A Tea Party for One

Have you ever had the experience where you decide to do something and you think it is really awesome but at some point it completely falls apart and you are left at square one again? This happens to me often, and rarely early. Whenever this happens to me it always seems to be at the last minute when the time clock is ticking. Thankfully though, some things turn out better after a little road bump (ok this was a huge freaking road bump).

When my photography teacher told me about our final I was rather excited. It offered us complete artistic range and allowed us to do whatever we wanted as long as it fit into the guidelines of presenting our photography. I am a bit of a nostalgic person so i thought I would use this wonderful opportunity to take pictures of my upcoming family reunion in Montana over the fourth of July. The best part was, I was going to take the whole thing on my brand new (yet very old) film camera, this way I could develop the film and make the prints myself.

Heres where the snag occurred: I completely murdered my film during the developing process and not even half of my roll of film ended up being usable. At this point it is Wednesday and my FINAL project is DUE the following Monday. Not a lot of time to put something thoughtful and well done together. This is when all my creative powers died and I was left to waste away in a ditch somewhere... Not really but I was pretty devastated.

Once I got all my creative powers together I came up with a photo shoot centered around tea parties and gardens. Definitely  something whimsical and fun. My lovely model was my roommate Tia. I had a ton of fun putting it together and editing it and almost having a breakdown in Walmart trying to get it printed but in the end it worked out all right.... I got an A! WOo

Now here are a lot of pictures to make up for all the words :)

I hate being in front of a camera but we had to show a little love ;)

Oh NO!

I haven't posted in so long. And now isn't really a great time because I have a 10-page paper due in approximately 9 hours... but I have been really struggling with my drawing class this semester and I think I am horrible at everything. So you can imagine my surprise when i got online and found out that my teacher had posted my drawing to the "wall".. The wall is where drawing teachers put pieces for all the drawing students to see. It was when we where talking about perspective and design in rooms. I posted it below so you could see it. I am so proud of it!

The Wonderful World Wide Web

Ok so I will admit at times I am caught looking like a mad women as I yell at my computer and curse the internet to a horrible death....But at times the internet fascinates me and makes me happy. One such encounter occurred today. I have been trying to find a vehicle for presenting my final body of work and while others have proven fruitless and time wasting, today I discovered Jalbums. It's this amazing site that lets you put together web galleries and I will literally be able to finish my final in about 5 minutes (once I take the pictures of course). How awesome is that? I made a little practice album to try it out and see if it as awesome as I thought it would be and it is :) Here is the link and I will get the real gallery on here in a few weeks when it is finished.

http://jessicaraephoto.jalbum.net/Seattle

Memorial Day Weekend

So for the lovely holiday weekend I packed it up and headed home with my roommate in tow. I was really missing home and needed a weekend to see the family and my roommate had never been to Seattle. We had a lot of fun even though we spent a third of the weekend driving; still totally worth it. We got in dead tired on Friday morning and spent the day being lazy and watching Dear John. I have got to say that movie is so incredible. Seeing as my boyfriend is in it I knew it would be awesome even before I saw it (I have a Channing Tatum obsession... don't judge me). Also, it came out on the best day ever (my birthday Feb 5th), so it was destined to be good. Saturday we went to the big city for some exploring. We of course picked up my friend Patty along the way and headed in. Luckily there was almost no traffic which was so surprising because Folklife was that same weekend. We explored the market and got Starbucks on Pike. It was Tia, my roommates, first Starbucks ever and she of course had to have it at the very first Starbucks. That is the worst thing about Idaho; NO STARBUCKS! I miss my Chai tea so bad. We then got some lunch down at the water at guess where... Ivar's of course. That is another major downfall of Idaho. There is absolutely no good seafood. Holy frijoles I have missed Seattle. We headed back to the market after lunch to do a bit of shopping like flowers for my mommy and then of course no trip to Seattle is complete without seeing the Space needle. We got the car and ended up parking illegally eight blocks away. I was really worried and told Patty that if my car got towed I was going to blame her. As we started to walk up the hill to the Needle we started to run into Folklife crowds and plenty of crazies. I think Tia was a little taken back by the crazy homeless people and even though we laughed about it I could tell she was a little scared. We took some pictures and went to go look at Seattle center entertainment. We saw the cutest little old couple at Folklife so I of course took a picture. We had a lot of fun and finished the day off with a little shopping. What a good weekend! I know this is super long and probably boring so I added some pics to make it more interesting.

Malad-Dragons

I had no idea what a Malad-Dragon was when I first encountered it. I was out taking some photos when I saw this really cool old bus. As you can see from the picture it said Malad-Dragon on the front. I giggled a little and when I got to editing them I thought that I might try to find out what it is. Well, after some research I found that there is a city in Idaho called Malad and their local high school mascot is the the dragons. The bus appeared to still be in working order but I wasn't sure what they used it for. I probably could go ask the owners of the home were I was trespassing to get the pics.... or not. ENJOY!!!