Day 15: Partners in Crime+ a teacher

Day 14: Hula girls

Right next to our photography class there was a little hula studio. Inside were older girls dancing while an old lady played an ukulele and sang, outside were the little keiki learning a more traditional style of hula, probably referred to as Kahiko hula. These little girls reminded me a little of myself dancing hula when I was a little girl. I believe my first dancing experience was ballet and I loved it, especially putting on the lipstick and wearing a tutu and performing with the other little girls. One day my grandpa asked me why I don't dance hula so I quit ballet and tried hula for a bit because I loved my grandpa so much. We ended up moving to the mainland shortly afterward so I gave up my dancing career and began rollerblading (to become the next Kristy Yamaguchi) and riding bikes down hills (maybe future xterra?).

Day 13:

Ok, I have to admit, I suck. I took no pictures today, just worked all day... went to Costco, ran and went to the late Iron Man show. Not even a week into it and I missed a day! Oh well, something will be posted this afternoon...

Day 12: My Ride

Day 11: Lighting and Portraits Workshop

Today was my first time working with artificial/studio lighting. It was quite an experience. It's amazing what kind of results you can get from just a few lights. Well, a few very expensive lights... I think it's very cool that our instructor, Tracy Wright Corvo talked about DIY photographers who took amazing pictures because they didn't have money for crazy setups (like me). She herself started out not being able to afford these setups but I guess her persistence paid off because she has some pretty freaking amazing pictures. She showed one taken with only florescent lighting and I actually really liked that one, just the composition and contrast were amazing. More pictures to come from the workshop, I just need to go through them all!

Day 10: Babel

Day 9: Super Gecko

So I was homeless for a day yesterday, due to fumigating the house, which was interesting. Thank God for mom's car and friend's houses... When I got back today I turned on the faucet in the shower and from somewhere, I don't know if it was the faucet or the drain or what, something was thrashing and it was this little gecko here. I put him somewhere safe for a few minutes and when I came back he was still hanging out. So I put him outside and he just wanted to chill on my arm. After I finally got him onto a wall I realized he could be my photo of the day! So he waited for me, I took a few shots and when I was done he left. What a sweetheart! So this guy must be super-gecko surviving all the poison and only suffering from a slight case of molting... I hope he makes it!