I think I will take this opportunity to rant a little bit on this journal thing. I don't really care if anybody takes the time to read this, it would be cool if someone did, but this is really for me to sort my thoughts out on, and go back and read later. It's just more convient for me to put it here on my DA account so I can refer to it later. Otherwise, it will get lost on my hard drive somewhere or written down in a notebook that I eventually lose or throw away.

I haven't had (or I suppose, made) much time for photography, photoshop, or 3D graphics for the past year or so.

Most of an engineering student's free time alone is spent with a Calculus or Physics textbook, and so any time that would have went towards going out and shooting some photos or tweaking a batch of freshly shot RAW files went to other things.

I wanted to learn how to draw a bit this summer but for one reason or another I never got around to it. I suppose a lot of the time that would have gone towards it went towards reading about a book a week, mostly on philosophy or psychology. Learning how to draw has always been appealing to me because on one level or another I think it takes more skill to draw a picture well than to compose a photograph and tweak it with tools in a darkroom or with a computer. I don't think I'll be learning to draw any time soon though, I'm back in college again and I have other skills I want to learn along with the ones I'm paying to go to class to learn.

I'll try to do a bit more work with photography this season though. It is pretty good stress reliever to me. I am interested in improving and perhaps even one day making a bit of money off it, but my primary motivation is really just fun. I like making photos that are better than the average persons, but none of them are really that amazing or even that artistic really. I'm not really that much of an artist, and I know it. My personality is more suited to that of an engineer or scientist, but I do love to occasionally try and stimulate the right side of my brain.

One of my goals for photography is to get some good photographs of people. I have tons and tons of photographs of objects, but a good photograph of a person is rare from me. I really am a bit envious of people who make good photographs of people because it seems to me that it's a realitvely easy way to make a photograph more intresting. Put someone to emphaize with in it. For some reason I've always been a bit nervous of pointing my camera at people, like they will be slightly offended that I would like to take their photograph. It always brings up memories of the one person when you're out with a group of friends who holds his hand in front of his or her face or hides at the sight of a camera.

I think that's about it for now. Those are about all my thoughts regarding photography and art in my life.