California Dreaming

This year for fall break I was blessed enough to be able to go to California to visit potential schools and see my boyfriend Chance. It was awesome. I now have two schools left in the pool and I'm really excited. I can't wait to go to school and study photography, the thing I'm so very passionate about. Of course, seeing Chance was wonderful, amazing and just fantastic. We got to see "Where the Wild Things Are" and have been howling at each other since. :) After some critiques of my portfolio, I've decided to start working almost exclusively with film and see what the results are. I love working with my father's camera, it has so much history and nostalgia surrounding it. I love every little bit of photography and working hard to become better. Well, without further adou here are some of the pictures I shot while on my California trip!

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Haha! I wish that I could drive this little truck around.

Mmmmmm

I gave a homeless guy some money after he gave me this flower, so I decided that it needed some portraits too. It was so wonderful to indulge in generosity. Indeed, you should indulge in generosity too and check out the 365 grateful project by Hailey Bartholomew.

This little dock is so beautiful.

I'm beginning to experiment with found objects and messing them up like the representative at SFAI told me to. So far it's been fun!

A little overexposed, but I love this portrait of Chance.

new portrait?

What the heck!!!!!

This morning I woke up to this. It is October 10, not cool.

Finally!

I finally copy-cated one of my favorite shots from my favorite photographer- hailey bartholomew. Her work is amazing and inspires me every time I look at her blog. If I ever go to Australia, it's my goal to meet and have coffee with her. Yeah, that would be amazing.

Kylie picks a flower for her mama.

On Saturday, I had the extreme privilege of taking pictures of the "Jungle Book Tales" dress rehearsal. I loved the results. Yay acting and candids!

Rukshir and Shere Khan go at it fighting over the "man cub"

Aleah as the beautiful Bigara

Mowgli and the monkeys

Rukshere rallies her wolves (loved teasing her hair!)

saying goodbye before Mowgli returns to her mother

HOT with Bob Field Trip

In my history of theater class we learned much about Vaudeville, so to illustrate what we learned our teacher took us to Alton's old opera house. It was one of the coolest things to poke around in there and feel what entertainment must have been like in that era. The stage had signatures of the people and plays that went through the theater and it also house a huge projector. I feel so blessed to be able to truly take a trip through time to experience a little bit of what people loved in an era before my time. Thanks Dr. Bob.

1903!

minstral man on the door

I feel kinda like a creeper...I just took pictures out of my wing's bathroom window. But look at the beautiful result!

My newly redone assignment notebook looks much better than the black and red picture of zwemer that inhabited it before.

Daddy's Camera

I love my dad. He's one of my biggest role models and he's just a plain old dork too. When I was little he read to me every night (we brought the Hardy Boys, Happy Hollisters and Nancy Drew back). Now we love to watch 1960 era cult classic British spy shows (Avengers- yes please!). Whenever I have a question he'll do all this research to find the answer. Plus he's a copy editor so he can correct all my school papers before I hand them in, just like a grammar fairy! Before my dad worked at Staples Promotional Products he used to work for the news papers around the Orange City area. Of course, back in those days, when you were a writer you were also a photographer for that assignment. I recently pulled out my dad's old camera and am starting to learn to shoot with it. I love learning how to use the film camera and I love that it only has a 50 mm lens, so that when I go to adjust the focus, I can see it focus in the viewfinder before I take the picture(the beacon's canon rebel doesn't have that very important feature). I shot my first half role of film and am very excited to get those pictures and the mystery ones left on the film role back. Today I learned how to change the film, but I'm not sure if I can do it again. I'll just have to ask my mom again. :) Anyways, I'm very excited to show you all my film pictures when I get them back. I love old cameras, thanks Daddy!

p.s. I also love my mom tons and tons too. She gave me the creative streak that I'm now trying to tap into more and she gave me some great eyes (but with Dad's horrible prescription)!

have I mentioned that i love this lens?