tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34742307897587313272024-03-13T13:10:44.723-07:00Portraits of the PlanetAlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-56804838675948836032017-10-04T18:13:00.001-07:002017-10-04T18:13:41.307-07:00Yep, you guessed it: More Iceland!As the title implies, this blog post is going to be about Iceland again woo! <br />
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I got back to the U.S. late on Saturday and have really had more of a chance to go through my images with more time, which has been helpful. <br />
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So I spent two weeks in Iceland, and I shared very few snippets of my first couple of days there, and I had written the blog post after having experienced a very scary couple of days of driving. So i'm going to go in to a little bit more detail about the stay in Myvatn before I move on to the rest of our trip with my next post. <br />
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Myvatn is a lake in the northern part of Iceland. Sometimes "Myvatn" could refer to the entire region that the lake is in. The lake is a protected site and one of the best places in Iceland for bird watching. The Laxa river can be found at Myvatn. The river has one of the largest colonies of Harlequin ducks in the world residing on it and I was pretty interested in searching these ducks out. I've been looking for them on the coast of North Carolina for several years and had never seen one, so I was pretty excited to find about ten Harlequin ducks bright and early one morning. <br />
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Myvatn is also home to geothermal activity and several volcanos, craters and pseudo craters. One of these craters, Hverfjall, resulted in a steep hike with beautiful views overlooking the lava fields of Dimmuborgir. These fields can also be hiked through, and the formations are said to be trolls who turned to stone when the sun came up. If you've ever seen or read Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit, this is where J.R.R. Tolkien got his inspiration for the trolls in the stories. I'm happy to say that I did find a formation that looked creepily like Gollum, so that was pretty cool. <br />
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That night, the sky put on the best light show I have ever seen. I've dreamt of seeing the northern lights basically my whole life. I've been staring at the sky for as long as I can remember, memorizing stars, constellations, planets, the movements of the moon. I've seen the lights as a misty cloud on the horizon in my hometown in Montana, but this was something entirely different. The night before, we had gotten a phone call at 3 am saying the lights were visible, and I had thought that those were spectacular. Those Northern Lights were dim compared to these ones. <br />
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They started in the early evening, before the sun had even fully set. I was photographing Godafoss, a waterfall not too far from Myvatn, hoping to get a nice long exposure of the waterfall at sunset. As the sun was setting, a cloud started moving a bit. It looked kind of weird, and that's when I realized that the Northern Lights were doing their thing. For four hours, I followed the lights from Godafoss to the far north side of Myvatn, taking photos, gazing at the sky, and dancing with my husband (we may have also taken a fairly cheesy photograph under the lights). You can see my other Godafoss photo that I love from my post last week, this week I included one from earlier in the evening. <br />
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I had three extremely memorable moments in Iceland, and seeing the Northern Lights like this was one of them. It was simply magical. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-38789471225146437382017-09-27T17:26:00.000-07:002017-09-27T17:26:55.434-07:00Still traipsing through IcelandI'm still wandering around Iceland and will be for a couple more days. It has been a bit of a roller coaster of a trip. The first five days were some of the best five days of my life. I got to go back to Akureyri. Myvatn was AMAZING. We hiked into a large crater, did another large hike in the area, photographed Harlequin ducks, and saw the Northern Lights three nights in a row. We had dinner one evneing in the Cowshed, a restaurant on a dairy farm where you watch the cows while you eat. Afterwards you can go meet the cows (which I absolutely did, because why not?). It was a dream. <br />
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Then we drove from Myvatn in the North to Eskifjordur in the East Fjords. <br />
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I had rented a Suzuki Jimmy (nicknamed James Thorsson) for the trip. James feels like he is going to tip over at the slightest gust of wind, and after we left the protected shelter of Myvatn, we encountered wind that decided it no longer wanted us on the road. The drive from Myvatn to Eskifjodur isn't terribly long; I had planned it so that none of our drives would be longer than three hours. This one really didn't take us any longer than it should have, but we were tense the whole time, my husband had white knuckled the drive and was exhausted. We stayed the night in a guest house that I had been so looking forward to staying in. It was on a peninsula in the middle of a fjord and just looked spectacular. However, with a foot of rain in a day and hurricane worthy wind gusts, the little peninsula was rocked all night and the weather never did clear up. <br />
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The drive from Eskifjordur to Hofn was worse. The road hugged fjords and cliffs for most of the way and the wind gusts were still pushing above the 60 mph range. It was absolutely terrifying, but we saw a small respite by helping a farmer herd his sheep off the road. The wind began to die down a bit, the rain mostly eased up, and the rest of the drive was great. <br />
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I'll write several more detailed posts over the coming week or so, I really should have been writing one every night, but with hiking all day and chasing the northern lights well past midnight for at least five of the days here, I've been just exhausted with everything. <br />
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So for now I'll leave you with a few of my favorite photos from Myvatn and the drive to Eskifjordur that I was able to photograph. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-43114115804504243842017-09-20T01:59:00.000-07:002017-09-20T01:59:15.477-07:00Iceland, I'm back!!I first came to Iceland five years ago. It was the kick off of my around the world (sort of) tour. It was in November and I made the trip alone. I landed in the middle of one of the worst snow storms Iceland had seen in a decade, and I was snowed in my hotel room for the first three days or so of my visit. <br />
