feet and fireplaces.

After being told to take more photos, this is what I got. I like them. I love taking pictures. I want to learn more. I want to follow around around an amazing photographer. I found one. He's in New York.

it was all a blur.

My photography adventure for the day....tried to get new photos for a project.....no luck. Although, I still enjoyed my pictures for the day! My happy little accidents that happen while driving downtown Abilene. Sometimes I don't get out of my car to take pictures in hopes to save myself from looking like a creeper with a camera. So instead I just take the pictures while at stop lights and what not (which my also make me look like a creeper...but only if someone looks directly at me in my car, which I am hoping is less likely than me standing on the side of the road).

through the lens.

So I'm taking a digital photography class this semester and I have a project due next week. Of course, I barely started taking pictures before this weekend. It turns out....I was better off. I went to Austin this weekend and was able to take some really cool shots! My professor had shown us how he used one of his old film cameras to take some digital shots. I decided I would try a variation of the idea using one of my brothers cameras. Here they are! Enjoy....

the film camera I used

the Five.





another toy of matt's.



the farm....this one was taken through the back of another lens. The entire picture is flipped, but the barn inside the lens is right side up!

Sum Sum Summer Time!

So I got back from Europe....helped mom recover....and played with my two wonderful nephews!! Here's some pictures i took from our swim day!!!

I break the rules.

Welp, there you have it folks.....Michelangelo's David!!! This is my illigal picture by the way. You are not allowed to take pictures in the Acadamia Museum that houses David. They even had ladies standing around yelling at people when they took pictures. Luckily I did not get caught....I'm just the sneaky!

I have alreaady seen three replicas of this David, but seeing the real thing was different. I hadn't been this close to it and the sculpture seemed so much bigger and more dramatic than any of the others. It is pretty sureal to see art this famous right there in front of you. Very cool experience even though David was pretty much the only thing in this museum.....but it was worth it!

Volterra and San Giminicricket?

So yesterday we took a day trip to Volterra and San Gimignano!!! Both beautiful old castle like citys, both with funny names! We still don't know how to pronounce San Gimignano! The closest pronounciation we could get is San "Gimi-ano," haha. We were supossed to take our easels and paint.....but of course 1. I didn't take my easle and 2. I didn't paint. They gave us tons of time in San G. but of course it rained for part of the time and there weren't very many good places to actually set up your stuff and paint. We mainly ate and shopped around...and sat around. We did take a bunch of pictures....maybe I will paint from one of them later. We'll see......

Why must it rain?

First off, I am a big fan of rain, and thunderstorms, lightning and what not, but when you chose to spend your summer in various countries that are not known for rain, it is not my favorite. It is currently raining here in Scandicci and it has pretty much rained in every country I have been in so far. It obviously rained in Oxford…a lot, but who would have thought that it would also rain in Paris, the day and half I was there, our first day in Florence, and on our day in Venice. Yes, it usually lets up for part of the day, but it usually down pours when we are outside walking around town or painting out in the countryside. Take today for instance. Our professors decided we would go out and paint near this church in the outskirts of Scandicci. The view of the vineyards was AMAZING, but right when we got there…..what happened? Little drops of rain started to fall. Unfortunately it stopped for a while just in time for us to get in another oil painting. It was about time for us to pack up and we started to really hear the thunder roll in. The cool thing about Italy is that you can pretty much see the storm rolling in because of all of the hills, and we were on top of one of them. Even though storms may look cool it is not fun walking or riding a crowded bus with a wet oil painted canvas in hand. My painting unfortunately did not fall in a puddle like some peoples. The rain might have done my painting some good. Oil painting is definitely not my favorite. Now, I am sitting in my room, on the computer, not going outside in Italy, because it is raining.

I am going to Spain on Thursday…..hopefully the rain will not follow us there.