HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

I had a fantabulous New Years Eve!!!


What did I do?


Well, I spent the day with Jenna and Adam, and watched almost all the drama dvds (haha), ate goldfish and drank Koolaid (but not lemonade... :P) and played slaps...





and then spent the night at Lauren's house! :) We watched Sweet Home Alabama and the Proposal... very good movies. Especially the first one!!! :) And ate M'Ms and Star Wars fruit snacks and popcorn and drank root beer and coke.... 


And of COURSE, we stayed up till the new year. Twas tons of fun :) I have no pictures of Lauren and I from last night, though. You probably wouldn't want to see them if I had one, anyway ;)


So overall, I think I had the best New Years Eve EVER. :)

Let it Snow!

As I've mentioned in previous posts... we had a white Christmas this year! And not just a half-inch powdery snow that doesn't pack. Ohh, no. We got at least 4 inches of gloriously wet snow, perfect for packing, perfect for a snowman, perfect for sledding, perfect for making snowballs.... :)


And of course, I went nuts with Edgar, and took a million and a half pictures. I'll only show you a few of them, though. It might overload otherwise ;)
(Note: Yes, I have named my camera. Edgar Osborne Schmidt, thank you very much. Yes, I know I am weird. But do I care? Not one bit.)

My sister Kristi

We got to SLED!

My grandparents' gorgeous house

pure concentration...

<3

Well thats all for today... I'll post some pics from our actual Christmas later! :) Enjoy!

Photoshop!

Well..... guess what?


I GOT PHOTOSHOP!!!!!


Photoshop Elements 9, to be exact. :) I haven't done too much experimenting.... well, I take that back. LOTS of experimenting. ZERO photos fully edited ;) 


But here's a picture from before I downloaded photoshop... when I actually had motivation to work through all my pics really fast... :)

What's On My Blog

While I finish editing my 800 pictures from Christmas vacation... I'll go ahead and show you guys what type of posts will be on my blog!


Okay, FINE. Here's a sneak peek. Haven't gotten to the snow pics yet, sorry. ;)

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Mostly, I will follow specific photo "memes", such as I<3Faces, Touch Up Tuesday, and Straight Out Of the Camera (SOOC) Saturday. Here is a list of the memes I plan to follow:

Sunday

Sunday Creative: Here, I'll post a picture relating to a weekly theme. These themes tend to be general, such as "open".


Monday



Multitude Monday: Here, I'll list some of my many blessings... this isn't exactly a photo meme, but I'll definitely post pictures here anyway.



I<3Faces: Here, I'll post a picture including a face relating to a weekly theme.


Tuesday

Touch Up Tuesday: In this meme, I'll post an SOOC image, and then a couple edits I did.


Wednesday
Currently, I am not planning on doing a Wednesday meme. I'll probably post random pictures on these days. If I want to link up to something, I will... or if my schedule allows, I'll start one on Wednesdays permanently. But not as of now. :)


Thursday

You Capture: Here, I'll post an image relating to a weekly theme.


Friday

Fix It Friday: This is similar to Touch-Up Tuesday, except I am GIVEN the photo to fix.



Friday Food Fun: This is my OWN meme, where I'll post recipes and/or photos of food I've eaten/made throughout the week.


Saturday

SOOC Saturday: Here I'll post an image Straight Out Of the Camera. 

Well thats it for now! Hope you enjoy the posts.

First Post!

Yay! First blog post! Exciting.

:)

Well, I'll tell you a little bit about me.

I love photography, but you've probably guessed that much, since this is a photoblog ;) 

I'm a junior in high school.

 I am a dancer.

I am a 2nd degree black belt in karate.

I play the piano.

Math is my favorite subject in school.

I use about 3-4 free photo editing programs to make up for my lack of Photoshop.

I have the best unbiological sister and brother that ANYONE could ever ask for.

I love my computer and iTouch and phone.

My Canon EOS Rebel XS has a name. Edgar Osborne Schmidt. He's my baby :)

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Now, time for some photos! :)

This is Jenna Burgess... [that unbiological sister I mentioned ;) ]. She is absolutely gorgeous, takes amazing pictures, is a fantastic dancer... I could go on and on, but I'll spare you. :)

I love sunrise photos... except the whole, "getting up early" thing. The photo was worth it, though :)

Bethany is a senior this year, and is a fantabulous cello player.

I like flowers, just a warning. ;)

This is Kristi, one of my three younger sisters.

Water droplet pictures make my day..

This is a little girl from my church... I don't think its possible to get more adorable than this!!

Well, thats it for today. As you've seen, I like taking a variety of pictures... portraits of older and younger kids, landscapes, flowers, nature in general, and of course, completely random photos every so often.