Pig Barns

This morning I had to finish my beacon assignments and so I went to take a picture of Edwin in the pig barns. Though I couldn't get my camera settings completely figured out, I came away with some good shots and my hair smelling slightly less than shower fresh :) Thank goodness for soap!

Halloween NWC Style

I know this is a little late, but since the school paper didn't run the story, I thought that I'd include this picture in my blog. As "good Christians" we do not celebrate Halloween at NWC but rather we celebrate the Reformation and Martin Luther tacking the 95 thesis to the church doors in Germany. To represent this I designed a picture in which Martin Luther smashed a jack-o-lantern in order to symbolize our rebellion against Halloween. Enjoy.

from my dorm window

One of my first nights back at NWC I took these fun photos of the sunset. And I made these sweet vases, so I took pictures of them too! Yay crafts and sunsets!

my favorite two vases

the four vases I've made so far

the sunset through the screen

sunset!

Clash of the Classes Contest

For NWCs big "Clash of the Classes" (to be said in a booming announcer voice of course), I was procured to take pictures for the sophomore class. It was my assignment to take a landscape and humorous picture. So, Friday morning I went out while the light was still clean and yellowish to take some landscape pictures. While on assignment, I found this sign that said "slow children playing." Thus a genius idea was born. Why not have that sign in the forefront of a picture of college kids playing around dressed in professional, office type clothing, we are here, after all, striking a balance between adult and child. I got some of my wonderful theater friends to help me out with taking the pictures and I think we got some pretty good stuff (of course birdy wanted to help out too, he adds so much color to all my shots!). Here's the best from both shoots and a video I made of the compilation of the humor shots.

My favorite tree.

For this shot I accidently set the focus wrong, but I liked the effect after all.

I got a perfect sunbeam of yellow light shining on this flower and it was majestic.

Hehe! I like little grasshoppers when they're cute like this!

The start of our journey into "The Little Rascals: Our Gang, All Grown Up"

I love being a kid.

Yeah, we're the slow kids.

On Saturday I said goodbye to Chance and moved into school all within 24 hours of each other which was terrifying. I have been so scared to go back to northwestern this year just because of everything that happened last year. Plus saying goodbye to Chance and not knowing when I'll see him next is probably one of the worst feelings in the world. But it's going to be ok....I hope. We'll see. Good thing is that I'm looking more forward to keeping in the photography groove and I got my parents to consider letting me go to the Academy of Art, so that's good news. It looks absolutely amazing over there and I want to go so badly! At least for today. I'm going to take this whole deciding my life path decision slowly so that way I live with no regret cause who wants that? But yeah, this decision has been weighing down on me for the past bit and leaving Chance is never easy. So, of course, I turned to looking at the pictures that I've taken in CA and that made me feel better. mmmmm....comfort pictures.

hanging with the boy

taking pictures with the girls

making sweet art

capturing a flower

eating a banana on the beach

studying light and texture

yay for the things that make me feel happy inside! I guess if life ever gets you down all you need is a few pick-me-ups for things to look a little bit better.