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This go around, I'm not alone. My husband is venturing around the country with me. It is late September, so the temperatures aren't freezing. Iceland is still largely green in a lot of areas, fall colors are taking hold in other places. <br />
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We also decided to rent a car this go around and drive the Ring Road around the island. Last time I flew straight from Reykjavik to Akureyri after landing. In fact, I spent less than 12 hours in Reykjavik and spent the majority of my Iceland time bumming around Akureyri. It became one of my absolute most favorite places, and it was our first stop on our Iceland tour. <br />
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The drive from Reykjavik to Akureyri is about 5.5 hours, but since I feel the need to stop every time the landscape changes (i.e. ALL THE TIME), it probably took us closer to seven hours. I've read that this part of the Ring Road is the most boring, but I thought it was beautiful. After living in an area that is highly populated for the last three years, being alone in total isolation was LOVELY. <br />
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We saw waterfall after waterfall, thousands of fluffy sheep, and several of the famous Icelandic horses. <br />
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After arriving to Akureyri, we walked around a bit. A lot of the town has changed and a lot has stayed the same. Since I was last here, Akureyri has experienced a tourist boom and new guesthouses and hotels have popped up. I'm writing this from our flat that overlooks Eyjafjordur and construction on what looks like a new hotel on the water is happening below our balcony. I'm honestly not sure how I really feel about that, but I guess it's not really my place to have feelings about it. I wonder what the people who live in Akureyri think about it. <br />
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Anyway, enough introspection for the morning. After my coffee is finished, we will be heading out to a bakery and onward to Myvatn. I'm sad we are spending so little time in one of my favorite towns, but I'm also excited to experience more of Iceland that I didn't get to see last time. <br />
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So I leave you with my favorites from yesterday!<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-55091991391127903982017-09-13T18:59:00.000-07:002017-09-13T18:59:10.929-07:00Working for the NewsAs many of you know, I've been working for a newspaper on Fort Bragg for the last year and a half (incidentally, it's a very large reason why my blog has been on hold for what feels like forever). <br />
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I spend most of my time doing graphic design, laying out the paper. But of course, my love and my life is photography, so whenever I get the chance to get out from behind my dual screens, I take it. <br />
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I've gotten to do some pretty cool things over the last year. I got to go up in an airplane with Golden Knights, the Army parachute demonstration team with the then Undersecretary of the Army, Patrick Murphy. The first ever professional sports game on an Army instillation was played here in July 2016, and I was lucky enough to spend 20 hours photographing members of the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball teams as they toured Fort Bragg before squaring off against each other. <br />
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Air Force One has landed once since I've been working here, and I photographed President Obama making his way off the giant airplane. Last week I got to photograph members of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) while they demonstrated various weapons on a range. <br />
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I've gotten to photograph soldiers doing soldiers things, and I've had a great time doing it. And finally, FINALLY, after a year and a half, I have put my portfolio up on my website of what I've been doing with my time. You can find it all <a href="http://www.alysonhansen.com/Galleries/Working-for-the-News/">here.</a> <br />
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Here are some of my favorites from my photojournalism journey: <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-29032197787343112062017-09-06T12:58:00.002-07:002017-09-06T12:58:35.979-07:00Update on life and Portraits of the PlanetHello all!<br />
Well it's been a hot minute since I've blogged, and quite a lot has happened. <br />
I started working at a newspaper about a year and a half ago, and I'm also coaching figure skating at my local rink. Both endeavors have opened up some pretty cool doors for me, but it has left me with very little time to blog about and post photos. <br />
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Welcome to Blog Post Wednesdays, my new push to attempt to blog more frequently. I don't always get to go photograph what I want to, working for a newspaper. But I do get to cover some pretty cool events and see some interesting things. And on my free time, I do travel around the East Coast to explore and take more portraits of the planet. <br />
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So this week's blog post is going to be about Boone, North Carolina. I headed that direction this past weekend in an attempt to get away from people and experience nature a bit. I was thwarted a little in my efforts to get away from people, but I had a good time nonetheless. <br />
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On Saturday, I loaded up my Old English Sheepdog and my husband and drove the three hours to the "mountains." (I say mountains loosely here because I'm a mountain snob, being from the western United States). <br />
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We drove around the Blue Ridge Parkway and hiked up Linville Gorge to see waterfalls. I was mostly excited to try out my new camera, a Canon 5DS R and my new neutral density filter. We ordered pizza and took it to a lookout on the Blue Ridge Parkway and watched the sunset while eating our dinner. It was a peaceful evening full of the sounds of birds and bugs and my camera shutter. <br />
