Forever Fickle

Nothing ever goes to plan, no matter how many appointments you make and how specific of a schedule you have. Weather will always interfere. The economy will always interfere. Life in general just interferes. And I'm pretty okay with that. :)

Wednesday:
I was supposed to have a photoshoot with three little ones I photographed last time I was in town, but the poor baby boy got a mosquito bite on his face that swelled up thanks to allergies. Instead of shooting the kids, I sat on the couch and photographed Daisy the dog doing the same thing.

Thursday:
Planned to spend the day hanging out with my two best friends, Khalila and Kelly, but then my little brother Louis decided to tag along as well. It was a really fun day. We ran into some good friends, shopped, ate, watched movies, and then some. This is my special brother.

Friday:
Spent Thursday night at Khalila's house and PLANNED to hang out with my friend Liz during the day, but by the time we would have been able to hang out, neither of us could think of what to do. Sooo... instead I waited for a ride to the host home, then I sat on the couch waiting for time to go to the open house for miss C. Remember her? Took the latter shot from the couch too.

Today I am supposed to have a senior shoot with another graduate, but at this rate, we are losing daylight, so I'm going to assume your photo for tonight will not be of her. :-( We'll find out later!

Finding the Time

It's been a crazy week! An amazing week. It couldn't have gone better. :D I have to thank Renee for bringing me and putting up with my constant in-and-out behavior. She was a doll.

I had at least one photoshoot pretty much every day while I was in Indiana. Between those and all the running around I was doing, there wasn't time to check my e-mails every day, let alone edit and post photos, so now that I'm home, I've spent the day working on a few. Here are my favorites for each day of the week, and then yesterday's quick "thank goodness I'm home" snapshot. I'll post today's shot later tonight. :)

Sunday:

Mr. J hamming it up

Monday:

Ms. M and Mr. P's little bundle of joy

Tuesday:

Little Mr. J sleeping in a basket

Wednesday:

Ms. R enjoying my flower

Thursday:

The ever-gorgeous Khalila making me jealous with her beauty.

aaand Friday's snapshot:

Mmmm, Chinese food awaited us when we got home!!! Thank you, Grandma.

RIDICULOUS!!!

ET the bearded dragon

Today was a ridiculously awesome day!!! I got to spend an hour in a pet store full of adorable little animals, visit my aunt and uncle, go out for a wonderful time with family and friends, and best of all VISIT CITY METHODIST AGAIN! I will be taking my senior portrait kiddos there for their photoshoot, so it was awesome to get to go ahead of time with beautiful people who were happy (or something) to model for me. For now I will only post one of my favorites of the moment, but you can almost certainly expect to see more later, especially if you check out my facebook. Goodnight! Rather, good morning...

Quick "Portraits"

Aka "GAWD, get that camera out of my face!" shots. Hey, had to get at least a few photos before my loved ones leave tomorrow. Weekends pass too quickly. :-(

My baby brother, Louis, sitting in my room wearing my hat and a pair of antique sunglasses on his head for no apparent reason. This is what we do in my household. <3

Khalila sitting on my bed not wanting her picture taken. Again, typical. Even with her face covered, she's beautiful. That jerk. ;D

Sow's Ear, Anyone?

I spent the day re-editing photos from an old shoot. By the time I got tired of doing that, I had an absolutely ridiculous time trying to actually TAKE any photos, so I ended up with this sow's ear of a file. Hopefully, I got a silk purse out of it, but I'm still debating.

I attempted to salvage this photo using an "action" (it's actually a psd) Sandra asked me to make for her . She has appropriately named it "She's Blushing", but you'll have to see what the action was intended to look like to understand the name. I'll be uploading the psd to my deviantART account as soon as I get to a place with better internet than mine so that you all can enjoy it too. :-)

Until then, I'll share with you a few of the old photos I've working on. Models are two out of three of my best friends since middle school, Kelly and Khalila. I met them when I was 12, and today I turn 22. Time flies!!!

Recess Over

Alright, guys, I'm so sorry for being this late. I was playing! It was a cruddy day for reasons I'll explain later, and Sandra decided to let me play with some of her old photos of my beautiful best friend Khalila. It really cheered me up (thanks, Sandra!). This is a bit of what came out of it.

After regular processing, I used the same filters as my harlequin photos to give these pictures a completely different feel just for kicks.

Speaking of the harlequin photos, they show up in yesterday's shot!

Taken with the Minolta x-700

One of the first things you'll probably notice about the photo is that it's extremely contrasty. That brings me to the reason that the day was less than pleasant for me: my two rolls of 36-exposure film were damaged nearly past the point of salvation.

First, the lab ran out of fixer, then it ran out of fixer remover-- neither of which would have happened had the employee with the keys to the stock room bothered to show up for work today--, so we had to improvise when it came to chemistry.

Next, the timer in my darkroom went haywire midway through developing. Naturally, there were no more timers. Again, I had to improvise.

Then, when my film was finally done washing, I noticed that some of it was extremely gray, and other parts were almost completely clear. Come to find out there was a CRACK in my film canister. The film was getting exposed to light throughout the entire developing process.

I'm sad to say that these were not even close to the only problems I had in the darkroom today. However, I tried to make due, and now I am sure I'll be able to salvage most of my film on Thursday with any luck.

Definitely need some luck. LOL

This morning's quick attempt at filling the frame before class.