Fog & Spider's webs

It was foggy yesterday morning when I got up. Completely contrary to my nature I went out and took some pictures before breakfast, and I’m glad I did!

I really like the idea of photo stories, so I thought I’d try it myself. It was all spur of the moment, and I didn’t know how long the fog would last; so I didn’t have time to come up with a very interesting story line. I thought I’d post the images here, though if you want to see a better one, click here.

I'm calling this The Adventurer.

I was on my way back to the house when I saw this spider’s web. Now I am not at all fond of spiders or their icky-spooky webs, but this bejewelled web is the exception.

#goodoneGod

Istanbul and Fish (but mostly fish)

We went to Istanbul for the weekend so we could finish our Christmas shopping and be out-of-dodge for a while. 

We went to the Mall of Istanbul for the first time. It's HUGE and has lots of English and American stores, plus an indoor amusement park. 

We also went through the Grand Bazaar and the pet market, which is near the New Mosque.  

The pet market was small and crowded. They had pretty much every pet there, fish, mice, rabbits, parrots, puppies, little birds, and even a few heritage chickens. 

I got some good pictures of the fish tanks:

Monthly Report Cards: November 2014 Goals

What? It's November? These past two months have flown by, goodness gracious!
On to my goals for this month.

Document my trip to Germany 
I read an article about documenting your train journey with photographs. They had some really neat ideas that I'm excited to try out.

Film another music video
Quinne and I already have another song in mind. We just have to get it done :)


Take a break from writing
I'm running out of ideas, time to take a break and recharge.

Draw 
 I haven't been doing this much. Plus I just of a Deviant art account. Yay for extra motivation!


You can read Johanna's here (well if she does one that is. hint hint ;) )

What I've been doing and pictures!

Goodness, I didn't realize it had been so long since I'd posted anything. But anyways, here I am, still breathing, so that's good.

I'm happy to say that I have several reasons for my absence.
 Naturally school is the first,

then probably drawing,

writing useless bits of fan fiction and photography.

Speaking of photography, I've been using my DSLR pretty regularly.

I took these today. (Since I don't have photoshop elements I've had to find another program to edit pictures. Fotor.com is fabulous if you want to change the colours/add filters/change the curve of the photo. But that's basically all the side does. I'm still looking for a program that will let me add Brad Pitt to the photo. There was talk about adding him to a certain group picture in front of a certain Trojan Horse, but I digress.

These next ones are older, the first one is from last night.

 

Cosplay: Elsa (More pictures)

The weather is pretending that it's winter already. That means cold, and very very windy. I mean, make you fall over windy.

So naturally, I saw a photographic opportunity. And it went really well. Except for that terrifying moment when my tripod fell over and my camera, my precious three month old camera landed on a rock. Let me tell you, that was really, really scary. However my camera sustained minimal damage. Only three dents and dings. Phew it could have been a LOT worse....


What is this post about? Elsa, OH RIGHT. Okay, pictures. Here they are (oh yeah, and I decided to forego the wig, 'cause let's face it;I was just not meant to be white blond):

Let's here it for random websites that allow you to add snow!

 

 I don't know which I like better, the origonal (this one)

 

Or this one.

 

 From the back

 

 

 I really like this one. :)

 

 

Night time photography

 

I love love love this picture, it took us several tries to get the wings the same shape.
-minor colour editing with Fotor.com-

 

I've experimented with painting with light before. It's an easy and entertaining technique. Just find a dark place, a slow shutter speed and something that emits light.

Now that I have a camera that has a limit of 30 seconds for a shutter speed instead of 8 I decided that I should give this trick another go. It was great fun! And I got some pretty interesting pictures. I decided that spamming my Flickr with pictures of the dark was not a good idea so I'm posting them here ;)

 This was not meant to be anything, just swirly and cool.

 A poor attempt at giving myself wings.

Structured designs are easier with two people. One person posing, the other person running the flashlight.

I really like this next one, I did everything myself. I posed, I ran the flashlight and I pressed the shutter. Also, I don't have photoshop, so all I did was adjust the the hue of the light a little bit.

 This picture is kinda creepy, but I'm really proud of it. :D

Elsa Cosplay: COMPLETE!

Thought I'd share a few photos from the first photo shoot.

I Bring You Photography!

Yes, I am working ...er obsessing on my Elsa dress.  I am almost finished the bodice I just need to make some bias tape.

Anyways I decided to take a day off, because
A. I needed it
B. It was Sunday

So instead of cutting fabric into strips and sewing them together I did some photography:

 pinning the lining of Elsa's bodice.

 Natural lighting and random fabric backdrop 

 Sarah brought me this necklace from Africa, is it fabulous or what?

Also I've been dying to put on war paint.

 I cleaned up my desk so I could take a picture of it. 

Pretending to write, because I want to write 

but I don't have any words in my brain. 

The Flickr Friday word was 'jet lag' so I took this photo.

Also, why on earth to my bangs feel like they have to stick straight out?

This concludes this post about photography. :)

Photo Shoot: Buddies

 

 Once upon a time on a rainy day in early September, there was a photo shoot. This photo shoot took place at the library, and the garden beside it. The people who took part in this photo shoot, were best buddies Quinne and Nicole. 

 We found a tree

Also, there was a bench.

 

 

...And then it started to rain, so we went inside.

 Love you Quinne (:

....We got stared at while we took this picture