Baby Keagan

Four day old Keagan was so easy to fall in love with. He was sooo tiny. I babysit for his brother and sister (Emerson) and now him too! His mom asked me to come take pictures of him at the hospital but they were there for no more than a day before they were sent home. So on my day off of school I went up to their house and took a few hundred pictures. These were my favorites. The 3rd picture I like because you can compare the hands to him and kind of see how small he was!

Shadows

My pictures for the shadow assignment actually turned out better than I thought they were. Short on time, again, I took a few quick pictures hoping at least one turned out. The top one I was sure wasn't going to look good at all but its simple and the shadow behind the plant definitely makes the picture look better. The bottom picture is a picture of the flowers my mom got for me from BRF competition this past weekend. By the way, I actually didn't do to horribly at competition. Placed 3rd in a group that was higher than what I skate. Anyway I took a few pictures of the flowers before I went to school. We'll see if the next assignment I can actually take time to take some pictures!

Karles and Lexers

Babysat the girls a few times this past week.  These pictures are from Valentine's Day....We had hamburger helper for dinner and lexa put it all into her hair. So I put her in the bath tub, and karli too of course. Alexa had no fear of the water and it was getting everywhere on everything. Afterwards I'm pretty sure the entire floor was covered in water.

Nothing a little fresh air can't fix!

Where to begin? Well last night I started to get sick, sore throat, coughing, and hot hot hot. It was about 11:00 then. I started watching a movie thinking I'd probably fall asleep in the middle of it or something, but I guess not. So I opened my windows and I wasn't so hot anymore. Finally around 1:00 I fell asleep. Today was about the same thing as last night except I was at school. I refuse to take medicine unless I have to have to have to. I feel like its better for it to just go away by its self instead of covering it up with medicine...  Anyway, after school I decided if I just sat around I'd probably not feel any better and I still had to get my three mile run in for the day. So got a few shirts, shorts, skating pants, my good-grip shoes and iPod and ran out to Jenna and Dylan's. At a few points during my run I felt like my legs were moving but I was not moving any further since the wind was blowing so hard. I think that it helped a little.. at least I hope. Tomorrow is BRF competition and I'm competing in a higher level so the odds are definitely against me without even competing in a higher level but we'll see how it goes tomorrow.

Different Light

The last time I did this assignment it was fall and I took pictures of an acorn. This time it is pretty much the middle of winter and took a little bit of searching to find something. Since I wasn't finding what I was looking for I figured leafs are always nice. t=The first picture I took was the 12:00 picture, then the 5:00. By the next morning (8:00) the leaf had absorbed some of the water from the snow and was flattened out. It didn't help that it was in shade either because you cannot see the light.

Animals!!

 My miniature schnauzer Benji. We saved him from a dog pound in Sparta about 5 years ago... going on six! Benji is about 7 years old now but still acts like a puppy!

 Here's Spike! He's my hedgehog that I got from a lady in Green Bay. On her way to Minnesota in July she dropped him off at my house. He was seven weeks old and little. Now he's a lot more weeks and fat.

Peach is my chocolate chip starfish. I used to have an anemone, clown fish and a crab but while I was in Maryland for 2 weeks last april somehow my tank went "out of whack". My guess is whoever was taking care of them at the time didn't do something right or just didn't do something. 

Lines

This weeks assignment was lines: curved, leading, diagonal and then Rule of Thirds. I have been so busy lately that taking pictures is basically "out of the picture" but I did manage to take a few for this assignment.    The goldfish in the curved lines picture were a little blurry since they were taken in very low light and there had to be a very slow shutter speed but it works. The rule of the thirds and diagonal lines are pretty much the same picture. One is just tilted and does not have the salt and pepper in it. Leading lines is an alright one, I think I could have found something better or different though. We'll see what I get for pictures this weekend when I'm back in Minnesota!

Time for Summer!

As fun as school is..... Summer should come around very soon. Summer is just nice especially when  I don't have much to worry about or get done and I can just go about my day. I can go outside without getting a billion layers of clothes on and there is a lot more to do without going 10 or more miles away from home to find something to do. The first picture was from the day that and friend and I took the golf cart and drove around the golf course just before the sunset.. thats about all there is to that story but I do surely enjoy being able to do that! Fishing is another thing I loveeee to do. Sometimes we go up to the cabin and fish but usually I go kayaking on the river and bring the fishing pole along. The spider picture I posted earlier, I think?. Most people HATE spiders but I don't mind them. They are actually very interesting. In the summer I find hundreds of them just crawling in the grass, like this one. I'm hoping to get a macro lens soon and will be able to take super close pictures of spiders and other bugs this summer! 

Winter Nature

I can't believe I actually got two "alright" pictures from the eight pictures I took this weekend. We were in Minnesota all weekend and didn't get back until 8 p.m. sunday night. When we were about 5 miles out of town when we were leaving I decided I should have brought my camera but I knew we werent going to be turning back to get that. So I didn't have much time (this morning) when I took my pictures but I got a few.. or eight.

Weekend pictures.

Simple but interesting to me! Maybe could be a little more of something in the picture.. like a LEAF!

