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!!

Update!

So there is not much to tell in my life right now. Things are going good! Work is fabulous, I'm having a good time with friends, love what I'm doing these days. Ok, so there is one thing, but I dont want to jinx it!! I met a guy, a really great guy. I'm not going to say his name for fear of jinxing it!! Any way, he is great, as I said before! We've been spending more and more time together, and finding that we have more and more in common with each other. Just this last Sunday we were together for 9 and a half hours, and for 7 of those hours we talked non stop! There was never an awkward moment, we never ran out of things to say! The conversation flowed perfectly! And another nice thing about him is that he is older, and so much more mature than the rest of the idiots I've been meeting lately!! We can have intelligent conversations for hours without it turning to dumb things like video games and dumb stuff! Yes, he likes video games, but he has other things to say! And he also shares my odd obsession with houses!! We drove around the Park City area for a while just looking at the homes! It was fantastic! any way, I'll let you all know if it goes any where!