Davidson River - October, 2011

     I know, I know, this is pathetic..  I promised pictures over break, and here I am writing this post the day before I have to go back to boring old monotony.  In my defense, I worked for the first two weeks, and there were cousins here over Christmas weekend.  But this last week I've hardly done anything, so I don't really have an excuse there. 
     I wasn't very happy with these pictures, because the ones with a good angle and lighting were blurry, but I got a couple that I liked. So, finally, here are some pictures.

This isn't a very good picture, but I thought it looked cool.

Excuses, excuses...

     So I haven't posted in nearly two months, and you probably saw this and thought, "Ooh, pictures!"... and then you got disappointed when there were no pictures.  I do have pictures I need to post, and I've had them for a solid month (at least).  Unfortunately, they won't be up for another several weeks, when I might finally be able to make time for it.  In the next couple of weeks I have a Geometry test, a Chemistry test, lab, and lab report, and a quiz, test, and ten-page paper in Government. I've had a lot to do in the past few weeks, as well, but I probably could have found time to something on here..  I've been neck-deep in Paolini's newest book, Inheritance, since Thursday and I just finished it today.  It's awesome... until the end.  But I won't give out any spoilers.

     Since this post is rather rambling and reasonless, I might as well throw in some late Thanksgiving elements, with one category of things that I'm thankful for: nights. Nights up late next to the fire; nights up late with a book; nights when those are combined; evenings spent playing video games, watching TV, and hanging out with my neighbor/one of my best friends; nights spent chatting with my other best friend until the early morning; nights spent out in the living room with the warmth, smell, and orange glow of the fire in the stove on one side, and the lights and smell from the Christmas tree on the other (...this only applies to the years we have a tree, of course); evenings spent at my grandparents house with the best family and extended family ever... Nights when I can't sleep through the happy, contenting throb of thoughts and dreams swirling around in my head.  These are the best nights in the world.  I'm thankful for friendship - I lost one for several months this summer, and I'm so glad I have it again.  And after being around people (especially my neighbor/best friend) that have been hurt by two suicides in the past few months, and seeing how much pain is caused by it... I'm thankful for life. 

     So there you go, a post.  Again, I'm sorry I haven't done much with photography lately... I'll see what I can do over Christmas break to make up for it.  Until then, I've got nothing.  My cousin had an idea a while back for a photo-a-day challenge, so maybe we'll try that... Ideas, people?

Photowalk 2011

     Last weekend my dad and I went on a photowalk through Downtown Greenville.  I didn't get a ton of good shots, but it's something.  Tell me what you think!

A Weekend in the Mountains

This past weekend we took a family vacation to the mountains - we stayed in a "cabin" (it was bigger than our house) belonging to my mom's coworker.  Jessie came up Friday night and stayed all day Saturday, and we went kayaking, had several foosball tournaments, and generally had fun.  There was a huge back deck with tiki torches are the rail, which gave me my source of pictures for the weekend.

 This one was disappointing - it looked awesome on my camera screen, but it was just too grainy on the computer. 

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics of the lake.  I was nervous about taking my camera out in a kayak - it's waterproof, but I wouldn't get it back if I dropped it.  We're still hoping to go to the Davidson sometime soon, but I don't know when.  At this point, I'll settle for any river in NC - the leaves should be starting to change, and it'll be beautiful soon. Anyways, sorry for the lack of posts lately.  Hopefully things will pick up soon.  Tell me what you think!

New Site!

I now have a Facebook page for my photography!  However, I won't be giving up on the blog world - on the contrary, new pics are likely to pop up on my blog before going to Facebook to be sold.  I will be making another page on this blog with a link to my Facebook page, along with some photography.  I also have some ideas for new pics, but we'll see how that turns out.  In the meantime, feel free to visit my page and tell me what you think over there! 

Tiny Visitor

     This little bugger was found at the bottom of the ladder off the pier.  And when I say "little", I'm not joking.

     He doesn't look very happy, does he?  In the first picture he looks like a baby box turtle, but we think he's a snapper judging by his claws.

     Because of his species, he is not going to be a permanent resident.  We're probably going to release him in South Rabon creek back behind our house or below the spillway at Rabon.  Still, he's a nice photography subject, though more than a little unwilling.

He was wiggling around the whole time, so I didn't get many good pictures.  It was hard to tell if he was mad or curious the whole time, but I'm guessing the former.

Still No Pictures?!?

I'm going to have to put off posts for a little while.  Hopefully it won't be too long, but no guarantees.  With school starting I'm gonna be busy, and it'll take a while to get back in the swing of things.  I did notice that a few trees are beginning to turn colors, and I'm hoping that means we'll have an early and awesome Fall this year.  I'm going to get out and find more picture opportunities soon.  We didn't get to go to the Davidson, but I'm going to want to go for my birthday in a month, so I will have more pictures from there before too much longer.  I was considering taking my camera back to the creek near my house in the attempt to get a few more, but it looks as if another dam has been constructed, so there's not enough left for good pics.

On a different note, my dad told me to think about having my own section or something in his Facebook page, which I am considering.  I've also been kind of curious.  Someone I know has an Etsy photography shop, and it got me thinking.  I'm curious if there would be any interest in buying prints of my photography.  I know it's not much, and some of what is there isn't what you would normally see on someone's wall, but I'm just curious.  There are a few that I think would make good prints, but I really want to know what everyone thinks, so let me know!