Title: Surfer Girl
Title: Future Joy of Being Married: No Guy Roommates
Title: Alaskan Weed (not that kind of weed)
The box of toys is from my dad's youth (going through our stuff at grandma's has provided ample escapes from reality). Each object has a memory, a fast escape route to neverneverland. I took the box outside to get natural light, then warmed the colors to show age.
You always hear the comment that "You can see the light in their eyes", so I wanted to actually capture the reflection of light in someone's eye. I pretty much just stared at a light bulb for way too long and took the picture using my point and shoot camera on the digital macro setting. I then cropped it and changed it from color to sepia tone.
existence-- we were intelligent enough, as spirits without bodies and without much experience to understand that there was a difference between the Lord's way, and any other way besides that. But Heavenly Father sent us to earth so that we could sense, with our whole selves, of His plan, and that it His plan is Perfect. Although sometimes we only want to have joy in our lives, every experience-- whether dark and trying, or full of brightness-- helps us understand what it means to have it. The Lord sent us here because he loves us. This is the way for us to obtain perfection. This is the way for us not only to have eternal happiness, but to know it. 
I remember in Jr high when I was required to read this book. I just remember our teacher talking about how censorship was bad and that this book was great. The whole time I was just thinking that I wish I didn't have to read a book with so much profanity in it... perhaps a censored version would have been better? So when someone prevents one from reading something it is called censorship. When one is forced to do something against their own will it is called... jr. high? Anyhow; I didn't like the book and have always wanted to burn it. This week my dream came true. 
This is not really a great picture, but this is something else I have always wanted to do. I totally drew the smiley face on my first try! (I used my cell phone in case you were wondering. To get the eyes I turned the phone around so the light did not show).
This was a hard week to get a good picture of light because it has been cloudy or rainy all week. I managed to take a picture of some fire lamps.
as i explained at Blair's house, i was too shy to ask anybody else to let me take a photo of them. so naturally, i had to be both photographer and subject. i had so much fun.
For hike night we went to Arctic Valley. On the top of one of the mountains were some cool old buildings with this cement thing just outside the fence. Rebecca just crawled in because who would not want to climb in an old cement structure with a hole in it? I applied a filter in the Gimp to tweak the lighting.
I was trying to play around with some different settings on my camera and I was the most willing subject so I just took pictures of myself... I applied some light filters then converted to B&W.
This was at Nancy lakes when we took a break. I was looking for leaves with water on it. I didn't like this at first but I liked the detail of the hairs coming out of the leaf. The background was already pretty dark, but I darkened it more to make it look black.
