Small world, Good memory!

So last night I was invited by one of my good friends to go to a movie in the park! We watched Field of Dreams. It has been far to long since I've watched it. I really enjoy that movie. But before we went to the movie, we met up with my friends cousin at her house. We were going with her and some of her room mates. I have only ever met one of her roommates, so it was nice to meet 2 more. So I met Annalisa(not sure if that's spelled right!) and she looked really familiar to me, but I just couldn't figure it out! Well, after the movie was over and we were all headed to get some desert it finally clicked! She was my Oakcrest Camp Counselor!! For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a girls camp in Utah that girls go to the summer after they turn 13. You go for a week, and just have fun! I seriously cant believe i recognized her! It has been 9 years since I went!! But we had fun talking about it. The reason her name didn't alert me to who she was is that all the counselors have "nicknames" that they go by rather than using their real names. Her name was "Sprite", and she was one of the things I loved most about Oakcrest! It was so fun to talk and get to know each other as adults. Kinda weird at first, but very cool! I'll try to scan in some of my pictures from camp and post them up here. But it may not happen any time soon since our family computer rolled over and died today, and that's what the scanner is hooked up to!!

I Need Therapy

So here is the story that goes with the picture of the sunset through the grass. I decided that I wanted to get some pictures of the sunset out at Saltair. I gathered all my stuff and set off around 8:15. Well, I miss calculated how long it would take me to get there, and the sun set was at 8:54 that day, so I didnt get there in time to hike out to the lake. But I got out my camera and set up a shot right in the parking lot along with several other people there to watch the sunset. The colors were amazing that evening!! truely incredible, and I wish I knew how to make a camera show how awesome the color was! Any way, I got some decent shots. After the sun was gone, and nearly all the color, I got an idea to jump onto some rocks in the middle of some tall grasses and shoot the picture through them! Cool idea, right! So, being the daring, sometimes unthinking, girl I can be, I hoped up onto one of the rocks and stepped down onto another one right in the middle of all the grass. With the color quickly dissapearing, I immidiatly set up the shot and didnt really pay attention to anything else. After I snapped the shot I glanced to my left and saw an aweful sight! A GIANT spider web with 2 of the biggest spiders I have ever seen in it!!! I immidiately started to freak, but got control of myself. Well, until I looked to my right and saw even more!! I looked all around me and realized I was surrounded!! There had to be 15 or 20 of these huge spiders in all these huge webs. I FREAKED, and turned around to jump out the way I came, thats when I saw the remnants of a spiderweb that I HAD JUMPED THROUGH!! I flew out of there faster than Superman ever flew!!! By this point I was crying my eyes out, screaming, and to top it all off, beating myself. Oh, and remember, I wasnt alone!! I did all this wigging in front of 10 or so total strangers!!! Finally a woman got the courage to come up to me to see what was going on. She helped me check to make sure I didnt have any spiders on me. It still took me a good half an hour to calm down, and I didnt sleep well that night. In fact I've had a spider nightmare every night since then. My mom and best friend think I need therapy. I think I might agree with them.

My First Roll cont...

Here are a few more pictures from that first roll of film.



Bug was having so much fun posing for me!! It will be even better when I am better at it and can show her how fabulous they turned out!! She thougth these were ok, but she's a tough critic!!

My First Roll!

So here are the pictures I promised. Give me feed back if you would please. And the editing was mostly just me playing around with things to see how they worked. Let me know what you think! Original ones On top, Edited on Bottom!

This first picture has quite a story to go with it. I'll put it in the next post!

Not a huge difference, but better lighting. I quickly learned Little miss is a rather difficult practice subject!! Wiggly little girls are hard to focus on! most of my pics of her were blurry!!

My Newest Obsession!

My new obsession is photography. I blame my boss. She has a fantastic camera and is a wonderful photographer. She makes me jealous. So, since I am rather poor and dont have the money at the moment for a nice digital SLR, I have pulled out my dads old 35mm Pentax MG. I've been trying to teach myself with a little help from the boss and another friend of mine who is majoring in photography. The biggest problem is, FILM IS SO DANG EXPENSIVE!!! Well that and the fact that you dont get the instant picture showing you if it sucked or not! And also, because film and developing are so expensive, I try to use as few shots as possible! Dont want to waste any. But with a digital it is so easy to just snap, snap, snap! Much easier to learn on! So I'm struggling a bit with that! But I am having a good time doing it! In fact, I developed my first roll of film this week! I'll put up the photo's in the next post. there were only a few that I really liked straight out of the camera (sooc). So she, the boss, has also gotten me interested in photo editing! So I've done some simple editing on some of the photos and I'll post them with the originals!

Black & White

Tonight I decided to go through some of my old pictures and try a little photo editing. I don't really know what I'm doing, so I just tried a bunch of different things. I played around a lot with black and white and light contrast. Its pretty crazy how just changing a picture to b&w can change it so much! Here are a few of the pictures I worked on!

Oops!!

Yeah, ok, so I'm a horrible blogger!! So sue me. Ok, the plan was to get on and put up pics and blog a bit today, until I realized that all the pictures I want to post are on the camera at work, and not my camera!! So I guess that will have to wait!! Sorry!!