forgot...

oops. i was so busy with getting thesis out of the way while i was in school, i forgot to post photos from the event i volunteered for!!


there's one of my photographs, on the right side of Vicki's bio :]

and, oh look! there's me talking to the president of MECA at the time, about my photos :]

and here's a link with a press-release about one of the stops of the traveling show, and this one includes another one of photos i took.

http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/newsdirect/release.html?id=7992

*yay* for being recognized in the community! :]

welcome to "the new world"

so, life after college is nice.
except for the whole loan repayment part. guh.

i'm thankful for my second job at the picture people, that has been helping me out sooooo much. financially and professionally. over-time during the holidays is CRAZY. soooo many people come in to get photos done before christmas.....wow. but! now that the holidays are over, yikes...i'm running a little short on loan payment money :/ great.

i'm trying to keep myself occupied and busy, but there's not much to do in this economy and this time of the year....

there's NO WAY i'm getting a third job. no way. two is hard enough to keep straight. i'll just have to start selling my old books from school online or something...and hope that will help some.

i got a new camera for christmas! which i bought with money that i got from selling my old one! yay! upgrade! :D here's some photos from my new camera.

let's fall into fall! :)

so.

haven't been that good at updating this over the summer. been bored out of my mind for most of it, and struggling to find a new part-time job.

well...that's all over now.

got hired at the Picture People in the mall...yay! that's definitely been keeping me busy. especially when it's combined with my other job at hannaford. :)

been working on taking some senior pictures as well. already done 2 girls, friends of my sister. and just finished photographing my sister, she just needs to choose ones she likes out of the pile i took :)

here's my favorites. :D

rain rain go away.

stuck on the inside, looking at the rain falling for the past 3 days....i'm starting to loose it a little. work hasn't been giving me very many hours, so i'm trying to look online for something else. that's not going too well.

so, to relieve my boredom a little bit, i'll post some pictures i've taken since i graduated :)


walked the breakwater lighthouse in rockland, maine


went to my friend's wedding, in waldoboro, maine


took pictures of my sister and her friends before their junior prom. she's in the blue.

thesis show

so, it's the END of the semester...*YES*. and that means my thesis work is hanging on a wall in a hallway at maine college of art. go see it, it looks great :D

thesis paper is printed, signed, and passed in. YAY. no need for a 3rd draft, that means i did a great job :) i hope.

final crit has happened, and went VERY WELL. as did my review :D *yay* i have burst out of my shell of struggling through senior year as a photo major, and have come out with a great body of work that can be identified by others outside of my majors group. i have sucessfully succeeded in creating a body of work that can be enjoyed for the look and the content. WHOOOOO! hahaha.

donated a print to a friend who let me inside one of the buildings i photographed, and it is now hanging in my hometown's little "museum", the taylor house, which makes me SUPER EXCITED!!!!

here's what my spot in the school's thesis show looks like, with all of my work :)
(and yes, i have a corner and a doorway in my spot, which i am happy for, due to my work's size. it helped with the organizing problems i was worried about concerning a long area of wall space.)

breathe?

classes are officially OVER! *dance*

two more weeks, and it's time for graduation!!!!

going to portland everyday this week, to get things done, and wrapped up, and clean my studio out.
can't wait!!

tomorrow is "hanging" day for me and a couple of my fellow photo peeps. i hope it'll be done and over with quickly and painless. it's supposed to be such a nice day that i don't want to be inside all day, again.

heres a literal inside peek of my thesis work. i was able to actually get inside one of the buildings i was photographing...ok, i was let in. i ended up knowing the guy who lived on the property this old mill is located.

i'll be sure to save all of my thesis work onto my flashdrive so i can post it here this week.

buried

i feel like i'm slowly getting left behind. especially with the growing amounts of homework and other paperwork that i have to get done. spring break is officially over, but was basically non-existent for me. i think i had one 'fun' day the whole week. i spent the last two days at school, all day, working. that's not a vacation. can i have a redo? please?

spent the whole time reading(a 300 pg book, and other readings for research and essays), writing essays(which is what most of the readings were for, and which were late, because i had to time to work on them before now), and taking pictures for my thesis work, which i had to slightly change....FOR THE THIRD TIIIIME! :(

i feel emotionally and physically exhausted, and it's not even the end of the semester yet. so that means...yes, it's going to get worse. yay.

i finished my ICA piece at 8pm yesterday....i just wanted to get out of that basement. 9 hours in front of a computer screen is not good, for anyone. so, one thing down, 100 million more to do! wooohoooo

sorry, don't have any pictures today, i switched to completely shooting in RAW format, and my computer doesn't recognize RAW files :( *rawr*