The Pastel Fountain

As some readers may know, I go to the University of Tulsa, in Tulsa, Ok. Well, TU is currently in the midst of "improvements."t One is a new fountain, which is pretty cool.

When I first found out that we were getting a fountain, I knew what I must do. Bubblebath and blue dye. Even had my alibi set up with several witnesses who would collaborate. Months went by and the fountain was magically finished one day. Seriously, I have no idea when they built that sucker, one day there was a huge plot of dirt with a crazy high mound of dirt, the next, manicured lawn and fountain.

I had mixed feelings when I saw the fountain. It was a mixture of "awwwww" and "SWEET!" As the fountain was a dancing fountain with colored lights that changed often. You could run through it, meaning I could not dye it or bubblebath it easily.

Jump forward to this semester. As part of our annual welcome gift, we get these cheap spirals filled with advertisements. Well, on the spiral this year is a picture of the fountain with the Collins Building behind it. This picture sucks, so I thought to myself, "I can do so much better than that." And with that in mind, I went and took a picture from the exact same angle as the picture on the spiral. Lo and Behold, mine was better.

And in another shoot, I took this one.

Bandit

Well here it is, post number two.

More about me and my style: All the people I know who also practice photography describe themselves at landscape photographers. They like shooting...well, landscapes; ie. buildings, pastures, mountains, whatever. I honestly prefer shooting living things, people and animals. I feel that you can get more out of a shot from living things, you can capture what the person or animal is thinking, or perhaps their emotion, which then comes out in the photograph. I prefer my shots to be candid shots. You can get those emotional shots with a model and a studio, but you get unexpected and often amazing results from those random lucky shots.

Enough Wells Photography 101. My mother has a flock of sheep, and as often goes with a flock of sheep, a sheepdog. His name is Bandit due to a black line mask around his eyes and nose. It doesn't really hid his identity, I mean how many very large, white and shaggy dogs do you know? None? There you go. He is a very good dog, especially at watching the sheep. However, he is funny in that his way of saying "hi" is to try and knock you down with a dog hug. And seeing as how he is a huge dog, he is pretty dang good at this.

For this particular shot, Bandit was putting on a show of how good he is at his job and was walking around watching the sheep and then eventually sat down not far from where this shot was taken to watch over them.

What I am constantly amazed by is how much he looks like a sheep, especially from a distance, I usually mistake him for one of the sheep. If a coyote ever makes the same mistake... Well, it will be its last....