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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
here's
the portrait mike did of me! he helped in my efforts on father's day. I
framed the picture and gave it to my dad this past sunday :)
It
is indeed my most favorite portrait of myself. Not that I've had a
whole lot made, but it's a lot better than my senior portraits I think.
It helps to know the person behind the camera.
The title explains all.
Gazette + assignments = time.
among the other small things I've been doing.
and the fact I just don't feel there's a lot I can say here anymore without it being boring.
BUT I do have some cool news! I
got a NEW phone today. My mom and I got them. Well, Mike took me since
no one else would lol. It was so strange. They could do everything
without her there over FAX MACHINE. It's a cool phone. We had a $100
credit, $50 mail in rebate, and buy one get one free. So, we got two
$150 phones for free, weee! The woman asked me what I did most with my
phone and I said txt and pix so she picked one out with a good camera.
PHOTOMAAAAAN! I'd say the camera is decent...more so than my last phone.
Ooooh well...that's all. I have to meet Jennifer at the Gazette at 8am in the morning. Tired already too. Goodnight.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
A lot has happened since I last updated...that's all I'm going to say. I am alive however. It's been really busy lately.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Guess who got txt/pix put back on her phone?!
This would be correct...ME! Lovely sunset I saw this afternoon. My
phone is smokin' from all the usage. It's annoying how it will only
hold like 50 in my inbox. I get that in like two days!! Oh well. At
least I have it again.
Friday, May 26, 2006
today was hard.....but then fun.
woke up around 7:30 to an email from mike telling me I should probably
wear a dress for my assignment. I thought about it too, but I didn't
think about the fact I'd have to shave my legs and paint my toe
nails...ahhh!
Luckily, we were both running late.....we arrived at the Gazette at
9:30ish, he gave me some encouragement and got Jennifer in on it too,
and sent me on my way to The Loft.
The thing I shot today was the Webb Street School prom. Webb Street is a school for handicap kids.
It was hard...that's all I feel like saying...but I had fun and I
learned a lot...not just about camera shutters and ambient light either.
When I thought I was finished, I was walking to the parking lot and I
saw Mike. Strange...he came in hopes I would walk out and I did! lol. I
jumped in the car, he looked at what I had, and he sent me back out. I
love taking pictures but I was so worked up over everything by then...I
just wanted to sit there and listen to him talk. He wanted me to get
some shots of everyone eating so I went in once again and did my job. I
was soooo glad to see him though. It was a hard morning and he knew it
would be, but that's why he did it. I had major issues with flash and
lighting before, but I called and he told me to set my aperture to 4.0,
my shutter to 60, and use direct flash, and everything was okay after
that.
Favorites from today would be located on my flickr, so check them out
if you're interested. Otherwise, they'll run sometime next week I think.
We had lunch and talked about things and I was overly funny at Wendys I
guess lol. He laughed at me a lot...for the way I eat fries and for
saying I had a wave of pukeage or something. It was funny.
He had two assignments after that. One I just have to tell about.
People are soooo GRAND. He had to photograph this woman who was going
to be on Gimme the Mike Charlotte. She ran a hot dog stand in the Erwin
Center (area off 321) to pay her bills and stuff. She's a single
parent. She was sooo happy about Gimmie The Mike and Mike taking her
picture. It was wonderful...she sang for us and Mike snapped away. She
was so thrilled that she actually gave a hot dog away lol. It was
really, really cool...to think of how happy she was and how taking her
picture made her feel even more happier. Very cool! He said that was
one of the best things about photojournalism!
A random thing Mike and I saw yesterday driving to one of his
assignments made the front of the Hometown section today. That was
really funny. One of my pics and one of his only his was slightly
bigger than mine. Ah well he is the teacher/boss....hahahaaa.
There were crazy tornado warnings out here today....
Got txt and pix on my phone once again. I really only got it for one person since no one else really talks to me with txt.
I hung out with Candace and Ashly tonight. We ate at Sakes and went to
Books and Walmart. How typical! lol. It was fun though...in a
strange-missing-your-friends kind of way.
That would be my day today!
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Sunday, May 21, 2006
wet from sweat, rain, and tears
today was so wonderful in so many ways I can't say.....
but to sum it up.......
Did nothing really until 2, which is when I left for the Gazette to meet Mike.
Roger let me use is 1D to shoot today. It's a little different from the
D2000 I've been using, but still pretty similar. He warned me about his
wide lens getting stuck...which comes in later in my day lol.
