Vandyke

 

This is a top of a church from back home. I really liked this picture because of the clouds. I wasn't really happy with how it came out. I lost a lot of detail because it got to dark. You can see the brush marks on the image which really frustrated me but I kind of like it because it looks like a sun beam shining down on the church. I used 17 drops and the exposure time was 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

 

This is a picture of a bridge that is for bikes and people walking or running. On the left side of the bridge is Lake Champlain. On the other side is the Winooski River that runs into Lake Champlain. If you go straight over the bridge that brings you into the town called Colchester. This is all about 10 minutes from my house. I think this is one of my better prints out of all of the ones I did for this project. I love the shadows. It reminds me of the kind of bridge that trains go over. This was also a 3 minute and 30 second exposure and I used 17 drops.

 

This next print is of two paper doilies layered on top of each other. The lighter one was white and it was small. The other was blue that was a lot bigger than the white one. That's how I got the different tones. I just thought I'd experiment with these and I really like doing these. The exposure time was 2 minutes and 30 seconds and I used 17 drops.

 

This is a picture of a longboat in the middle of a rowing race. This is actually the boat I was racing in. I am all the way to the right in the bow of the boat (that is seat number 1). We are racing on Lake Champlain (our home race). This was a big highlight for me because I did rowing throughout my high school career (4 years). I had a lot of fun being on the team. At UNH we have crew but the boats are compleatly different. Longboats are these really old wooden boats that we make ourselves (takes about 30 people to lift one), whereas skull boats are very light, really low to the water, and it takes about 7 people to lift one. The exposure time was 3 minutes and 30 seconds and I used 17 drops.

This is a picture of the Grand Canyon for the South side, I think it is. This was probably one of the best trips I've ever gone on. I went on this trip when I was at the end of my Junior year of high school. It was a trip for a program at school called the YES (Year End Studies) program. You had to sign up for a few classes to take or chose to go on a trip. Well of course I chose the trip. This was just one of our stops that we made. We actually volunteered at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, which is the largest animal sanctuary in the world. The sanctuary is located in Utah. So we stopped at the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park, and walked through the Narrows River, which was in Zion. So one day I hope to go back to all of these wonderful and amazing places. My exposure time was 3 minutes and 15 seconds and I used 28 drops.

This pictures was also a rowing race. Instead this is the starting line of the race. So the boats all line up in a row and then a horn or a gun will go off and then the race begins. My exposure time was 4 minutes. But I feel like it could have been longer to bring out more detail. I used 17 drops. 

I love this picture because of the clouds and knowing me I love clouds. At the bottom is the top of a barn. I wish that it could be seen more on the print. But if I tried to bring it out more I would loose the detail of the clouds. My exposure time was 3 minutes and I used 28 drops.

This is a picture from a hike I went on. It is the top of Mount Philo in Vermont. I could have worked on this a little longer I just ran out of time. My exposure time was 3 minutes and 30 seconds and I used 17 drops.

 

This is a picture of a main highway in Utah. Pictures don't even describe what I actually saw when I was there in that car looking out along this main highway and all around is dry dirt and rocks. My exposure time was 3 minutes and 30 seconds and I used 17 drops.



 The following 3 prints below are the ones I took out of my selection because they were the "not good" prints. I was going to include them into my selection but they didn't turn out how I wanted them to turn out.

Rock sculpture I made by the river.
Exposure time 3 minutes and 10 seconds and I used 28 drops.

New Football Stadium
Exposure time was 3 minutes and I used 17 drops.

Bryce Canyon
Exposure time was 3 minutes and 20 seconds and I used 17 drops.

Cyanotype and Cliche Verre Project

 

The picture above is a scan of the house I grew up in. It's this really old colonial house with four floors. It is yellow with a green trim and is on a dead end street. All of the kids on my street were my age so that was nice to get to grow up with them and go to the same schools. On the other side of my house was the University of Vermont campus. I loved this house and miss it a lot. So many good and bad memories come with this house. I don't love here anymore, we moved about four or five years ago but I hope one day to go back. It is about a thirty minute drive from where I love now.

 This is a scan above sums up my adoption. At the top of the of the scan is a copy of the original papers of my adoption. I think it is really cool becasue its all written in Korean and my actual birth mother signed it along with one of her friends as a witness. My birth father didn't sign it becasue he left my birth mother when he found out she got pregnant, or so that's what I heard. At the bottom right hand corner of the scan is a picture of me that the adoption agency sent to my adoptive parents. Then to the left of the page is the American flag and a sticker of what the South Korean flag.

This is one of my Cliche Verre's. It is actually the first one I made. It is just a bunch of doodles drawn with sharpie.

This Cliche Verre is also drawn with sharpie. The sharpie on the petals was smudged with a tissue.

 

I'd have to say I love this Cliche Verre becasue one, I love elephants, and two I think the mark makings turned out really cool. I had to go over the line a bunch of times to fill in those white spaces. I think the black background is nice with the white of the elephant. It really stands out. It almost has this vibe that sends chills down your spine.

This is a tree I made out of swirls. This is actually two Cliche Verre's put together. The tree on the bottom (front) and the other one, which is made out of tape on the top (behind). I remember someone in class saying that it looks like a Christmas tree and it kind of does becasue at some parts of the branches it looks like light bulbs.

In this Cyanotype, my favorite part is the clouds and how they are reflected off of the surface of the water. This is a photo of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont (that's where I live) and this is the view from the waterfront, the docks to be exact. The waterfront is ten minutes from my house but I can walk to the lake which is only two minutes from my house.

In the Cyanotype above is one of my Scanner As Camera photos. At the bottom of the picture is the end of my lace shirt. At the top is a bunch of plants and leafs. I could have pulled out a little more detail in the top section but if I did that I would loose the contrast in the shirt.

This Cyanotype was taken this past summer. This would have had to have been one of my biggest accomplishments in life. I went on this big hike with my friends. This is a mountain called Camel's Hump in Huntington, Vermont. It is a little over 4,000 feet in elevation. I lost some detail at the bottom but if I tried to change it more I would have lost some detail at the top. I would have liked to fix that bottom left corner so the white is covered.

I also took this photo this past summer. This is at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. I love how the clouds look, they remind me of waves. I also love the reflection of the wooden posts that hold up the pier. 

I had a lot of trouble with this Scanner As Camera image because it wasn't coming out in a dark blue. It was this really light light blue and the image was almost white. So I increased the exposure time. So about ten test strips later, at eight minutes it turned this darker blue.

 

And don't even get me started on this one. This Scanner As Camera took me about ten tries, too. This is at ten minutes. This negative must have been thin but I used the Pictorico negatives. I tried eight minutes before this one and everything within the frame was white. No detail, it was just mostly white and the blue was this really light blue.

 

Here is my elephant again, too but just in a Cyanotype. I like this in the Cyanotype version becasue the blue that fills in those white marks but still leaves the elephant white. The elephant didn't fit on the page so I had to crop it. To be honest I like it cropped like this becasue it makes the elephant look as if it were coming at you or gonna come out of the page.

I had fun with this project especially becasue my favorite color is blue. It was really frustrating becasue it takes so much time to do two prints let alone five to seven. It was also frustrating becasue there is only one light table and it gets really claustrophobic when there is three people trying to expose there paper. Maybe if there were two light tables things would move faster, but I know things cost money. I think things would also move faster, too if there was a dial not just for sixty seconds but one that could be set for more than sixty seconds. Other than that I had fun with this project. I learned a lot, too. For example, when coating paper, coat and expose the paper on the same day or a day after you coat it but not a week after. If I had more time with this project I would have perfected some of my images a little more.