Creative Process... I love taking pictures, and have been taking them since my parents gave me a Kodak Brownie for my 7th or 8th Christmas. I honestly wish I could have that camera back rather than digital cameras or the like. It told stories better than anything I've ad since. So I was looking forward to this and got right at the preparatory work. I did the readings, watched the video, and grabbed a pen, paper, my camera, my textbook and my best friend.

We went to Dunkin Donuts and planned out what I wanted to do with each element and came up with several ideas for each. Trisha often acts as my sounding board and note taker, and this time she decided she wanted to take her own pictures of the elements too...much fun ensued.

I am a big Frank LLoydd wright fan and It did not surpise her in the least that I wanted to do the entire project from his works here in the city. I found that I could not get access to parts of his buildings to take the necessary pictures,,so we scrapped that idea after taking some nice shots at the Darwin Martin House.

I bounced a few ideas off Trish as we went to Niagara Falls to take a few more pictures as we rode the Maid of the Mist. We stopped off at Old Fort Niagara, I am a member there so, I spend a lot of time there and take a lot of pictures. After climbing around there for a while we needed to sit -so....we drove to Greycliff and on the way we stopped off at Our Lady of Victory Basilica and took some pictures of the graves and the Basilica itself.

Then we drove to Greycliff itself and took some pictures of the buildings and grounds. At this point we had been on the road for more than 8 hours and were not done yet, so we called it quits for the day. By the time we went home it had been a long almost 8 hours of shooting pictures and driving around, and I still needed more pictures.


Sunday I took my mother with me for company and we took pictures in the church she used to belong to, around the Eastside of Buffalo and again in the Downtown area.

I think the hardest part of this, for me, was making the slideshow itself. I am fairly computer literate but I had a hardtime with the program and getting it to properly embed in my blog.