Black and White

A little toying with black and white... BTW, you can now buy prints of my work here!

A Sunny Day

Just a few senior portraits....

-Thomas

The Little Looks You Give Me

I got a mid 80's Pentax K1000 from my wifes Aunt. This is my first attempt at using a film SLR. Some of the pics turned out nice but some not so much;)
If any one has advice feel free.

Thanks,
Thomas

R.I.P. J.D.

J.D. Salinger is one of the most famous writers of the 20th century, known for his controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger's novel has been the subject of a great deal of debate and controversy, even as it has been studied in classrooms across the U.S. Read a few of the quotes from J.D. Salinger.

• "Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone hoped it would stay for the big weekend--the weekend of the Yale game."
  - J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
  
  
• "One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour. I was fifteen, Seymour was seventeen. Along about two in the morning, the new roommate's crying wakened me. I lay in a still, neutral position for a few minutes, listening to the racket, till I heard, or felt, Seymour stir in the bed next to mine."
  - J.D. Salinger, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour "
  
  
• "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
  - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
  
  
• "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
  - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
  
  
• "An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
  - J.D. Salinger
  
  
• "How do you know what you are going to do until you do it? The answer is, you don't."
  - J.D. Salinger
  
  
• "I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
  - J.D. Salinger
  
  
• "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
  - J.D. Salinger
  
  
• "It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
  - J.D. Salinger
  
  
• "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
  - J.D. Salinger
  

Had some fun with smoke, thought I would share.

Thanks,
Thomas