My Little Black Baby

So, guess what....

MY CAMERA CAME!!!

I am so happy right now. I ordered it a couple weeks ago and it finally came! It's a Canon EOS 60D and it's perfect. I just wanted to go out and shoot everything I saw. However my busy schedule made that pretty impossible, but yesterday I decided to go out and do a little photo shoot with some props.

I didn't have any of my usual go to's. I couldn't just call up and say, "Hey come on over, it's just a three hour drive!" So I used what I had. I had just gone to the library and checked out two more books to read. (I just finished Love Story, such a sad day) I got Breakfast at Tiffanys and an Agatha Christie mystery, both old fashioned hard bound. So I used those and a couple others I already had. I got a few pictures and homemade posters and ran out the door. 

I'm sure people were staring at me as I teetered on the wooden picnic table and running around getting different angles of my stacked books. But I sure didn't care. This was bliss for me.

  

 

It's so nice to be able to look at the photo you've taken right away to see what things you want to change. To see what works and what doesn't. I love photography.

After looking at them, I just wanted to do something different with them, and since I've been doing some double exposures in my digital class, I decided to try some with these.

I think I'm in love. Really.

So, simple to say that I love my digital camera. I have a feeling things are going to go quite well with my new baby. 

Old Photos: Scanning Assignment

My first assignment for my digital photography class is to scan in pictures, film, flat objects, leaves...and create a collage of sorts. I looked through tons of old photos from my Mother's childhood and my own. It's so funny to look at my Mom as a baby, a kid, and a young adult. I had a curious feeling- like I was looking at another person. It's hard to look at someone you know when they were younger and try to imagine who the were then. Even looking at pictures of my sister and I from when we were little, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

Mom and her dog Skipper.

Mom and her Grandfather.

My Grandmother and Mother. They were pretty stylin.

I've always loved looking at pictures and home videos because it's like going back in time and exploring another world. One that I hardly remember. To be able to look at myself and others, to look at life from years ago, is a strange phenomenon. And one that we are quite frankly blessed to have.  

Grandmother. Personality.

I've picked photos that immediately jumped out at me. Ones that caused me to stare at them in wonder and marvel at the people in them. 

My sister and I playing pretend. This is the epitome of my childhood.

Playing the piano even then.

Me and my dog Honey.

I've got to say that I am SO glad that my Great Grandmother, Grandmother, and Mother took photos. So many times at family get togethers and holidays, it seems like a hassle to pull the camera out and take time to record the moment. But oh man! How much we would miss if we didn't.