trips there when I went to Austin College. The photographer is Chema Madoz. The first series I did in grad school was heavily influenced by his work. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I suppose. The little images on the web do not do justice to his work. Not only are the images interesting and thought provoking, but the prints themselves are gorgeous, some of the most beautiful black and white prints I have ever seen.

Top Photographers #3

2010-01-26T14:47:00.001-08:00

My #3 choice is Michael Kenna. I'm generally not a fan of landscape photography, but I think his are just gorgeous.

Top Photographers #4

2010-01-25T07:46:00.000-08:00

My number 4 photographer is Gregory Crewdson. He sets up these very elaborate scenes in which he controls everything. The thing that I like about his work is that it is so narrative. I love looking at the images and making up a story to go with them. They are very thought provoking for me.

Top Photographers #5 again

2010-01-24T07:46:00.000-08:00

The problem with listing my 5 favorite photographers is that I really only have 2. The other 3 are pretty much always changing. My number 5 changed this weekend, hence writing about #5 again.
Four years ago, I was living in LA and I went to an event called PhotoLA which is basically a bunch of commercial galleries showing off the work they sell. One of the booths there was Photo Eye which is a book seller. I found this little book by a photographer I had never heard of. The book was a small paperback that came with a limited edition print. This is the print I chose to buy.

I noticed that the artists contact info was in the back of the book and I was so taken with the work that I even emailed him to let him know how much I liked it. He wrote back and was very kind.

Skip ahead 4 years, Friday night I was at HCP's annual print auction preview exhibition. I have a tradition of walking through the exhibition and decided what I would buy if I had any money and which piece is my absolute favorite. I do this without looking at the labels so I'm basing my decision only on the art itself. This year, this monkey picture is my favorite.

So, I go up to the piece to look at the label and turns out it was the same photographer that I found at PhotoLA: Hiroshi Wantanabe.

Top Photographers #5

2010-01-22T12:37:00.000-08:00

This week I am going to count down my 5 favorite photographers.

My number 5 pick is very different than the other 4. His images are based in science rather than fiction. Harold Edgerton uses photography for motion studies. His images teach us about the way things move and are fascinating to look at.

New favorite artist (of the week)

2010-01-21T16:36:00.000-08:00

When I was in San Diego for Christmas, my family and I went to see a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego of Tara Donovan's work. I wasn't familiar with her work but it looked cool online so we all went. It was amazing! She makes work out of everyday objects on a monumental scale.

This was the piece that was on the website and made me want to go see it. It's made of styrofoam cups.

This was my favorite piece in the show. It was made of millions of drinking straw stacked against a wall. Some were pulled out at different lengths from the wall of its had a wavy effect. The coolest thing though was that as you moved around it looked completely different. You could only see the holes in the straws you were right in front of. The holes make the straws look brighter so as you move around, the bright spot moves around also. It was very neat!

Top Photos #1

2010-01-19T09:21:00.000-08:00

It's finally here: the reveal of my favorite photo I've ever taken. I took it my second semester in grad school when I finally figured out what having a concept in your images meant. It's the earliest photo that I'm the most proud of.

Top Photos #2

2010-01-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

My second favorite photo I've ever taken is from my thesis show, Uncertain. I love this photo because it works really well on a couple of levels. First, it illustrates perfectly what the idea of the series is. It's probably the images that can best stand on its own from that series. Second, I think it's just gorgeous. The 4x5 gives so much detail that you can see more on the seed pods in the image than in real life. Even the viewer that doesn't look for meaning can still enjoy it.

RIP

2010-01-18T08:09:00.001-08:00

I went to a memorial service for a very talented photography student this weekend.

Patrick, you will be missed.

Top Photos #3

2010-01-15T08:42:00.000-08:00

Of my top five photos, this has the least of a story. It's actually just a picture I really like. It's from my Coming of Age series. A few birthdays ago, my sister got me a really cute fish tank so I went out and bought four guppies. Two of them died almost instantly so, rather than have them die in vain, I used them for art.

Top Photos #4

2010-01-14T08:03:00.000-08:00

This photo is in my top 5 not because I love the photo, but because of what it represents. This is the very first photo I ever printed. It started my love of photography and being in the darkroom. It was taken in 2000 (Wow, this is my 10 year anniversary of being addicted to the darkroom) at Austin College. The assignment was to shoot an entire roll of the same subject. I chose eyes.

Top Photos #5

2010-01-13T16:01:00.001-08:00

For the next 5 days, I'm going to count down my 5 favorite photos I have ever taken.

My number 5 photo was shot in 2005 in Los Angeles. When I got done with grad school, I made very few photos. I was so convinced that it was pointless to make a photo unless it fit into a series and had some deep meaning that I just didn't make any. One day, I decided that I was going to force myself to take some pictures so I went walking around this shopping center that was under contraction. I shot about half a roll of film and that was pretty much it. About a year later, after moving to Houston, I found a roll of 120 film that wasn't processed and I had no idea what was on it. I took it to be processed and found this image from that shoot. It's one of my favorites because it illustrates exactly how I was feeling at the time...completely blocked.

2010-01-01T18:56:00.000-08:00

joining the digital revolution...kinda

2010-01-01T18:26:00.000-08:00

I will start this blog by saying that I am still a hardcore film user. That said, using my 5 MP Canon Rebel that I have had since grad school for the shoots that I do do digitally was getting embarrassing. So, my awesome uncle Paul got me a D90 for christmas. I'm super excited about it because not only will the pictures be better quality, but it will also shoot HD video. I used it for a mini-shoot at Torrey Pines State Reverse. Here's a shot from that...

film

2009-12-24T08:52:00.000-08:00

For years, I have shot with Kodak 160VC 4x5 sheet film. When I was in grad school I would buy it in 50 packs, but about 2 years ago, the 50 pack became impossible to find so I started buying 10 packs. Apparently, I signed up for an email notification with B&H to let me know when they would have now. Today, about 2 years later, they have more. Weird. Better stock up.

New Blog!

2009-12-22T14:38:00.000-08:00

Hello potential readers,
I've decided to start a photography blog to post works in progress, write about other people's photos and share news about upcoming events. I hope someone will actually read it. Here is a sneak peek on the series that I am working on now. Enjoy!

~Kristy