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The tests were a success. The 5DS R (named KiKi) performed admirably during low light tests, and the ND filter will be super awesome for my next adventure to Iceland. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An after dark test, testing the noise of my camera and low light performance. Overall, pretty impressed. This was a three second exposure. </td></tr>
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-6536517135757755602016-07-19T17:15:00.002-07:002016-07-19T17:15:31.147-07:00Grant Project: The Paint Part IIIIRembrandt Lamp Black is another paint that I feel I had really great results with. I only selectively bleached three of the prints, which is a really great feeling! I only had one paper out of the eight that I feel didn't offer usable results. This paint and the Charvin Mars Black have been my two favorite so far.<br />
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I may have covered this previously, but if you noticed a different tonal color to the prints, it has to do with bleaching. A bleached print will be more cooler toned, while a non bleached print will have a very warm color to it. You'll notice that these two that I picked for this blog post are very warm toned. They were not bleached at all.<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-39658729518135716782016-07-19T17:04:00.003-07:002016-07-19T17:04:24.858-07:00Grant Project: The Paint part IIII'm a bit behind in posting on my paint experiments, but they have been in progress over the last couple of months.<br />
This round of paint is Gamblin's Ivory Black. I really liked this paint, and had some pretty awesome results. I had four out of 8 prints work great, and two sort of work. All of the smoother papers seemed to like this paint.<br />
I have completely removed bleach baths from my work flow. If I feel that a print may need a bit of bleach, I'll selectively brush it on and then use a soft spray nozzle on my spray bottle. It's been a good thing, because I really don't like using bleach!!<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-27244360474781832472016-04-19T17:56:00.002-07:002016-04-19T17:56:57.758-07:00Grant Project: The Paint Part IIAnother round of paint experiments are finished, and this paint just made my week. I tried Charvin Paris Extra Fine Oil in Mars Black and IT. ROCKED.<br />
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When I was trying out the different paper types, I used Windsor and Newton in Lamp Black, and that really became the bar for which all paints would be measured. My main issue with W&N was the required bleaching I felt I had to do to get the full range of tones in my images, even with different negative densities and curves. Charvin didn't require bleaching on most of my images. The prints that did get bleached, were selectively brush bleached usually on the second layer of paint. Four of the eight images didn't need a second layer, and three of those four didn't get bleached. It was amazing to rub off the paint and realize that a quick soak in some water and it would be good to go. All but one of my images were acceptable to me in terms of "success", and that one probably received a bit of a heavy hand with the bleach.<br />
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I used the entire tube because the textured papers are a bit more thirsty than the smooth papers and required quite a bit more of this paint. If this ends up being my favorite paint, I'm buying the largest tubes I can find and exclusively using it because it is just that good.<br />
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I scanned my four favorite images from this round, two smooth papers and two textured papers. These four did not get a second layer of paint, and only one was bleached. I also realized I may not have fully disclosed which papers are smoother and which ones are more textured, so I made sure to label which is which on the overall image of all of them. I also photographed the prints from the side, and with the Somerset Velvet you can really see the texture of the paper. I hope this helps clear up some confusion!!<br />
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Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-29074977907484153262016-03-23T16:39:00.001-07:002016-03-23T16:39:26.136-07:00Grant Project: The Paint Part IMy paper experiments are over and I have culled down my choices to 8 papers that I really like to work with (and I may be experimenting with two other papers later this year, we'll see how that goes). The next step in the process is paint. Which paint works best with which paper? I already knew that Windsor and Newton oil paints worked well because that was what I had initially began with and my prints were usually turning out with various degrees of success. I headed off to Jerry's Artarama in Raleigh and picked up seven different brands of oil paints. The first one I tried was Michael Harding's Artists Oil Colours in Lamp Black.<br />
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Immediately this paint is very different from Windsor and Newton's. It's smellier, felt oilier, and didn't rub off the print as nicely. I tried it with my narrowed down paper choices, and found that it worked the best with the smoother papers: Arches Platine, Stonehenge, and Fabriano Artistico Hot Press. These papers cleared off enough for me to add a second layer of paint to make the blacks even more rich and allowed the midtones in the prints to really come out. The other papers were muddy messes and while some may be sort of salvageable with the help of bleach, I know that they won't be great prints regardless.<br />
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Also with this round, I changed up my negative a bit. I was still using the print Hidden Oak, but thought that maybe if I changed a few things around in Photoshop, I could bring out the details in the image that I was really missing. Well, the new negative is a bust, so back to the old negative it is. By the time I find my favorite paint/paper pairings, I know I'm going to be very sick of looking at this image.<br />
