Pertty Bird, Come Here.

Another photo that I took on the photoouting that I took the last one on.

Just A Photo

This is a photo that I took down in Glenwood today.

This is addicting.

Here go to this and wait for the end to come or will it? http://img252.echo.cx/img252/8159/006wo.swf

This Weekend Was Fast.

This weekend went by so fast it was awesome because that makes home all the closer but I didn't get very much homework done. Today I have and HDR assignment due this afternoon and I haven't even shot it. It's a good thing that I can do it fast and just need to shoot a scene that excides the dynamic range of my sensor shoot one shot for the highlights and shoot one for the shadows that in photo shop I can due a merge and it becomes a 48-bit image, just so you know that higher than most screens can display at once. So than I bring it down to 16-bits and print not much work. Than tomorrow morning I have a speech I have to give I have started it just need to finish it after class tonight and later on that day I have a photo restoration project due at the end of class, this on I have started and it won't take me long to finish. Wednesday I have a assignment due in the morning and I still need to shoot for that but it will be easy because I already shoot with this style and if needed I have stuff to bring back from the past to cover my butt. Thursday nothing YES time to rest and take care of my car. Friday some prints due for darkroom and I have the film done. Saturday I get on the train at 12:30 to come home see you all Sunday or Wednesday. This past week I have started running I get up at 6:45 and go run at 7. It’s great and I am running two miles nonstop in about half an hour. Mariah and I are going to have a race when I get home stubborn us well more me than her ok all me. Other than that nothing much going on here just snow and such stuff. I better get going on that assignment if I’m going to have it done by 1:30, talk to you all later.

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Like My Hair?

Yesterday was a fun day spent time in the darkroom and some scanning stuff in. Derick and I got these really cool wigs for yesterday here is a photo that I took with my phone sorry he was leaving and I didn't have time to take one with my real camera. I shot the Phi Theta Kapa(sp?) inductions last night it was great and I got some real experince shooting something where I didn't get to pick and choose what I shot. The light was awfull and I was shooting at like 1/30th handheld! This was at like ISO 800 and it's a really good thing that my camera as IS. But the one thing that I did do was I shoot RAW+JPEG which saved my butt. The JPEGs were just crap and I was able to get something out of the RAW. I will post something later this weekend I'm still working on them and I think I will post the JPEG and the RAW so you can see how much it saved me. Anything like what I shoot indoors will be RAW from now on. Well next Saturday I will be getting on a train in a few hours. I will talk to you all later.

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Life

Ahhh now it's not long at all only like 9 days and 23 hours yea bet that what now ha ha. Yea not sure what that last part was all about, I'm sorry. Life is good here in the big CO, get it it's kinda like the OC but the other way around. Again sorry, I'm not sure what has gotten into me here in the last 5 seconds. I can't wait to come home and spend like two whole weeks with you all some more than others but it will be fun to hang and see you all. I'm so excited my last speech got a B+ heck yea with the A I got on a photo assinment yesterday this has been a good week for me well not for that mid-term that every one of us thinks we failed yea next week will be fun and I just can't wait for the final. I don't know about the rest of you but I can't wait for spring or is it already spring like there in Iowa you know green grass and all last time I was home it was so ugly. We still have about 1-2 feet of snow here I think it will be warmer after spring break. It happend Mariah bet me out in myspace friends o well I'm very seletive on who I let be my friend, at least I have like 32 whoo hoo for me. I'm bored today I think I will go and scan my slides today get that out of the way. O dear what is this there is a dot on my screen darn I better clean that off so I will talk to you all later.

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Little Love Notes Everywhere

I've been listing to this song that was on the last passion CD and I really like it but it wasn't the best that it could be. So I was looking at the iTunes store this morning and found it on a CD that had just come out and it's so much better I love it, the song name is "Knees to the earth". Yesterday was a snow day no one could get up to teach any classes we had about 2 feet of snow on the ground by yesterday morning and it didn't quit until last night. It was AWSOME! What are you all up to, I guess I will see you all soon and stuff though something like 12 days. Mariah is so excited and so am I just that the train isn't all that fun. I don't know why but I was just looking at my thumb and I thought it's so cool that no one has the same finger print as me how cool is that!!! Yea hmmm I wonder what God's finger prints look like. I like to hide little love notes so to say in places where everyone can see them but no one really looks well I'm sure you will now but it's fun Mariah dosen't even catch them all the time. Mmmmmm Fooooood, I think I will go and eat now I want food I didn't eat much this morning so I'm really hungery. I will talk to you all later. O and I can't wait till next week, they will be doing room checks and I hope Kindra says something to my roomy about his side of the room. Other than that I have every thing clean so it will look nice.

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My Towel

One of the biggest problems I had with my roomy last semester was that my roomy used my towels I don't know why but he did. So yesterday I was laying on my bed when my roomy got up and went to take a shower. All of the sudden I realized that I hadn't seen his towel in like two weeks. I thougt this will be fine there is one of mine on the towel rack and I hang mine on the door he's to lazy to reach that far. So I thought I was safe but I still wanted to check. So after he got out of the shower I went in and looked at the towel on the rack and it was dry next I looked at my towel. And what did I find it was wet duh why me? So I put the towel on the towel rack away and moved the one he used of mine on the rack and pulled out a new one. So today I go in there and look only to find that my towel was wet 10 hours after I took a shower. Why why does he have to use my new one now I have to wash all my towels. I will talk to you all later.

