I miss my camera.

I miss my camera, I miss my camera, I miss my camera, I miss my CAMERA!!!  Jeez I never realized how much I use my camera to take stupid pictures throughout the day.   I will definitely appreciate the boredom killing skills of my lil' Nikon as soon as I charge those batts back up...

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Anywho this is my roommate Ed and her bf.  Pretty cute huh?  I took this picture last summer on a Holga camera, well actually these are two separate photos that I fused together.  I originally had a different vision but the pics didn't turn out quite as I expected.  Even though this final product is a little pixelated (if I had scanned these photos differently I could have avoided that...but the negatives are in Mpls and I am not...) I still like this picture.  A little hippie, a little vintage, overall pretty precious.  Glad I finally got around to editing this picture :)

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And does this one even need an explanation? I think not.

If I were legit...

This is what my photography logo might look like.

Although I googled "Claire Louise Photography" and found that there are already a couple photography businesses with that name...sooo if I ever get good enough at photography to have a business I'll definitely have to change that name.

I like the simplicity of that design though, very rare for me not to add any swirls or doodles.

The most epic of failures.

Today I somehow got some motivation.  I completely set up a photo taking station in order to photograph my ceramic works for my portfolio.  I whip out my camera to start and as soon as I look through the viewfinder I realize what I forgot in my apartment...all the way in Minneapolis.

My camera battery charger.

What was my number 1 goal for this break?  Photograph my work and put together a portfolio...ooops.

Ahhhhhhh!  I guess it's just the universe telling I need to be lazy? Right?

So now I cannot even photograph the cute sketches I did.  But this camera failure led me to discover more about photoshop, hoorah! Here I go again making tacky edits of photos from summer, sorry about it! This time there really was nothing to be done about it.  My camera charger will be back in my posession around New Years, until then I hope to learn something new about photoshop everyday, and read some books off my ever growing "to read" list.

Original (Straight outta my camera)

Edit Smudge

Edit Smudge Light

Took it too far? Typical.

Lessons learned today? I like the smudge tool...I think I might just start to overuse it. Oh and make a to pack list in the future...!

Tis' The Season...

Hope you are taking a break and enjoying time with friends and family :)

I know I am, and I am definitely excited for our annual Christmas dinner of spaghetti and meatballs!

Winter Break Lazy

Soo I took a bunch of nice Christmas time/holiday inspired photos...and drew a bunch of fun doodles...but then my winter break lazy set in and I was too lazy to upload photos today or scan in drawings.  So today you get another lovely photo shop edit...just because boredom = photoshop lovin'.  Oh and as proof that I am actual person it's a picture of ME.

 The original straight out of photobooth pic.

My hair looks weird, dislike. But I was trying to preserve the original exposure/contrast of the photo becasue I liked them, but it just made me look too angleic and creepy.

Truth: I like the original better!  Oh well sometimes photoshop doesn't make me look better I guess.

Merry Christmas!

Winterized Summer

I'm craving some summer lake time...so I winterized a summer lake photo 3 times over...enjoy!

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When it rains...

This weekend I got some stuff stolen, my wallet to be specific. I never realized how much my life depends on having a debit card, buss pass, and Univeristy ID/Drivers Liscense. Needless to say I was feeling a little violated and pitying myself (Oh yeah the screen on my phone also broke at the same time which made it very difficult to sort things out...) it just felt like too many unfortunate things were happening at once.  In essence it felt like the universe was monsooning on my life.  Yeah, I know I can be dramatic sometimes. ;)  So I made up a (realllly cheesy) quote that both let me pity myself, but also gave me some hope.  Amazingly enough someone found my wallet and returned it to me!  You know what it reminded me of?

The beautiful sight of a rainbow and the wonderful smell of the Earth after a fresh rain.

So here's to looking forward, because at the moment Karma is on my side ;)

Just messing around with fonts was pretty cathartic for me, and then weirdly enough as soon as I was about done I figured out my wallet was found.   Although I had a very happy ending I definitely learned from this experience and will be MUCH more careful in the future and appreciate all the stuff I have.  Live and learn my friends.

Also I couldn't really decide which version of the quote I liked better...so here's the other version with a very sliiiiight variation.  I think the first one is better ;)

Alrighty back to studying I go! I've got 2 critiques and 2 tests to go, I can doooo it!

Do you like the rain? And the earthy smell that comes about after a good rain?