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.

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.

Conceptual

Today I did a lot of thinking. I have all this time on my days off since I can't drive for six months. I had an awesome time the other night going to see Tom Gabel. I am still a little upset about not being able to get tickets to see Against Me on saturday though. I knew I should have bought the tickets when they first went on sale. Oh well. I did see them 6 times in one year alone so I shouldn't be too upset. I am really glad I was able to see Tom Gabel though. He really knows how to put on a good show. I really want to start to work on my photography skills. I was searching the internet the other day and came across someone who was at the Harvest of Hope Fest and was also shooting pictures. I am really jealous. They were really good. I wish mine were half as good as his were. I was told I am my own worst critic though. Thinking about it though, I really only had one lens, and limited resources to work with. I want to force myself to do better.

I have gone through most of my photos which are all on my flickr site and I will be trying to post one or two photos with each blog I get with. I am really going to push myself now. There are some things I want to get done, and I am the only one that can really make it happen.

I really enjoy these night photos. They were the hardest to take however with the type of lens that I had. I held back when I was by the stage and I should have pushed my way through to get the shots I wanted. But, some of these I really enjoyed. I like experimenting with the lens's that I have and seeing what works and what doesn't. I always like how I get the lights to mess with the photo. You never really know what is going to happen until you get the photo shot.

Formatting for the new

I have been recently going through all my pages, trying to update everything. Im still in the process of doing that, but hopefully by tonight/tomorrow I will be able to fix this page and start posting my photos.

Against Me!

It was pretty insane trying to get a good photo while Against Me! was on stage. I was a little hesitant about pushing my way around trying to get that "one" photo. Now I wish I did.

Either way, going to this fest helped me. I want to do better. This was one of my "better" photos I was able to get during the AM! set. I went through all of the photos I took and I will try to post some random photos along with a blog here and there to get myself moving.

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One week.

Its been almost one week since my accident. Im trying to look past everything that has happened. I am extremely excited about this weekend. I hope maybe this will help me with my photo career. I will be posting as many photos as I am able to. They are coming. The Harvest of Hope is finally here!