April?!?!

Wow...where does the time go?  How is it April already?  I haven't updated this in a while...and not for lack of trying.  I have like 7 drafts started, I just really don't have much to say these days.  I'm at home, I've pretty much been laid off from work, I'm studying for the FE (which is in 5 days!  eeeeek!).  On a more interesting note, I have been playing with photography a bit, in some new fun ways.  Cory suggested the possibility of pursuing photography as a business, and so I have been playing with the kind of photography people might pay for.  There are, of course, some of the usual puppy portraits and landscapes to share:

 My nosey Josey...

Bella-butt

Sparkling mountain streams...

And beautiful secluded meadows.

But then I have also been playing with portraits and editing...and for now, the only model I have to play with is me.  Sooooo as much as I HATE self portraits, I came up with a couple today to edit and share for practice...soon I will be taking some of some other, more interesting people.  Until then, there's me.  

 Me, in color.

More me, less color.  

These would be better if I had Photoshop, but of course I don't at the moment.  Anyway, that is what I have been up to...cooking, eating, studying, sleeping, and always, taking pictures.  Soon I'll remove studying from the equation and add MOVING!  Not sure where, or even how, but I'm outta here!  Thanks for your patience with my lack of posts...more to come soon, just as soon as my test's overrrr and done!  <3 

emigrant lake

No better day for a beautiful hike than today!  We took a trail from Caples lake dam, along the side of the lake, and then up the ridge to the pristine and beautiful emigrant lake (pictured behind all the green but before the snow below, and behind all the people below below).  

first view of the lake

our whole hiking group, taken by me with my mini tripod and self timer.  We're all laughing because shortly after this picture was taken the very wet (and antsy) dog started jumping up and getting everyone rather wet

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eye spy

BUSTED!  I did lots of cool things today (camped out on some friends lawn in Kings Beach last night, we to the beach first thing in the morning and then to greenfest put on by the Sierra Green Business Council, followed by watching the world cup game at a bar with a million other loud and rowdy fans, went to a craft fair on the way home and even did my laundry!)but I didn't take any pictures during any of it...sooooooooo heres a last minute picture of my eyeball.

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saturday night in

i treated myself to new glasses today, i guess they are tumblers, but i use them as wine glasses...no more jelly jars for my wine!  They have a bubble in the bottom, and i took a picture of it.  but it was boring.  I don't like pictures of myself that much, usually I do my self portraits a little more abstractly, using reflections or movement to disguise myself in them.  It took some effort to get a straight up self portrait that I liked, and even more to bring myself to post it. Here it is.  I'm running out of things to take pictures of in my apartment here, but no worries, I'm moving again at the end of the month so you will not have to endure many more photos taken of my apartment or of me, soon I will have some new material. :o)

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yoga toes

happy feet!

today i survived an earthquake.

april fools. 

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self portrait

what you see is not always what you get.

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live in the moment

and dance like nobody's watching...

i wish the background was a little less cluttered in this one, but i'll never get a face like this again so i gave up trying.  i got dizzy spinning around my one room apartment trying to get a good photo of movement, and i ended up with this, kind of ghostly...but neato none the less.  (click to enlarge is you can't see the face)

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yikes

i know this picture is a little weird, but i put it up because it is different than the other stuff i have been doing lately, and while i love my little baby strawberries, and my other plants, and cake, macro shots of plants and baked goods are what i did fairly well before and in the spirit of the whole one photo a day thing, i need to branch out and do some different things with my camera.  so here you go, a close up of my eye ball.

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