We drove to Belmont to shoot the Garibaldi Festival.
It was fun, but HOT. We kind of split up for a while until he told me
he wanted to keep an eye on me. We sometimes took pictures of the same
things which was cool. This was my favorite from the day:
This is Hannah trying her luck at the ring toss!
I didn't feel the need to really have images since Mike was there, so I just had fun.
We left there and went to McDonald's. I was sooo thirsty by that point.
We laughed when we opened our drinks and there was only one ice cube in
each one...how strange is that? It drizzled. We talked about the
clouds. Isn't it funny how when the sun isn't touching some clouds,
they look fine and not scary at all, yet when the sun comes out, they
turn mean and ugly? Crazy contrast and light...crazy CEWL life...hmm.
I took my first steps toward using the computers at the Gazette today.
I only typed in the names, ages, and cities of the people I
photographed though.
While Mike stayed back to work on
images, I went back to the Garibaldi Festival to shoot a band (The
Coppertones!) playing. When I left, it was lightning...but I went on to
see if they were still doing it. The closer I got to Belmont, the
farther away the storm got.
Stepped out of my truck, headed
down to the stage......the clouds let loose. Everything they held
inside up until Belmont came down on us. It was crazy. Here I was with
this crazy expensive camera that wasn't even mine to really ruin
anyway...in a downpour...with no where to go lol. This world is full of
kind souls..some are just more kind than others.
This guy
noticed me trying to shove this huge camera up my shirt to guard it
from the rain, so he asked if I wanted to come stand under the table he
was holding above his head. I said yes and took his picture.....
The rain wasn't so bad actually. It made me feel happy.
The band did end up playing, but they didn't start until way closer to
6:15. I had to be back at the Gazette at 6:30. Sad because between 6:15
and around 6:25, this HUGE, DARK cloud rolled up behind us. My shutter
slowly dropped until I couldn't shoot anymore without a flash which I
didn't have. The lens Roger was telling me about before did indeed get
stuck, so I was limited to a long lens which was okay. It got windy and
the lightning started. I ran back to my truck. I already looked like I
had gotten out of a swimming pool from being in the rain the first time.
It hailed on my way back to the Gazette. I love storms...really. They make me think of wonderful things :))))))))))
Mike and I went to Rodi's after that. He let me watch him shoot this
band in low light (ahhhhhhh!!!!!) He had a lot to deal with. They
needed 5 or 6 images of a band... lol how many different shots can you
get? He did a portrait of them outside before they started though.
While we waited for them to start, we went inside the entrance of The
Loft away from all the crazy music and such and just talked. I like to
just talk...
The reason I say AHHHHHHH about low light is the
required use of fill flash. I'm not as lost as I was before tonight. I
found that Mike really does what I do...snap until you get the right
settings. Here's
one of the pics he took....We've decided on doing a photo excursion
together once a week. It's good for me to go since I learn, but also
good for both of us just because.
Something I've found out today...for my own good:
I HATE how everyone in this world seems to hold in their feelings. My
entire life I feel like I've been taught that in an almost subliminal
way because no one cries in front of you or really ever tells you how
they feel about you. Here I am now and I can't even speak when I'm
asked something as simple as "what are you thinking about?"
I cry.....a lot.
That's okay because that's what I feel.
I feel a lot.
...and I'm proud of my heart...my big, grand heart... :)))))
That's all I have for now. Who knows when I'll feel the urge to update again...maybe never.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
I haven't had this long of a day in quite some time...
I woke up at 7am and had to race down 85 in order to get to Ida Rankin
Elementary School in Mount Holly by 8. Okay, so I made it there by like
8:15, but I would have been better off getting there at 10 I think. The
people didn't start coming until then. I met a lot of wonderful people!
I had my 1st person tell me they didn't want their picture taken today,
but I didn't even think about it. I left around 10 or 11.
I stopped by my house before I went to Bessemer City. I didn't get a
chance to take a shower. I have a reason...I drove my mom's car to a
few places last night and left my cell phone in there and she went to
work from 11pm-7am so I had no cell alarm. She woke me up when she got
home which was actually around 7:15 so yeh...didn't have time and I
didn't stink lol. I felt a lot better after that.
I parked at Kenz's house since she lives so close to downtown Bessemer
City. She met me...and I'm SO glad she did. I felt I let loose more
here than I did in Mount Holly, and it showed in my pictures. She
helped me carry all my junk around. Life SAVER! Her mom and dad bought
me a hot dog...it was the best hot dog I had ever eaten because I
didn't have time to eat up until then. I had to stop taking pictures to
eat or else I was going to fall over.
