I'm just about to enter my 8th week of classes. From what I can tell I'm doing pretty good, but there's still half a semester to go, so we'll see.

In starting this 8th week, my Photo History and Concepts professor has given us 8 topics from which we can choose one to do our term paper on. I'm kind of leaning towards the Postmodern photography topic. We have to create five of our own photos in a postmodern context and find five examples from other artists.

So, here's my question to all my photographer friends... where the HELL do I start?!?! He says we can either work in a series of related, cohesive photographs or make five very different types.

It's either this topic or "Choose a photographer and then make at least five images, borrowing on the style and/or ideas of that photographer." I just don't know which photographer, I've studied about these last seven weeks, to choose from.

I'm waffling like Brett Favre between these two subjects.

Decisions, decisions.....



Not sure how many of my watchers know of , but recently he had a "senior moment" when he decided it was a good idea to chuck his camera and other odds and ends into a lake (No, not literally...it was a just an accident):



( List provided by =damien-c )

Well, it seems that and have started a chip-in fund to help get the "old lady" (Hey, those are Nigel's words not mine) back on his feet and gracing us with his amazing photographs.

If you know of Mike Shaw AKA and would like to contribute to helping get him shooting again, just follow this link - [link]

Right now the fund has $748.25 USD which makes them about 62% of the way to their target of $1,200.

I know times are tough all around, but if this community is anything they're a giving lot and care about their fellow artists.

If you can chip-in, please do. If all you can do is spread the word with a journal entry, then you can do that too.



I figured I would take this opportunity to tie in the spotlight with the above journal. As such, I will be featuring 5 images from the artists mentioned above...damn it's going to be difficult picking just 5 pieces.