Dates

The Children's Museum called today saying they had two groups of interns starting up on May 11th and May 22nd. Because of some scheduling, I went with the 22nd. My first day with the Portraiture Studio people is May 5th. It's only 10hrs a week so far, but it's promising. I've already got people calling dibs on my spot at McVans haha...crazy kids have no clue what it's like to work in a game store. Oh well.

Somewhat Random Photo:
I can't wait for the summer to come, so all my wonderful subjects will come back home.

KH

Ellison Spanish Pointers is an inactive project for a while. It would seem that the first puppies won't arrive till Fall.

It will be interesting to see how everything works out when I start up at Portraiture Studios, the Children's Museum, and try to keep some hours at McVans. I'm getting some business cards made. That'll be neat. I've had business cards before, but the guy who printed them was a madman and they turned out funky. The upside was that he was a kind madman and gave me them for free. It's time to get some real ones though.

It's not the most amazing thing in the world, but it was something I needed to have quick so I spent an hour and made something I could at least hand out to people. This print house in town seems pretty good too, so I'm looking forward to getting them back.

A good friend, Kelly Harris, asked about making a website sometime in the summer, but once I've got a possible project in my head, I can't help but work out some ideas. I came up with a few layouts, swatch sets, and a possible logo. It was sort of funny to hear my family argue over what they thought it was. One said it was an H, while another said it was a K. I was glad to hear that because it's actually both and I'm trying to find a way to balance the emphasis on each letter-form.

It'll transform quite a bit by the time it's done, but it was an idea I had to materialize before I could go to sleep.

All in all, things are good. Only two weeks left of class and I'm feeling the pressure as finals approach. While they're not particularly difficult courses, it's been a while since I've taken a standard test instead of making a project and presenting it to a group...frankly I like the project and presentation more.

Until next time,
-Scott

Ahoy Matey!

www.ellisonspanishpointers.com is up and running. Now we just wait for the puppies to arrive. The internship is coming up soon and may coincide with a new full time job opportunity as a portrait photographer.

Recently I put together a couple of submissions for Indy CD & Vinyl's logo contest because I like the store a lot and there is the possibility of some compensation if chosen. The results aren't being announced until their 5th anniversary in late April though, so there is some waiting left before I find out if they picked my design.
They didn't take an incredible amount of time and they were fun to do since it's a little difficult to pinpoint exactly what their style is since they support such a wide variety of music there. The general consensus seems to be that the headphones circle is best.

Several photography opportunities have arisen. Varying between single portraits, family portraits, and a wedding. It would appear that plans to visit family and Tom & Kendall's wedding in July have fallen through though. Which is very sad, but I'll have to do something else to make it up.

Portraits from the Champaign-Urbana trip are up and I'm really happy with them. Lisa and Chad are great subjects and now that I've taken the time to look over the instruction manual to this fancy automatic camera, I'm getting some great things out of it.

As always, looking forward to the future.