All Set!

I found this little message in my inbox yesterday morning:

"Student,

Your graduation application has been received and reviewed. As long as you pass the classes you are currently enrolled in you should be eligible for graduation. Your application will still go through your faculty mentor, department chairman, the Dean of the College and graduation office for final review. You will be notified if there are any concerns or problems.

Congratulations on making it this far!

Business and Communications Advising"

I'm really graduating!

It's really going to happen.

I don't mind.

In honor of graduations, here is a photo of me after my high school graduation:

Just Savoring The Last of Summer

There has been a chill in the air lately, but today has been such a beautiful day. I got to school a little early this morning, and I didn't even need a jacket. I was loving the sun on my skin, and so I decided to stay outside and enjoy it while it lasts. Don't worry, I busted out my new point-and-shoot camera to test it out and to capture some of the things that made me smile.

[Side note: There will be a whole post coming up soon. It will be all about my new camera and what I plan to do with it :]

I know, I'm getting spoiled. Be prepared to see pictures of snow next week. "When in Rexburg, prepare for the worst..." That's my motto!

Re-Design

Tonight, I started the dreaded blog re-design. It's been the same forever, and I got really sick of the old heading. So here's to a new and improved Life. Photography. Adventure!

At the moment, the tabs are mostly empty, but I'll be adding content soon. Anyone know how to modify and adjust tabs? I swear blogger loves to mess with my alignments!

Even though right now my blog isn't getting a HUGE readership, [which I'm okay with, btw] I figure I'll make it look more professional. I'll make it look like it is getting lots of readers, and then maybe the readers will come. A little self fulfillment prophecy? Possibly.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions? You like the new look?

Time for bed :)

P.S. There isn't really a photo to go with this post, but the page looks weird without one, so here's a gem from way back when my love for just was just barely beginning to grow a tiny blossom:

Aren't we so cuuuuuute? :]

Self Portrait

Just in case you wanted to see my final self portrait:

It's actually four pictures put together in Photoshop, mostly using masks. I didn't alter or destroy any of the actual pixels.

Photo #1: Me on the right, you know the Photographer...

Photo #2: The me on the left, model extraordinaire...NOT :)

Photo #3: The me in the middle, the master Mac user/editor/writer...

Photo #4: The me on the right's shadow [when I took that picture, the sun went behind a cloud so my shadow disappeared. It looked unnatural without it, so I went out and took a shadow photo around the same time on another day to try and recreate it]... Does it look realistic? Hopefully you didn't notice. I made it a little lighter than the others, because I didn't want it to distract from the lovely me-in-the-middle...