After Christmas I got to go hang out with Joy and Lamar for a week.
I didn't get to go swimming.
The San Diego tournament happened without me...
For the first time in six years.
Chip was really glad to see me when I got home.
I like both of my classes for winter term.
132 days until Indiana Jones comes out.
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
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November 5, 2006
Unexpected
When people ask me if I have ever wanted to go to the Olympics I've always said no. I only do floor, so it really wouldn't be practical. But, that isn't quite true anymore. The dreams that I never had, somehow, they are starting to exist. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would compete at all in gymnastics, let alone be going to states. It just doesn't seam real. Awards are given out by 1-9, 10, 11, and 12 and up... yeah, I would venture to say that I'm probably the oldest person to compete level 5 in a long time... if not ever. And I'm going to states.
Here is another photographer that I really like. It is mostly China/Korea, but there are a lot of amazing pictures.
Here is another photographer that I really like. It is mostly China/Korea, but there are a lot of amazing pictures.
October 16, 2006
Tom Stone
A good place to visit if you want to see portraits that will challenge the way you see, is the Tom Stone Gallery. You can also pick him up where I first found him, on flickr.
This is what he says: " i photograph people who skirt the edges of things; people whose connection to the broader flow is murky or obscured. mistaken as more, less or different than they are; they aren’t really seen and don’t really belong. that’s everyone sometimes; but some more often. i try to establish a line for a moment. i hope to connect. and i see the most beautiful and the most heartbreaking things.
This is what he says: " i photograph people who skirt the edges of things; people whose connection to the broader flow is murky or obscured. mistaken as more, less or different than they are; they aren’t really seen and don’t really belong. that’s everyone sometimes; but some more often. i try to establish a line for a moment. i hope to connect. and i see the most beautiful and the most heartbreaking things.
to my thinking, the original human trauma is our separation. we are too close not to need each other; and too far to trust each other. we rely on dubious senses and clever devices to interact; but we are alone in our thoughts. lonely, insecure and uncertain; we pair, we group, we associate. we try to belong and we seek to exclude. we form bonds by geography, religion, economy and otherwise. but it is all precarious. we come together and we drive apart.
and we climb our ladder. we step away from those who don’t belong and help those who do. we are connected rung by rung – though less and less – as we push and pull. but some do not climb; and below, the earth is littered with them. they fit too poorly. they stand apart. they stand without.
and what of them; these ones who don’t belong or who are excluded; who don’t fit or don’t try? is there nothing they value? is there nothing of them we value? i count it as a measure of our ignorance, the depth of poverty in the world. it’s a glaring marker to how far we have not come. yet it has also driven our advance; on less fortunate backs and against less fortunate fate.
but is there really no connection there? does such fate – whether choice or circumstance – speak nothing of us? tell me we do more than advance in place; with so many left behind. or promise me we can do better. say we can reflect ourselves; us and them... that we can see the ways we overlap and distinguish the ways we grow apart. and pledge that we can learn; to fit all of our misshapes; to reward value beyond charity and beyond the marketplace; to be better to each other; to be better ourselves. and promise me it could be a better world. or tell me we are at our best."
September 1, 2006
Joy is Ditching
Yes, Joy is leaving me for a whole semester, which is very incredibly sad, and I think that I may just go insane.
(Oregon pictures are up)
(Oregon pictures are up)
July 31, 2006
So many things to do and so little time
Well, I think that this will be a post full of a whole bunch of things. Fun things, happy things, and sad things.
Communication with Technology
First of all I must say when I get home I feel so useless, it doesn't really matter what it is that I am coming home from, as long as I have been gone for any amount of time I feel like I spend my life catching up on everything... but it seems as though I catch up with technology not with life. I spend so much time on my computer, checking emails, looking at the pictures my friends have put up, reading through blogs, checking the news, looking at webpages, downloading pictures, charging my ipod. It all just throws itself on top of me, especially when I am coming back from someplace where I am completely away from technology, and then... I sit here and soak myself in it again. It makes me feel very empty sometimes, and yet here I am writing on more technology, my blog.
