We haven't been to Rocky Mountain since 2002 and hardly ever got to the back side. Recently we took a weekend trip and hiked 17 miles on very well maintained trails with half the crowds. The pine beetle has decimated most of the lodgepole pines in the park, it is a sad sight. We were also here when the largest snowmelt in 30 years was flooding the Colorado!

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Last week we explored cell phones and how they might be used in class assignments, Here is a great video on geocaching that you all might like to look at it http://ping.fm/IwOoT

Elements and Principles

One of my students, Michelle Benish, created this last spring for graphic design class.
Enjoy!
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Weird and Wonderful Summer Camp Edition

As we move into summer mode I hope some of our multimedia class has been busy snapping and posting. Let me know if you post on your blog, flicker or whatever, I get alerts if you still want to post to the ning. For now I will still post Weird and Wonderful content on our ning and will put additional stuff at Darlingphotoblog, and since we are in Summer Camp mode it won't necessarily be on a Wednesday!

A primo resource for students is the Library of Congress. Did you know the Library houses 14 million images in their prints and photograph division? The Library is making it easier for you to view important parts of the collection by posting sets of them on flickr. THESE ARE PHOTOS YOU SHOULD BE LEARNING ABOUT!!! Here is the information page from the Library itself http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=515 and the address for the flickr page that is displaying the current selections from the libraryhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157618541455384/show/ These images are iconic masterpieces of black and white photos, you owe it to yourself to study them!


Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (LOC)
Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

Also here is the address for the flickr blog which I find helpful http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157618541455384/show/

Since we just finished our photoshop projects on blending layers. You might enjoy http://www.photos8.com/ it is full of public domain photos, wallpapers, stuff you can use without copyright concerns.

Weird and Wonderful Wednesday

Photoshop.com has an online photo editor with lots of neat gadgets that are similar to the photoshop image editors, let me know what you think!

http://ping.fm/dXe6H
online photo editing and sharing w interesting features, uses adobe air.

12 Step Program for the Disorganized
Before I send you all off into the world I feel duty bound to at least mention that organizing will be a very important skill in your post secondary life(duh) here is a website and an article that may save some of you major heartache not to mention sleep.
On Organization.com is the blog and here is the article about organizing really, you should you know , READ THIS, no I'm not gonna mention names. http://www.onorganization.com/2009/04/01/getting-things-done-12-step-program-for-the-disorganized/