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Results of the paint experiments part I: Michael Harding's works amazingly well on the smoother papers, and for that it really redeemed itself in my eyes. If the paper has any sort of texture on it though, it is basically a bust for this process.<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-62824629886542202932016-03-15T11:05:00.000-07:002016-03-15T11:05:42.858-07:00Politicians: Bernie SandersAfter photographing Donald Trump's rally in Fayetteville, NC, I decided to scope out who else was going to be in the area. Lo and behold, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had planned events in Raleigh. I just missed the deadline for applying for press credentials to Clinton's town hall event, but managed to get credentials for Bernie Sanders' afternoon rally. Just have John Lennon's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvlBS4PMF0">Power to the People</a> playing in the background for this blog post, and you'll get the feeling of the crowd gathered at the Memorial Auditorium. As I walked in, a Sanders volunteer told me, "Welcome! Feel the Bern!" People were dancing in line, and the chanting started before they were even allowed in the auditorium. Not everyone who showed up was able to fit into the venue that holds 2,300 people, so before he addressed the attendees, Sanders went outside and spoke to those who couldn't find a seat inside. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The crowd inside was extremely vocal. The doors opened two hours before Sanders was scheduled to speak, and the crowd spent that entire time singing, doing the wave, cheering, and chanting back and forth to each other. "We are the 99%!" and "Not me, us!" were popular refrains. While the cheers and chants were from a friendly crowd, one could still feel the seething, deep anger emanating. These people have felt disenfranchised, and were willing to let it be known. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M">Disco Inferno</a> played over the loudspeakers before U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the former vice chair of the DNC who stepped down to throw her support behind Bernie, came on stage to introduce the Vermont senator. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The crowd exploded when Bernie Sanders came on the stage, but quickly sat down to hear him speak. He talked for over an hour, and the crowd often gave him standing ovations to his points. He touched on student debt, health care, the environment, war, and women's and minority issues. He spent time going over campaign finance reform. He ended the rally urging people to get out and vote in North Carolina in their Tuesday primary. "At the end of the day, love trumps hate." The crowd responded with the largest cheer yet as Sanders shook supporters hands and left the stage. </div>
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For my part, I didn't feel as flabbergasted as I did at Trump's rally. No one was punched, no protesters were jeered at, and the press were allowed to photograph from some pretty cool spots. The press weren't part of the show, we weren't jeered at, we didn't have to worry about people losing their cool at us. We weren't confined to a corral. It felt much more how I had always envisioned a political rally would feel. I get it, Trump's rallies are much more "fun" to watch. They remind one of a reality TV show. He gets more play time with the media because of that. He knows how to bring out the anger in a crowd. Bernie knows how to rile up a crowd too, but they were cheering because of policy, not because of an endorsement for water boarding. I know this is completely coming across as biased, because it is. Bernie may not be the perfect choice for president, but he sure showed me by his actions on Friday that he knows what it means to be president, and I really appreciate that. </div>
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The rally was what you'd expect from Donald Trump. The native New Yorker brought an almost revival style to his hour long speech, but was interrupted several times as protesters made their thoughts clear to the audience and Trump himself. Within the first ten minutes, at least two groups of protesters were led out of the building. The crowd of nearly 10,000 lit up when Trump talked about jobs, reinforced the idea of building a wall at the border, and ending drug imports. He spoke about support for the troops and veterans to a crowd that is heavily influenced by the nearby Fort Bragg. He asked that the audience pledge to vote for him in the North Carolina primary coming up this Tuesday. "Do you pledge that on Tuesday you will, you will go and make America great again, and you will vote for Donald Trump?" The crowd cheered and pledged that they would do so. It was a raucous crowd, and they were jazzed from the opening speakers until Trump finished. <div>
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For me, it was almost a social experiment. I wanted to photograph The Donald absolutely, but I'd be lying if I didn't say a tiny part of me wanted to see what all the fuss surrounding his rallies was about. It was an eye opener. The crowd was angry, and Trump does a great job in frothing up that anger. One protester was punched in the face as he was led out of the Crown Coliseum. Police were everywhere. A larger protest was in the process of happening right outside the exits. After the rally was over, the crowd outside swelled, causing the police to create a human wall between the protesters and the supporters. A large man with a megaphone was chanting, "No fascists, no KKK. USA, USA." A sign proclaiming Ted Cruz to be the Zodiac Killer danced above the seething crowd. When I made it back to my car, I just sat there wondering to myself, what had I just witnessed?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gumoil was invented in 1990 by Karl Koenig. He discovered that if he made a print of non pigmented gum arabic, he could then paint over it with oil paint and create an image. He based this of a popular darkroom technique called bromoil. With bromoil, a darkroom print is created and then bleached out creating was is called a matrix. The artist then uses ink to bring back the blacks. The results are generally contrasty, but much more painterly looking than a normal darkroom print. </div>
