Laura

Laura and I got together and shot a number of pictures over the weekend. She needed a few headshots and I needed to try and cheer myself up and get out of the house. The picture above is one of the pictures that I took not as a headshot for her but a part of a portrait series I am thinking about putting together into a show.


I realized something today. Out of all of the people I have taken pictures of over my whole career a photographer, there is one who I keep coming back to - Laura.


I started shooting her back when I was in school and just starting out learning photography - we ran around in the same circles (mainly centered around the theatre department at our school) and became friends. It seems that everytime I shoot her I seem to be on the cusp of another personal breakthrough in my skill as a photographer. Does this mean that she is my muse (if such things exist)? I don't know.


What I do know is that I really enjoy shooting with her - she's always super relaxed and, even though she is definitely a hard core feminist through and through, she still allows me to make dumb, sexist jokes without giving into the urge to perform an impromptu tracheotomy on me with the nearest ball point pen.

Devin Bruce 2.0 - V.2

I lied.


I decided to try to keep the more "classic" look of my website instead of redesigning it to the orange-colored one I posted about below. I just decided to consolidate what I had previously and class it up a bit.


All I can say is that I love my Dreamweaver class - I just wish it moved at a faster pace. I've already done all of my homework that is due well into March!!!!!


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The Beginning of an Illustrious New Career in Web Design

Class this semester for me consists of a magazine production class as well as a creative web design class - the latter of the two being the catalyst for what you see above. It is a project where you create your own homepage that later will be linked up with homework assignments you turn in.

It is as good as it is going to get for now - I've still need to learn how to use the slice tool in photoshop to create tables and content boxes but I think that it definately is a good start!


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2 hours, 15 minutes

This is how much time it takes the Sacramento Police Department to respond to TWO calls about a noise disturbance from the assholes across the alley from us who keep their crying, howling dog locked inside during the day and, apparently, like to start full-scale drunken parties at 3:45 in the morning.

Once they police arrive they spend a total of 2 minutes dealing with the situation and then back in their car to wherever they go when they are busy NOT responding to calls.


It is now 6 A.M. Who needs to fuckin sleep, right?


Damn it, I'm fed up with Downtown.



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I'm a finalist!!!

I entered the "Best of College Photography 2007" contest this year on a lark - I saw the entry forms in my Photoshop class and grabbed one. I had actually forgot about it until three or four days before the deadline! I quickly had some prints made and asked my beautiful wife Rainey send them out for me.

A few months later I received the above letter in the mail letting me know that I was a finalist chosen out of the original 28,000 entries!! Grand Prize is a new camera and $1000 - man, that would come in handy about now (camera and cash both).

My chance of winning, based on odds alone, are still pretty slim. They culled the top 5% of the 28,000 for possible winning and that still means that I'm up against roughly 1400 other photographers. Who knows, maybe I'll be chosen. Allegedly I'll find out withing the next few days if I placed so think good thoughts for me!


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I've officially become the old man in the building...

So, I got some new neighbors last week (they rent the apartment to our right and share a wall that is the total length of the space) and they are NOISY. Nothing but banging and yelling. Thinking that it was natural "moving in" sounds I tried to ignore it - up until Thursday night.

It was non-stop. At one point my wife got up and banged on the wall and yelled for them to quiet down. They didn't even notice. I finally went over and, a bit angrily, told them that it was late and asked for them to quiet down.

Now, jump ahead to Saturday night/Sunday morning.

2:15 AM, dead asleep when I am awakened by a drunken group screeching the perennial favorite "Pour Some Sugar On Me" outside of my house. They then climb the stairs next door and proceeded to crank the stereo up to 11 and jump up and down while dancing and screaming at the top of their lungs.


Damn it.


I go over and yell at girls who don't look old enough to drink, let alone rent their own apartment, that they need to be quiet.

The best part is that while I'm talking to them, they look at me like I'm the asshole.


(In an old man voice) Young punks! In my day, kids had respect...


(Thinking about it, I actually think that I'm the second oldest person living in the building now. Jeez, I need to buy a house...)