Late Night

Now for the photos using my other new camera, my digital Canon 7D. I've been working at a restaurant/bar in Chapel Hill all summer (mostly so I could afford this camera). I'm a hostess for dinner service, but after dinner the place turns into a late night club- one of the most popular places for UNC students actually. I've photographed late night a couple times, both for my experience and possibly also for the restaurant's website. It was so much fun! I am definitely interested in trying to shoot at clubs in Richmond once I go back.

This one came out kinda cool. I'd like to paint something that looks like this.

                              And these guys here...THESE are the pride of UNC Chapel Hill.

Finally!

I have had a bad spell of photos recently. I've mostly been focusing on figuring out how my new film camera, my medium format Mamiya 645 Super, works. For various reasons (most of them mindless mistakes on my part), only 2 of the 6 or so rolls of film I have shot on it have come out at all. It has been frustrating, both because I have lost so many photos and because buying, developing, and printing color 120 film is NOT cheap!

Anyway, the first 3 of these were taken on my Mamiya. I cropped the third one in the computer after I scanned it in. The last 4 were taken on my Diana F+ (because it's a little simpler to operate and I wanted SOMETHING to come out!).

I don't understand!

Here are two recent paintings. Neither is an "album painting," though. I titled this post "I don't understand!" because I am so confused by my paintings. I have no idea where they come from. I struggle to make any sense of them. But maybe that's ok?