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Polixeni Papapetrou - New To Me Artist

So, I just found a new photographer I absolutely Love! Everyone Check her out!

http://www.polixenipapapetrou.net/

Montana

I went for a day trip out to Chico Hot Springs this last weekend. It was gorgeous, and you could feel that it was one of the last summer nights. I stopped outside this little bar and took some pictures of the locals and had a 7-up. (I had a long drive home) Here are some of my pictures.

the.chief

by: clare parsons

slightly.amused

by: clare parsons

true.montanan

by: clare parsons

Vintage

here are some vintage photos i've been working on!

Raw Food and Photography

I thought I'd give my Mom a shout out. She has her own blog, which is wildly successful at

Raw Food Blog!

She's so incredible! Since I was running down memory lane last night, and I woke up just feeling ridiculously refreshed today, I couldn't help but want to post this immediately. To anyone that thinks that raw food is all crappy hippy food, think again.

I am a full blown carnivore, and her raw chocolates and kale chips are two of my favorite things to eat! Cheers!

I'm making more lumen prints today. The first batch turned out....meh... but now I have a feel for what I'm doing.

Did you know that fruit has a chemical reaction with photo paper? So do leaves and metal and feathers... SOOOOOOO weird.

Memories as Art

somehow i would like to capture photos of the memories i have bottled in my head...

just as i was headed to sleepy time tonight i was flooded with memories of my childhood. my toes curled through our old crocheted blanket, the smell of my mom's noxema, the sand in between the sheets on the bunk beds in our cousin's house... my sister.

above all my sister.

how do you recreate one of those, made entirely out of photos.

Fun With Lumen Prints (Luminograms)

I'm taking Experimental and Alternative Processes in Photography by Christina Z. Anderson. Our first assignment: luminograms.

So, basically, you take photosensitive paper, and cover bits and pieces with objects of different translucence and texture, you leave them out for extended periods of time in direct or indirect light and THEN, instead of developing them, you stick the pieces directly in fixer.

I looked like a mad scientist in my back yard :)

grass.seed.concrete.blocks
lumen.print
by clare.parsons

berries.holy.leaves

lumen.print

by clare parsons

dried.leaves
lumen.print
by clare.parsons

twisted.corn.husks

lumen.print

by clare.parsons

work.in.progress
self.portrait
clare.parsons

Reclamation

As the seasons change, the earth changes as well, changes us. Pressures drop, anxieties are qualm-ed, old, empty things are grown over again and reclaimed by life. I am excited for the life I have made, the things I have learned, and the beauty of life again.

reclamation
by clare.parsons