Project 365: 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.