eclypseArt

Yeah, so the big 45 foot tall oak in our front yard fell down today.  I was engrossed in editing pictures, and I felt this big thud rock the house.  I looked outside, no joke, to see if smoke was rolling across the ground, or if there was some kind of big cloud like you see in the movies or something, and thought, "eh, nothing", and went back to my work.  Like 10 minutes later my Mom called to me with a great deal of concern in her voice to come, I thought she had fallen or something.  Well, no she hadn't fallen, but something else had.  We go outside and like half of the tree was all laid out across the neighbor's yard, and our yard, and lik

Gosh I hate editing photos.  Maybe that says something about my workflow, and about my future.  But spending hours on tagging, cropping, editing, and loading and reloading pictures on this computer just drains the creativity out of me.  Any ideas anyone? So today was my last test that I have to take (fingers are crossed, even as I write this.) for a job tutoring.  I took the algebra test, no sweat, but then they handed me this chemistry final that the poor high schoolers have to take at the end of each term, and I had 45 minutes to take the thing.  Sweating, I opened it and only took 12 minutes!  Hooray!  I say that only because that was as

Friends from high school are so great!  I got together tonight with my old friend, Christina.  Really one of the most beautiful people I know, and she and I just went to town with the portraits.  She had a natural grace and style in front of the camera and worked so well.  I won't have any problem getting my 10% from this shoot.  All in all I fired off 600 shots, with about 9 or 10 poses in like 3 locations.  It was a good shoot. I got so lost this morning.  (Curse you mapquest!!!)  Trying to get to a job interview I got turned around like 37 times, and took a huge long round trip to get home, and in the end I took a 3 hour  trip to get a to