Project Athena - Day 305 (Curves)

My Alma Mater

After walking around the CSU campus for a few hours, I have to say I barely recognize my alma mater.  There are so many new educational and student housing buildings that I had to use the old Clark Building to keep my bearings. The Lory Student Center has had a magnificent face lift and the library looks brand new, even though the construction started while I was still in school. The iconic Moby Gym is dwarfed by all the new buildings surrounding it now. I definitely want to be around the day they raze the old towers on the corner of Shields and Laurel. I hope I am not starting a rumor. I don't know of any future plans for this but those things were nasty ugly when I was in high school. I can't imagine a renovation that would bring them up to par with everything else. It would be great to see some new architecture at that location that matches all the beautification that is taking place on and around the campus.

I am still not sold on the idea of a new college football stadium smack in the middle of town and campus. But if it is anywhere near the amazing improvements that I saw this week, I am sure I will be impressed.

I enjoyed my tour and plan to go back as soon as all the new fountains have water flowing. This ram's head is part of a fountain that I want to reshoot when he is spewing water.

CSU Campus Ram's Head Fountain

Fujifilm X-E2 • Fuji XF18-135mm lens • 58.9mm • F22 • 1/35s • ISO 200

Project Athena - Day 110 (Transparency)

Being in the flow

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Lao Tzu

Today's post is a photo I took earlier this summer because....it fits the theme, I like it and I am heading to Denver to celebrate my father's 76th birthday. We are gong for a scrumptious Italian dinner and then to see the Chihuly exhibit at the Denver Botanical Gardens.  Even though I have seen it before, I am stoked to go again and this time I will be looking for transparency which should be pretty easy since it's all glass. Big smiles today.

CSU Water Fountain

Nikon D3200 • Nikon 18-55mm lens • 22mm • F7.1 • 1/200s • ISO 100

Project Athena - Day 99 (Black & White)

Where it All Began

“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
— Ansel Adams

In the beginning, there was black and white and it was good.

My first job while still in high school was working for a local newspaper called the Triangle Review. This is where my introduction into photography really happened. My job responsibilities included "paste-up", developing black & white film for editorial content, making prints with an old fashioned enlarger in a darkroom (which was really just a closet), doing process camera work, and shooting and developing the large format negatives that would eventually be used to burn printing plates for a web press.

I also was the editor and a photographer for my high school newspaper all three years. During my senior year, I earned a first place NSPA award for a photo essay about indoor bike racing. It was all shot in black and white.

So this week's theme feels like going home. I hope you enjoy it as much as I know I will.

Water Fountain, Fossil Lake Neighborhood, Fort Collins

Nikon D3200 • Nikon 18-55mm lens • 62mm • F/18 • 1/3s • ISO 100