Visual stimulation

I was finishing up one project and figured I'd grab the photos from Florida. I have some others but I forgot they were on film! My grandmother was asking me what I was going to do with all the sunset photos of Englewood. I can never get enough of photographing the sunset. Of course, the best day there was, I forgot to bring the fucking camera! But here's a couple from one night.

This one is from the darkroom of the Clyde Butcher Gallery that is in Venice. I found a student at school who has heard of this photographer and we are going on the Muck About on Labor Day! They were so nice at the gallery, I even got a tour of the darkroom. This is a HUGE large format camera that was converted into an enlarger. The photos in the gallery are awesome. The size just makes you feel like you are in the scene. Of course I cannot afford any of the large photos but we did get on the mailing list for the 2008 calendar. My grandmother loved it. I don't like dragging people to photo galleries because people usually don't find them as interesting and awesome as I do, but she loved it and I was glad. She got a couple of DVDs and some postcards as well. I saw some 8x10 negative just "lying around". I was tempted to snatch one, but I couldn't do that. Well I COULD but I'm not that kind of person. As we left the woman doing the matting in the back asked if I was a photographer, I said I was studying it in school and she gave me scrap matt board. Bonus! They aren't normal sizes but I can use them for small photographs! NEVER pass on free stuff!


The following photos are from the sunsets at Englewood beach in Florida. My gram and I went out each night and sat and watched the sun set, looked for shark's teeth, people watched. It was great. These are (I think) two different nights.