So good.

It feels so amazing to be taking photos again. I didn't realize how much I had missed it. Plus, I've realized that I really have learned a lot the past few years, and my photos have improved significantly. I was looking at photos from my very first photography class, and comparing them to my most recent assignment. There are similarities: I still love shooting in low apertures, I'm all about a tight depth of field. Also, I still feel so much more comfortable with natural light, but I've gotten a lot better at controlling artificial light. And portraits are still my favorite.

I still don't think I'm that great, I think I understand the basics of photography enough to make good photos. I can make my friends and family really happy with basic shots, but I don't think I'm at the level of being an "artist" yet. I don't think I'll ever consider myself an artist. But photography feels good, even as a hobby. I've realized I don't need it to be my life.

I feel good.

OH HAI

Don't you love how you go through those long periods of not updating your blog? I know I totally do. And I come back to look at it again and laugh at the old things I posted, even if they are only a few months old. Oh, how quickly things change.

Anywho, I have to update a blog for my digital photography class, so I think I might start paying more attention to this one as well. Weeeeeee shall see!

Impossible to interrupt.

A life of unfulfilled passion is draining; a small leak of energy, slowly trickling away with each unattained hope, steadily discarding pieces of ourselves. Yet we keep ignoring the bleeding, because it is better to be wan and weak but expectant, than risk the crushing truth that our grandest desires are actually pathetic delusions.