I'm not quite sure what this is.. I think I have an idea but it was just some dead plant by our house.

What a weekend! Let's see, friday I slept over at Jenna and Dylan's. I didn't bring my camera cause I have an overload of "Karli and Alexa" pictures.. even though I could have took 7246522353 more. Saturday Karli, I guess, woke up at 7 or so and asked when I was going to wake up. Jenna told her she could wake me up at 8:30.. and of course she did. I guess it wasn't that early but I definitely could have slept in a bit longer. Sunday was my chance to sleep in though.. So after waking up late I cleaned my room and then I was bored. I got my camera and went out to look for some pictures since I haven't taken many lately. Here's a few of the things I found. Then while editing the outdoor ones my cat was sitting so perfectly in the sunlight right outside of my room so I took some pictures of him too. Not too shabby this time around!

multi-view collage

Hard to tell what is here! I took a dead leaf from outside and brought it in. The snow and ice melted and formed little droplets on the leaf. I snapped a few pictures and put them onto my laptop. I made a collage of the pictures. I then turned the color of the leaf to purple and made the water drops stand out more. The picture was too boring for me so I used the kaleidoscope effect to make it look almost like a flower. Looks much better like this than before.. even though you would not be able to tell what the subject was.

Treeees. Take Two.

As usual, I have been in a rush to get things done. Between everything that I need to get done I find time to take some pictures. I finally decided that it was time to get these pictures done and really, it was. Although time didn't allow me to go out to a place where I would have found better pictures, I made what I had into something interesting the best I could. What I like about this one is how the tree starts and a point and blooms into something huge. I don't know what to think of the house in the background. It almost confuses me in some way.

Rural Life

Tonight I finally found the time to upload a few pictures for these assignments! After visiting my cousin in the hospital and skipping skating and ccd I thought I could use the "skipped" time to get these up! So here are a few rural life pictures. I don't think they are the best at showing rural life but they'll have to do!

Tree!

Bonus points?!?! (:  This picture I took last weekend while at my aunts taking pictures for the Rural Life assignment. I wasn't going to upload it until I was told I would get bonus points! Its an alright picture but I definitely think I could find something better. So I think I will.. but for now... this is my tree photo!

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Everyone knows the common saying Got Milk?.... thats the idea here but instead water. My first idea was to do something with eating fruit..but.. that didn't work out so after about 1.5 hours of editing this picture I got this. It doesn't seem like this could possibly take that long but A LOT had to be done to make it look like it is. I started with a few lamps and took off the lamp shade. Then I put some tin foil on one side to reflect more light into the light box. There was one on each side (left and right) and one through a hole on the top of the box.. and then I snapped away!

I think its story time!

 This is my bike, of course, it gets me EVERYWHERE in the summer! For this bike ride I went just a mile or two to get some pictures of the sunset. I arrived at the spot I wanted to take these pictures but I got there a little too early so I took some pictures of my bike!

 This reminds me of my grandparents and their ...puzzles, puzzles, puzzles. Everytime we go to my grandma and grandpa's, just 15 minutes out of town, my grandma always has a puzzle done. I took this picture a long time ago but I thought it would be a nice one to put up seeing that my grandpa is at the end-stage of cancer and only a few more months with us.

 This was a picture from our first photo assignment for our photography class. I remember taking the girls (karli and alexa) for a walk through the arboretum so I could get some of these pictures. It was a nice day, lots of mosquitoes though. There wasn't many flowers out still but I found some of these and thought they would fit the "nature theme"

The picture above and below are from the 2010 flood! It was the first flood that I remember. My aunt bonnie had told me before that about 20 years ago there was big flood and it flooded up to her garden down by the river. This meant the river had to be about 20 feet up cause the banks were very steep. I didn't believe her... until this day! When we got let out of school we went to her house and yep, up to the pine trees and garden. It was unbelievable. Her dock, which is normally a good 15-20 feet about the surface of the river, was floating in the water. Good thing my cousins tied it down so it wouldn't float away!

 The reason I took this picture was simply because.. Mr. M said someone took a picture of their lawn once for a photo assigment. How boring! Well the dew on the grass looked interesting so I said lets take a picture of the lawn but make it look nice! Its nothing much but it could have been done better!

 This one was from last spring. A friend and I went to Wild Cat Md. and I brought my camera along. We  decided to stay for the sunset. So the sun.. set... but there wasn't much to it. The horizon was flat and there were no clouds in the sky so not to interesting. When we were walking back to go home I was looking at the colors in the sky and noticed the silhouette of the pine trees and though it would be a good picture.. I guess it was!

Boots

Andy Warhol Assignment

In this assignment we had to make a picture similar to Andy Warhol's work. We put these pictures into photoshop and made each picture a different color, plus a few more steps in between the first picture and changing the color.

My pictures are back!

My computer is finally back! 3 or 4 months later! I was so excited and I think I should share some of the excitement by posting some of my old pictures that were "lost" with my computer for months.  I was beginning to think I'd never see these pictures again since the company kept calling and saying they were not going to fix my computer. But its fixed and back now so I am set!