Pictures.

 

Sizzlin' Summer Swap

I joined a photography swap with the theme "Sizzlin' Summer". It was left up to the particpants interpretation of "Sizzlin' Summer" and my first thought was the phrase/saying "It's so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk". 

Hey-oh!

I'm not sure if I'm in over my head but I'm hosting a lot of swaps at the moment, swaps YOU should sign up for. They are all fairly easy.

I'm hosting 7 swaps on the Seven Deadly Sins. I had an assignment in my photo class I really enjoyed and I think some neat ATC's would come out of this. Each swap is two weeks long, 1 ATC for 1 partner. Pretty easy and they are spaced out through the entire summer.
1. Pride atc swap (sign up deadline is May 26th!!!!!)
2. Envy atc swap
3. Gluttony atc swap
4. Lust atc swap
5. Anger atc swap
6. Greed atc swap
7. Sloth atc swap

I'm hosting a Cryptozoology ATC swap, which is going to be neat! 1 ATC for 1 partner. Basically, design an ATC based off of your favorite cryptid! Mine is the Mothman. I love him!

My last swap is not ATC related but very similar to the swap I blogged about here. I am using loreley's idea for the group I'm an officer in called Random Bits of Lovely. If anyone wants to join this swap you'll need to request to join the group. Anyway, the swap is called the Lovely Jewelry Box swap.

We'll be decorating one of those small wooden, unpainted craft jewelry boxes in a way that our partner would like. See the swap home-page for more details.


So, I'm hosting 9 pretty evenly spaced out swaps. That doesn't sound so bad...on top of the other 15 swaps I'm in. I should probably slow the swapping down a bit since I'm going to school full-time this summer and working on buying a house.

-Saristotle

Developed and printed two new rolls of film. I got a few good prints and even a few future assignments out of the way.

Rusting flower garden decoration from the backward. I had it in color on my new camera, which looked awesome, but have to re-take it because its MIA.

Lily's bucket and shovel in the sandbox. I think this picture is okay but one of my classmates really liked it. I think it's sort of boring.

 Eugene has this massive wall of fire wood in the backyard. Thought it might make an interesting photo. I'm not one for pictures of trees and things, sort of cliche to me. I think this picture falls into that category but it
looks alright.

This one of Lily is my favorite. I'll being using it for a portrait assignment in the future. Lily is the best model ever. She has the perfect features, pouty lips, long lashes, creamy skin, and big blue eyes.

 

Lily on the back porch. Just thought this was sweet.

Hmm.. interesting day. It started with a giant headache but I had photo 1 and I was eager to get some more printing done. I'm glad I did too because I finished our next assignment, plus the one after, plus the half the one after that yipppee! Never in my life have I not been a procrastinator until now. I really enjoy this and it doesn't feel like homework. Wouldn't it be nice to make a career out of taking photos? It would be but I like security. The stress that would come along with wondering where my next paycheck would come from would shave 10 or more years from my life.

Annnnyway, I got some good prints, had some good conversation with a classmate (really good for me since I'm anti-social), and was complimented on my purple blouse as well as the way my breasts looked in it. The latter made me feel weird but, oddly enough, it made me feel like I was 20 and not 32. I felt like a part of my age group again.

But the most exciting thing was when I came home and "Sinus Buster" had perused my blog and offered to let me try their product FREE! You know you're a real blogger when companies are giving you stuff for free. I can't wait for it to get here to try it out and review it. I'm really relying on it to work because I can't be addicted to nasal spray forever.

Thank you to Lynne from Dynova Lab for making my day :)

My Photo's

I'm in photo 1 at SWIC (35 mm slr's, black and white printing). I took it for fun and I'm really enjoying it so far. We haven't had many assignments yet but I've been taking a lot of pictures anyway. Here are some of my favorites so far: