In reviewing Doug Churchill's homepage, I found a lot of things to be interesting but was a bit distracted by the colors. It was hard to absorbe all of the information when I had to keep looking at a hot pink background with green and blue script. The introductry photograph is O.K. but after exploring the site, I found images that would have caught my eye more. I enjoyed the guestbook sign-im feature. It is nice to be able to view comments from other people that have viewed the page. There were also a few useful links. Some of them I had difficulty accessing, and others i found completely useless, the Val Kilmer page for example, but some may enjoy it. When I would pull up some of the photographs, it was hard to view them because of their size. Having to scroll back and forth and up and down was awkward. This took away from the images because I couldn't see the entire thing at once. Once I got past this, it was fun to look at some of the photographs. The images of Mt. Rainer were nice, but I took offense to the shots of women on the beach. I felt like I was looking at the "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit addition!!!
This page, created by Kurt Holter, was fun to look at. I really liked the way the background was black because it made the photograph icons jump off the page. Some of the fonts choosen made a few things difficult to read, but mostly that wasn't a problem. It was understood that the photographs in this page were not those from his portfolio, but rather some fun pics that he chose to share with us. He also said that if we were interested in seeing some of his other work we could e-mail him and that could be arranged. I kept this in mind while viewing his images. I found some to be more interesting than others but at this point I was looking more for content rather than technique. Some of the black and white photographs were O.K., but nothing really grabbed me. I liked the way the page was set up, and the way he had you enter into the gallery to see a list of work you could view. I also liked the way the images were organized. It was obvious what to expect because of the way they were divided. The textures in his color work were nice, but I didn't really like the content of the farm photographs he chose to show us. After the first two or three I started getting a little bored. This site is worth visiting, just to look at the way the page is set up. Whether or not you enjoy the images is all a matter of personal preferance.
I had visited this site once before at the beginning of the semester, so I was surprised this time when I found that the page had been updated and there were all new images. This work, which Susan Brewer entitles "Mirror/Mirror," is a beautiful collection of self-portriture accompnied by some of her writings. I really liked her photographs and the various effects she used in creating these images. They are much more bold than the photographs I saw last time I visited, but I like like at least as much if not more. She also has a variet of links on her page, some which are useful and some which are not. My favorite is a link to a Dr. Seuss book, but she also has links to various other artists,music groups, and she even e to show us. After the first two or three I started getting a little bored. This site is worth visiting, just to look at the way the page is set up. Whether or not you enjoy the images is all a matter of personal preferance.
This is a worthwhile site to visit if you have some time to relax and view some interesting images. The way this page is set up makes it east to find your way around, but there aren't any links to sources outside of the artist's work. Out of the many categories of Oleg Volk'swork that I chose to view, my favorite would be his portraits. Most of these are of young girls, and he captures their innocence while at the same time letting us know that these are young women. The photographs of the human body were mostly abstracted, and while there were a few I found interesting, most of them didn't capture my attention. One of my favorite images would be under publications where there is a drug billboard titled "A Wasted Brain and an Image Problem." Check this one out for yourself.
I loved this page!!! This is definately a must see! I didn't get a chance to explore all of the possible links, but the ones I did I found to be very interesting and useful. I thought it was incredible that you could research art services and galleries or how and where to buy and sell art, depending on where in the U.S. you were interested. There was a very helpful map that all you had to do was click on the state and you could pull up information about museums, schools, galleries, commercial work and publications depending on the area you were interested. I looked at different schools that had photography and art programs. When I decide to move this will be somethin I will use when researching art in different communities. This is a page I will keep tucked away.