I found a lot of cute kids there. My favorite shot of the day turned
out good except the mistake of the camera. That's right everyone...it
was the CAMERA'S fault this time. Here's the image...
Probably doesn't look horrible from that, but the top of the jumping
girl's head is out of focus because of the lens I was using. It had
strange falloff...like on a holga! lol. Not the effect I wanted in
this, at all!!!! Oh well. We saved it anyway.
I left Kenz's for the Gazette around 1:30...had to be there by 2. No,
1:45 lol. Mike had just got there when I did. Interesting looking at my
images today. I don't believe they were as impressing as the pictures I
took at Anna's strings performance, but I did try. I was okay with what
I had done, but I felt I could do better. I guess Mike could tell
something was wrong with me and he did pretty much point out how I was
feeling. I'm expecting to be so perfect at something I've only been
doing for a few days. A lot of things I just didn't think about and
ended up feeling really stupid over. But, he told me not to get
discouraged. So, I'm not. I'm going to get better and learn from the
mistakes I made today. What else can I do?
One thing that feels weird is everyone else is so much older...everyone
that does this. I'm the youngest person ever at the Gazette. Mike tells
me that's an advantage though. I'm just going to have to get over it.
I left around 3 or 4, went home, and tried out the new lens Mike gave
me since the other one had the strange falloff effect. Before I knew
it, it was time to go to Brooke's house...
I went with her up to the vet to help her do kennel duty so we could
get back home and EAT. I was hungry. That's a dirty job right
there...cleaning out kennels that have pee and poo in them.
The funniest thing of the day lol...Madison is such a character. She
was going to say the blessing before we ate. She got set up, folded her
hands, shut her hands...everything. What comes out of her mouth?...."A,
B, C....oh that's the wrong one!!" It was SOOOOOO HILARIOUS! We laughed
at her so much lmao. She got it right the 2nd time around :).
When I got home, I found Maroon 5 not swimming around. I didn't feel
flushing him was appropriate, so I burried him outside my window. I had
to admit I shed tears while saying goodbye to my music loving fish. The
empty spot on my desk makes me want to cry more.......I'm never having
anymore pets. It hurts too much to loose them and that's all that seems
to be happening lately. I hate it. But... R.I.P. Maroony...I love
you....:'(
I'm winding down now. I feel like crying but I don't even have the energy to do that. I'm going to bed...very, very soon.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
What did I do to deserve all this?
Today has been so good and so bad all at the same time.
Guess who was late getting to the Gazette today...by like 10 minutes.
Mike looked at the pictures I took with the digital camera he's letting
me borrow. He was pleased that I was able to use it. We uploaded the
pictures to this one computer and I put them on flickr from there. They
were private so I could only see them when I got home to save them and
add them slowly. Flickr is a wonderful thing to use when trasnfering
images from one computer to another!
I met this one guy that works at the Gazette...we talked a lot while
Mike fixed my images on photoshop. It was so funny. He and another guy
talked about how Mike was the best out there and I had a good teacher
for this. I agree...he amazes me at how good he is lol.
I was talked with about my being late. He didn't fuss at me, but he
brought up the importance of being on time. I wanted to hide, but I
took it like I should because I was the one who was late. I'm over it
now. I'd rather hear it from him than anyone else too. Afterall, it is what it is!
After Mike walked me outside, I headed to Teall's. They weren't home
when I got there so I reflected on the happenings of the morning so far
while looking at this newspaper magazine (that's funny) Mike gave me.
Mme Teall, Julia, and Laura came home shortly. I walked outside to
greet them and Laura was the only one in the car. I just felt weird up
until I walked up to the window and Laura got this huge smile on her
face. I love to make people smile and I love when people are glad I'm
there. I got her out of her car seat and I just wanted to squeeze her
so much lol. It makes me want to cry to think about it. I sat her down
inside and she TOOK OFF! Laura's now a walking fool and it's quite
funny to see her walk around the house :).
I hung around for a while. Mme Teall and I chatted. Anna came home soon
after that. They had to start packing since they planned on leaving for
Hilton Head after Anna's strings performance. The funniest thing said
at their house today was when Julia hit Anna. Mme Teall was going to
fuss at her but she had to tell her to do 1 thing first...
"Julia, pull up your pants and come here!"
