My Friends Finally arrived

Oh Yeah BABY!!  Nikon 70-200 VR 2.8, B+W Filter of course, Spyder Calibration system and another 8 GB card.  Only a few items left to complete my kit.

Back at it

Schools back on. Im in the process of writing a creative story.  Its been fun, ive enjoyed learning the basics from Keith Grey, and the class is set up that each assignment is a part of your story, then at the end you put it all together and clean it up.  It makes me remember how much I used to enjoy writing, it was one of my fav past times back in the high schoolio days. I even won a few ribbons for my stories back then.  Maybe my dreams of becoming an aspiring author are still within reach. Deja Vu.. Sorry I think i posted all this last time I wrote. Anywho I will leave it since it has crossed my mind again.

My true love, well after Andy of course..., my photography continues to grow and change. Everything that I know so far has been self taught and  guided by a few other fantastic local photographers.  I decided I've taken it as far as i can with the time I have, so for myself and for the people who believe in my talent, I will be taking some photography courses to make sure that my trade gets as much time as it deserves.  I am very excited to fill in the gaps and learn all the fine details of photography that lay ahead of me.  My first class is on the art of composition.  This is something that I think has come fairly natural but like anything there is room for improvement.  After 1 class, (the intro class never counts) I already feel more confident in my skills and have learned a few tricks to develop the picture in my mind before snapping it with the camera.   A few of the terms if you want to look them up to learn are:  framing, anchoring, and the good old rule of thirds and fibonnaci sequence.  So my first project was a self portrait, it was to be straight forward, simple, but better then our license picture.  This was my submitted image

I need to brag just a little, my teacher called me out in class to compliment me on my photo. That was pretty cool, im not all about being the center of attention but he was very excited about it, which was really nice to hear on the first assignment, now to just keep up the good work!!!

Stuck

I'm wishing I had brought breakfast with me this morning! This commute is turning into an endurance event! Anyone else finding that driving in MN seems to be much more of a chore as of late? Look of accidents this morning, more then I think I have ever seen on my commute, I hope that everyone is alright.

My average speed for my commute was under 10, I was driving when I took this picture.

After two hours I have made it safe and sound to work. Yippee, let the day begin!

I have recently started a creative writing class. It has been surprisingly fun so far, I only wish I had a little more time to focus on it. My final is a 2500 word story, now I'm not promising you a great story but I am having a great time writing it so, who knows maybe I can follow in Junot Diazs footsteps ; ) I am currently reading his latest book, "The Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" Well, I guess Im audiobooking it, so someone else is reading it to me : ) but thats the only way I can fit it in. I heart audiobooks, Thank You ITunes!

I also want to wish E a very happy birthday!! I hope your day is fabulous!!!!!

Summer Love

I have been cleaning up my hard drive and finding all sorts of photos from family and random events (mostly from the summer) that haven't made it further then my computer.  This first set I will post for you are of my neighbors pooches.  I was wondering outside playing around with my camera, its one of my fav past times, when I caught her pooches being all cute in the first photo.  I wandered closer and got to talking to my neighbor for awhile, while talking I was of course shooting.  So she will be happy to get her disk full of these fun images : )