Week #3 - Faith

Yet another busy week. Lots of work. Lots of trying to fit in time spent with wonderful people. I really had no plans on how to explore this weeks theme of Faith... not until a very fun photo shoot tonight with some of the cast members of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Not quite Faith as much as Faithfulness, or lack thereof.

I wonder how the Christmas week will effect next weeks images. Hopefully there will be at least a little more downtime in which I can try to be creative.

Week #2 - Music

Took this picture after rearranging all my things.

I was struck today by the feeling of being very fortunate. I'm not sure why, but it feels like, generally, a lot is going my way. I certainly have a lot to be thankful for.

This week finds me in a new, temporary job, which will consume all of my time but will also, eventually, pay me. Yay.

I'm also finished all school related unpleasantness until... the summer... or fall, or sometime very far away, and I'm quite pleased by this fact.

Okay, time for bed now. I'm excited to find out what the new theme will be... And at some point I'm actually going to explore some themes more thoroughly than I have so far. Though when that will happen is anyone's guess.

Week Two - Music

This isn't my real post this week!

Okay, well, yes, it kind of is. What I mean is that this isn't the idea that I had in mind for the theme this week. Unfortunately, exams sort of killed that idea. Or, they imprisoned it temporarily. I will finish my original idea after exams, and append it to another week!

Here's a picture of the box in which I keep my musical things, some sheet music, and my bells of happiness/fisher price bells. I didn't want to fall behind on only the second week of Ap&Ink 2.0!

Week #2 - Music - Jeff's First Post

Hello readers/viewers in far away or close enough lands. As you could probably tell, this is my first submission for Apertures and Ink. My name is Jeff, and I'm the brother of the other posters, Lauren and David, who I'm sure you're all familiar with.
This year, I've decided to take part in the wonderful adventure that is creating art, hopefully each week, and post it here for all to see. *shudder*
I'll keep the jibber jabber short, and get on with my first submission.

This week's theme is MUSIC! Very exciting!

I've been experimenting with some electronic drawings/photo manipulations, so over the course of time, you will probably see a few entries similar to this, or at least done with the same medium.

The idea for this image came to me while listening to Blackbird by the Beatles, which features birdsong at some points in the background. We all know that birds are nature's choir, with all the singing and what... but what do they do when they want to relax and listen, rather than sing?
Annnd the color scheme I came across when messing with color inversions. I think the fact that I'm in a very Christmassy mood helped me choose these.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this first picture, and I hope you enjoy the ones to come.

-Jeff

Week #1 - Change

So here's my pretty literal interpretation of "change," taken in the upstairs hall. I would have liked to put more work into this but I did decide to start off this year's project just before exams, just when all those silly papers are due.

There should be a bit more free time this coming week, considering the amount of actual studying I'm going to get in.

I hope you're all safe and snug in your homes during this lovely winter storm.

Change

The randomly chosen theme for this week was change, so this is my take on it!









Also, if anyone has any suggestions for themes, we'd love to hear them! If you don't want to post them here you can email us at aperturesandink@gmail.com

Year Two - Welcome Back!

Well it's been almost three months since the completion of the 365 day photo project that was the original purpose of Apertures & Ink. For three months this blog has not been used, but we're back with a new concept.

This time, instead of posting one random picture every day, each week a new theme will be selected at random and Lauren and I will have seven days to explore that theme in images before the next themes is selected. There's no maximum or minimum number of images per week set at this time.

I'm hoping that this new project will be a little less frantic but will inspire more well thought out and planned work from both Lauren and myself.

Welcome to year2!