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With gumoil, no bleaching of the print is necessary. I take gum arabic, a byproduct of the acacia tree, and mix it with ammonium dichromate which makes it sensitive to UV light. I then brush the mixture onto a 100% cotton paper, let it dry, and then it expose it with my negative under UV light (for what my exposure unit looks like, see the previous post!). The result is a gum matrix. For gumoils compared to every other process I work with, my negative is actually a positive. When you expose an image, the dark parts of the negative turn out white, the clear parts turn out dark. This is the same concept, except because it is a positive, the resulting image will be a negative. What I essentially did was create an image of the white parts of the final piece. The paint will become the midtones and blacks. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Once I have created a matrix, it is ready for paint. I use oil paint, currently I've used both M. Graham and Windsor and Newton paints in lamp black, but I have seven other brands on the "to try" list. I paint a layer of black over the matrix, let it sit until the areas that need to be black are no longer shiny, and then rub the print with paper towels. This lifts up the excess paint and the gum arabic parts start to show through. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I let the print dry for about 15 minutes before I then put it in a tray of water. For the first layer, I let it sit in the water for about a minute, and then brush anymore excess paint off with a fine bristle brush. After the print is dry, I'll assess it. If there is enough gum left, I'll do another layer of paint and rubbing. With this second layer, I'll put it in a bleach solution after I have let it dry for a bit. The bleach helps to eat away any paint that may be causing some "muddying" of the image. The result is a print that shows the texture of the paper, the texture of the paint and gum, and creates a very painted look while being a completely photographic process. </div>
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Here are the results of my paper testing. My goal with this was to determine which papers I liked best and which papers took to the process the best. I found that while I personally liked the smoother finish papers, the process tended to take to the more textured paper with two exceptions, both from Fabriano. A different gum mixture and exposure could make the smoother papers better, and that is something that I can explore in more depth now that I know how the papers handle the process. </div>
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Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-88835581967109223252016-02-28T10:05:00.001-08:002016-02-28T10:05:47.248-08:00The Direction of ThingsThe Portraits of the Planet blog has been very slow over the last year, but things are picking up, and this blog will get a lot more posts over this coming year.<br />
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Things that happened since I last posted: I got a part time job working for a small local publication, one of my prints (Hidden Oak, which we'll get more in depth about in a later post) is currently showing at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, North Carolina, I've been chosen as an artist for a book by Christina Z. Anderson to be published in later in 2016 about gum bichromate printing, and I received a grant from the Fayetteville Arts Council to work on a specific alternative process for the next year called Gumoil.<br />
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This blog will still feature images from my various small and larger trips. Portraits of the Planet has and always will be about that. However, instead of just digital images, my work has begun to once again progress to the analog side of things. I have been working exclusively with gum bichromate for the last year, and hopefully soon I'll get my act together and make several blog posts detailing that process. For now, let me introduce you to my workspace. In the next day or two I'll be finishing up my first round of experiments on my grant work, and I believe it will be beneficial to my readers to be able to see the equipment and space that I am working in before really getting into the processes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The PoP Loft</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The photo workspace! (It's really not as messy as it looks)<br />My light pad is to the right, Epson R3000 to the left, <br />UV exposure unit on the middle shelf, paper and paint supplies on the bottom.<br />The prints hanging up in the back are a few of my favorite gum prints. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the UV exposure unit: an old drawer with a top put on,<br />black light bulbs wired to ballasts in the back, all wired to a light switch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contact printing frame. Once the paper is coated and ready to expose,<br />I sandwich the negative and paper together in this frame. The frame<br />holds everything together and tight for even exposure over the whole print.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside the printing frame.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A digital negative on my light pad. This particular negative is<br />actually a positive, because the gumoil process works best with a<br />positive vs. a negative. More details about this later. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wet part of my darkroom setup, a light tight bathroom right off<br />the loft. This is where I coat prints and develop them after exposure<br />and hang them up to dry. </td></tr>
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-24483549170017741962015-08-27T08:15:00.000-07:002015-08-27T08:16:07.341-07:00Current WorkI have been steadily plugging away at creating new work and updating my website again. It has been a pretty slow summer in terms of landscape photography, but I have been able to take a few photos of some birds in the area.<br />
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Just wanted to give everyone an update! I am now officially working for myself, and have been having some small successes that I am working on turning into bigger opportunities. In the meantime, <a href="http://www.alysonhansen.com/">alysonhansen.com</a> is once again up and running, and this time with a shopping cart!!! I'm very excited about this next phase of Portraits of the Planet.<br />
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For now, I'll leave you with an image of a Mississippi Kite that has been hanging around my house this summer. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-10181339961377011962015-05-27T11:52:00.003-07:002015-05-27T11:53:09.451-07:00The Outer Banks: February Pelagic TourI've been pretty absent from my blog for the last several months, but I have been working on images and am just now getting around to sharing some of them. I'm delving into more alternative processes, but I am working on scanning my favorite prints to share with the world. For now, I'll leave you with some images from February, Valentine's Day Weekend.<br />
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I became obsessed with finding razorbills. They are a strange little black and white bird related to puffins. They sort of look like flying penguins. Anyway, the migration of these guys is usually at its peak on the Outer Banks around Valentine's Day, so I booked a pelagic tour that took off from Hatteras Village.<br />
