New Stuff! Whoo!

 

 

 

Notice my shiny new blog header?

I was pretty impressed with myself for making it...until I saw that it isn't quite long enough to go across the whole page. Ah, well. I'll leave it that way for now. ;)

This past week has been full of excitement and anticipation. I've been planning on getting a new camera for a while now, and it was only recently that I was able to actually buy one. I had actually put in an order to Sears, but the order got messed up somehow and we ended up having to cancel it, so I actually had to drive down to get the camera I wanted. Of course, there weren't any stores in my own town that had the one I wanted, but I still had a fun time spending the day with my sister in the city.

The camera. MY GOODNESS. It's like a dream come true. I've spent the whole day getting to know all of its new features, and so far it's all pretty exciting. I have a family photo shoot this coming Saturday, so I am looking forward to shooting with my new lens.

I'm serious when I say that I've spent the whole day getting to know my camera. Here are just a couple of shots of taken today.

  This first one was actually taken last night at about 11 or so. AT NIGHT. Just in case you missed that. ;) I was very impressed at just how sharp everything looks, considering how dark it was at the time. I couldn't even see that well when I took the picture!

 

 

 

 
Okay, this next one might not look all that impressive to you guys, but this is actually the first ever clear photo I have ever gotten of this dog. She can never stay still enough for me to get a good shot of her--until now! The photo was also taken in medium-shade, and yet you can't even tell. :o

This last one is one of my favorites. Taken in my dim kitchen with a simple kit lens and flash (and really fast shutter speed). I really love how the background is reflected in the water drops.

So there's the sneek peek at my day! :)

A Little Imagination

‎"Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Alice

It's a wonderful practice, you know.

 

A Rainy Day

It's been raining nearly all day, which is the sort of day I love. I love everything about rain.

Another reason I should move to Ireland. I will not give up on this!

Now that the weather is finally starting to act like it should in November, I'm afraid I won't be doing any photo shoots for a little while. I've really been needing to get some pictures taken of my family, but the time has escaped me. My mother will be out of town for a bit, anyway, so I know when she gets back I definitely won't be getting any photos taken of us all. I don't think my parents would be too willing to sit in the snow while I set up my tripod.

So I guess I'll just be spending my liesure time writing. I started a new book a couple of weeks ago (as if I don't already have enough started!), and I'm really enjoying writing this character. He was a secondary character in the last novel I wrote, but now I'm writing the new book in his perspective and he has a very interesting personality. If you're not a writer, you may be thinking I'm a bit crazy by saying that a figment of my imagination has an "interesting personality", but I promise you I'm not! It truly does seem that my characters all have minds of their own.

If that makes me crazy, then so be it. I think all writers must be crazy, anyway, to be able to create and write about so many things.

Speaking of writers, I am really looking forward to The Hunger Games movie coming out in March. The movie's based off the book by the same name (written by Suzanne Collins) and I think it's going to end up being quite popular. At least it should be, since the book series is so popular. Here's a link to the movie trailer.

I think I actually figured out how to make the link all fancy-fied! :O

Well, I suppose that's all for now. This isn't my best post but oh, well. Maybe things will slow down and I'll be functioning properly soon.

An Upside Down Day

  This past weekend, I went to an amusement park with 7 of my friends, along with my parents and aunt. We had a blast, and I thought I'd share some of the photos from that day.

  First off, let me go ahead and tell you that we went on all of the rides. ALL of them.

The scary ones that about made me pee my pants...

This thing went ridiculously high, and it was simply held down by bungee cords. Probably not the safest thing ever.

And this one went upside down way too many times.

The  ones that weren't scary at all...

This one actually had no buckles or restraints even though it spun around in the air. But it was rather boring. Go figure.

We even rode the Carosel. Don't judge.

I think we had way too much fun on this ride. :D

  All in all, we all had fun. We spent nearly the whole day in the park, and by the time we left I had screamed so much that my  throat hurt (I think most of my friends were surprised by how loud I can scream since I'm usually such a quiet person).

  I think we may even try to go again before the park closes down, since we all had such great fun and we have 5 tickets left over. If we do, I'll make sure to get more pictures...as proof for how truly crazy we all are. Seriously.

Baby pictures...?

Ciao, mi'amici!


I managed to get a few candid shots of my baby nephew yesterday, though I still have not gotten around to getting any "portraits" of him, or whatever you want to call them. I'm so great at procrastinating, I should totally join a club or something! Eh, maybe later.


You know, I realized just the other day (Thursday, if you're dying to know) that even though I take tons of pictures whenever I go somewhere, I never get any shots of me in any of them. I was with some of my friends the other day, so I took a few pictures of them horsing around. When I saw my grandma later that day and she saw me with my camera, she asked me,


"You've been taking pictures?"


 "Yeah, of my friends."


 Then she asked, "Are you in any of them?" and I was a little surprised that she asked me this. Because, no, I had not taken the time to have somebody take a quick picture of me with my  friends. This is why you have virtually no pictures of yourself, Hogan! <<That was me mentally berating myself, if you are wondering.


  The other day, I was just saying to myself, I wish I had some pictures to put in these stupid frames. Stupid, because there are so many of them and they are all empty. So sad.


  ...


  How did this post get from me talking about baby portraits all the way to the fact that there are no pictures of me with other people? Randomness, I tell you.