tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65280628855161002712023-11-16T04:57:45.908-07:00Words Of A Concrete GirlRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-50493877434321797362011-09-13T10:36:00.000-06:002011-09-13T10:36:05.019-06:00Dillon's<div style="text-align: center;">
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Arianna was able to come out for the day! Such a lovely surprise :)</div>
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Ben spent most of the morning all alone, digging a hole. Pretty cool.</div>
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We were really cold.</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-82742315399637234352011-07-02T15:34:00.001-06:002011-07-02T15:34:47.862-06:00Moving<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/46781925@N04/5894691949/" title="DSC_0012R by RBetts, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0012R" height="500" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/5894691949_510acc4772.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ben and I have moved! We lived in Rancho Cordova for about two months with my grandfather and now we are living in Lincoln, CA. I am so glad to be here. Idaho was just to cold.</div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-18290922144847277772011-05-25T22:40:00.001-06:002011-05-25T22:41:05.480-06:00My Little Lawn<div style="text-align: center;">This is my little lawn that grows on my window sill.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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2. Dinner Parties<br />
3. Julie B. Beck's fireside yesterday morning - what a great way to start the weekend :)<br />
4. <a href="http://brightbazaar.blogspot.com/">The Bright Bazaar</a> - Such a great blog all about color, interior design, and finding the pretty things in life! Makes me happy just reading it.<br />
5. Making <a href="http://www.delish.com/recipefinder/cream-puffs-dark-chocolate-sauce-ghk0108">Cream Puffs</a> - I hope they turn out good!<br />
6. Buying books at Deseret Industries - They are so cheap, I don't feel bad if I end up not liking the book.<br />
7. Moving to California<br />
8. Dressing up for themed Dinner Parties<br />
9. <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/">Apartment Therapy</a> - Saving the world, one room at a time!<br />
10. Watching George Lopez with my favorite boy :)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-15997028495907814582011-02-08T14:42:00.000-07:002011-02-08T14:42:50.617-07:00Google<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hey everybody! So my Bachelor's of Fine Art Show went up last Thursday. I have been working on it for the past six months and it is such a relief to be done. It looks so good on the wall. A lot of my friends and teachers were able to come and my family will be able to come in about two weeks!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wanted to create work that was beautiful and educational. I wanted to teach people how simple photography really is and I think I was able to accomplish that. My favorite part of the show was when parents would come in and tell their kids "Look at these images! They came from homemade camera's that you can make! you don't need an expensive camera to make art. We should try this."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Life here hasn't been all that interesting lately. Ben and I spend most of our days at school and then we eat and go to sleep. Weekends are spent cleaning and doing laundry and doing homework. I cannot wait to get out of school, work on my State Farm license, and finally be a good wife! I can't wait until Ben and I can both go to work all day and then come home and not worry about it until the next day. I can't wait to have a clean house that isn't oozing with bookarts tools and dirty dishes. I can't wait until we move into a more permanent residence so that i won't feel dumb about decorating. Pretty much, I can't wait to move on to the next big adventure :)<br />
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Many of you might remember the little car chaos Ben and I had a few weeks ago. The first week of school Ben's car got hit while Ben was sitting at a red light. Dumb? I know. So pretty much it was totalled. And the guy's insurance took forever to contact us and like a week to get us a rental. So after finally getting a rental they decided to take it away. And then it took them another month and a half to get us a check to get a new car. So we had to walk to school. And you know what? It was actually not that bad. Ben and I grew so close on our long walks home from school. We were able to slow down and talk and it was really rather great. We started counting our blessings: We were both safe, we had great friends to take us shopping, we would eventually be getting a better car, we saved so much on gas, and we really started looking out for eachother a lot. A couple weeks ago we bought a new car! And even though I am so glad we have it now that it is snowing, I'm kinda glad we were without it for a little while.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-89827213307786692010-11-04T15:29:00.000-06:002010-11-04T15:29:37.613-06:00Just so everyone is aware...I have a new blog! For by business class we have to show our online portfolio to some potential clients and I wasn't sure I wanted clients reading all about my personal life. It's the perfect time to launch my new blog:<br />
