Swimming?

I'm thinking I should've paid more attention in my swimming lessions, since I'm barely keeping my head about water right now. Or maybe I should've learned how to be a juggler...
I find that I'm constantly on the move. I wake up about 5:30 am each day with the little guy, then get them all breakfast, dressed and packed up for their school, off to my school for 9 am sharp, work hard all day trying to get assigments done (we seem to get at least one if not more a day), then rush out to get the kids at school, come home, make dinner, clean up, put them to bed, then do my own homework again. And hopefully find time to do laundry, grocery shop, clean the house, cook for all our holidays and so on and so forth. Usually going to bed around 11 pm or so. Totally exhausting.
I'm sure once my stagnant brain starts to get used to being used all the time things will become more fluid. At least that's my hope.
So on the note of speed and craziness...here's some images from our day at the go-carts. We were taking different types of shots, mainly varying our shutterspeeds.

Portfolio

For all those interested...these are the pictures that I submitted during my interview for school. I'm still at a lost as to why they choose me for this school after I've seen some of my fellow students' work but I'm glad they did!

Second Shoot - Lines

Hey guys, here's my second shoot for our Digital Techniques class. It went pretty well, especially since it was the first time ever I shoot only on manual settings so was checking my apperatures and shutter speeds accordingly. Ok no great feat for most of the students in my class, but for me - monumental! And exciting!

I'm fairly pleased with the results, but I do see that there's still much to improve on. Especially my interpretations of lines...not as creative as maybe they could be. And today we learned more about composition of photos and I can see that I can certainly do better framing up my shots! Oh well, much more to learn and to incorporate into my photos. If anything, I'm finding it more difficult to do a simple shot b/c I spend so much time thinking about all the technical aspects of it. I'm sure in time, that will become second nature and I'll be able to get back to my shoot from instinct (but with greater knowledge) technique.

Checking out my F-stops and Shutter Speeds...

Here's a couple shots I did last night while working in manual settings. I'm trying!

Hello? Anyone there?

I guess I wasn't listening when the teacher told us yesterday that this morning would be a free period. Here I was sitting in my class at 9 am sharp, and I was the only one here! But fortunately, I have much to do, and plenty of catching up to do both on learning this Mac computer (oh PC how I miss you), and figuring out manual settings on my camera. I would say most of my class are quite knowledgeable in both. Off I go....

Here's my first shoot in a slide show. We had to take 40 images in sequence with NO deleting.
It will be interesting to see how much better I become over the year. Not hard to go anywhere but up at this point! Especially since I've only shot in Automatic all these years. Wish me luck.

Picassa Album Link

come check out my first photo shoot on our first day!
here is the album link.

HELLO!!!!

I'm here, and live online!
Here's a few things about me....I like almost any type of photography, but mainly people. I love looking at faces and capturing them on camera. Hopefully this year I'm going to learn how to do it so I bring out the best shot I can! And with some technical knowledge to boot!
I've been taking pictures for awhile but totally as an complete point and shoot kind of way. Not exactly what i need to grow in this profession. In my house, I've always had waaaaay too many pictures up around the place. I enjoy looking at them out of photo albums. Makes me happy. For a first picture that really made me see my potential....hmm....could be when I travelled around Mexico and Guatemala and took some great slide film of the villagers. The colours! wow! Amazing! That was what hooked me to continue. And off I go, enjoy the ride with me.

Welcome to my first Blog!