Some of my most favorite books: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Defnition of a Name: by UrbanDctionary

a danielle is a girl whos really short.
a danielle loves to slap people
she has an AMAZINGG personatlity.
you'll be lucky to be even her friend
shes very friendly and kind at times
she loves to hug people
she smells really good
she has the best lips ever in a girl
shes a girl who you would want for your whole life
shes beautiful in many ways
shes may have flaws but who doesnt?

OK so I'm really bad at this whole Project 365 thing since either I forget to take pictures that day or I fall asleep before I get to upload my photos so I'm just going to put up a bunch of pictures I've taken throughout the week and I guess that's how I'll do it because I really do suck at this. So here are some photos I've taken that really stood out to me.

Project 365: Catching Up!!!

May 14, 2010

After a lovely day of playing hooky, my friend took me to this spot to hang out. It's behind these railroad tracks a little inside of the brush, but if you bring a blanket and just lay it out there, the little hideaway is so quiet and secluded and relaxing. It's officially one of my new favourite places.

May 15, 2010

My brother's girlfriend had an ice skating competition that I decided to go to to start getting some sport photography experience and found out that it is very difficult. I actually did manage to get, what would have been, some nice shots except that I don't have the right size lens for this kind of photography. Out of all the pictures, though, this is my favourite. Even though it is blurry I feel it has the essence of a great picture, and if it doesn't well, oh well, I like it.

I just got my new Canon Rebel this week and I've been messing around with it trying to learn how to use it. I figured I'd start my 365 project with a self portrait of myself, even though I look gross after school. Normally I'm more photogenic but still I really liked this photo for some reason. You know how people say that artists paint people the way they see them? Well, I think this photo looks exactly the way I see myself: not ugly necessarily, but not out of this world, beautiful, kinda plain and tired. So it's my painting of myself I guess. I also liked this photo because it reminded me of the head-shots I've seen or the pictures of the authors on the backs of books.

Project 365

Project 365 is a sort of challenge where the photographer is expected to take at least one photo a day. You can take as many as you like, but you post one. Like this, you can view your entire year in pictures as well as make sure you are practicing your photography. The photos can be absolutely anything from a portrait, self-portrait, or a snapshot of you life. As long as the photo is taken by you, it counts.

Why do it?
Taking a photo a day is a big undertaking with big payoffs. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider doing it:

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)
• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.
• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

Tips on How to Do It

Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:

1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
   Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.
2. Make Posting Easy
   You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.
3. Vary Your Themes
   Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.
4. Tell a Story
   Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.
5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
   This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place. There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.
   Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.
   N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!
   
6. Post early, post often
   Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

Im sitting in class right now totally beyond belief bored witha stomach ache and stuffy nose and a boring book so nothing to do... I hate days like these.

Canon Rebel Tx

It turns out my godmother's fiance had a Canon Rebel lying about that he had only used for about a year before he boxed it up, still in perfect condition. Guess who he sold it to for $200!!!??? M-E spells ME!!!! That's right I finally have a decent camera. Actually it's really nice. I'm beyond excited about it. I can't stop looking at it. Right now, the battery is dead so I can't use it, but I've put it to charge over night and I can not wait to be using that thing. As soon as I can I'll post a picture of the beauty. So SO SOOOOO excited!!!! :)

Pyromania

My brother is a little bit of a pyromaniac and he likes to fire-spin. Yesterday was Mother's Day and he decided to put on a little show for everyone. It was really cool and a great photo op. I can not wait till In have a really good camera and a tripod so I can take them again. It look "sick as fuck" as my brother puts it. Here's the photos after I messed with them a little on Photoshop, just messing with their brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and stuff. I finally learned about ISO and was able to set it at the right level so I could take good photos in the dark. Now I just have need the good camera so that my night photos aren't so grainy and a tripod so that the photos don't come out blurry.

THE FLEAS!!!!!

The fleas are killing me. They're everywhere! And it's like my family doesn't even want to try and get them to go away. Yes, I understand that we love our animals, but they are the reason behind the current infestation in our house. I thought it was agreed that that cat wouldn't be allowed in the house until the flea problem was rid of. Apparently not so. So I have to continue scratching in agony, killing bugs, getting blood on my hands, being irritated and waking up every morning with bug bites all over my legs. Unpleasant!

 A flea is the most disgusting, annoying, repugnant, foul, loathsome creature in the whole planet according to me. For all I care they can rot in hell. I know they say that every creature has a purpose in this Earth, but honestly: What does a flea contribute? Disease? Annoyance? Filth? Craziness?! These are not helpful to society. Harmful! That's all a flea is. Uncontrollable and Ugly.

And then when someone hears you have a flea problem at your house, it's like all of a sudden you've developed a plague. It's not my fault the Earth is retarded and created the little nuisances! I never got a say in it! I feel the nature should be a democracy. All the living creatures should have a vote as to what creatures and living things should exist or be made. I'm positive fleas would not be around today if that were to be so.

I tried to google how fleas possibly contribute to nature and I found absolutely zilch! Heres the best answer I found from unasked.com:

"Fleas have no purpose as we would understand it, they don't create anything, they don't have culture nor civilization, they simply exist. I suppose you could argue from the same premise for humanity, "why do we exist? What purpose do we have?". Fleas are simply creatures that have evolved to fill an ecological niche. If they have any purpose at all that pupose is simply to exist. Just like us.

Fleas are a part of a broader ecological niche, they carry and transmit viruses and diseases, they are also hosts to other even smaller creatures such as mites, and those mites carry around even smaller creatures themselves."

Except I disagree with this person. I think we exist fro more than just existing. We are more than fleas. That's why we can kill them. We're population control and we grow plants that help the environment (or we could), etc.

Either way, I feel it is totally useless for fleas to exist and suggest a genocide on all flea species.