2/30 - self portrait black&white

well there i am.. i shot this with a 24mm manual lens. pretty difficult but i got it down. photo #2 of my 30 days! hope you enjoy it.. since i never post up photos of myself.. i'm mysterious. i never do black and white either, but i felt this photo just looked more.. glamorous and classy. here is the other photo i took.. everyone seems to like this one better.. i personally like the top one most because its actually sharp and what i was going for.. but gotta go with what the audience likes more i suppose in this business. haha weird how my 2nd choice is always peoples 1st choice. hm.

one photo

the video is grainy and weird looking because i had to resize it and stuff. it looked way better before hand.. i need some sort of software to correctly edit videos. sam said he'd help me. whew. i hope i can get the hang of the video part with out it lookin so crummy. lemme know whatcha think anyway

tagged & two new photos

I received the honest scrap from Lions, Tigers & Fashion OH MY!. Here is how it works, list 10 facts about yourself and then pass it on to fellow bloggers as you choose.

1) i don't like citrus

2) my animal totems are bees, moths & vultures. i'm always on the look out for my newest addition.

3) i have a couple of best friends, but only one of them knows exactly what i like (decor, clothes, people, seriously anything).. & that is tayler.

4) one of my goals in life is to ride in a hot air balloon. i day dream about this often

5) the only socks i really ever wear are halloween socks, year round. i just like them..

6) i was born in france, my dad & half of my family are french, i have duel citizenship, i have been to france so many times.. yet i do not speak fluent french!

7) i can't wear red, it looks terrible against my skin tone.

8) i'm only 5'2 and weigh 98lbs. i don't think i look that short or skinny at all! i feel the same size as everyone else.

9) i love my 98 subaru outback , but shh don't tell it.. i secretly want the new outback in brown.

10) i highly enjoy doing math but don't ask me any equations.. because i freeze up & doubt myself.

I would like to pass this on to:

Ginger - FOUR HANDSOME FELLAS with blue eyes.. & ME with green..
Valencia - rollupyoursleeve
Nell , my soul sister - an owls soul
Ruta - Look Ugly in a Photograph
Miranda, my actual sister - define: thoughts
Jade - my name is jade

here are two photos my sister took of me today with my camera , i like the second one even tho it is blurry. but if you pay attention my jaw/cheek and some of my hair is in focus. haha. & i am wearing my new flannel that fits me like a dream. i will have to get an actual photo of it later. & yesss my eyes really are green, i don't hardly ever edit my pictures i am too lazy for that. toooo lazy for everything these days in fact.

pictures of myself.. taken by myself.. this is hard

so i finally tried to take some photos of myself. but since all i have is my 50mm its kind of hard. i didn't really want to ask anyone to take the photo for me because well.. i sorta wanted my camera in the photo.. its such a nice detail to what i am wearing.

some ..

i haven't mastered taking a photo of my self in the mirror. this is the best i could do for now.. me and my new camera.. my sidekick ... my new love.

some photos i took while out on a shoot with lisa this evening - havin fun with the macro.. i love macro. it must be my next lens.

then there is my other cat Minou hiding under the table among the chair legs.. and some birthday banana bread Jean made for me.. SO YUMMY. i wish my birthday was every week so she'd make that for me all the time. -but i had my WhiteBalance set to floresent light and forgot to change it back so these two photos look a little on the blue side.. i'm still learning my camera haha.


i love my nikon. i am so satisfied. i can't wait to receive my package tomorrow with my 50mm f/1.4... so excited.

YES!! nikon d300s & a drawing !

so, tomorrow is my birthday and you all know i had some trouble getting my nikon d300s the past couple of days.. well.. read on ---

today after working at a wedding all day we arrive back at my boss Lisa's house and SURPRISE! her two wonderful sweet daughters surprise me in the living room and her awesome go-to-all-lengths hilarious husband comes down the hall with a cake lit with candles on it! so cute i wasn't expecting it at all and i was so happy i couldn't stop smiling. to make my smile even bigger .. out comes a pleasantly wrapped box with wrapping paper colored & made by Jaz & Ember .. and inside is a NIKON D300S!!!!!!!! HOLY GEEZE. yeah my smile is permanent. i can't wipe it from my face. i am just so happy and thankful i have such great amazing thoughtful people in my life. its not even my 21st birthday and i'm already so happy. PLUS my friend jedd drew a photo of me .. and his art is BRILLIANT. my gosh. here is jedds flikr page: click here and here is jedds book which i just recently purchased because its too good to not own: book here - so happy with this photo!


you can view the original of this photo by clicking -> here


i am just so happy. i will obviously have photos posted with my new camera from tomorrow until forever. my battery just needs to charge! YES! you guys! this is so rad i am offically a photographer now. p.s. here is my boss Lisa Richmonds website : lisaRICHMOND

: D

egyptian necklace & a let down

well, pretty upset right now. tried twice to get my d300s. but both times failed due to technical difficulties. super frusterated, but i'm online ordering it from b&h on tuesday.. since they are closed (of course) until sunday because of a jewish holiday. juuust my luck. so no new pictures yet. which bums me out because i just bought an awesome necklace today. he is made of silver & turquoise and is from egypt.. he is very very old & he's new friend. i love him so much.

when i get my camera i'll take more close up detail shots of him.. and myself. deal?

fine

i'll stay over here. if that's how you're gonna be.

i've been going on runs lately. to the blackberry bushes and back. i pulled my thigh/butt muscle yesterday, but i went on the activator and it doesn't hurt at all today. i go around 7 because it's cooler and more quiet. i feel like i'm alone sometimes. i smell the sprinklers and the apple trees. i see the geese flying in. i pick the blackberries at the finish line & eat some for a while. then i run back. (because they aren't mine, i'm sort of "stealing")


i've been looking for ways to escape unnoticed lately. trying to devise a plan to run away. but anouk keeps me from bolting. i think she'd survive with out me, i'm sure we'd both suffer from heart ache and heart break. if i could bring her with me i would, but she'd be too much work.