Favorite shots

Some of my favorite shots from the past couple weeks. Still learning the intricacies of the camera.

Focus. The guys of our church grabbed dinner together one Sunday evening and ended up playing "Things" for hours. Aaron is scary good at figuring out people's tendencies.








Waiting. We were waiting to surprise JVick on her b-day for ~45 min. I feel like this picture portrays the tension between trying to figure out when she was gonna arrive, and wondering how much longer we had to wait.








Convoy. At the Austin Skate Park. We were definitely the oldest people other than parents at this place. Loved trying to practice capturing motion blur here, but wish there weren't so many people (they kept getting in the way of a lot of good shots).






Hey You. Austin Skate Park. I told people to do cool poses or interesting motions as they came around my corner but most of them were too embarrassed. One of the few good ones. Tou Fue wants you.








Reflection. On the car ride back from the Skate Park. Sometimes when things in life are knocking you down, you just need to pause, look back at your life, and see just how beautiful things actually are.







Technicalities. At Mozart's. Dr. Matt's last night, we just talked and shared some desserts. He claimed to be able to draw a map of the world in 1 minute which we all demanded him to prove. Technically he failed because it actually took him 1 minute 15 seconds.






Shadows. At Mozart's. Right when I walked down the stairs, I knew I had to take a picture of this. There was a guy leaning against the tree and the play of the shadows was so amazing.













Practice Needed. At Mozart's. My attempt at capturing the shadows. I made them sit there for a couple minutes as I tried getting the shot. Unfortunately this was the best I could do.

Images from Austin

Yesterday I decided to pound the pavement to see if there were any places hiring, so I decided to walk from UT campus to downtown Austin (namely to see the capitol). I finally remembered to bring my camera along with the church video camera (cuz I was supposed to interview people for advice they would give the freshmen). Below is a photo diary of some places I checked out.

One of the values at the Officers' Memorial

Texas Peace Officer's Memorial. A very simple memorial but very aesthetically pleasing.

Texas's Capitol Building

Overlooking the South Mall aka "The 6-Pack". This is the equivalent to UM's Palmer Field.

Texas campus is gorgeous. The more I walk around, the more I enjoy it.

Ha! Our church and UT are meant to be.

Rest of pictures found @ my Picasa Album

Snapshots

Yesterday was an incredible. Even clearing up a misunderstanding in the afternoon (which was entirely my fault) ended up being a mini- blessing.

At night at the campfire, it was pretty surreal for me to see so many familiar faces that I might not see for a long time. It was honestly really overwhelming and it took a good half hour to drink it all in. But it was just another reminder of how much God has blessed me with good friends and community. There were people I've known for almost half of my life, people I met for only a couple weeks, fellow classmates and people from all across the age spectrum. Even as I write this, I can't but help but hope that you all have been blessed by me as I have by ya'll. If not, haha sucks, hopefully I can make up for it in the next 2 days.

But yeah, many of you were hoping for tears that night... too bad, I already got a bit drained earlier that morning, and it helped that I couldn't see your faces. So, I win. =) Anyways, I will leave you with snapshots of the night. The rest I'll post later.



Girls don't seem to know how to bite their lip


story of my life. Being creepy in the background. =)



stuey likes attention from men.


aww. Great older sisters!


yay God for reconciliation talks and 1st real conversations. hahaha!


Amazing. Simply Amazing.


Woke me up @ 2:30am to go on a Denny's run. Memories.