An Out of Order Post!

My summer has been incredibly busy, and on top of that, I took photos of EVERYTHING that has happened. This has resulted in me having HUNDREDS of pictures to go through and edit, so forgive me if I don't post tons of everything. My posting ratio is about 1/20. Say, I take 200 pictures. That means I only post 10 of them. So, here's some of the ones people have been asking for. WARNING! Some of these pictures have been artistically edited, so they won't be completely normal. Any graininess IS on purpose, I have added it in. So, here we go!

Creation 2010:
Day 1
It was HOT (in the 90s)

Amanda was pumped.

There was general awesome Switchfootery,

and then there was special awesome Switchfooter-y, which consisted of singing into guitars and singing that song that Many Moore sang in A Walk to Remember.

Rachael Beck- "I am a Mountaineer": a shutter-speed excercise

This picture was taken with a Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi with a Shutter speed of 1/32 seconds, an F-stop of f/8, ISO speed of 1600, flash, and a focal length of 18.0 mm. The shutter speed and flash were chosen for the benefit of motion blur and subject focus in the same image, the ISO was chosen because of the lighting, and the focal length was chosen so that this image was close and personal, but not too close. I like this image because it has movement, yet it is still generally clear, it has emotion, it has interaction, and it makes me feel something. I instinctively like big, wild smiles that come not from the urging of a photographer, but from a moment captured by a photographer. I would change the angle. I would change the ISO to 800, or 400.

Summer '10: Part 3

This summer, The Best Group had a reunion. The Best Group is, more specifically, the best group that went on the Poland 2010 missions trip. You can see the photos taken by the best group here. Everyone came over to our house and hung out.

Summer '10: Part 2

The second part of my summer consists of Father's Day and our trip to Mt. St. Helens.
Father's Day was spent at home with family.



For Father's Day, we got my dad a book of hiking places. He decided we should go to Mount St. Helens.


On the way down, we (Connor) realised that we were in his friend's neighbourhood. We called to see if he wanted to come with us, then stopped by his house and picked him up. He and Connor had fun together.



Obligatory shot of Helens:



On the way home, we drove past the creepy art house in Centralia

Summer '10: Part 1

The past few weeks have been really fun and exciting! The kick off of my super summer was Alicia's birthday party, on June 12. It was the celebration of her sweet 16 (her birthday was the 10th) and she was excited because she got her license and that old white truck, Adam* (not pictured here.)Lots of people came to her party, and lots of people got very wet. Some of these people were: Brad (her not-really-sort-of-technically-not-but-really-is-her-boyfriend); Dustin (our super awesome ninja friend)- also, this picture is from after he got wet, during the period of time in which he tried to catch fruit (strawberries)with his face-; Sam K, Amanda, Dana, Casey (Alicia's little sister), Miles, and (not pictured here) Megan "Mommy" Bierly, Connor "Rachael's Little Brother" Beck, and Rachael "Raynbow" Beck; and lastly, the birthday princess herself: Alicia Bodmer Brad soaked a large number of people- about twelve- who really really didn't want to get wet, so they talked Alicia into assisting their plan, which was carried out without a hitch: After our water fight, we had cake. Alicia had some assistance with blowing out her candles from our old neighbour, Taren. In addition to blowing out candles, Taren is good at modeling and giving hugs. Presents came after cake. Many were sweet and thoughtful, and the rest were sweet and thoughtful and had a story behind them. We ended the night around a fire, those of us whom had been friends for years reminiscing about the good ol' days (two or three years ago). *Adam has belonged to her family for many years, but was only recently christened Adam. It was named Adam as a nod to Adam Young: musician, photographer, and dreamer. You may know him from beautiful things that are referred to as Owl City, Insect Airport, Seagull Orchestra, Port Blue, Windsdor Airlift, Sky Sailing, and he is the Producer of Swimming With Dolphins.