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For now it's just images from my portrait class but expect great things soon...<br />
<span id="goog_997639939"></span><span id="goog_997639940"></span>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-36765465448367407822010-10-02T17:56:00.000-06:002010-10-02T17:56:30.084-06:00A Preview...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIvI-_8WzWtAsEpuMZ1krhCMFSIXc2B6GSJyEl8u5ZbeZRo-LNRNOuZIcLrR-wRK2IrgShfbV6FApmhbaARU88CibkunCT0MEG8OjcEpGNYWPi8XAHRneTMOeKus96kDB_GmZ_d02lYmj/s1600/matchbox041R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHIvI-_8WzWtAsEpuMZ1krhCMFSIXc2B6GSJyEl8u5ZbeZRo-LNRNOuZIcLrR-wRK2IrgShfbV6FApmhbaARU88CibkunCT0MEG8OjcEpGNYWPi8XAHRneTMOeKus96kDB_GmZ_d02lYmj/s640/matchbox041R.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matchbox Pinhole Camera - Color Film</div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-69461979211918305262010-09-26T19:21:00.000-06:002010-09-26T19:21:14.170-06:00BFABachelor of Fine Arts Project<br />
That's what I work on all the time. And when I'm in other classes it's what I think about. I'm dying right now because the photo lab is closed on Sundays. My project will be different from other people's. The past few days I was a wreck because of how different my images are from other BFA Student's work. I was worried that people wouldn't appreciate dark, blurry, pinhole images. For some reason I was also very worried that President Clark would hate it...But I talked to my teacher and he said that once people see the process and time that goes into pinhole photography, they will appreciate the images. And that's the whole point of my project anyway, to explain the process of creating an image. It's not just about pointing and clicking a shutter, it's about light, dark, sensors, and pinholes. I can't wait for you to see my project :)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-89466570203693479702010-08-22T12:53:00.000-06:002010-08-22T12:53:25.417-06:00Our Vacation:-California<br />
-Boogie Boarding<br />
-Meeting Family<br />
-Beaches<br />
-Rodeo's<br />
-Digging Holes<br />
-Hugging Cousins, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents<br />
-The Fair<br />
-Campfires<br />
-Barbeques<br />
-Inception<br />
-Kayaking<br />
-Zoo's<br />
-Baby Zebras<br />
-Bathing Suits<br />
-New Babies<br />
-Old Babies<br />
-Friends!<br />
-Singing<br />
-Playing Nertz, Ticket to Ride, Shanghai Rummy, Monopoly Deal, & Phase 10<br />
-Finally Getting Rid of our Couch<br />
-Sandals<br />
-Working<br />
-Photographing<br />
-Thunderstorms<br />
-Snow Cones<br />
-Farmer's Market Salsa & Tortillas<br />
- And we still have a couple more weeks!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-21200361980354357612010-07-19T20:13:00.003-06:002010-07-19T20:13:06.946-06:00California....Can't wait for my summer to start <3Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-16384568028693067382010-07-12T22:32:00.000-06:002010-07-12T22:32:21.327-06:00labels are very important, but for bottles of wine, not for artists - Jeanne-ClaudeToday I developed my own prints in my own darkroom. It was our family home evening activity. While rinsing my prints and getting them ready to dry, I shed a little tear. This has been my dream for years. I remember peeking into my grandfather's studio when he wasn't looking and wondering why it was always so dark in there. Later I visited his studio at the university and developed some prints of my own. How incredible! Images appeared on blank pieces of paper. How was it possible? I remember my dad telling my about how he had darkroom supplies growing up. I wanted to go search my grandma's house for them. Then I came to school and I learned how to mix the chemicals and expose the paper. But darkroom's around the country were becoming endangered. Nobody wanted to use film anymore when computers and digital sensors were so much easier. I worried that eventually I would have to leave my school and never find a darkroom ever again. But now I don't have to worry about that. All you need to develope prints are the right chemicals, a dark room, and a timer. And that's what I've got. <br />
