Back to the Books (Sort of)

Well, today marks the end of my first week of year 2. I am really excited to be back and learning about all the things I love! The reason for the "Sort of" in the title of this blog is because only 2 of my classes require actual textbooks - the rest have online readings or art materials and supplies. I like all of my classes so far and can't wait to learn and create! So far, I am most excited to get back into photography and drawing. I love working with my film camera, processing black and white film and making prints in the darkroom, even though it is a long and tiresome process. Throughout high school, I always loved drawing, but wasn't able to fit the course into my schedule for first year. I finally have it and am very excited to start again! We are starting off the year with landscape studies.

Summer's End

It's hard to believe how fast summer flew by! I remember thinking how much time I had left to do all the summery things I wanted to do back in June. Now my time is almost up. I have two days left - tomorrow I'll be working and packing, and the next day I'll be moving all my stuff to my housing for this year. This end-of-summer is bittersweet because I am going to miss lazing around on my days off, but I'm also more and more excited about my second year of university! I can't wait to get back to learning about the things I love and being able to live with and see all my friends again! Yesterday, my parents noticed that the local farm has harvested their pumpkins a little early this year, so I went out to grab a couple of (hopefully) iStock worthy shots.

Goodbye, Paul!

The summer has been going by so fast! Shortly I will no longer be blogging from home, but from my townhouse near my university campus. A little information about my schooling - I go to university for a joint university-college Art and Art History program. I will be going into my second year this fall and I am so excited! I will be taking photography, drawing and sculpture, along with art history, visual culture, and my other electives.

Yesterday, Paul left to back to school (he's going to college to become a paramedic), so we spent the day together as much as we could on Thursday. I am definitely going to miss him, but I know that long distance relationships can work. :)

Friends and Photography

Last night I was able to get together with a good friend of mine and make a new friend too! It was really nice to finally see her because our summers got really busy all of a sudden and we live kind of far away from each other. We went out for dinner in Sauble Beach and went down to the beach to take some pictures since we are all into photography. I must say, though, we looked pretty odd because we all brought our cameras and were taking pictures like crazy! Here's a picture my good friend Taylor snapped of me and Becky:

We left the beach after the sunset to go back to Taylor's house, and all of a sudden the sky turned beautiful pinks, oranges and reds! I snapped this picture back at her gorgeous house and farm:

Kittens

Today at lunch, my mom told me we have kittens living under our shed. When we were eating dinner, one of them decided to come out and explore our backyard! We gave it some milk and I snapped a couple pictures of it. Here is my favourite:

Later, we saw this same kitten just making itself at home and sleeping on our outside furniture.It is definitely the bolder one of the two!

Falls

Last week, Paul took me out on a nice date and we stopped at this little waterfall to take some pictures. I adjusted the shutter speed to one fifth of a second and loved the effect it had on the water! Here are a couple of pictures from the night:

Sunset

While Paul and I were on our way home from the "Meet the Artists" event, we passed this gorgeous lake at the perfect time of night. I love the colours of this sunset! It is always nice to keep my camera in the car to catch moments of unexpected beauty like this!