Things are good, recently. I'm happy, life is good. Summer is here! Trying to get some sun, not having too much luck with that. I'm liking this whole no school thing though. Its nice. It gives me more time to do other things. Like catch up on all the sleep I missed throughout the past year. Even though I stay up til about 5 in morning now, sleep till 11, maybe. Its not bad, I like it for the most part. Still working a lot, but its really slow. I'm going to have to find a new job soon, there's no money in serving and gas is outrageous as I'm sure everyone knows. :/
Me and Jeff have been together for three months. It feels like its been a lot longer, even though its not that long at all. I didn't know someone could make me this happy. He just makes me feel good about myself. And he's so supportive with everything I do, especially mu photography. He doesn't really know much about it, but he helps me with certain things, which I'm really grateful for. He has my heart and I'm pretty sure I have his for the most part.

The amount of creative energy I have is INSANE. I'll be having conversations with Jeff and just come up with ideas out of the sky. Its really nice though, because this is something new. I used to get random ideas but not this much or at this level. I love it. I want to try and do something with the seven deadly sins. I watched the movie Se7en recently and I thought it would be a really neat idea to work with. I also like the idea of a modernized Snow White, which has been done a million times, but I'd like to try my hand at it. I also have an idea involving a Polaroid camera, which is another thing that's played out, but I'm still learning and you learn by trying, even if they are ideas that have been used a million times before.
I have a shoot tomorrow morning, with Whitney. I'm so glad Jordan gave her my number, because she's proving to be a really great model. On some of the other sites I've posted things on people say she seems to be a natural at it, and I agree. I'm looking forward to it, so expect to see the product of those in the next week or so. I also have a shoot with Karen&Jordan possibly this week, but we'll see.

I got a note in my inbox today saying that I was featured on someone's journal and sure enough I was :] It was some of the floral shots I've done. It's the first time anyone has ever featured me, so I was pretty excited about it, I won't lie haha. =WesleyGuijt <-- go check that out :]. A little while later, I got another one from =selizabeth and I'm also featured there :] And I want to thank everyone who has favorited, commented and critiqued any of my work lately. It means a lot :]

I also have the new feature up. The theme was basically just portraiture. I got a lot of responses, and these were the ones I picked out. Click the thumbs and visits these deviants' pages, they deserve it :]

Well school's out now. I royally messed up as far as that goes. I lost my scholarship. This next year though, I know what I have to do and I have every intention of doing so. I'm taking a photography class this next semester and I'm pretty excited about it. I just need to get a 35 mm camera, which is something that I'm saving for right now, but its still hard. With the economy the way it is, its really hard to make any money, especially since I wait tables.
In other areas of my, me and Jeff are doing really great. I haven't been this happy in a long time. Which I know that I've said before, but this is so different. He's amazing. I've felt a lot more creative lately and at any given time I have a million ideas floating around in my head. Its really great, I haven't been this way in a while. I think it has a lot to do with how happy I am.

I actually had two shoots, one on the 19th and one on the 20th, back to back. The one on the 20th with Tiffany and Whitney turned out really great. I realized then just how much I missed photography. The day before that was Jordan and Kelsey. Results of both of the shoots are in my gallery.
Hopefully I'll be able to do that eating disorder shoot with Karen at some point. I have a good ideas for that one, I just have no idea when I'm going to get to do it.
Jeff actually agreed to do a shoot with me, like a couples things. I have an idea of how i want that to turn out but we'll see. I'm pretty excited about it and surprisingly so is he. He's really supportive of everything I do, which is wonderful. So hopefully I'll have more to upload here soon. :] Be on the lookout.

I have no time to do anything it seems. School is kicking my ass, yet again. Work, is awful. I'm either not working enough or I'm working too much. Money situation is hard, I'm pretty broke right now. Even if I work, being a waitress is hard, because if people don't feel like tipping well, you're fucked. Its pretty bad. But I'm making the best of what I have.
Me and James, the guy that got me the neat camera I have broke up a while back. It was kinda shitty, but its fine now. I'm with someone else and he pretty much amazes me. Its been about a month, and things couldn't be better. I've cut out all the drama in my life, so that's a plus. I just wish I had more time for my photography.
But regardless, life is amazing and I'm perfectly content with everything.

I have a model that actually emailed me and wants to work with me. She's going to be modeling clothing from two different companies to see if they'll use them for press purposes. I'm pretty excited about it. She's gorgeous and seems really nice. I'm still playing around with ideas as we're planning out the time.
I also have a few other ideas I'm playing around with. I have some ideas with Karen, and Morgan. And Jeffa [boyfriend] is letting me take his picture, which is saying something. He's pretty, I'm sure those will turn out good.
The issue is time.
I hope this summer gives me more time.
But then, summer doesn't start until the beginning of May.
But we'll see. :]

I am simply in love. I love this new camera, its amazing. I've been sick for the past week, the last week of my break before I get back into classes. Its sad since I haven't been able to get anything done, or really experiment with my new toy :[ I did however attend a show, where I tried it out for the first time. The results of that are in the Band Photos link above :] I also did a shoot with Karen, those are also in my gallery. They turned out better than I ever thought they would. A few of them are in my gallery, in Portraiture. All of them can be seen on my Flickr site, which is in the side bar.

I have a few ideas that are in the works right now, but thats about all I can say. Its a matter of finding time between everyone's schedules. I have a few things with a few different people [Jake and Karen, Morgan, maybe Liz, Kiera..yea I have a few people] but there's no telling when any of this will be. More later :]