Sunday, October 7, 2007
Miami Carnival 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
..there is a piece of summer still left
anyway, my next photo intallment will be..*Drumroll Please*
A Weekend in Miami!
My sister is coming from Canada, and now that I am of age , have transpo and a couple of dollars, we can actually DO MIAMI! (somewhat, it is expensive as all get out) I plan to take some shots and post really soon. Untill then....
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Summer Breeze.....
The Five Founders of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
To see this lit in warm lighting was photo op I could not pass up!
Miner Hall (.....now called Miner Teachers College)
Phi Beta Sigma owns the entire block and offices where they rent the spaces out to small black owned business to promote economic growth in the surrounding community! Impressive!
Phi Beta Sigma International Headquarters.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Happy July 4th
Do you now how many people slowed down, just to see what I was doing?? One man rolled up next to my car while I was getting out and proceeded to mumble some words I could not make out before he drove off. I got squatters rights, I been in this area since October 1979!
AND WHAT!
So here it is..
My Block - The Norland Area
My motivation you ask? To look back at this journey, and see where I started in comparison to where I will be. Along with taking "FIYA" pictures, I always wanted to tell a story with my pictures. Who knows where this could lead to..but the most important thing about this journey is that............ I started!
God Bless!!!
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Taste Of Chicago...
Anyway...
Maze feat. Frankie Beverly performed that opening night. It was truly a beautiful thing to see so many people peacefully enjoying the entertainment from this legendary band(Did I mention 90% of the audience wore all white!!). I love big cities. I travel alot and my favorite places to go are huge urban cities. I grew up in the suburbs and my city does'nt have a "real" downtown area.
I was able to get some great shots from my Nikon Coolpix, but it is nothing like a DSLR. (anyone want to donate one to me ? LOL). Here is a link to the movie slideshow. It takes about five minutes to load up so be patient. You will need Windows Media Player or Real Player on your computer in order to view it. Oh an of course, please turn your speakers up!!
Taste of Chicago-07 Slide Show
God Bless
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Off to Chicago!!!!
Monday, June 25, 2007
no script..just play it by ear
Currently I am working on my first assignment:
My Block - The Norland Area(183rd to 199th)
It will consist of snap shots from certain points in my neighborhood taken with my digital camera (Nikon Coolpix L3). The slide show should be up by this Wednesday with complete story. Yes, a story indeed!! When you are rolling around North Dade in a black car, taking random pictures in a 99% percent black neighborhood....there WILL be a story....
TRUST!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Throwbacks...
I thought this to be ironic...a "No Parking" sign..with a car parked under it! This was taken near the student union or what "old school" Rattlers call "The Set".
I was walking back to my campus apartment and I happend to stroll by the bus stop at the student union. I told everyone to "never mind" me and continue to look natural..but the girl chose otherwise..
This a very fine picutre of some of the members from the FAMU Chapter of Progressive Black Men. To this day, the image is being used in their publications. I still wonder how my brothers managed to look so cool in 95 degree heat during a Tallahassee summer.
Greetings!!
Anyway, I registered to take a photography class at my local community college to pick the art back up again (I used to be a decent photographer during my days at FAMU..but that was five years ago...shhh dont tell anyone). To my surprise, they canceled the class...TWICE. So after about five mintues of verbal frustration, and a trip to the local camera shop..I decide to take matters into my own hands and proceed with re-teaching myself the art of photography.
I raced home with ad-hoc directions of how to use my old 35mm Minolta (a gift from dad's camera collection a few years back) from a very nice old cuban guy from Wolf Camera, grabbed my photography text book I used back in college..and started taking pictures!!
A few things.. this camera has no flash pieace, and no other lense to use with it. Until..I start an unplanned journey through my father's Cannon camera bag and found not only a flash for my Minolta, but a 50mm lense (a professional film camera in mint condition AT NO CHARGE..can't beat that).
I figure I'd start with the basics then work my way up to one of those $500 -$1000 dollar digital SLR cameras. (anyone have a Nikkon D80 they want to give away??)
So with all that being said. This blog is for the sole purpose of displaying my picutres during my self motivated - self driven photograpy class where I am the student and professor (along with Google and other photography sites where I can learn some techniques from) My first entry will be some throw back black and white picutres I took six years ago while I was senior at Florida A&M University!
God Bless