I am 29 years old.
I have a fake birthday - it's September 23rd. I have a real birthday too, but I like the way I write September 23rd.I don't own a pair of white socks (or black socks). I hate the mall. I sing in my car. Sometimes I dance too.
I eat donuts for dinner.
My closet is color-coded. I am not welcome at my high school. I have never owned a plant that lived.
I usually beat my alarm clock by ten minutes. I read The Jungle when I was 15, and I haven't eaten red meat since.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Belton, South Carolina, population 4,561. I have wanted, at various times in my life, to be an astronaut, a seismologist, and a postman.
I have a fear of standing water.
I once successfully acted out the word "colloquialism" in charades.
If you play Red Faction, you know me as Ender or PixelGirl; you were pwned. I have been in 5 weddings, none of them my own.
I've taken a liking to this fellow named Jens.
I am a Pentaxian.
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I’m back from vacation, which means being thrust immediately into chaos at work.
Jet lag has provided me with ample time to go through my photos, however. I think I’m finished with the first batch of the best. I’m sure I may have missed a few here and there, but the collection for the most part is complete.
You can view the entire collection here.
I’m on vacation! Photos will be posted soon (and yes, they will include camels!).
Some random musings about this photo:
It would have been better with heels. I, however, threw away all my high heels after I twisted my ankle this summer. Wedges it was.
I couldn’t get my leg straight while getting the shadow right. Gah.
I was wearing a flamenco dress to go with the music. There was no way to incorporate the ruffles in the photo (not that I could figure out).
I posted the lyrics to some PG version of this song on flickr. The original is so much better though (don’t bother listening to it, Mom - you won’t like it, even if it IS from the 70’s).
I tried to force the 43mm into being a wide-angle lens today. Needless to say, it didn’t work.
I’d been taking some photos of the lovely yellow weeds behind my porch with the 43mm attached. The sun was alternately shining brightly and going behind clouds the entire time. At the beginning, I didn’t even bother to look up when the light changed - I just thanked God that the sun wasn’t singeing my skin for a moment. For some reason, though, when the sky clouded over the last time (it was actually the very last time of the entire afternoon), I looked up.
Ah, the tableau was stunning! I immediately ripped my camera off the tripod, changed the settings, and propped it on the grass, leaning against the tripod to try to get a jump shot for my 365 pic with that incredible background. I hadn’t really tried one before, and the angle was terrible - the nice part of the sky was just above the house behind mine, so I had to put the camera at about 60 degrees to miss the house (I had a few shots where the roof was in the corner). Then, of course, I had to jump into the camera frame AND capture it all with the remote. Ha!
It was still a nice sky:
And that photo I’d been shooting prior to this? Here it is, although I’m not completely finished with it yet:
Bonus! Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky:
