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so i was looking at my old blog website...I haven't written regularly since 2006. i used to put so much creative energy into writing and journaling, and I really don't do that much anymore. I'm secretly happy...I think i do my processing through conversations now. With others and with God. As far as creativity goes, it's slowly become incorporated in my personality/photographic explorations and I want to just let it explode.
anyways, i just felt like putting that out there.
As melanie pace so beautifully reminded me, God is not just at work...but working all things for our good! I look back over the past three years, and I have laughter. Laughter because the good has visibly interlaced itself in my whole being. So much change. So much hard change, but what I see is good. Very good. And I am still being molded.

hookah snow day

i was in an artsy fartsy mood all weekend, as seth would say. the unexpected snow day certainly helped foster that mood. and hookah...which, by the way, is not better for your lungs than smoking other things. but it's certainly more enjoyable. and social. anyways, i felt like playing around with funky shutter speeds and bluriness. don't think these photos are worthy of photojournalism, but i had fun and that's something.

week 1 photos

late nights, trampolines, and famous photographers.

richmond

richmond, my new favorite city!
laura, my old favorite friend!

new year's in charlotte

So I went to Charlotte to visit my friend Pablo and some RUF sisters in Christ. It was really enjoyable. I had never been to Charlotte before but had worked on a Charlotte Sister Cities project in a multimedia documentary storytelling class...so I had heard a thing or two about it. It's too suburban for my liking...Melanie described it as "damp," like a newborn baby. I could see how in 45 years with some public art and potholes it would be much more agreeable. at any rate, i spent a lot of time in homes. vino, amigos, risa, la vida buena.

here are some pics from pablo's house on new year's eve. i didn't really take my camera outside of the house...polaroids are for that. (see later)









and this last pic is my first photo of the new year. we smashed glasses with our feet at midnight...a great tradition. way to stamp out your frustration with the previous year and say, like joe taught me, "better luck next year!"

christmas at home

christmas in wake forest= tasty creations by my sister, the grandparents being loveydovey and pretty much crazy adorable, dad romping around, "easter" sprinkles covering the counter after a day of baking (because they were out of christmas colors at harris teeter), and grandpa admiring his new bird, tweety.
i only had a 50mm lens, unfortunately.

seeds

kirk told me that I need to put my energy into my art. I waste a lot of mental and creative energy just...thinking.

i agree, but then i look at other posts and i disagree. the thinking can help. and the thinking can be important. but i need to just DO.

on another note, I love holgas, polaroids, lensbabies, and southeastern camera in carrboro.