Outpost 007
Next I guess would be camp, I'm home and extremely tired, but re-couping. We got home Saturday around noon and then Joy, Dad and I went sailing the rest of the day. Then on Sunday I was gone pretty much all day so, consequently I didn't wake up until around 10:30 today. Camp was amazing though. Outpost in my opinion is the best camp at Calvin Crest, as long as you can brave the dirt, hiking and mosquitos. It was an awesome week. A little challenging being as we had some boys that were a bit rough and did a lot of fighting, but that changed a lot by the end of the week. There was a lot of growth for the kids I think, it was beautiful to watch them change in such a short amount of time, and I pray that when they go home that they won't change back. We did lots of hiking, swimming, hanging out, playing cards, singing, getting bit by mosquitos, sleeping in the dirt, and just having fun. We had a great trip up to Iron lakes on thursday, a great hike in and some lunch then swimming, diving, swimming, diving. It was beautifully clear as usual and just a little bit of snow still up at the top of the mountain. Gorgeous. Pictures will be up later today methinks. I was a little bit worried about our group being as they basically all came with Trinity (only 6 weren't) but it was pretty good. Everyone became great friends and not everyone that came with Trinity actually go to to church there so they still got to hang out with new friends. I was surprised by the group too, there wasn't much complaining, or at least not as much as I thought there would be (there is quite a bit of hiking). I would definately put this week as my best experience being a counselor at Calvin Crest so far. Yup, yup, all in all a great week.
Gymnastics
Well, apparently my toe is doing better. It got a little bit sore on some of the hikes at Calvin Crest but it didn't really hurt so I think it's doing good. I did my first round-off yesterday that I have done in almost 5 weeks I think it is now. That made me incredibly excited because I have completely missed gymnastics even though I've been doing it a lot I haven't been able to tumble at all. Hmmm... yes, makes me very happy. I have 12 days until my first gymnastics competition. Well, it's not really a meet, it's only the practice meet, but I'm still really nervous about it because I have been gone for a week, and haven't done my floor routine for five weeks, and I still can't vault, but all shall be well. Hopefully.
A philosophy on photography
Well, recently as I was looking at some pictures it struck me that I think of some people who take pictures as just that, people who take pictures, and others as photographers. I haven't quite decided what the difference is yet though. I think part of it has to do with taking pictures because it looks cool, or taking pictures to capture beauty. The other part of it is how many pictures they take. But, I must say that its hard for me to enjoy some places without my camera. THat's why I made it a point not to carry my camera around at Ashram, I needed to just get the imaginary picture frame out of my head and enjoy life without thinking about how my life would look in a picture. Yeah, I don't know if that made sense to anyone, but that's ok if it doesn't.
The Blessings of Life
I have been struggling a lot in the past year and a half or so with the concept of death. I don’t know if there really is a way to completely understand death, even if you have seen it first hand, because we can never know what it is to die… cuz then we’d be dead. There are very few people who have ever been dead and come back to life, and I am not one of them, so I really don’t know what it’s like. It seems as though the degenerate nature of our bodies has only in recent years become something real. I know that my mind cannot grasp the reasons, though there are many, that there cannot be an eternity here on earth, or even that there cannot be a few more years, a few more months… a few more minutes. Yet the pain lingers on, forever as it seems. Maybe that’s how it supposed to be, I don’t know. But my heart still breaks when I look at those I love and see that they are slowly slipping, becoming older, forgetting.
Well... I think that's it for now. I love you all and miss you lots and lots too.
Communication with Technology
First of all I must say when I get home I feel so useless, it doesn't really matter what it is that I am coming home from, as long as I have been gone for any amount of time I feel like I spend my life catching up on everything... but it seems as though I catch up with technology not with life. I spend so much time on my computer, checking emails, looking at the pictures my friends have put up, reading through blogs, checking the news, looking at webpages, downloading pictures, charging my ipod. It all just throws itself on top of me, especially when I am coming back from someplace where I am completely away from technology, and then... I sit here and soak myself in it again. It makes me feel very empty sometimes, and yet here I am writing on more technology, my blog.
