Park Point Chillin

Living in Park Point is pretty sweet, I suppose.  For those of you not in the know, Park Point is a fully furnished apartment complex made specifically for the students of RIT, though anyone can live here.  Though I do wish I could have furnished my own place, after helping move in my girlfriend and her roommates I was quite thankful that getting everything into my apartment only took about 30 minutes give or take.  My only gripe is the rent, which is quite a bit more than I can afford at this POINT (pun) (sorry).  This issue will probably prevent me from living here after this school year, but we'll tackle that when we come to it.  They do however include FuelTV in their television package, so as soon as my dad decides to let me have the TV from his office that he can't use anymore anyways *ahem* I'll be living right proper.

Save the Busses for Later

Hey, the weather's not too bad, (for Rochester) so why not take advantage of it?  There's been a couple rainy days that have proved a bit troublesome for my preferred mode of transportation but I'm not gonna sweat it. (it's barely 60 degrees so that's not too difficult) (pun?)  Anyways, while all of you lazy people grumble and sit on a stinky bus, I'm going to grab my skateboard, cruise down the street and enjoy the cool breeze before it turns into the freezing 50 mph wind storm.

Uhhhh...

RIT tends to have many activities on campus all the time... but this stuff has been chilling here for a few days now. Never seen any of it on, don't know where it all came from... oh well

Back in class

Week one. Check. Ten more big ones before I can enjoy some delicious turkey with the family and not have to worry about eating stale bagels and finding my toothpaste all before I skateboard through the rain to hopefully get to class with at least some form of punctuality.  Until then I am posting at least 5 images a week for my Fine Art Photography class.  So we start it off with a shot from my morning History of Photography class.  Mostly we hear about how the projector isn't calibrated properly, but I think we might get some actual history in there eventually...

Summer.

Well, I have returned to Rochester for the school year.  Still getting settled but I'm back online.  To summarize my summer in one photo would be ridiculous and to try would just end up in me bullsh*tting about a bunch of symbolization and what represents what.  So instead I bring you Slip and Slide Door County Edition.  A massive tarp covered with water and dish soap. Summer.

Polarizing Filters are Sweet

Note: Still do not have wireless adapter for my desktop, blog posts will continue to be few and far between.

For my birthday my parents got me a polarizing filter for my main lens.  I wanted a polarizing filter mostly to reduce the reflection on water so I can get photos such as this one.  But polarizing filters will reduce reflections on almost any surface, save very glossy ones and mirrors.  They also will create a darker, more rich sky when the sun is at your back.  This is because reflections and certain skylight contain polarized light.  Polarized light is light waves traveling in the same direction in the same orientation.  A polarizing filter or polarizing sunglass lenses block out this light by not allowing the waves traveling in that orientation pass through, therefore reducing any reflection coming off water, a street, or anything.  Now that I have confused you thoroughly, take a look at this diagram and maybe you will understand it a bit better

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We realize it has been some time since Mr. Schultz has posted a photograph on his blog.  This, however is not due to his lack of picture taking, for he is doing that constantly.  In fact, it is not even that he has been working a lot lately, for even then he is taking pictures, although he should not be.  It is due merely to the fact he has inferior equipment and his nice big photo editing computer is not yet online.  This will be remedied shortly and photos will be posted once again for your viewing pleasure.

We are sorry for any inconvenience,

The Ood