Just Playin' Around

I've been playing around in Photoshop a little bit more lately, trying to start editing more of my images in Photoshop rather than the photo software that came with my camera and computer. Here are a couple of note...

Micah-do. Love that smile. Love that hair.

Love the texture in this one. He is just too dang cute for his own good.

First Print of the Semester

Drum roll please! First print of the semester and the first print for Photo II!

Two rolls of film. 72 images. 2 1/2 hours in the darkroom. And this is all I got:





It is a love/hate relationship.

The Things You Hear in Walmart!

Oh, the things you overhear in Walmart!

I was in Wally World two nights ago looking for a black oval mirror to compliment our freshly painted and newly re-done kitchen/family room. I did find the mirror. Photo proof:


It fits perfectly. Y'all will just have to come over to check it out, but I digress...

While I was mirror hunting, (Now, it is important to remember that this was about 9 p.m. at night) I overheard a mother trying to convince her young daughter (probably 3 or 4) to get into her shopping cart and the daughter was having nothing to do with it. All of the sudden, I heard the exasperated mother say, "You had better get in this cart right now young lady. Don't you know we're in Walmart? Someone could steal you!"

No way.

Are you kidding me???

The funniest part was the girl's response. "I don't care."

Note to self #1,739: Never take my children with me to Walmart. Someone could steal them...and they might not even care!

Confessions

Confession #1: It has been over a week since my last post. I would love to be able to come up with a million and one reasons as to why I haven't been able to post this week, but alas, I got nothin'. Sorry guys!

Confession #2: Okay. I'll admit it. I had fun. I took my five younger siblings tubing over at King Pine while Mom and Dad had a date night (complete with hired babysitter for the babies, oh la la!). We trekked over to the big town of Madison last Friday night and had a really awesome time just being together.

Some of my favorite highlights of the evening were:

Watching Erik have fun with his buddies who we met there.

Watching Kloey spin run after run. They funny thing was that when she got to the bottom, she had no trouble jumping right up and running back to the tow rope. Oy vey!

Watching Cora wrap the young guy (who was working the tubing hill and not any more than 17 or 18) around her finger. Out of the three of them who were working she found the one who gave the best pushes and milked it for all it was worth...priceless!

When we went in for a hot chocolate break, the girls asked if they could leave their hot chocolate to cool so that they could go back out to the hill. They didn't want to wait for it to cool!

In the end, we had a blast of an evening. Sadly, I didn't bring my camera, but that was on purpose. I told the kids I wouldn't hound them with my camera, but no one said anything about a camera phone!


Now, it is said that the parents also had fun on their evening out, but come on! I clearly got the better end of the deal!

In Honor of Haiti

With everything going on in Haiti right now, I thought it would be fitting to post a few of my favorite images from when I was there a year ago. It is hard to look through all of my hundreds of images and think that those very same landmarks and even those very same people may be no longer.

Ratios

This semester I am taking a introduction to photoshop cs4 class to be able to use photoshop for a little more than basic editing. It is such a huge program, and I only know what I have taught myself from fooling around with it. I decided I wanted to get serious so I enrolled in the class for the spring semester.

Last night was my first class. It is being taught by my photo professor who also happens to be my capstone mentor. If I'm not sick of him by the end of the semester, it may be a minor miracle (sorry, Scott!). The first class only ever consists of listening to the professor read you the syllabus, (the same syllabus you have on paper in front of you, but hey, everyone has the right to question the college student's ability to read...) and then they usually let you out after only a half an hour of used class.

Well, last night was no exception. Now, you may be wondering why I need to regale you with what seems to be very unimportant information...bear with me, there is a point!

What I found a tad bit funny last night is associated with mathematics, ratios to be exact. In all of my past classes the girl to boy student ratio has usually been around the neighborhood of 3 to 1. Well, apparently photoshop is a little different as I am only one of two girls in the class. For all of you mathematically minded people out there, that would be a 1 to 9 girl to boy ratio. And the other girl was a no show last night which brought my ratio up to 1 to 16.

Not bad 'eh?

Wordless

Today is Wednesday. Wednesday I have my friend December all day. This Wednesday is also wordless...check out my drama queen's antics of the day:





She thinks she is oh-so funny! Can't wait until she is a teenager! Oh boy, er, uh, um...girl!