Some more images

I made a mistake in the last post, but instead of adding more I thought I would add another post. Besides it has been a few hours since I worked on that last post. My mistake was that I haven't posted the Mackinac photo. I know it doesn't really matter. The amount of people who actually see this is minimum but since I claimed that I did the work myself and mentioned it, I mind as well.





Original of the Mackinac Bridge (before the added pictures in the past post)

 I thought of something that has been absolutely annoying me and I want to talk about. I am having de ja vu like I might have talked about it before. It is just something that I notice a lot, I guess. Okay what it is when you see someone you know and it is "hello, how are you?", "good, how are you?", "good", and then walk away. This conversation is not worth it! I realize that one doesn't want to be rude to the person but really a simple acknowledgement and smile is better if you are on the run somewhere and you meet a person. Whew. Glad to finally say that.


Rose Room (afternoon_me)



A few other favorites of mine for Eurovision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urqhlnWLXxs&feature=autoplay&list=PLEA792BBD56F13E08&index=25&playnext=7

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGVZktHLZhk&feature=autoplay&list=PLEA792BBD56F13E08&index=23&playnext=3

Edinburgh castle phone booths edit (I was in my zone at the computer)

Finally


Enjoy, I think my favorite for panoramic is the Macinac Bridge and I did that one for a test. 3 of the smaller parts of the photo were taken from Google search. The larger strips and the major background is my own. In fact I think I already shown you a copy of what I am turning in for the Final Portfolio... The Rose Room is to show time as well. That is me you see and my grandma helped me to take the photos during the day. the idea was to show the passing of time in the room as well as that the person shifts around and is blurry. I don't think I quite caught the goal but otherwise it is okay. Oh and for Easter today there are references of Jesus from one side to the other.


Mackinac Bridge Seasonal and Time

 


Rose Room (The mark is a little more visible)

 These next two photos are for the final portfolio. For the Icy Dock I added a blue filter. I think of it as some coldness. I didn't have to add that but it felt a little like something was missing. When a friend saw the 'No swimming sign' she said 'no duh'. That is what I wanted people to think, 'no duh.' I extremely enjoy Cemetery with Roses. I like the roses popping out from the background that has a black and white layer. There is also a line with the shadow and the gravestones that matches. There is no watermark but if I did it right there is metadata that has my information. At least I hope I did it right.



Icy Dock

  


Cemetery with Roses

  I almost thought I wasn't going to be able to work on any of this today. The entire campus is closed down for the holiday. I totally forgot about that. However, no worries. I found a computer lab with photoshop and a stylus pad for me to use. It was a long shot but it worked and I'm glad so then I don't have to worry about it this week, which was my goal for staying on campus this weekend. I could have went with another friend to her own home. Another plus was that my roomie was gone and I had the apartment to myself. I was looking forward to that all week. No, I am not running around naked. I like the space, quiet, and the time to just be me with no worries. I like my roomie and she is great, but everyone wants to have that time for themselves. Don't pretend that I'm making this up.

Eurovision is coming up. While I was working on this project I was listening to my playlist of favorites... This one is in my top five. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtcsw6vLENg&feature=autoplay&list=PLEA792BBD56F13E08&index=8&playnext=3

Edinburgh edit

Edinburgh castle

Edinburgh Castle view

random cat in the bamboo patch in the Botanical Gardens

Edinburgh photos that I just edited. I didn't put a watermark on them because... well because I am too lazy. It serves me right if they are swiped.

The new photos will come up soon. That is what I'm taking my Easter Vacation to finish. I only have to edit a little bit more.

There was $900 worth of sushi that I had to pick up from a great sushi place recently. It was for the Asian Awareness group and the International Student Union's Obon festival. I picked it up and then I picked up a side order so that I could eat with another close friend. After I had my sushi with her I couldn't go for the essentially free sushi at Obon. Plus I took the time to finish my art paper that was due the next day. Oh and for anyone who doesn't know what Obon is, it is a celebration of the spirits or ancestors. At least that is my understanding. It is a Japanese event.

On another more personal point. Recently I went home to see my brother. I absolutely missed him and I'm glad that school gave me essentially what accounted to a five day weekend. I skipped my one Friday class to accomplish it. It was well worth it. My brother is in the army and is stationed abroad so I take the opportunities to visit him when I get them. Not to be morose or anything.

An idear

Quincy Mine

Glowing Angel

Cemetery Angel

Can you catch the theme? I enjoy them at least. I'm finding that I take many photos with that sun glare.  They will count towards my final at the end of class. We are also supposed to be working on a new panoramic that has a theme or adjustments done to it. Well I have an idea for it. It's really just taken from other artwork that I can't name at the moment. Hmm... I'm not going to tell you what I am going to work on. You will just have to be surprised.



There was something else I wanted to talk about. Last Saturday I went out to the fraternities to dance. Since this is a small town that is really the only place one can. I couldn't stop laughing. Not happy laughing. It was the kind of laughing like 'this is what humanity is?' I was laughing at the boys who wait on the sidelines for the girl that they want to dance with. I laughed at the girls that were so drunk they were stepping on people. I laughed at the girls that all were having sex with the guys against the wall. I was laughing at myself for putting myself in this situation, again. My friend that I went with ditched me on the floor to dance with a hottie. To me that is totally understandable (I am only slightly hurt). It isn't the first time this has happened. I am even guilty of playing the same act with another friend (I have only done that once in my life). It's all fun as long as you both know that. I was worried when my friend actually disappeared and I couldn't find her, but it ended okay so my worries were soundless. Well, my entire point was that there is just something hilarious with this scene but yet I crave it and want it. I want to be that girl that is grinding on the guy that gets the balls to ask a girl (me.) to dance (since I can't just go up to him so that means I get the creepers). Ah well I had fun that night. 



Me (on the right) and my friend



Mary Worth Sonnet

68
My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast
     Seeks for some ease, yet cannot passage find
     To be discharged of this unwelcome guest;
     When most I strive, more fast his burdens bind,
Like to a ship, on Goodwins cast by wind
     The more she strives more deep in sand is pressed
     Till she be lost; so am I, in this kind
     Sunk and devoured, and swallowed by unrest,
Lost, shipwracked, spoiled, debarred of smallest hope
     Nothing of pleasure left; save thoughts have scope,
     Which wander may. Go then, my thoughts, and cry
Hope's perished, Love tempest-beaten, Joy lost:
     Killing Despair hath all these blessings crossed.
     Yet Faith still cries, Love will not falsify.

This wasn't part of the reading for British Literature. We were reading Worth's but this one sonnet was not assigned. A pity since it caught my attention. I connect to it and I wished to share it. I want to say what this means for my feelings but I don't know how without sounding like a depressed, defeated, blabbering idiot so I will just leave it at read the final line more carefully for it is more positive (by a bit at least).

I am just in one of those moods where I read something more powerful.


An image found on a google search... "a siren's cove"