It was pretty funny and makes me smile.
I left around 4 to go get a fill flash at Mike's and to learn about it.
It's meant for my Nikon, but it sorta-kinda works on the Canon. I took
some random pictures of Lena with it and figured out I'd just have to
play with it in order to get things right. I hung out with her for a
bit and we enjoyed and laughed at the craziness that is myspace lol.
I got back to Teall's at around 5 or 5:30. Dennis was home by then. I
had the urge to go out and snap some pictures of them interacting. It
was just cute. Mme Teall's mom came over shortly to help load up the
van for Hilton Head.
Anna and I left before everyone else so she could get to Brookside on
time. I set up the Canon...or tried to. I eventually got things
right...I think. We'll find out tomorrow when I show Mike what I got.
Everyone liked the pictures though. I had a lot of fun watching them
and taking their pictures...
I'm shooting 2 things Saturday....ahhh! I can do this though.
Maroon 5 isn't going to be living much longer I don't think. He has
dropsy. There's nothing you can do about it either. He's still eating
and he still swims, but he looks see through and his scales are up. All
I know to do is keep the music playing for him like I have for a year
now. I'm not having anymore pets. It's too hard to loose them and it
hurts so much.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
I
didn't think I'd be as let down about leaving painting for the last
time tonight, but I am. I ended up making an over all A (93) for the
entire class. I'm proud of myself. He said my final really brought me
up since he gave me a 95 on my series. He LOVED it lol. I wasn't even
100% finished, but I think the fact that I stayed until 9:30 working on
it was enough. But, it was sad to pull out of Gaston for the last time
tonight...the last time for real class. It was sad to leave Michelle
and everyone even though I'm sure I'll see her over the summer
sometime. It was sad to tell Jeff and Susan goodbye too...and even
Butler. I'd like to take painting 2 because I do enjoy painting. We'll
have to see how digital photo works out though. I only want to take
painting with Butler.
I got to school around 4. I guess I felt I should be there since that's
when photo would usually start. Haha, no, I had some things to do. Mike
wasn't sure how the chemistry would be when I got there, so I waited on
him to get there. While I waited, I got the pinhole out! As soon as I
started, though, he pulled up. Let's just say the digital camera he's
letting me borrow for this weekend WON'T fit in my camera bag lmao.
Very, very intimidating. He showed me the basics about and while he was
doing so, Michelle came up. We were both a little wide-eyed at the
grandness that is this camera lol. He wanted me to go out and take
pictures of things so I did...but he watched. I forgot him staring
behind me when I started shooting though, which was strange. Tomorrow
I'm going to shoot all day with it. Thursday, I'm taking it to the
Gazette to show Mike what I've come up with. All these new things are
being thrown in my direction. It's exciting but scary at the same
time...
Michelle and I hung out the rest of the afternoon...well, until I had
to go to painting. We went to McDonald's and stayed in the darkroom. I
was so glad she was there. I hate being along after Mike and I talk
about my possible future lol. I don't know why though. It was just nice
to hang out with her too. We printed and listened to The Fray and
talked about random things inbetween discussions on burning certain
areas of a print. I'm gonna miss her when she's gone to Greece...
Mme Teall called when we were on our way to McDonald's. She wanted me
to come to a t-ball game, but I had to go to painting when it started.
I'm going to Anna's strings performace on Thursday though...just have
to get some gas somehow.
Everyone in painting was scrambling around to write their papers.
Butler announced he was taking 35 pts off if we didn't have it lol. I
was waiting for Jeff to get to school to write mine. He had a paper I
needed which I later got from someone else. He didn't get there until
like 7! We both sat in the back of the darkroom writing the papers
which Butler said were nice haha.
I painted hard tonight. By the time everyone else had gone and left, I
was tired. Butler decided to just look at what I had. He suggested a
few finishing touches on them but otherwise liked them a lot. I was
proud of myself and I think he was too! :)
That's all...my mom wants to get on the computer now.
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 Name: Brittany/Céline
Age: I'm 18 and old
Location: NC, USA
A little about me... I'm in love with photography. It's my favorite thing to do in the world. I feel I live my life looking through my cameras now. I also love music and my favorite, of course, is Céline Dion. I love to spend time with my friends. I'd be lost without them. I'd also be lost without my zoo..., Nila (dog), Caesar (hamster), PC (cat), and Nikon (betta fish). If you'd like to know more, get to readin'!!
I still love you TJ, Kloie, Vegas, & Maroony!
 
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