Shlee Vincent

Tuesday night, Kerri and I turned off the lights and created what was the closest I’ve been to a studio (outside of work) and began to experiment in painting pictures with light.

There were definitely some fun results:

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Enter 2010.

I’m not one for year end of the year surveys. Instead, I just want to reflect on 2009 and what I’ve accomplished.

In 2009, I:

• graduated from Towson University, Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Mass Communications. I was short one course of completing a creative writing minor.
• completed two small websites – one which featured a multimedia project on Baltimore.
• created ShleeVincent.com and began to create and manage a blog and online portfolio.
• got a plastic toy camera called Diana F+ and began experimenting with medium format photography and film.
• attained a full-time job at a portrait studio.
• moved in and began collaborating with Kerri O’Neill.
• documented the Whartscape Festival for DTR Webzine.
• used my passport and ventured to Montreal.
• was inducted into Lambda Pi Eta (a mass communications honor society).

It’s been an interesting year and with no concrete plans for 2010, I can only say, “Is this real life?”

This has been a lucrative Christmas.

Photo-wise:
Fish-eye lens for Diana
Lubitel 166 Universal
Ringflash for Diana
Splitzer for Diana
35mm back for Diana
Diana lens mount for Nikon

Art-wise:
Crayola Glow Station
Crayola Magic Light Brush

Kerri got a Diana Mini and a 35mm and slide scanner. 2010 will be a good one.

Goal: Material for Cabermuckly & Resonhoe Volume 1.

I also “bought” a new camera today with my Thankyou Points from my credit card.

It’s a little plastic bewt I like to call Diana F+.

It’s a medium format film, lomography camera.

I will have no idea what I’ll be doing, but it will be a grand experiment indeed.

Some photos others have made with their Dianas:

by Lomographic Society International (Flickr)

by Borderline Amusing (Flickr)

by amyelyse (Flickr)

by jerik0ne (Flickr)

Once it arrives, my days off should be consisting of Kerri and I going on Photo Adventures with our plastic cameras!