im not feeling too creative on the titling lately. oh well.

i finally finished posting my thirty-ish photos from my day at a garden on the mississippi. it took me days just to wade through the 322 photos, and it was even harder to pick out the best of them~ there were just too many good ones. with that, im pleased to conclude that im getting better at this whole photography thing. which is funny and sad, since im just now figuring my way through it and relying less and less on photoshop, but i already have my bachelors degree in art photography, haha. good thing i spent $17k just to finish school and THEN start learning my trade.

thats alright though, im happy with my progression. not only with my smaller, single piece photos, but also with my panoramas. i see i still havent posted my vertical panorama, i need to go find the file and do that. my last horizontal pan was 159 inches long. i personally am only 65 inches long. pretty intimidating. its currently hanging in a gallery in central minnesota.

speaking of that, my fifth showing of my work this year was an Art War, where my work and wit was pitted against my fathers. it was decided to be a truce, since the visitors didnt want to hurt anyones feelings. only a small handful of people had the spine to pick a side, haha. it was a good debate though, and hopefully sometime soon ill have a copy of the video taken of the whole thing. i should post some photos of it in my scraps here. i also have some photos of me from a talk i gave at a show memorial day 2007, i should make a place for those as well.

i think i would like to start working more with portraits. if i can work with people like i can with flowers and landscapes, i think ill be pretty much rounded out. i should go back and try to work on more book photos, too. maybe i need to take my cam into a library...

and i found out a few days ago that im no good at photography when im drunk. its a good thing to know, i think!

i guess i'm just lucky, but i see that i just turned over the ten-k mark for pageviews. i'd just like to say thanks to everyone for that. i appreciate it more than can be expressed at 1am.

I just felt like I should update this. I have gotten way deep into my writing, my photography has even turned to still-lifes of books and my manuscripts. It's sick but I LOVE it. I love surrounding myself with it all. My third novel is the farthest along, at a whopping 92 pages and counting. Which I believe translates into roughly 153 paperback pages? With no consideration of chapters and such and such as books have.

Life has been stressful and repeatedly I find myself writing about someone or other getting their hearts torn out or heads chewed off. Literally, I'm writing a vampire novel and one of the main characters is currently insane and animal-like. Which I personally find humorous in it's own way. But at the same time, when I write a scene where she gets turned on by watching her mate strangle someone to death, I have to wonder if I will ever be able to publish that. Perhaps it's a bit too rough for the masses of twelve year olds who have consumed twilight (yay twilight! <3) like fire consumes dry grass.

I feel a little bitter today, it seems. I wonder why. On the upside, perhaps by the time I get published, the twilight hordes will be old enough and angsty enough to handle some serious death. Or maybe I will be the only one to read my own books. insert shrug here.

Back to my book photography. I really should post at least one photo up to show it, since it's become my new obsession. okay, there. there's the first one. I have like twenty others or something, so keep a watchful eye towards the horizon, and by horizon I mean my gallery.


God, writing again makes me sound so pompous. >_>

i dont have an actual job, and its really bumming my husband out. ha ha. ive been keeping busy, though. you may notice that i have named myself a fantasy writer at the top of my devart page. ITS TRUE. i hope.

i started writing a novel. so far ive got about 50 paperback pages done, and thats without formatting and proper paragraphs, and its not even finished yet. any advice on publishing would be VERY appreciated.

i had a memorial day show with my dad. i entered one piece (I Miss You and Love You) and my dads work filled the rest of the art center. i even gave two speeches there about my piece, what it means, that sort of thing. then one of the board members publicly offered me a solo show! sweet!

also, ive been working on editing my wedding photographs. yes, i have to do my own editing because the studio did a job that was absolute crap. whats wrong with them? they are supposed to be professionals!

ive done a little photography work, it turns out i have an interesting relationship with death. im fascinated and incredibly terrified of it at the same time. i always expect dead things to come back to life. i think it started when i was in seventh grade, and my dad shot a rabbit. he told me to go pick it up, and i, completely unafraid, went to do so. he told me to pick it up by the back legs, and when i did, the nerves fired and it kicked. i screamed and dropped it. and i *think* thats what caused it. plus of course all those violent video games and movies and tv shows that society blames for its own shortcomings. so yeah, odd relationship with death. and i have (thus far) enjoyed taking photographs of it.

plus i finally gave in and have a print account here on deviantart. so go take a look, maybe youll be interested in buying something there. if i have anything youd like to purchase a print of (or something like that) but its not set up as a printstore item, please let me know, and i will set it up.

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1. Demonicat

An awesome person or someone who owns everyone at the game they play

Dude you are such a Demonicat!

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i thought that was pretty interesting. granted it was written by someone under the name "Demonicat" but i assure you it wasnt me. i capitalize my "C". but still. nice to see.

side note: im beginning to seriously attempt my hand at photography. and im changing my major to photography. exciting!