Since there were only 5 people who participated, I decided to give away some extras! Now the prizes are as follows:

Two 1st prize winners will receive the Images of Paris 2010 Calendar,
One 2nd prize winner will receive a coupon for 75% off of anything in the store, valid for 1 year, and
Two 3rd prize winners will receive a coupon for 50% off of anything in the store, valid for 1 year

And the winners are:

First Prize: Aylin and Emma
Second Prize: Hasip
Third Prize: Aaron and Josh

Congratulations!

WIN FREE ART! SHIPPING AND EVERYTHING INCLUDED!

The winner receives a free 2010 Images of Paris calendar!
Three others will receive coupons for my online store: good for 75, 50, and 25% off any item!

To enter:
#1 Register on tinyturk.com
#2 Respond to this post
That’s it!

On January 31, I will randomly select the winners!

Good Luck!

Coming Soon!

I’m currently working on putting together a book with my three telephone pole projects, showing my progression to my latest body of work, “Pillars of the Past”. As soon as it is published, it will be available for sale in the store and I will send out a post to announce it to the list.

tinyturk.com is now also available at melikacarr.com!

The Camera Diagram Menu is an idea that has long been in the works as I wanted to create a way for all the pages on the entire site to successfully link together so people wouldnt get lost. I also had my eye on an image of a camera diagram that microsoft had in encarta. So I did some research on other camera diagrams, and drew many versions of the camera as the menu (the lens was the hardest part) and labeled each mechanism with the pages on the site instead of the actual camera parts.

The About Section utilizes a horizontal layout, which is something I’ve been wanting to play with for a while (my entrepreneur class that I took this semester helped with the content).

The Portolio is my absolute favorite part of the site and took forever to do because, as was appropriate for the new design, I had to hand-make each and every thumbnail, sample different backgrounds and determine the readability of the text, type in each image name and definition, as well as spend a lot of time on dictionary.com looking up definitions of the categories that I felt best described the work I wanted to include. That being said, I did NOT design the flash gallery (simpleviewer) since I know next to nothing about flash! The background images in the portfolio are almost all images from crappy point and shoot cameras, once again tying into the “back to basics” idea, as well as my personal belief that the camera and gear doesn’t make the photographer.

And on the Blog I included the menu at the bottom — floating it did NOT work as well as it did on the other pages, and ultimately it distracted too much from the other content — as well as a few other basic tweaks here and there.

Read more about the design

This group show is comprised of work from the students in the final colour photo class at NSCAD University. The removal of colour photography from the curriculum at the school is symbolic of the
greater shifts within the photographic community at large and this show both marks the end of an era at NSCAD and presents a diverse range of approaches to the increasingly rare practice of analog colour
printing.

This show, which just ended yesterday, consisted of work from the last color photo class at NSCAD from the past winter semester. This summer, the processor and color darkrooms were completely removed from the school and traditional photography will no longer be available at the school. The show marks the end of the analog color process at NSCAD and also in it’s slow death in the world of photography at large.

Below are images from the gallery and my contributions to the show. Please note that this was a group show and, unfortunately, I was only allowed to take photos of my own work.
My contribution was made up of images from my final for the class which were textures. The 5 that were set aside from the others, had the common theme of being poles and places where fliers are frequently attached.

I’ve decided to start the photoblog all over again, from scratch. I wanted to clear out old work and make way for my newer work. I’ll also be working on developing my own wordpress theme which I’ve wanted to do and been learning about for a while now.

Thanks in advance for your patience : )