I wish I could go back to college.
Life was so simple back then.
What would I give to go back and live in a dorm with a meal plan again!

I wish I could go back to college.
In college you know who you are.
You sit in the quad, and think, “Oh my God!
I am totally gonna go far!”

How do I go back to college?
I don’t know who I am anymore!
I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
Ohhh…
I wish I could just drop a class…
Or get into a play…
Or change my major…
Or fuck my T.A.
I need an academic advisor to point the way!

We could be…
Sitting in the computer lab,
4 A.M. before the final paper is due,
Cursing the world ’cause I didn’t start sooner,
And seeing the rest of the class there, too!

I wish I could go back to college!
How do I go back to college?!
AHHHH…
I wish I had taken more pictures.

But if I were to go back to college,
Think what a loser I’d be-
I’d walk through the quad,
And think “Oh my God…”
“These kids are so much younger than me.”

Categories: Crusading
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Azn and Jew explore trees and creeks and stuff. These images are unedited save for resizing. Wandering around I did a couple of things:

gazed up:

looked down:

went through:

examined close:

and, played with Mika the perpetually winking dog:

Having a full-time job instead of three part-time jobs is pretty awesome. I actually have time to do things. Look at this now, I’m home at 7pm on a Saturday. I can work, recuperate, and go out again.

Categories: Home, Photography
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After a period of faulty databases and having absolutely no idea what my password was, I have once again gotten myself into wordpress.

Anything new? I have a promotion around the corner from The Picture People, probably right around the time spring semester ends. In June I photograph two weddings, and in July Matt and I will hit our three years. So things are looking up, it seems. I may have graduated from Susquehanna a year ago and still be struggling, but very shortly, my hard work/dedication (but not my education/degrees) will have paid off.

I’ve updated my portfolio here, and you can see the ridiculousness I created for my online class here, here, and here.

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Its been almost a month since my last post, so, I apologize, but life is still just as busy. I’m waiting to choose one job over another but I’m a Taurus and change is difficult.

Last Friday Matt and I went to NYC to see Susquehanna’s orchestra play in Carnegie Hall. Twelve-hour round trip, drenching old rain, high-high balcony seats… and it was absolutely amazing. We explored part of Central Park, and Matt promised we could go back with sunshine and an SLR. There wasn’t time to see my friends, but I ran into some of their parents, and aught up with a few of my professors, which was awkward at first, but, you know.

The best part of the day, besides incredible music in an incredible auditorium, was the stereotypical New York scene. Exiting from Central Park, Matt and I stopped next to a horse-drawn carriage to cross the street. A construction worker on one corner jackhammered into the street while another man welded; a third waving people on with his bright orange flag. The New Yorkers, clad all in black with black umbrellas or none at all, danced across the street as drivers of sixteen-wheelers and sub-compacts honked their horns incessantly, going nowhere. What I would have given or a fast-acting camera with a wide-angle lens at that moment.

Hopefully I will scan some of my school projects in soon, just to prove how awesome I am.

Categories: Crusading, Photography
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Somehow time seemed to fly when I was in college; friends and I used to joke that ‘college time’ was a way of measuring things in and of itself. But living on my own, taking one class a day, an online class, and working three part-time jobs, time seems to crawl by excruciatingly slow. I have school every afternoon and work every single morning and evening of the week. I don’t even have enough free time to do my photography assignments, or the money to buy the film.

OK, so I have this morning off, but the house also didn’t have power until recently. I took some photos of Matt while he was sleeping, but I’m going to need more alert subjects to finish my flesh-tone assignment. Then at work tonight I get to double-time and recreate a scene for my project to photograph a scar and write out it.

It sucks being an adult; I doubt life is going to get better from here.

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This semester I’m enrolled in Photography II: Color, Techniques of Photographic Lighting, and History of Photography. I had better not figure out, halfway through the semester, that photography isn’t actually that cool. So far this is pretty much the most exciting semester ever, despite that classes don’t start until 2pm, meaning I don’t have quite enough time to work in the morning, and must therefore run around trying to work 3 jobs after 3pm.

But back to classes. Photo II focuses on color correction on the enlarger and playing with color filters on the camera and the enlarger rather than Photo I where we pretty much just explored depth of field and contrast with different techniques. Lighting seems like its going to a free-for-all where Kneessi sets up lights, explains what the lights are doing today, and then the class forces someone to model and paparazzi-ies them to death. We’re allowed to shot film or digital for either class, but I figure I’ll learn more shooting film, especially since I only bought the required filters for my 50mm lens. I’ll be forcing myself to do a lot more work for the same effects, and that should making shooting digital even more of a breeze when I go back to journalism-y things.

I’m also taking the online version of Media Materials and Processes in which we do three presentations: one each with PowerPoint, iMovie, and Flash. My hidden agenda is that next semester I’ll be able to take QuarkXpress, thus making it one step further toward industry-standard journalism skills.

Categories: Job Hunt, Photography
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Technically, I did these for work, but they’re not going to use the images for anything. So here are some of my favorites.

Categories: Home, Photography
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