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Hey Photo peeps --
Check out this awesome opportunity:
http://www.burnmagazine.org/emerging-photographer-grant/
Deadline to enter is May 15.
Miss you all and hope you're well.
-Sam
March 12, 2012
August 27, 2011
Kickstarter Fundraiser
Photo Phantastics, I need you help! My collaborators and I are 15 days into a 50 day fundraiser for "Way Off Broadway" (Green Bay project). We've raised $480 through 12 backers, but are $520 from reaching our goal (if we don't reach our goal, no money changes hands). I know you're all on the poor side, so I don't expect contributions. But if there's any way you can get the word out to parents, siblings, uncles, cousins, fishing buddies, ex-classmates, any of my ex-students, local 7-eleven cashiers, etc., I'd be eternally grateful! Here's the deal: any amount helps: $1, $5, $10, or more. You are not charged unless we meet our goal, and after $10, there are rewards for you to choose from!
So, please, urge your peoples to donate just a little something, OK?
Here's the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1837444455/way-off-broadway
There's plenty of information on the site plus a link to a short slideshow of images. And donating is almost as easy as clicking a button!
Let me know if you have a questions or comments.
Hope you're all well.
Shane
August 10, 2011
New Horizon
While rummaging through my old photo stuff I found the following quote from Intro. Photo given to all of us by Shane. I find it inspiring and I hope you all do too.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
My above work is what I've been up to. I've gotten much more into oil painting also and have been loving it.
July 22, 2011
never hit the press
Hi photo peeps -- it's been awhile. But I know you check in every so often, as I do too.
I've been at my job for almost five months now...crazy how time flies.
It has been hard for me to separate my own work vs. my job work. But from time to time I will find myself shooting just for me, even on the same roll as I am for my job.
I sometimes forget that the newspaper I work for doesn't want to see pain and loneliness. It wants to maintain its carefree, small-town feel, even though the city is growing larger and larger with a diverse population that is struggling to find its way.
And yet that's what I am most drawn to. The kid playing by himself. The man sitting on the curb under the weight of indescribable heat as cars whiz by and ignore him. The woman whom others look at condescendingly for scolding her child under her breath in a language unfamiliar to them.
I won't lie, though. Some shots I take do warm my heart. But most are rooted in childhood innocence...and once the smile or laugh fades all I feel is empty.
Clearly I need an income, but I also need to fulfillment. I want to make discoveries. I want to make a difference.
Do you?
I've been at my job for almost five months now...crazy how time flies.
It has been hard for me to separate my own work vs. my job work. But from time to time I will find myself shooting just for me, even on the same roll as I am for my job.
I sometimes forget that the newspaper I work for doesn't want to see pain and loneliness. It wants to maintain its carefree, small-town feel, even though the city is growing larger and larger with a diverse population that is struggling to find its way.
And yet that's what I am most drawn to. The kid playing by himself. The man sitting on the curb under the weight of indescribable heat as cars whiz by and ignore him. The woman whom others look at condescendingly for scolding her child under her breath in a language unfamiliar to them.
I won't lie, though. Some shots I take do warm my heart. But most are rooted in childhood innocence...and once the smile or laugh fades all I feel is empty.
Clearly I need an income, but I also need to fulfillment. I want to make discoveries. I want to make a difference.
Do you?
July 6, 2011
Update
I hope everyone is doing well...Things have gone crazy directions here. I am so confused about my path in life...I am going to school for Criminal Justice right now, but also decided to try to become a youth minister at our church...Wow, what crazy ends of the spectrum...AND I believe I will be going to grad school next year... What I love, even with the craziness and indecisivness, is that I have found the passion to WANT to do all these things, and to experience them...I have come a long way in thinking from where I was my freshman year in college and I know that it all started by taking pictures and being yelled at by a certain Prof. my sophomore year. Can all of you say that now? Where are you all at in a small paragraph? What do you want to accomplish that also brings you joy and affirmation? While you all ponder that...Here is just some stuff I have been doing... It's good to be back on here again.
May 11, 2011
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