{"id":38,"date":"2014-08-12T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-08-12T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T23:25:22","slug":"a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"12-2-lazarus\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus-668x1024.jpg 668w, http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus-945x1447.jpg 945w, http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus-600x919.jpg 600w, http:\/\/obscura-works.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/12-2-lazarus.jpg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>My hard-fought MFA is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago (nearly to the day) I applied to the Academy of Art University&#8217;s MFA Photography program &#8211; and today I am proud to say that one of the most difficult, life-altering chapters of my life has come to a close.\u00a0 I am overjoyed &#8211; yet saddened.\u00a0 The last four years have seen me grow in ways that I&#8217;ve never thought possible; I&#8217;ve matured as a photographer, evolved into an artist and become an even more passionate educator.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve networked, begun marketing myself and made endearing friendships along the way.\u00a0 I have an appreciation for continuing education &#8211; one that I didn&#8217;t start my MFA process with &#8211; but now it&#8217;s a defining characteristic of who I am.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing where the next few years will take me as I slowly creep out of the fog that I seem to have been in for the last four years.\u00a0 I&#8217;m back, wide-eyed, and eager to apply everything I&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>This blog, the associated web portfolio and my outreach on the social medias represent my first efforts post-grad to take what I&#8217;ve learned and use it.\u00a0 I hope that you&#8217;ll all enjoy sharing creative moments with me through my continuing blogposts, Facebook and Twitter reveals and occasional video shares of my travels.\u00a0 Watch for weekly updates here as I continue to incorporate more methods to share what I do with all of you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Notes:\u00a0 A Van Dyke Brown Print of an Infrared Digital Negative, taken with a modified Canon 30D in July of 2013.\u00a0 The image was taken in Mint Valley, Alaska &#8211; near Hatcher&#8217;s Pass.\u00a0 The infrared image was then modified and printed as a digital negative and then printed in the VDB process with home-mixed chemistry in my personal darkroom.\u00a0 This represents one of the first efforts post-Thesis to use alt-pro for fun.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hard-fought MFA is complete. 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