So begins 8 weekends of something to keep me busy. Which means it's 8 weekends of opportunities to get my paparazzi on. This weekend's been chalked full of parties. Friday has Jess' "wine that reminds you of me" party (which I tuckered out on too early) and last night was the "Beer for Boobs" party which was a fundraiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer (which Kim's migraine tuckered her out too early). Oh well, both events were a lot of fun for the time we were there and they warranted some crazy fun pictures.
I may use the blog as a place to add and show pictures now rather than Flickr. They told me to upgrade for $25 for unlimited pictures/year. That's silly. And expensive. I'm not important enough to have a Pro account on Flickr. If anything, I'll add some memory to the google/blog account so I can post like a crazy fool. Facebook has a tendency to skew the photos in funky ways but it's the easiest way to share pics to the larger group of people.
On Friday night, a couple of Jess/Kevin's friends tried to talk me into moving towards the professional photographer route. I wanna laugh at the idea because I like what I take and I've liked the results but I don't feel that what comes out of my camera is what someone else would want to pay for. Plus, I know my skill set and abilities. There's some more stuff I'd like to do or use (such as some of the longer-range lenses I have) but need a camera body that'll help that (w/ the built in motor for those AF lenses). Not that I couldn't use them as is but I'm shaky with auto-focus let alone manual. Yeeeeikes.
But it was encouraging to hear people tell me they liked what I've shot. Like I've said before, I've always like taking pictures because I don't have a boss to tell me I'm not doing it right, fast enough or up to some company standard. I shoot and edit what I want to see and that's working out so far. Poor Kim, though - she's been the constant photo muse, but she makes a really good one, right? Right.
On any note - with more opportunities for taking pictures comes more stuff to blog or share online. I'd rather write about pictures than work because work causes anxiety and taking pictures doesn't and if they do - I can not work on them and not worry about getting in trouble, it's awesome.
Let's show some of the highlights from Jess' party --
(when you click on a picture it will become a lot clearer - sometimes they post fuzzy here too...)
And then there was the Beer for Boobs party. I was surprised that there were a lot of good pictures from this one. I wasn't feeling particularly social or photo intrusive. So, I sat back and watched things happened and caught some fun things. Such as...