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The boat ended up going about 15 miles offshore. It was bitterly cold, but I was able to take pictures of Brown Pelicans and Northern Gannets almost immediately. The gannets along with a myriad of gulls followed the boat for the entire trip.<br />
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About two hours in, I spotted my first razorbill. The first picture I took was awful; they beat the air very frantically in an attempt to take off and my first attempted image was very blurry. Thankfully, we saw over a hundred of them, so I got plenty of practice in photographing them.<br />
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Along with razorbills, we spotted dovekies, another alcid related to puffins. They look pretty much the same as razorbills but they are TINY. They are usually roughly half the size of puffins, with their wingspans generally not reaching larger than 15 inches. They are difficult to photograph because of the size, but also because they startle incredibly easy.<br />
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A first for the boat I was on was a Harlequin Duck and a Great Skua, which is apparently a very rare bird. I didn't get great pictures of either, but the experience was pretty neat. The crowning moment of the trip however, was in the late afternoon as we were preparing to head back inland. We came across quite a large group of Northern Gannets, probably more than 200. And they all started to dive. It was spectacular. Gannets climb in the air 50-100 feet looking for fish. When they find the fish, they dive down and nab them in their beaks. Their faces are specially designed to withstand hitting the water at such high speeds, and their wings when diving are reminiscent of a bird of prey diving. It was amazing to watch these birds hit the water in droves with sea smoke coming off the water.<br />
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I was also able to venture around Cape Hatteras a bit and scope out the other birds that winter in the area. There were so many egrets and snow geese! I followed a flock of Redhead Ducks around for a few hours and was lucky enough to spot a Ringneck Duck and a Hooded Merganser in the area as well. The terns were out in full force and I was treated to a show at a secluded pond where they were diving to catch small fish less than 10 feet from where I was standing. It was a pretty spectacular weekend in the bird watching department, and I had a great time regardless of the humid cold.<br />
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In case you may have noticed from this blog post, I have gone a bit bird centric over the last few months. I'm very excited to show work from my latest gum bichromate project which I will probably be posting at the end of this week or beginning of next. I have been working very hard on this series and I'm finally ready to share the beginning of it with the internet world.<br />
<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-75474779115993918892015-01-09T20:21:00.001-08:002015-01-09T20:21:20.446-08:00North Carolina: The North Carolina ZooThe North Carolina Zoo boasts an impressive five miles of trails and hundreds of species of animals. I could've spent all day in their aviary alone, and that is honestly where I spent most of my time (when I was oogling the polar bear). I also spent time watching four lion cubs terrorize their parents. The zoo is seriously impressive, and the habitats are HUGE which made me feel better. <div>
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I've really gotten into photographing birds, but I'm not really very good at it yet. What better place to photograph birds than a zoo where they can't get too far away from me? In theory, it's a good idea. In practice, it's a bit more difficult than I had thought. These birds might be a bit more acclimatized to humans than those in the wild, but they are still skittish enough to move away from you when you think you have a great image. Also, the light in the glass building wasn't the best mostly due to a very overcast day, so my shutter speed couldn't be as fast as I wanted it to be. </div>
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A couple of these pictures are going into a newer, larger project of birds that I'm going to be printing out using an early photographic process. This project won't be ready for awhile; it is time consuming and right now I don't have the full time to dedicate to the whole process. I am slowly working on getting together my favorite images and creating digital negatives. I'll post more about my progress as it continues. </div>
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Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-90467236977665722792015-01-03T13:12:00.000-08:002015-01-03T13:12:12.624-08:00South Carolina: CharlestonI really wanted to do something special for Christmas this year. I couldn't go home to visit family, so I decided to head down the coast to Charleston. What a beautiful city! I spent four amazing days there and it wasn't enough time to see everything I wanted to. The food is incredible, the people are awesome, and the weather was a balmy 70 degrees for the majority of the time I was there. The first day I spent wandering around downtown Charleston and ventured into the Slave Mart Museum. It was super informative and very well put together. That night I had dinner at an oyster bar called The Ordinary that was extraordinary.<br />
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Day two involved a harbor trip to Fort Sumter. Earlier this year I travelled to Appomattox to see where the Civil War ended. Well, this trip, I got to see where the Civil War started. The trip to the Fort included some pretty awesome views of Charleston and the Arthur Ravenel Bridge along with Castle Pinckney. The Castle was a harbor fortification much like Fort Sumter. They were both built with the idea that they would protect the harbor from any possible invasions. Also spotted on the ride to the Fort were several seabirds, and one that I was super excited to see, a Northern Gannett. These birds are HUGE with 70-75 inch wingspans, and they are really beautiful. I didn't get a really great close picture of them, but I was able to capture some far away images.<br />
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Christmas Day found me wandering the coast trying to get pictures of birds. I went out on Patriot's Point, but didn't find much there birdwise, so I drove around to Fort Moultrie and spent the morning walking around the Revolutionary War Fort and the nearby beach. On the way back to where I was staying, I stopped at a lookout called Shem Creek where I spotted the coolest pelican I had seen. I have become a bit obsessed with pelicans, and this guy posed for me for a good 10 minutes. <br />