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My Room

Here are some photos of my room. Here is what they are from top to bottom. #1 My side. #2 My roommate's side. #3 My bed.
#4 My roommate's bed. #5 My roommate's side of the floor and some of mine, o and he has the bigger side of the room. #6 My roommate's pillow.

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Myspace

Ok just from the title you are going "Myspace is for little girls" or not but something along those lines. This week I convinced Mariah to get a Myspace so that I could make her my number one friend. So she did and she already has half as many friends as me and they all asked her. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing the good thing is that my girlfriend has a lot of friends but the bad thing is she has more friends than me and I live in two states! O well it's kinda weird not to be able to look out my window and see as far as I want to because today it's snowing here and has been since last night or longer. I can only see over the edge of our hill and than nothing but white. I really should be working on today's photo assinment but I don't want to and you can't make me. I think my roommate sleeps in the nude and this just might be why he wont get out of bed in front of me. Life is good we might find out who got the RA spots today I'm so excited I hope I get offered one. Part of me is so excited about it and another part well isn't. I guess I really should get ready for the day I will talk to you all later.

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Speech Time

Today was the day that I gave my latest speech. I thought that I would try and just go off the outline boy am I glad I brought both up with me. The outline lasted about the intro and the first point and than I said to myself forget that and went off the entire speech. Things got much better from than on and I actually made more eye contact who would of thought. O well I’ll do better next time and I will never try to use an outline again. Wow my roommate just closed the window that I had to open when I got back from class because of the stench that was in the air and I have 4 yea 4 air-fresheners in here. I was just about to go off on him but decided to write about it in order to calm my self down. I think next time he leaves the room I will take some photos of his side and than mine so you can see what I’m talking about. And I think when I see Kindra today I’m going to talk to her about how to deal with him because things are getting worse. I’ve been so busy this week I’m sorry I haven’t posted that much. Now all I have left is to finish this RA essay and stuff for darkroom today. Other than that I might do a little printing for Digital Darkroom were doing toning like making your photos look like warm tone paper or cool tone paper it’s kinda cool I had to do 5 different tones of one photo I did one of Mackenzie so Sara you can have one of them when I get home. I did blue, red, green, purple and one thats supposed to look like a sepia tone or worm tone paper. I might post them but it’s hard to see it on screen because I had to keep in mind how the printer will make it look. Well I will talk to you later.

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Wow I'm Good!

Have you ever got done doing something and thought “Wow I’m good”? Well I just had one of those moments a little bit ago. I was working on a composite for class when got done and started to work on a photo of Mackenzie. It was a photo that my mom at took of her a long time ago. In the photo she is holding a kitten but Brendon’s arm is in the photo I think helping her hold the kitten. So anyway I have always wanted to get rid of it. Well today I did after about an hour of working on it I was done. When I looked at it I thought “Wow I’m good!”. I will post it when I get done with it. Talk to you all later.

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I"M SERIOUS IT"S JUST A JOKE!!!

Wow what a day. First off this morning I got ready to go to church and was going to go and shoot after so I decided I was going to drive. Well my battery was dead I’m not sure why but it was. Next I got in Derek’s car and we decided to listen to my iPod and it died on me. So I had my camera with me and went to take a couple shoots of Derek & Leslie and my cameras battery died. So don’t let me near your batteries or they just might die. Other than that nothing much going on here. O the paster of the church showed that Fed-Ex commercial where the cave man gets stepped on by a dinosaur. I think he just thought it was funny and found a way to work it into the sermon for fun. In other news Layne as agreed to marry Mariah and I (a inner-office joke) o and I guess Sara is going to have another baby (again another inner-office joke, please don’t think I am serious about this one she is not having another baby don’t get me killed). Well I’m going to work on some photos so I will talk to you later.

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I Don't Know What To Put Here Today

It’s my B-Day today, it’s about time all I want is for it to me march and now it’s here YES!!! Now I only have three weeks till I come home on break another YES!!! So this morning Mariah called me at 6:45 a whole 15 min. before the alarm was supposed to go off. She called so she could beat anyone to telling me happy birthday. It’s been a long time since my last post I’ve been so busy with school this RA thing to day is my interview and making plans;) O I have to buy my train tickets today. I’m done with classes today nothing much else to do. I will tell you how the interview goes later. I was playing x-box with Derek last night and I killed over 200 bad guys. James Bond rocks well not in the game than I just kill him a lot just because he ran into my bombs a lot while he was trying to steal my flag doesn’t mean I’m a bad guy. Well maybe because I was aiming at him makes me a bad guy but he was doing the same. Chase and Sean called me last night to see if I wanted to go on a round with them I said sure and meet them down stairs. Well they deiced to do a out-side round, it’s like 11 o’clock at night and freezing cold. By the time we got back inside I thought my fingers were going to fall off or anything for that matter. I only had a t-shirt on. Well I don’t have anything else to say so I will talk to you later.

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