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It's crazy how in just an hour I've gotten over the fear of the future I had before. I used to be so scared that once I got out of school, I would be stuck doing weddings and senior portraits. Now my art will always be with me. I'll be able to share it with my husband and my children! I can't wait to go home for the break so that I can develope pictures with my brothers! While I was in my darkroom today, I imagined a day when Ben would come home from work, knock on the bathroom door, and I would be in there with all my little youngin's yelling "DON'T OPEN THE DOOR! WE'RE MAKING A PRINT!!" There are a whole new bundle of possibilities coming my way...Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-83366781944127953532010-07-11T00:05:00.001-06:002010-07-11T00:06:09.576-06:00A Day on the Farm...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of my concept images for my commercial photography class is to photograph an illustration of a "Cash Cow" so today we spent the afternoon at a dairy farm! This is my lovely model "Winter." Images from the photoshoot will be up once they are edited!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqaWLiXl9XiP9dTrpavXDURhMh5NMe3VYnoUMW-amuGtNCB5UvNrYA-ManGdNpT4BqDSeVGRhSubZPKezkc1FHH2mBxzBBCppQCeIjndPkPe7QdTVlPOZoOkBxhRrpbpWoQQbUlenf6rAQ/s1600/cow1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqaWLiXl9XiP9dTrpavXDURhMh5NMe3VYnoUMW-amuGtNCB5UvNrYA-ManGdNpT4BqDSeVGRhSubZPKezkc1FHH2mBxzBBCppQCeIjndPkPe7QdTVlPOZoOkBxhRrpbpWoQQbUlenf6rAQ/s400/cow1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I feel like when I do this, I'm catching up with all the Twittering I forget to do...<br />
I love my pinhole cameras<br />
They are like my children<br />
I own 5 1/2<br />
Ben is sleeping<br />
I cannot wait for the Fourth of July! It is my favorite!<br />
But I am already way homesick for the part-ay that will be going down in Woodland.<br />
I do not like to photograph people. Or buildings<br />
I like to photograph peppers though. And landscapes<br />
Brother Brown says I don't use enough props in my commercial photography, and I tell him that I am a minimalist.<br />
I think I would rather build cameras that have leaks and contrast issues than use a perfectly new DSLR<br />
is that wrong?<br />
I'm really bored when Ben is sleepingRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-60740584593195561062010-06-13T22:25:00.000-06:002010-06-13T22:25:58.162-06:00Tony Chacher's<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sooo, we bought some pretty sweet Tony Chacher's Creole Seasoning the other day. It comes with a sweet syringe so you can inject it directly into the meat you are cooking. Tastes so good!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHZMxVUEbU7R4VpIIlJjuLyCJ1pAWQL8uhwIWFV2uh8eIXLOKCttPUXvHGGUkGs_A2qIFZyey5wkhggQmkkRzkAHZZNZu1z9b-3rG2R3ZhQampspCTdMQyKdgHR6PPWLZt1We3nbAyuHHm/s1600/DSC_0184.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHZMxVUEbU7R4VpIIlJjuLyCJ1pAWQL8uhwIWFV2uh8eIXLOKCttPUXvHGGUkGs_A2qIFZyey5wkhggQmkkRzkAHZZNZu1z9b-3rG2R3ZhQampspCTdMQyKdgHR6PPWLZt1We3nbAyuHHm/s320/DSC_0184.JPG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpCN9TIbE9lad19jJDi9C7KugjuwjeL8nurSkJu4YiAuszi14T1Cvsp0ANLv3UcUvbOgrdoCAYCCidIv0tc2q6_bEXc2jIVd2Vdgqh6g14UvJKuUu5uYJZI_RsyJdaxg7GqGK8ERyaqIQ/s1600/DSC_0176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqpCN9TIbE9lad19jJDi9C7KugjuwjeL8nurSkJu4YiAuszi14T1Cvsp0ANLv3UcUvbOgrdoCAYCCidIv0tc2q6_bEXc2jIVd2Vdgqh6g14UvJKuUu5uYJZI_RsyJdaxg7GqGK8ERyaqIQ/s320/DSC_0176.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yeah, he's pretty cute.</div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-69707973391471761962010-06-05T11:29:00.000-06:002010-06-05T11:29:14.386-06:00Elche, my dog, has been around for a long time. When I was just barely four-years-old, my mom took my sister and I to the animal shelter to look for a dog. There were a lot of cute dogs but Elche was the one we were immediately attracted to. As soon as they opened her cage to let us see her she bolted for the exit. I remember watching her run down the hall and seeing all the shelter workers trying to catch her. My mom decided that's the dog we wanted. The next day my mom sent my dad over to check Elche out. My dad says that as soon as he saw her he knew that she was our dog. So he brought her home.<br />
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I loved my dog. We played together. I built her forts and chased her around the yard. I remember one time she chewed up my favorite helmet, that wasn't so fun. When she was little she had this stuffed fish that she loved. She could run so fast. We'd play this game with her were we would stomp our foot and she would take off running around in circles. Then she'd stop and look at us and we'd stomp our foot again and she'd run again. It seems really boring, but she loved that game.<br />
