I love california

I went on a drive on Sunday through the hills past Frazier Park, through the mountain, down through Ojai and ending up around Carpinteria. It was about a 6 hour drive and was really relaxing. It's nice to get out of town and see the different landscapes of california. I also got to visit this creek that runs through the hills and take a picture for a poster project I've been wanting to do for a long time but couldn't find any stock photo that was what I wanted. The creek was down from the road about 10 feet so I had to climb down a rocky hill to get to it. Luckily I didn't slip and roll down the hill and I was able to get the perfect shot!










Coming up this Thursday is the Student Key Art Reception for the movie poster/trailer contest that some friends and I entered. They're not going to announce the winners until the reception. I don't expect to win at all because I did a trailer and it was my first time making one so there was a lot of experimentation, but I'm excited about being at the reception and seeing everyone else's entries. I'll take lots of pictures and post them at the end of the week.

Here is the finished poster I made for "Summer of Fireflies" that I mentioned in my last post. It's a film that I made up so that I could make a poster for it. I've been trying to make a shift from using stock photos to taking my own photos. So I had this jar and I took the photo of it on the grass in the front yard and then made a poster with that. I figured this film would be a coming of age story kind of like Bridge to Terabithia or Charlotte's Web. When I was a little kid living in New Jersey I used to run around catching fireflies in a jar, so that's the memory I was trying to capture with the feel of this poster.