Baby Pictures...?

Hello there dear readers! I apologize for not posting since the start of this month. To put it bluntly, I got grounded. For doing what you ask? That's right, failing a science test. (which compared to the other two i also failed this one I got the highest score) I was grounded for a month and so explains my absence.

Since I last posted  I had a birthday, and learned (again) the joy of having a thick book to read. I also may have started applying for jobs but that is not the point.

For those of you who don't know, my mother is very close to birthing my seventh sibling, making the infant my second sister. Just last night my mom started hounding me about the one thing I plan to do-ake pictures. My mom, who knows my passion is NATURE photography, is hoping -expecting- for professionally taken images.

While I doubt my ability to take "adorable baby pictures of her looking like this…" my mother has pointed out the fact that literally haunts me -how are you going to learn if you don't try -l.e practice-?

The only problem about this is while I don't  mind taking the pictures, I mind people -family- watching me work my -horrible- magic with the camera. Of course, once I start taking images, I suddenly don't have a problem with people. I get lost in what I'm doing and poof, the world around me disappears. Which I guess is the only way I am able to even come close to describing how I feel when behind the camera. Just focus on the subject, and the world dissolves.

Of course, I have taken  pictures of human subjects. For example, about 2 years ago or so, I spent a day, in lateish fall spending up to 2 hours taking pictures of my siblings. The good ones turned out to be of my sister, and younger brothers. The middle ones didn't clash very well with the style I was after. More recently, back in July, I was one of the photographers for my aunts wedding, which is probably the most comfortable I have ever felt while getting pictures, with people having the ability to stare at me openly. I mainly traveled rather quickly, barefoot, through the church, on a whim and only sat down twice, if I remember correctly. AND I go to work with my dad and get a lot of rather boring pictures of his guys doing well, Army things.

LONG STORY SHORT - I will have to somehow, take baby pictures of my unborn sibling with my mother giving me ideas and tips on the side. I can already see how that's going to turn out.
On a happier tone, here are some images I took the other day, of my favorite subject of course, nature. :)
-Olive

Friends

I have two best friends. One is a girl, and one is a boy. I met both online, and have yet to meet them in real life. One lives on the other side of the United States, while the other lives only a few states above me. I’ve been to both states; in fact I lived in one of them for a few years, and the other I stayed in overnight. (It was a highlight) (Look I just rhymed). And one thing I’ve noticed about my relationships with both of these people (and others) is that, distance doesn’t matter.

My girl best friend is Costello. To be honest, without giving away too much detail, Cossy is younger than me, but amazingly smart and much more mature then I am. (a friend of mine, whom met Cossy for reasons, thought she was older than me.) Before I created this blog, I didn’t know Cossy that well. We were more like acquaintances, going through chat rooms as distant friends. We shared a similar crush at one point, and Cossy is of course, one of the only people to know about. In fact only two people know, and that other person told on me. -_- Eventually, I got the idea for this blog, and created it and Cossy jumped in. Since then our relationship has gone from “hi I talk to you rarely” to “hi can we switch to text?” We have gone through a lot together. A year is a long time.

I have a similar relationship with my other best friend, tsuro. Of course there are some differences. For example: tsuro is about 3 months older than me, still amazingly smart and much more mature than I am. Tsuro and I also have a bit more in common than Cossy and I do. For one, tsuro has 3 siblings while Cossy has 1 (I have *cough* 5). Cossy has 1 dog while tsuro has 2 (I also have 2) and while I believe Cossy has 3 or 4 cats, tsuro has 6. (I have none.) Tsuro and I have also gone through a lot. Like I said before, a year is a long time.

Tsuro and Cossy are more of distant friends nowadays. They used to be closer, but I can’t remember what happened, and now, I simply mention the other to whoever I am talking to at the time. But they do have one thing in common.

They both saved my life.

If you could have anything in the world, what would you choose?

I, I already have everything I want in this world. Well sort of. Still have yet to get the guy.  But mainly, I have the best friends in this world, and I have close friends as well. I have people I can go to, mainly that leaves about 3 but whatever. I have people. I have close friends, who know me really well.

And before you start taking the shy kid for granted. Maybe you should actually talk to them. Because guess what. I’m the shy kid. And once you get to know me, well…that’s another story.  

Update.

Oh wow. I forgot about this blog. So sorry you guys!

So here is a small update:

1. started school. I'm a junior now. 0_0
2. it sounds a lot scarier then it is.
3. i have a total of 16 subjects. just sayin.
4. I'm homeschooled in case you didn't know.
5. my sister and I brainstormed and got a new story idea.
6. we're both writing 2 different versions of it though.
7. the idea itself is slightly complicated.
8. i'm still depressed.
9. my parents think i'm doing better. shhh.
10. i got a new medicine that is pretty much a sleeping pill.

and that's about it.

I shall try to post daily!

-Olive

Color

Day three -

Here are some more that I took while trying to get the above one!

Light~

Day two is light~ I'm not posting day one, because I don't want images on myself on here. So yup. But I took two that I really liked for today. Here they are!

Enjoy!
Olive~

100 Themes

Hellos -

So Summer is coming...well it kind of is Summer, but anyways - I'm going to be doing a lot of Photography in the month of July but I want all or at least a good share of my Summer to be spent behind the camera! Or reading or something along those lines, and so I was looking at this blog, and the blogger had posted something about 100 themes but for writing. I took that list, and like 3 other lists and made my own list. I am going to start June 1st and end (how I manged to do this I have no idea) on my birthday, which is in September! I'll try to post each one here everyday, but if I forget, please leave a comment and I'll post them!

I'm going to try to get some in black and white, but I have put down in the list color names, so a few will be in color. You can see my list for yourself here, and if you'd like to do this also. I need a link to your blog cause I want to see what you come up with! :)

-Olive

hmm.

So it's been slightly a busy week. If you can call it busy. I doubled up my school work, as I only have 6 weeks left. And yes I know most people are already on Summer break, but I usually don't get Summer offs. This year is like my first Summer off and I'm pretty excited! I already have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do! Anyways - I doubled up my work, and altogether if I had done it all at once I would have been done in about 2 hours or so. To sum it up, I wasn't that busy this week.

NaNoWriMo - for those of you who don't know - gives out that Createspace thingyyy if you win, and so I finished mine! It's 56 pages of poetry. Sorta bad poetry, but poetry all the same~ And so I'm looking forward to getting my free copies!

There isn't much else to talk about today.

Kind of out of it tonight.

Hope you all have a great night~

-olive