I've finally worked out the kinks in my new photography website. The pictures are big and you can actually see detail! From now on I'll be posting most of my photographs over there, so subscribe to the RSS feed or add me to your blogroll (or both!). The first few photos from my shoe diptych series are posted so head on over and take a look.
I learned a new technique in photoshop yesterday that I tried out on this photo. I've always liked this shot, but could never really get it to where I wanted it. The changes are not crazy, but noticable when compared to the original.
As much as I feel like living in Salt Lake is sucking the life out of me, I really do love Salt Lake City. There are so many things here that I love. The lights on temple square every Christmas are hands down one of my favorite things here. And now that I live just down the street, I get to see them every time I walk out of my house. Lovely! And I don't have to worry about crazy down town parking if I want to go see them because, hey, I can walk. Took some pictures last night and I really liked this one. The tree still has some leaves on it, so it looks especially red.
Also, on a completely different note, this is Jill, me, and Danny hanging out on Mars. We're supposed to be lost (that's why no one is looking at the camera) and clearly I didn't read the sign that said to stay on the trail. Whoops...
And Jill, Sam, and Danny on the moon:
And for the especially good news of the day - I went to talk to the Chemistry Undergraduate Secretary today and I found out that I do not have to take my senior comprehensive tests next week. Instead I'm scheduled to take them after finals. And she's letting me take them in a different order than most people take them in. I'm taking the Physical and Analytical ones the first day followed by the Inorganic and Organic ones. This is good because I'll probably need that extra time studying for the organic test. But to ease my fears, she said if I happen to fail it, I can take it again. So no worries.
My little sis just sent me some fantastic pictures of my siblings and I from years ago. Top one has Nathan, Steven (my uncle), myself (that is one sweet headband), and Lizzie.
This one is Lizzie, Nathan, and Jared.
Lizzie and I. I must say that my hair has absolutely never looked better than in this picture. I have got to bring back this look. I'll get right on that...
Just wanted to post a few pictures from this past weekend's Halloween mayhem. Mal as innocent Snow White, Ben trying to look like a sexy vampire (though the vampire teeth sort of kill it), and myself as jolly Santa.
Mallory as a not-quite-so-innocent Snow White.
Meghan, Lyndsi, Michael, and I. You can't actually tell from the picture, but Michael was extremely proud of the fact that he fit into his sister's pleather pants .
On a completely different note, I spent a freakishly long day in chem lab making these metal complexes. Twelve hours for this? I was completely jipped.
Although this is my last semester, I have unfortunately put off a couple of classes that I should have taken as a freshman or a sophomore. One of these classes is Physics 2 lab. Possibly the lamest class ever with the exception of Physics 1 lab. It doesn't help that I actually took Physics 2 about 2 1/2 years ago. But alas, I am forced to go for three hours a week and pretend that I really care about that class in the least. This past week we were doing an experiment with electrons inside a glass ball. I took this picture because we were trying to measure the radius with the mirrored ruler in the back. The picture didn't actually help with that, but I thought it was a kind of interesting picture anyway with myself reflected in it. Sort of a weird self-portrait.
A recent picture from the top of City Creek Canyon (one of my favorite places to go biking):
Since I lost my USB cable to my camera, I haven't really had any posts lately, but I'm working on ordering a new one from Sony. Hopefully I'll be able to start posting regularly again.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip to Yellowstone I made with my sister at the end of August.
The first three were taken in the early morning after a rainy night of camping. Yellowstone generally has a certain amount of fog since the ground let warm moist steam into the chilly morning air, but this was more fog than usual.
This one's a view from Upper Falls (Part of the Canyon Area of Yellowstone):
Amazing colors by a thermal pool:
A very tired looking Lizzie:
Woods at the end of an early morning hike:
Mallory and I were driving the other day and pulled up at a stoplight where this biker trailing a pair of stuffed gorillas was stopped next to us. How awesome and random! You can't see it, but on the other side of this gorilla is another slightly smaller female gorilla. I love it!
Really! I don't look like this all the time! We had this faux family feud thing last night where there were themed families and I was in the 70's family. Hence the sweet hippie look. I cut up a pair of old jeans, inserted fabric to make them into bell bottoms, and ironed on flower patches. I also made myself some love beads and got super cool sunglasses at Big Lots (one of the best stores ever!). It made me sort of wish I had lived in the 70's. It was fantastic to be decked out in tie dye. I think my favorite part was pulling up next to other cars while I was driving and seeing the people in them do double takes. The super tall shoes were a bit painful though, I must admit.
Once again, I have proved myself to be a full-fledged space cadet. It was raining when I went to school and I accidentally left my lights on the whole day. Needless to say, my car did not start when I tried to go home. Luckily my fantastic roommate Mallory decided to come help me out of the goodness of her heart. Someday I won't lock myself out of my car, run my car battery down, lock myself out of my house, etc. I had actually been doing pretty well until this little mishap. It had been almost 6 months since I did something of that sort.
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