Outpost 007
Next I guess would be camp, I'm home and extremely tired, but re-couping. We got home Saturday around noon and then Joy, Dad and I went sailing the rest of the day. Then on Sunday I was gone pretty much all day so, consequently I didn't wake up until around 10:30 today. Camp was amazing though. Outpost in my opinion is the best camp at Calvin Crest, as long as you can brave the dirt, hiking and mosquitos. It was an awesome week. A little challenging being as we had some boys that were a bit rough and did a lot of fighting, but that changed a lot by the end of the week. There was a lot of growth for the kids I think, it was beautiful to watch them change in such a short amount of time, and I pray that when they go home that they won't change back. We did lots of hiking, swimming, hanging out, playing cards, singing, getting bit by mosquitos, sleeping in the dirt, and just having fun. We had a great trip up to Iron lakes on thursday, a great hike in and some lunch then swimming, diving, swimming, diving. It was beautifully clear as usual and just a little bit of snow still up at the top of the mountain. Gorgeous. Pictures will be up later today methinks. I was a little bit worried about our group being as they basically all came with Trinity (only 6 weren't) but it was pretty good. Everyone became great friends and not everyone that came with Trinity actually go to to church there so they still got to hang out with new friends. I was surprised by the group too, there wasn't much complaining, or at least not as much as I thought there would be (there is quite a bit of hiking). I would definately put this week as my best experience being a counselor at Calvin Crest so far. Yup, yup, all in all a great week.
Gymnastics
Well, apparently my toe is doing better. It got a little bit sore on some of the hikes at Calvin Crest but it didn't really hurt so I think it's doing good. I did my first round-off yesterday that I have done in almost 5 weeks I think it is now. That made me incredibly excited because I have completely missed gymnastics even though I've been doing it a lot I haven't been able to tumble at all. Hmmm... yes, makes me very happy. I have 12 days until my first gymnastics competition. Well, it's not really a meet, it's only the practice meet, but I'm still really nervous about it because I have been gone for a week, and haven't done my floor routine for five weeks, and I still can't vault, but all shall be well. Hopefully.
A philosophy on photography
Well, recently as I was looking at some pictures it struck me that I think of some people who take pictures as just that, people who take pictures, and others as photographers. I haven't quite decided what the difference is yet though. I think part of it has to do with taking pictures because it looks cool, or taking pictures to capture beauty. The other part of it is how many pictures they take. But, I must say that its hard for me to enjoy some places without my camera. THat's why I made it a point not to carry my camera around at Ashram, I needed to just get the imaginary picture frame out of my head and enjoy life without thinking about how my life would look in a picture. Yeah, I don't know if that made sense to anyone, but that's ok if it doesn't.
The Blessings of Life
I have been struggling a lot in the past year and a half or so with the concept of death. I don’t know if there really is a way to completely understand death, even if you have seen it first hand, because we can never know what it is to die… cuz then we’d be dead. There are very few people who have ever been dead and come back to life, and I am not one of them, so I really don’t know what it’s like. It seems as though the degenerate nature of our bodies has only in recent years become something real. I know that my mind cannot grasp the reasons, though there are many, that there cannot be an eternity here on earth, or even that there cannot be a few more years, a few more months… a few more minutes. Yet the pain lingers on, forever as it seems. Maybe that’s how it supposed to be, I don’t know. But my heart still breaks when I look at those I love and see that they are slowly slipping, becoming older, forgetting.
Well... I think that's it for now. I love you all and miss you lots and lots too.
May 27, 2006
Spring Cleaning
Well, we pulled the boat out today, and Laralyn and I spent a couple hours scrubbing it. I'd say we got the first two layers of dirt off... only a couple million to go. But it looks a whole lot better, and we get to go sailing on it soon :-) I love pneuma.
(I also cleaned out my photostream a little bit, and added the pictures from debate camp.)
(I also cleaned out my photostream a little bit, and added the pictures from debate camp.)
May 5, 2006
Pictures
Well, talk about back log. I finally got around to posting pictures from the Clash Debate Tournament this morning :-)
April 24, 2006
A First
Normally this would be my post saying that the pictures from the Modesto tournament are up... except, I didn't take a single picture! ::goes into shock:: :-P
March 22, 2006
Another Picture
I am so very happy about how this picture turned out, that I just had to share it :-)
March 7, 2006
Getting ready to leave
Because of practice rounds, work, good friends... I only have 3 more hours to get ready for Tennessee! ::is really excited/nervous::
(I think I have uploaded all of my pictures from Azusa, if you want to check them out)
(I think I have uploaded all of my pictures from Azusa, if you want to check them out)
February 4, 2006
To War!
Well, this has been a good day :-) A good gymnastics practice and then a hecka sweet time over in the Hoftiezers orchard. We had the coolest Airsoft war... well, I guess I shouldn't say that, it's the first and only airsoft war that I have ever been in, but it was really fun! Getting shot didn't hurt as bad as I expected it would either, which was a plus. (If you want to check out some pictures, here they are.)
