lately..

 This is pretty accurate to how I feel lately... school, though enjoyable and oh, how I love learning (seriously).. is just killing me with such outrageous expectations. But blog I must!! Here is FINALLY the second half of the photos from the last post. These of course less focused on the epically super awesomely fantastic abandoned train, and more on my good friend Kylea, who is probably the only person very repeatedly appearing in this blog.. As is appropriate as she is also an aspiring photographer.  (check out kylea tigner photography on facebook!) Anywho, enjoy the photos and I will try much harder to have more consistent blogs this month! THANKS!

-don't forget to click on the photos to enlarge!-

-leave a comment if you like what you see or even if you don't! :D-

These by Kylea Tigner Photography:

The End.

i've been workin on the railroad...

Here is just a simple and fun shoot I did the other day with my good friend kylea at our local abandoned railroad. There are more to follow but for now, I will simply leave you with these.. and seeing as it is 1:47am and I have had quite the long day, I will include no such elaborate stories. This time, I will allow the images to speak for themselves. Remember to click on them to enlarge! :) and Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Happy football day AMERICA!

HAPPY FOOTBALL DAY AMERICA!!   [/\ not my photo! -google images-]

Probably more celebrated than the average American's birthday, Superbowl Sunday is today. ..and that's about all I have to say about that. Go 49ners!

Also, I would like to give a shout out to my lovely sister in law, Julie, who by spur of the moment and probably as follow up to odd conversation showed me many many pictures of cute animals :)  as a female on this earth I have an obligation to love nothing more than cute animals and pictures of them. So today, I show to you my collection from years prior of the cute animals I have once photographed. Enjoy! [and remember to click on the images to enlarge] :D

...and don't forget how cool this guy is: 

Have a wonderful superbowl sunday everyone! :D

AMAZING

I was browsing some wood sculptures today and came across a webpage that I simply HAVE to share. These installations are outrageous! If ONLY I could be this cool. I am being more and more inspired everyday to jump into the world of carpentry and if this didn't convince me that this medium is amazing I don't know what will. Here are some of my favorites (DEFINITELY NOT MY PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK-IMAGES WERE TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE), but please do visit the webpage to see more!

http://webodysseum.com/art/giant-organic-wooden-sculptures-by-henrique-oliveira/

Emphasis in..... wood?

Today was the second day of class... meaning the first day of class... since the actual first day is usually filled with syllabi upon syllabi and fun getting to know your classmates exercises.. this was the second day of class in which we worked efficiently to learn the acquired skills in order to make COOL things!! Of course.. I'm talking about none other than my Intro to Wood class... which I am absolutely LOVING! ..So in the life of me this semester I am faced with a very important decision. This being whether I should have my Studio Art BA be accompanied by a photography emphasis or a wood emphasis. The more I take wood shop classes, the more I fall in love with the medium. Clearly photography is also a medium I GREATLY enjoy, but I feel I am far more interested in commercial photography rather than fine art.. also... you know how school can sometimes..usually..suck the love and passion you can have about something completely out of your entire being..makes you feel as though you must beat it to a miserable pulp before you could possibly have a fully equipped and well rounded knowledge of what you once thought you were so passionate about. I have only now began to continue my practice in photography because it has been a full year now since I have taken a photo class and I can again love and appreciate the art for what it is rather than the beating to a pulp nonsense. Now I have a new love and his name is woodcraft... but I have reservations about soul beatings and life's meaning and my consistent unexplainable need to change my major... five times thus far. Though it wouldn't change the amount of time between today and graduation day, it will just influence my happiness until that day.. and supposedly life after graduation. 

ANYWAY, today was great and I loved class.. here are some photos from the logs I used in last semester's class. They are from a tree in the backyard of the home where I grew up. My dad cut half of it down allowing me to use them. When I cut into them, the incredible fragrance that emitted was so beautiful that my teacher recognized the wood as Juniper Heartwood. Not only was the scent unbelievable, but the grain graphic was ravishing and to my surprise, purple! It is not too evident in the photos, since I was unable to take pictures until the wood had already oxidized, meaning it turned from purple to maroon to red.. 

ANYWHO.. enjoy the photos :D

Second post of the day...

Read the first one first! (probably the one below this one)... but it really doesn't matter. Here at the second post today, I give you my adventures in exporing the ever so fun and enjoyable FISHEYE lens. As I am looking to buy one, a good friend of mine let me use hers to feel out the crazy perspective of vision that apparently fish have! here are some of my explorings: please enjoy!

[click the images to enlarge]

 oh how we love our skyrim ..and how skyrim looks to fish!

how a fruit bowl looks to a fish!

 oooo shiny... do fish see color? anyone?

 my husband at a VERY young age, in the eyes of a fish

artist friend Jon Baker's guitar (http://paperwithfaces.blogspot.com/)..fish are so cool

don't know how this happened but I LOVE IT! she's even cuter when your a fish! ..or maybe a bit frightening..

don't forget to leave me a comment! THANKS and I hope your day is gilled with joy! have a swimming afternoon and whale, I really appreciate you reading my blog today.  :D

FAIL!!

I went five days in the row making hopefully sustainable mind tickling blog posts, and then FAILED miserably for the last 6 days in that dream of one day completely the goals I set in place for my life.. *sigh* I tried my best I suppose... So today, I bring you a double post... TWO posts in one day!

First, I would like to recognize the marriage of my very good friend, Lani whose last name now escapes me because I have no idea what her now husbands last name is.. SORRY!! These lovely two were married on June 23rd, 2012 and I had the awesome pleasure of celebrating with them. Though it was my first time meeting her awesome husband, Rocky, Lani and I go all the wee way back to high school where we still hadn't known each other too well, but well enough to move in together when we both attended Cal State Fullerton. She was my lovely roommate, friend, cook, and motivator through my first two years of college and Rocky, I must say, you are about to have the best roommate of all time for the rest of your life! You lucky guy :D   So I was unable to really take any photos of the ceremony or of them for my trying not to get in the actual photographer's way (Jen Fujikawa Photography-also a good friend of mine who I recommend-  http://www.jenfujphotography.com). But here are a few shots I got of the decor that I thought were totally awesome. Thanks so much Lani and Rocky!! I wish you guys the best and we should double date sometime! 

[click to enlarge photos!]

 The MOST DELICIOUS cupcake I have ever eaten!!!

 ...just thought this glass looked cool... it was only filled with water!

 such a gorgeous cake!

 Such simple and beautiful decor :)

I love you Lani and I will never forget the time when times were tough and you cooked peanut butter chicken and it was freaking delicious.. you gotta make that one for Rocky one of these days :)