Working, Working...

I'm just over halfway through my first week at the new job, interning for the engineering department of the City of Sitka. Everything's been going really well - sometimes it's tough to find something to do, but I've got a couple projects to work on now and it looks like the rest of the summer should go just fine. It was cool to pick up the paper tonight and see the photo on the front page that had a wooden pipe that I had done some research on this morning for my boss and see his boss quoted in the article.

Bryanne and I had to bring some old (1940's on) blueprints and file cabinets out to the archives at the Sawmill Cove Industrial Park out the road and some of the empty offices looked like great spots for shooting some photos - I'll have to see tomorrow if I can get a hold of the right people to get me in there on the weekend sometime... I'd love to get up on the roof of the city building too, I saw the ladders for that from behind the office this afternoon and it just got the roof-exploring side of me all excited.

P.S. - I've got a link to my 'photoshelter collection' photos, pictures that have been approved by professional image editors for sale online. It's kind of the creme de la creme of my photos, so feel free to take a look. And hey, if you're a photo editor or creative director yourself, feel free to give me a ring sometime, I'd love to chat  :)

Photos from Maine

Drove around a bit last night with my camera and took some pictures as the sun was going down... it was so peaceful with the nice evening breeze after a long day in the 80's and 90's.

Bridge over White River

 I just arrived back into the states and traveled up to Vermont with my mom and sister and got a chance to go down to the train tracks and river to do some shooting this evening.I'll try and get my Costa Rica edited and up ASAP...

In Costa Rica...

We've been here in Costa Rica for a week now - still have one to go. We've ended up on the Caribbean coast in a town called Puerto Viejo. Just got back from an amazing canopy tour with about 15 ziplines all through the jungle with three local guides. I think we're going to head back across the country to the Pacific side tomorrow afternoon (should take about 8 hours on the local bus system, which has treated us perfectly well so far). I was silly and forgot a USB cable to transfer pictures, but will be sure to get them al imported, sorted through and edited on my Jetblue flight from D.C. up to Boston for my cousin's wedding. Can't wait to show off this beautiful country!

Going Multimedia

I've been recently looking into the prospect of incorporating audio into the way I present photos - especially in more extensive journalistic stories. 

Soundslides is an excellent program for creating enhanced slideshows easily shareable over the web and I am probably going to be giving it a try over the summer to see what I can do. 

I'll be heading down to Costa Rica after the commencement ceremonies are done here at CMU (Al Gore is speaking!) with some friends and thought it would be an excellent opportunity to put together some photo/audio stories. As a result, I just ordered up a sound recorder to take with me from Amazon.com and am looking forward to trying it out.

So look for some cool multimedia in the future of jwramp.com!