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Before I headed out of town, I went back to Patriot's Point to check out the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier that was in commission towards the end of WWII. It was also used to pick up the Apollo 11 crew after their flight around the moon. On the way home, I stopped at the Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw, SC. This place is fantastic. They have raptors from all over the world, and they rehabilitate birds of prey from the Carolinas. The people who run the Center are full of knowledge, and have some great information. They gave us a flying demonstration of an Eurasian Eagle Owl, a Lanner Falcon, a Kite, and a Red Shouldered Hawk. The Center is doing great things for raptors in the area. I was really pleased that I had stopped to check it out on my way home.<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-46362575516692761252015-01-03T09:43:00.001-08:002015-01-03T09:43:27.339-08:00North Carolina: The Cape Fear Botanical GardensFor my birthday this year my mom took me to the Cape Fear Botanical Gardens in Fayetteville. We thought that since it was late October, there wouldn't be too much in bloom, but we could still at least check out the Gardens. There were some flowers that were actually blooming, so we got to see some pretty colors. The Heritage Garden had some cotton that was getting ready to pop open, and the muscadine grapes (local wine favorite) were on display as well. The Garden has a large area where you can walk around and view different flowers during different times of the year as well as a river trail. It is a very relaxing place, and a beautiful place to photograph.<br />
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Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-29640122286046699572015-01-02T21:03:00.008-08:002015-01-02T21:05:51.950-08:00North Carolina: The Outer BanksMy first venture to the Outer Banks was super special as my mom accompanied me. We stayed a couple of nights in a lovely little beach rental in Rodanthe, right next to the pier. After we spent the first morning picking up seashells, bird watching, and watching surfers enjoy the waves, we travelled to Cape Hatteras to check out the Hatteras Lighthouse. The Light is the largest brick lighthouse in the United States, but it is no longer in service. It is now a National Park and museum. We couldn't climb up the lighthouse, but the park ranger did let us get a peek inside (you can only climb up in the summer and on Christmas day). We had a lovely picnic on a beach with people fishing from their truck beds around us. The next day we headed on over to Bodie Lighthouse. I feel that the Bodie Light doesn't get as much love as the Hatteras Light, but it is every bit as impressive. On the way back home, we stopped at the aquarium in Manteo and saw their sea turtle hospital. We also paid a very quick visit to Fort Raleigh, the location of the mysterious Lost Colony. The trip to the coast was short, but it was really incredibly worth it. I began photographing the sea birds and discovered a new area of photography that I have since began exploring in ernest. My next trip to the Outer Banks will hopefully be in February to see the Razorbill (relative to the puffin) migration. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-60846764047097546572015-01-02T19:36:00.001-08:002015-01-02T19:36:27.024-08:00Virginia: ShenandoahThe town I live in is less than three hours away from Shenandoah National Park, so once the leaves began to change, I hopped in my car and drove north. I missed the really colorful trees by about a week or so, but it was still neat to go to Shenandoah. For the most part, it was foggy and rainy the whole time I was there. I wanted to do more night photography, but the fog made that pretty impossible as the night wore on. I took a small hike the second day I was there, but the fog made any of the more lengthy hikes a bit dangerous. Overall, I was pretty happy with the trip even if I didn't get to see a lot of the park. What I did get to see was very beautiful, and the park warrants a second trip, probably in the spring.<br />
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On the way home, I swung by Appomattox and visited the McLean House where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant thus ending the Civil War. It was a place that I always have wanted to visit, but I ended up being disappointed by it. Appomattox is largely a recreation, and several of the artifacts from the house aren't located on the premises but in Washington D.C. The museum at the Courthouse was really well done, however, and even though I had studied the Civil War in college, I still learned some new things. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-45790011919284963642014-12-30T11:38:00.000-08:002014-12-30T11:41:46.139-08:00North Carolina: OrientalSix months later, I am FINALLY able to update my blog and begin to post some new pictures! These ones are from Oriental, NC, a little town at the mouth of the Neuse River about twoish hours east of Raleigh. I ventured to the "Sailing Capital of North Carolina" for the Croaker Fest in July. The croaker is a little brown fish that is in season in the fall/winter, however, they have coincided the 4th of July festivities with the biggest festival dedicated to the fish (which is tasty, btw). I bunkered down in a B&B called The Captain's Quarters. An old blue and yellow Victorian, The Captain's Quarters proved to be in the best location in this tiny town where walking everywhere isn't out of the norm.<br />
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The festival was similar to other Southern style festivals: lots of amazing fried and fresh food, artisans from around the state selling their wares, and music every night with a street dance. I partook in the festivities which kicked off a day late due to Hurricane Arthur. The hurricane caused little to no damage in the area, and the rest of my stay was crystal clear and perfect. Oriental is a beautiful little coastal town with extremely friendly people and a very large 4th of July/Croaker Fest Parade. This year, the theme was "AARGGHH The Croaker!" On my last evening there, I wandered out to the pier and spotted a pod of dolphins had swum up the river. It was my first time seeing dolphins in the wild, and it capped off the trip beautifully. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-61558253141766957072014-06-23T14:18:00.001-07:002014-12-30T10:42:54.550-08:00North Carolina: WilmingtonLast weekend I made the drive to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. It was the first time I had gone to the ocean since I left Madagascar, and it was so exciting to smell the salt air again and feel the sand between my toes. Wilmington, too, was an exciting place to visit. The Cotton Exchange reminded me of some of the shops in Pike Place Market in Seattle, and the whole downtown has a fun, funky vibe. We stopped at The Black Cat Shoppe which apparently was featured in One Tree Hill quite often. We also ventured in the Serpentarium and watched a 400 lb crocodile get fed! It was pretty intense. I enjoyed seeing some of the colorful snakes and learning more about the snakes in my new area. Downtown Wilmington is on a river, and it's large enough that ships can come up into Wilmington from the ocean. While we were there, a coast guard ship was making its way back out to sea. Across the river, the battleship USS North Carolina sits, and tours are given daily. <br />