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In case you don't know Elche, but a lot of people do, she ran away....all the time. Like once a week at least. For awhile it was everyday. My mom would leave to pick up the kids from school and when she came back Elche would be gone. A few hours later Elche would show up on our porch or the pound would call us and tell us they had our dog. Again. One time we came home to find an Animal Control truck parked outside our house. The officer told us to stand back because the "wild dog" he had been chasing had ran back there. We assured him it was fine, it was OUR dog.<br />
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Twice we thought we lost her for good. The first time was in Rancho Cordova. Elche was staying there while we remodeled our house. She was missing for a week in a city that she knew nothing about. A man finally coaxed her into his house with a piece of pizza. The second time was at New Years. Elche was terrified of fireworks so when we got home she had chewed her way out of our fence. She was gone for a week that time too. When we found her, she was 10 miles away, across a river, muddy, skin and bones, and she had lost her voice. My mom told us that someday she would run away and we would never see her again.<br />
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Elche lived a long time. Seventeen years! I can't remember a time without her. Over the last few years she turned into this old lady dog that just wanted to sleep all the time. She went blind and practically deaf (Sometimes I think she just pretended to be deaf...) but she still loved to play with us. Whenever Arianna was over, Elche always wanted to be right in the middle of whatever we were doing. She followed my dad everywhere, all over the house and in the yard. She was a good dog. Soon she couldn't recognize my dad or my brothers. She ran into things and got lost in our yard. Yesterday we put her down and she was buried out in the country. She lived a long long long life. And it was fabulous. And even though we will miss her, it's so great to know that she has her playful body back. I know that I will get to see her again :)<br />
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Love,<br />
RachelRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-36127365846871189892010-05-25T00:28:00.001-06:002010-06-11T10:39:23.160-06:00Tender Moments...-Just ate a delicious bowl of cookies and cream ice cream<br />
-Watching Shakespeare's "Henry V." It's actually pretty good, except for all the parts with the dirty nasty soldiers<br />
-Fiction Family is my favorite today<br />
-LOST Finale was this weekend. I'll admit, I'm a little heartbroken...<br />
-Ben and I debated about the outcome of LOST for like an hour last night...and I won.<br />
-I miss my puppy so very bad...<br />
-I like food photography, if only because I get to eat the deliciously expensive food when I'm done.<br />
-Kenneth Brannagh as Henry V is sooooo romantic!<br />
-I don't understand why Ben won't watch "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" with me after all the Shakespeare I've watched with him...<br />
-Today I didn't really do anything...<br />
-I practically live at the photo lab, but I don't mind<br />
-Poor Benjamin Linus...he didn't get to go with the rest of the LOST people...<br />
-I have a new pinhole camera!<br />
-Photography is as simple as a pinhole in a dark room...who needs photoshop?<br />
-ewww, somebody made a pinhole camera out of a skull...gross!<br />
-I just want to sit at home and make books all day<br />
-We finally bought some furniture for our living room, and it looks fabulous!<br />
-Especially our tv stand<br />
-I haven't watched TLC in like a week, aren't you proud?<br />
-I love my job, I'm kinda sad I won't get to do it forever<br />
-Someday I want to start a commercial photography business.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528062885516100271.post-22799550434176689852010-05-21T15:02:00.000-06:002010-05-21T15:02:40.909-06:00Book Arts!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0r6ep8QhuzbhEYS3pxI-PzDESPf5PmKeCFZddHlMO0ctDCkUBtLb98-QCeIsiA8YZmWf2TnjCWPFm5jZSJSNjDq2Rxw-7inAJuTk3hSclmgVTtg-LUN8uYIoJ2l_0OMyv_jiu4gu5xZk/s1600/DSC_0616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0r6ep8QhuzbhEYS3pxI-PzDESPf5PmKeCFZddHlMO0ctDCkUBtLb98-QCeIsiA8YZmWf2TnjCWPFm5jZSJSNjDq2Rxw-7inAJuTk3hSclmgVTtg-LUN8uYIoJ2l_0OMyv_jiu4gu5xZk/s320/DSC_0616.JPG" /></a></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12052134125331465021noreply@blogger.com2