January 31, 2006
More Wasted Time
While I was wasting some time on flickr today I decided to pull out my recent pictures that I really liked for you guys to go look at. So, I have three new pictures that I just really liked. Fall Softly, Expectation, and Its Own Little World. Yes, I am very proud of myself. There is now way that I would have been taking pictures like this last year! I have more Sno-Go pictures that should be coming up there soon... as well as a ton of pictures from New Years and San Diego that still haven't made it :-)
January 12, 2006
I feel accomplished
Someone once commented that I get good pictures because I take so many... which may or may not be true, but this is a picture that I am very very happy with.
November 24, 2005
It's Thanksgiving :-)
Thanksgiving has rolled around once again. I think that thanksgiving should be on a different day every year, and is announced like a week in advance or something like that, so that people would have to be thankful all of the time, just in case thanksgiving was only a couple days away. Anyway, that's my randomness for the day :-)
So, I have been going through my photostream on flickr and I can't believe the picture I used to take, just a couple months ago. I have improved so much it's not even funny... some of them are pretty bad. Anyway, all that's to say that I did some cleaning and deleted like 300 pictures, so now I have 874 pictures instead of 1200 or so. Still working on some more cleaning... but also just took a bunch more pictures, will it never end? :-P (yeah, I am definately downloading another 158 pictures from my camera right now to be sorted)
In other camera news, I got out Ken's photography stuff that we got when he died (that I didn't know we had)... it's amazing! So, now I have a telephoto lense and a macro lense and a ton of filters and film camera, and a bunch of cool stuff. ::is very excited:: I really wish I could fit the telephoto and macro lenses to my camera, but I don't think they will fix onto the adapter that I need. So, it's going to be added on my wish list anyway because it will let me use the filters at least.
Since we are on the topic of photography anyway, take a look at this great picture of Kaitlin.
So, I have been going through my photostream on flickr and I can't believe the picture I used to take, just a couple months ago. I have improved so much it's not even funny... some of them are pretty bad. Anyway, all that's to say that I did some cleaning and deleted like 300 pictures, so now I have 874 pictures instead of 1200 or so. Still working on some more cleaning... but also just took a bunch more pictures, will it never end? :-P (yeah, I am definately downloading another 158 pictures from my camera right now to be sorted)
In other camera news, I got out Ken's photography stuff that we got when he died (that I didn't know we had)... it's amazing! So, now I have a telephoto lense and a macro lense and a ton of filters and film camera, and a bunch of cool stuff. ::is very excited:: I really wish I could fit the telephoto and macro lenses to my camera, but I don't think they will fix onto the adapter that I need. So, it's going to be added on my wish list anyway because it will let me use the filters at least.
Since we are on the topic of photography anyway, take a look at this great picture of Kaitlin.
October 25, 2005
Capturing Life
I love photography! I can't get enough of it. I love my camera :-) I really want to be an amazing photographer someday, that would be awesome. Not like a professional or anything like that, but just to have the ability to capture life in a photograph. As part of my photography class today, I did a portrait "session" with my mom. It was so much fun! Here is where the benefits of a digital camera are so cool, I took 93 pictures and didn't have to pay for any of those in film, and if I did, there is no way I would have taken that many pictures. So, if you want to see the results (which vary from good to funny) Go check them out!
Random Musings: Sometimes the Sunday school answers that we are pretty much taught to ignore, and look "deeper" are really all that we need. I work with the kids on Sunday Mornings and I have found that those kids with their "Sunday school answers" seam to have a more intimate grasp of how amazing God is, and the power that he holds than many of the older kids and adults that I know. All of those things that we learn in Sunday School that we forgot and trade in for our grand theology we were taught for a reason. Simply depending upon God. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. We need to start things off with God and, rely on Him and He will get you through everything... He will.
Random Musings: Sometimes the Sunday school answers that we are pretty much taught to ignore, and look "deeper" are really all that we need. I work with the kids on Sunday Mornings and I have found that those kids with their "Sunday school answers" seam to have a more intimate grasp of how amazing God is, and the power that he holds than many of the older kids and adults that I know. All of those things that we learn in Sunday School that we forgot and trade in for our grand theology we were taught for a reason. Simply depending upon God. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. We need to start things off with God and, rely on Him and He will get you through everything... He will.
"Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary , they will walk and not be faint." - Isaiah 40:30-31
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