twenty-eleven.

The best part about New Year's Eve, in my opinion, is being able to say "See you next year!"  Never gets old.  Actual New Year's Day is less exciting.  However, there is much to look forward to for me this year.  Probably the biggest thing is graduating high school and going off to college.  Really looking forward to that, apart from the debt I will suddenly be in and the current possibility I will be somewhere both cold and not-my-top-choice.  But let's think positively!

Another, much less major, thing I am looking forward to this year is getting my own laptop.  As lame as that sounds, for me it means being able to get Photoshop (hopefully), changing my editing process and hopefully creating better images in the post-processing side of things.  Sadly, that'll have to wait until probably August, so in the meantime, I've redownloaded GIMP so I can make diptychs and such for your viewing pleasure.  Here's one of Cate and a sweet dog we met yesterday!

Winter Break!

Today official begins my Winter Break!  Took my Stat exam today (after it got canceled yesterday), did well enough to maintain my B(!!), and by 10AM I was free!  I haven't posted many senior pictures here yet, so here's one from my most recent shoot with my friend Shilpi!  These were shot all over downtown Franklin in the freeezing cold!

Statistics

I shot a couple film frames today.  I am hoping to shoot some children this Friday..we'll see how that goes!  And then next week I will hopefully be posting some new stuff from a real shoot.  Until then...here's Gina doing math at our local Starbucks, since I will be taking this exam tomorrow..

Summer Skin

If I shot an editorial shoot, it would look something like this.  Sidenote: School is out!  I got into LMU!  I finally submitted my NYU application!  I've won two things on eBay already!!  It's not even 10AM and its already a good day.

                   

Sleeping In

It's snowing and sticking!  I've discovered the wonders of eBay.  Maybe we won't have school tomorrow.

Saturday

Today I slept in, went to school to help set up for a Christmas party, had lunch at Tokyo with my mom, shopped/lusted over J.Crew sweaters/shirts (and bumped into Elle!), finished up my Christmas shopping, babysat, edited some senior pictures while listening to Christmas tunes from Sufjan Steven, and now I'm here!  This is a photo from last year's snow...I hope it snows just as much this year!

Los Angeles

I've tried googling, etc, and I just can't figure out how to post bigger photos/no borders/HQ!!  Please comment/send me an email if you know!  I want to make this city my home next year (pleaseee accept me, usc!!).

Joy

We got up at 5AM and drove up to Monteagle.  It was a good day.  This is Katie.

One

I created this blog in my head while studying for school.  It looks terrible right now, but hopefully I'll figure things out soon.  Check back daily; I plan on posting a photo a day.  Minimal effort, yet still a commitment.  We'll see how this goes!

This picture is on all my sites, so it seems only fitting to start the blog with it as well.  Thanks, Philip!