Velocity

I had no idea where I wanted to go when I first graduated from high school. I remember having a strong urge to want to go to the University of Miami. I honestly cannot remember why. I ended up going to FIU down in Miami for a year. It was a brand new school at the time and it honestly was not that bad. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life either. I think a lot of new college kids are in that same situation though. I never really partied that much or did anything. I do remember going out every once in a while with friends and randomly taking photos while we were out driving. I always like movement. I feel like my life is flying by me now that school is done and I am now almost on my own.

Traveling

I keep searching a lot through my files that I have. There are a lot of things that I wish I could do, visit, and just test out. I need to force myself to go out, and try things. I really just need a vacation. A very long one. Traveling is one thing that I have always wanted to do. I really just want to cross an ocean, just to see another part of the world.

Holding

I get nervous a lot. I constantly am critiquing myself because I want to be the best at what I do, no matter what it is. I have been thinking about all the photos I have taken, and what I want to take, and honestly what I want to end up doing. I wont lie though, It constantly is changing. There are so many different things I love taking photos of. I realized though that I do love details of things. One of my favorite photographers is Andrew Zuckerman. I love the details that he brings out in every photo he takes and that is what I enjoy doing. When I search through all the photos I take, I always look for the ones that, in my eyes, make me feel like I am there. I guess it really all comes down to myself being nervous about all the different photos I have taken and just throwing them up for everyone to see, good and bad ones alike. I think I just get more afraid of the bad ones being brought up and talked about. Then again, I think too much sometimes.

City life

I remember walking through the city for the first time. It was interesting to me. I always told myself I would never want to go there, that was until I actually went to the city. I would walk around the city for hours when I lived up there from April to July of 08. Just looking and thinking a lot but I also had my camera with me to take pictures. Whenever I look at all the photos I took while I was up there, this one always stands out to me for some reason. I cropped it because I wanted to try something different then have just the regular shaped image. Don't be surprised to see some more NYC ones pop up here.

New Year

One year = 52.177457 weeks.

This will be my first post of the year with a minimum of 52 this year. I have several new years resolutions that I intend to stick with as much as I can.

Its been a rough few months with everything that has been happening. I do have a new car now and with this, I intended to get back to what I have been planning to do. The Harvest of Hope will be coming up again in March and my best friend and I already have bought our tickets to go to it again. I will see what I can do about getting another photo pass this year to try to test some things out. I learned a lot from trying things here and there during the event last year and I want to try new things out this year. It would be awesome if I could get another pass. I really just want to get stuff up and do what I can. There is one photographer that I love to check out all the time. He has had me interested in band photos and concerts ever since I have seen his stuff. I even have bought a few of his polaroids he has sold on etsy which has also got me thinking about the site. I did something different with this photo that I came across. I have always enjoyed the grainy looks to photos and how they have this "feel" to them.. its the only way I can describe it. I might look at some of my older photos too and mess around with them a bit. Just to see. More to come. I promise.

August

I am mad at myself. I sit down to work on posting, then I get preoccupied with randomness and tomorrow ends up being several days later and so on.

I recently went to a bachelor part with a good friend of mine and they decided to go drinking around the world (Epcot). I guess that is a thing to do here in Florida when you drink. I have heard people talking about it before but since I don't drink, It has never really interested me. Even though I didn't drink, I still enjoyed the time with my friends, and I was able to get a few pictures here and there. We even stayed long enough for the fireworks which was nice. As much as I can't stand going to theme parks after working at one for 10 years, I still enjoy Disney with some good friends.


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July

It has been a while since my last show. I remember in 2007, I saw my favorite group at least 6 times that year. I always enjoy live shows a lot more. I remember when I was younger, and I would hate anything live. Maybe I just was listening to the wrong bands. Now, I wish the bands/artists I listen to would put more live albums out. I think that its a good thing though because I would be even more broke than I already am.

Im going to start looking through some of my older photographs, see what I am able to find and fix up. I want to travel though, be able see more things than just what I am limited to now. I have always wanted to visit Paris, Rome, even South America. One day.

Imperfection

I am trying to do my best to push myself. I really enjoy the camera's that I have purchased recently. I think my problem is where I am living. I want to get to NYC. I do not want to loose touch with my friend I made up there. It was so fun just jumping on the subway, not knowing where it would take me and then to just get off and take photos around the city. I had a fun time. I wish I could do that here. I would really like to go on a long vacation. I would like to go to Europe, or maybe Australia or even Japan. Just to cross an ocean. Who knows.

Decisions.

This past month has been a bit crazy. But I am still here. I've been really excited though at the same time. I went ahead and bought 2 more cameras. I have been looking at one for a while, every time I went into the store, I would see it there, but I wasn't sure if I should get it, the price being the main reason. I finally said enough with it and I bought it. There is a photographer I follow, and he started selling a few of his polaroids online. It got me thinking, and I want to attempt that also. The one camera that I bought takes mini polaroids. The second one, takes normal polaroids but they are not square like a regular one, more widescreen type. Once I am able to get out and start taking some, I will post them up here.

I need to just keep pushing myself.

Older

I need to keep up with this. Force myself. I get easily distracted sometimes. I enjoy the new layout, being able to tweak what I can for the most part. I think that is why I enjoy this so much. For the past month, I have been stuck in a rut. I am out of it. I need to push myself now.

The other day, I bought a polaroid add on to my Holga camera. I am happy I got it, I just hope it does what I want it to. One of the photographers I enjoy took some polaroids and ended up creating an etsy.com account to sell them out. It gave me a good idea to do the same. I have been talking about trying to sell my stuff, and I have known about this site, but I have been nervous/hesitant about it. Im just afraid it will not be bought, because my name is not "out" there. I just need to get over it and try. I am excited though.

I also received a gift the other day which I am very happy about. I have been wanting to possibly start doing some screen printing and a special someone bought me a book on it. I did do it in college but I wanted to do more with it because I have always enjoyed screen prints and posters created from it. Only time will tell.