Just a Badly Needed Update

(Sorry, but I couldn't figure out how to let you click on the pictures to make them bigger.)

Since I have been neglecting updating anything on me, and people have asked me to, I thought I'd just add a bunch of pictures I've taken from Japan. To start out at least. I have fixed these all up so that they look better, or more how they really looked than my camera could make them. But these are just some of the best I took. I took over about 1000 pictures.

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In school, I have been involved in Cross Country. Just managing though. 

I have also been working on art in my AP Art class. I decided to work on photography in it, since it is the quickest and easiest thing in art for me to do. I am pretty well centered in art, but I take forever to do anything. So here are some pieces I'll be using in my portfolio, or possibly using. As well as just some extra things I've been working on. I'll give a little explanation for each too I guess.

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These I did last year. The one on the left is called Low Five, and I painted it in my Painting 2 class using acrylic. The one on the right is called Dead Tree, and I did it in my Drawing 1 class using chalk pastels.

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These four pictures were taken in Japan. I liked them enough though to use them in my portfolio. They were each taken in various places, except the last two, which were taken in a garden that was a couple blocks from one of our hotels.

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These are all self portraits I took. All of them I believe I'm going to use the the portfolio. The first picture I took a while ago. It has so many variations, and I have used it so many different times. It is by far my most used image. This variation is the last one I made though. It is collaborated with two pages I made in my Artist's Journal I made last year during that class.

The middle one I took, and I tweeked the colors, brightness, contrast, all that good stuff.

And the final one is a piece that I threw together using different pictures of my eyes. Each one has a different color style that I used. 

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These are just random pictures I took when I was bored that ended up being good. I did change them up, but that's basically it.

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This last one is one of the very first pictures I took when I first got my camera. It is largely cropped, and I changed the colors drastically, as you can see. But it is one of my first.

Who is it?

Who is this? If you think you know. You might tell us something about them.

If you know who it is, then what year do you think it was taken?

Be careful what you might say. Everyone will have a turn being published in this spot.

Modified Banner

I added a modified banner to the blog. I added some more pictures. What an ordeal!! I do this for a living, but the tools we use are so different than what we have here!

I am learning that my digital photos are very poorly organized. I haven't been able to find the pictures that I know I have. Tim, I really apologize. The only digital picture I could find of you was so dark that it wouldn't show up. I'm going to make a real effort to get a better mug shot of you!!

I would love to do a more updated banner, but I am going to have to rely on you to provide me with the pictures. You can send them to me by posting your pictures to a blog and I can pluck them from your post.

We love you,
Dad.

Doctors - Argh!!

In the last three days, I have seen as may doctors. They can be a pain.

The Cancer doctor gave me really good news. It appears that the cancer is gone. They can't guarantee it, but it seems to be completely gone. I'll be seeing him every 4 months now for a year.

I had a small lump on the palm of my hand which has been there since September. It started growing and I was a bit concerned so I went to the family Dr. He told me that the lump or cyst as he calls it is in "no man's land" because of the complexity of the hand. He sent me to a general surgeon who looked at it and told me it's in "no man's land" etc. He sent me to a hand specialist. He told me that he suspected a foreign body, probably a splinter that the body is attacking. He told me that it is causing what is called "proud flesh" and that it can be problematic in the future. I am going to have surgery on my hand on the 17th.

I have learned a valuable lesson! No more yard work for me!!