September, 2010

I'm not sure how well I explained this undertaking in previous posts. I had told Aaron that I was in a photo slump and not feeling very creative, and then I found this website that basically just came up with lists of photo concepts for you to do in a month and then you were supposed to upload what you got to the website. Unfortunately, the site hadn't been updated in about a year so I was still kinda stuck. But thennnn Aaron said "I'll make you a list!" and then gave me a list of 15 things to do in a month.

You'll notice that there are only nine. This is because I'm a failure as a girlfriend and a human being. And a photographer. But I hope you can forgive me, because I did try. It's just easy to get caught up and forget about things until it's too late and everyone's all sad... but there's nothing you can do about it.

So anyway, here's what I got:

There was a guy drawing the statue of Lord Botetourt that's in front of the Wren Building here, so I didn't feel too creepy taking this picture. Though for some reason having a camera in Williamsburg usually makes me feel like a total stalker. I don't know why. It's not weird to take pictures. But it feels as though it is here. It's odd.
Oh yeah, after this some jogger came up to me and asked me how far it was between the Wren Building and the Governor's Mansion. Yeah. I'm a William and Mary student, therefore I know stuff like that. Not?

The wonders of photo editing. This picture was dead. Boring. It still is pretty boring. Which makes me sad. But it was like 100 times more boring before I played around with it. So just imagine that.
This one was really fun to do. Although I felt like the biggest creep ever taking it. Sitting on a picnic bench not too late at night with people walking around... undoubtedly watching me sitting there with a camera in the dark taking 3-second-long pictures. I should probably get over that.
Ooh, this one has an amusing story too! So obviously when you take pictures of stuff on the ground, they're going to suck unless you get close to the ground, right? I was crouching to take these pictures (with people walking around staring at me, of course) and then I stood up and started walking away... when this girl comes up to me and goes "oh good, I thought you'd fallen or something" once she sees I was just taking pictures. Nervous laugh. Ugh.
This, of course, is the beautiful cocoa. You know this story already.
The School of Education is a sweet sweet building. Too bad we couldn't get in it that day. The banisters feel like air. I don't even know how to describe it. But they feel beautiful.
Don't really have much to say about this one except that I got in the most secluded spot I could find to take this. Score.
I wish there wasn't construction constantly going on by my dorm, or this would have been much better.
Feets.

The End.

Fall Break

Fall break. Was. Entirely. Too. Short.

What I Did Over Fall Break
-Went to New York to visit my great aunt
-Bought jeans!
-Wrote my American Lit paper
-Found and brought back a bunch of stuff (including winter coat yayyyyy now I won't have to freeze my ass off)
-Watched a shitload of TV

What I Didn't Do Over Fall Break That I Meant To Do Over Fall Break
-Get a haircut
-Go to Noodles & Co.
-Hang out with Christine
-Finish a book (I did listen to The Blind Side on CD on the ride home from NY. But that doesn't really count.)
-Find my ipod headphones and shorts that my sister stole
-Go on a run or two
-Sleep in (Seriously. Didn't get to sleep in once. Boo.)
-Finish watching a shitload of TV
-Go grocery shopping
-Buy rain boots

So basically I am a gigantic failure. But I really like that photo up there. So I guess it's ok? I'm becoming more comfortable with taking pictures of people, although it's usually their backs. I've been getting all sorts of inspired by portraits lately. Maybe I'll actually get my act together one of these days and find someone who likes getting their picture taken and then shoot the shit out of them. With a camera, of course.
Let's see... what else is new. I still need to put up all of the fall pictures I took last month, I swear I'll get around to it... I've just been meaning to photoshop them a little to make them look a bit better and I've had absolutely no time to do anything. I have no time now. But I'm still in fall break mode and completely in denial that I have to go to class tomorrow. So maybe I'll edit and upload those pictures tonight.

Have I even talked about William and Mary? I'll just say that I really like it (although I might like it less in a month or so because my closest friend here besides Aaron is leaving) and that it's a lot of work, but of course I like that as well. I've learned that I'm an INFJ. And some more stuff. You know. Anyway, I'd better get going if I'm gonna have time to play around with photo editing tonight. Later.

Facebook is down again- October 6, 2010

The World Is Coming To An End!

It's official.

Ps my blog is fucking adorable now. Maybe I'll actually update it now ;)

(Aaron says I fuckin' better...eeks)