Still working on my website, and still a little "confuddled" about what I exactly want to do with it. I have plenty of ideas of what I want to do and how I want it to look, however the execution is the hard and difficult part to accomplish. 

However on a much much brighter side of things here in classes we are beginning production on both the books and the invitations for the Portfolio Show at the end of April, and I'm beginning to see the beginning of something that I think is pretty great. It's a great feeling to see something that you designed (albeit some changes) come together in production and go out to real live people.

I can't wait to get out in April and get to the show and be able to show everyone what I can do, I'm rather excited for it.

I'm also pretty excited about working on some pieces for an Amphitheater that is going up just south of Hill City, SD. We will all be working on pieces from the logo to tickets, brochures, and even signs that will be going up around the area. This is the type of work that I enjoy doing and I don't want to have to wait til Wednesday for information or until next week to start on this project!

Considering…

I'm sitting at home at the moment, currently working on this, my blog…but also on a multitude of other projects as well.

Currently I am contemplating on whether or not to enter into a photography contest being held here in town, and although there are certain pictures that I personally favor above others I am having problems thinking about it from a judge's stand point. After all, what may be a special moment or photo to you may just be "another photo" to someone else. The viewer can't see what you saw at that moment, feel what you felt at the moment, or even begin to understand what may make that photo special to you, the creator. 

This is what you need to express to the viewer (and to those pesky judges) as well as showing something that may not be "the norm" or just give the audience something unique to remember you bye. 

The photography contest that I am debating entering is a nature photo contest. I'd like to believe that since this is my favorite subject to photograph and since there's so much leniency with the subject that this would be a breeze for me to decide…not so much the case. In other words…easier said then done. I have so many photos to choose from that for the last two weeks I've been debating and switching back and forth from photo to photo that all I've really accomplished is just getting myself more and more confuzzled. I have however, now, narrowed my choices down to two, of which I will print and mount both, set up, probably stare at for a few hours, decide, and submit. 

I'm also pretty sure which one I'll go with (and I'll predict it now…the Waubay fence line).

Well for now, I suppose I'd better go back to the drawing board and continue to work on other projects for the moment.

(Do you have Any idea how complicated designing and building a website is? Much harder than I ever anticipated…perhaps it's because it's my personal website and I have a tendency to be overly critical of my work…hmmmm, who'da thunk it).

This is photo one, considering…

This is photo two for consideration…

Blog!

Hello!

This is my first post on my new blog…awdesignandphoto.

Soon to follow will be more exciting posts and photos from different shoots of people, things, and exciting places I've visited.