I'm Back!

Wow. 

This summer absolutely flew by! And not only that, but I am now a month into my Junior year!! *gasp*

During the summer months, two jobs and numerous Bible camps consumed all my free time, which explains the lack of posts :). I think I only picked up my camera three times this entire summer. Oops...but hey, it just means I was having such a great time I forgot to take pictures! :D

Anyway, now that the summer is over, I'll be able to take lots of pictures, right? Ha, riiight. Innumerable Junior year courses took care of that one. 

So, as my schedule permits, I will be taking and posting photographs, but please bear in mind the fact that my posts won't be nearly as regular as last year. 

On the brighter side, I'm hoping to take some extra time after one of my riding lessons to photograph horses/my stable, so hopefully I'll have something to post here shortly :). Until then, God bless!

 Rhododendron flowers. 

 Messing around with colors...B&W looks pretty cool in my opinion.
(Sorry about the quality of these pictures. I was just goofing around, not going for a masterpiece ;))

Is it just me, or can you see a dragon in the flames??

Gradution Pictures

On Monday morning my friends came over so that I could take Morgan's graduation portrait :). She had just gotten back from her senior trip, and I had been away all weekend, so we were both extremely tired...it made for an interesting experience :D.

This is the formal picture, but we also took a bunch for fun.

MN

Here are some of the pictures from my trip to Minnesota. Most of them aren't very good, but my idea of 'not good' has changed so much over the course of this year :D.

 The ceiling in my mom's old bedroom. It's the coolest thing ever!

 Don't you love how subtle Southwest's advertizing is? ;)

 This picture doesn't look too good, but I had to put it in anyway. It was waaaay overexposed, so this is super edited. Oh yeah, BTW, since I am now mainly shooting in RAW, most of my pictures will be edited.

Project 3

Wow. Photography class is over, as of 11:15 yesterday morning! :'( 
I was showing my mom the class recording afterward, and noticed that all the pictures from my presentation were really weird...I'm not sure if it's just because of this computer, or if everyone saw them like that. Anyway, for those of you who haven't had a chance to see my work yet, here it is! Our final project of the year was to create a portfolio of fifteen images and present it, along with a project statement, to the rest of the class. *You've probably seen most of these images on my blog this year, but a few of them are new...enjoy!

Uuugh...for some reason, the picture that's supposed to go here absolutely will not load.

...and that way my last project! I hope you enjoyed it :). I was trying to post it yesterday, but that one picture wouldn't load, so I opted to wait a bit longer and see if it would cooperate. I have a few more pictures from my trip to MN last weekend which I'll be posting soon, so I'll try to upload it in that post instead.

OH! I bought Lightroom, and it's going to be coming in the mail soon! YAY!!! And since I have no intentions of stopping photography, I will continue to post some of my photos here. 

New post coming soon...

...I just want to wait until after my in-class presentation, so that some of the images are a surprise :).