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The day ended with a clam bake and lobster dinner at Shucker's Oyster Bar followed by a sunset walk on Wrightsville Beach. It had been a beautiful day, and a storm was rolling in off the Atlantic. The clouds were incredible, and they just got more beautiful as the sun set. With salty legs and smiles on our faces, we drove back to Fayetteville.<br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-55800594269481571192014-06-21T06:45:00.001-07:002014-06-21T06:49:49.574-07:00Bannack, Montana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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My mom and I took a trip to Bannack back in 2012. I have rediscovered these images and have decided to repost them from an older blog of mine. Bannack is one of those places that I could photograph for weeks and be perfectly content. I fell in love with it.</div>
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Bannack.... Montana's Territorial Capitol from the 1800's. People lived in Bannack clear up to the 1970's, and several of the houses had the wallpaper to prove it. I found a lot of things to enjoy in this wonderful town. As I was walking down the street, the Old West town that it was seemed to spring to life. Walking through the Hotel, I felt that I could live in that building and be content for the rest of my life. Bannack is a beautifully preserved town, and I'm excited to explore it some more in the future. </div>
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Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-51266943777975555772014-06-20T19:29:00.000-07:002014-06-21T06:36:55.029-07:00Memorial Day 2014: Washington DC This past memorial day, I hopped a train to DC from North Carolina to hang out with some friends. My first night there, we checked out the newly unveiled Washington Memorial. The scaffolding had been taken down, and it has recently reopened to the public. We didn't go up to the top (the lines were OUTRAGEOUS), but we at least got to walk up to it, and my friends allowed me to photograph them doing handstands against it. With the scaffolding off, we were able to see the color difference in the memorial. The building began before the Civil War, but completion was held off until after the conclusion of the war. This disturbance in building led to a slightly different colored brick being used to finish off the memorial. From there, we wandered over to the Iwo Jima Memorial and just enjoyed the toasty DC night.<br />
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I spent the majority of my time in DC just enjoying time with friends, but on the second to last day there, I was able to go visit Arlington National Cemetery for the first time. The cemetery is absolutely massive, and I was so glad to have been able to go there. JFK's gravesite was very large and impressive, and Robert E. Lee's house overlooking the cemetery is incredibly gorgeous. We got to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just as they were doing the Changing of the Guard. Afterwards, we ventured over to the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. We weren't allowed to go inside (usually you can, but they were getting ready for a ceremony), so I only got a couple quick peeks. At the front of the Amphitheater is this absolutely massive marble throne that I wish I could have taken a picture of. It was really impressive. My second venture to DC was a success, and there is talk of a possible 4th of July excursion as well. <br />
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<br />Alyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090241954345405087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3474230789758731327.post-53618674797009063482014-06-16T12:38:00.002-07:002014-06-16T12:38:28.018-07:00Cross Country Adventure: Kansas to North Carolina Part 2After departing Missouri and the Farm, I had an 18 hour drive ahead of me. I decided that I would stay the night in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and photograph the town. In the morning, I would head over the Smoky Mountains to Cherokee, North Carolina and photograph that town. My plans changed a little bit when I got to Pigeon Forge and saw how ludicrous it was. I spent much more time photographing there than I would have thought. Pigeon Forge is home to several attractions, including Dollywood, and there are some very interesting tourist things going on. One that especially caught my eye was the Titanic museum. They had rebuild the front half of the ship, to half scale, complete with an iceberg and a small reflecting pond. Being the history geek that I am, the Titanic has always held fascination for me, and it was pretty neat to photograph the ship, even if it was only a recreation. On the way out of town, I found a sign leading to a historic covered bridge. I made the short detour and photographed the bridge, built in 1875.<br />
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The drive over the Smoky Mountains wasn't as spectacular as I was hoping. I'm from the Rockies, and I'm a bit of a mountain snob. While beautiful, the Smokies aren't as enormous as what I'm used to, but it was still nice to see some mountains after the flatness of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. I stopped in Cherokee, but the weather was getting to be pretty bad (torrential rainfall), so it was a very quick stop. Five hours later, I pulled into Fayetteville, my new home. <br />
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A "mill" in part of the old western bit of Pigeon Forge</div>
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A thrift shop in Cherokee, NC</div>
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A place selling boiled peanuts as well as rat cheese</div>
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