This Makes Me Smile

Very random as usual, but I ran across these two pictures last week and both made me laugh, so I thought I would share.

New Camera

I got a new camera! I like this one a lot better than my old one...which disappeared...possibly stolen? Anyhow, this one is much fancier and I like how it kind of looks like an old school 35mm film camera.

Now I can continue to document my life in photographs and my posts on here won't be so boring with all that text. Pictures from our Mission Trip to Seattle will be up after next week!

More Picture Fun

Hahaha I can't remember how this started, but it was a tradition every year of Master Follies for me to take a creepy prom picture with Danielle Gee :)

One of our Kappa mixers was "bad bridesmaid dresses" and I wore my mom's prom dress to the party. I am standing with Sara (Collins) Norman who was the bride.

One of my favorite Christmas traditions--Carol of the Lights at Texas Tech; with my best friend and room-mate Deonna (Neel) Wade

This picture was taken for my digital imaging class. Our theme for the week was shadows. Rynn Miller and I took this one in her grandparents' backyard.

This one was also for that class and was taken in Dallas. The theme was near and far.

Pictures

When I post a picture on my blog, how can I make it where you can click on the picture and enlarge it? It works when I put a picture from the internet on there, but not the pictures from my camera. Does anyone know how to fix that?

Speaking of pictures, here are a few random old pics just for fun:

This was my first time as a bridesmaid back in 2006. Now she is about to have a baby--crazy! I definitely don't feel like we're old enough for that! 

In honor of Mother's Day, here is a picture of my fantastic mom! I had just finished performing Pirates Who Don't Do Anything at my little brother's graduation party at church. He was SO embarrassed by me and I loved it! A lot of people tell me I look just like my mom but I don't really see it.

This was taken in Romania a few years back. I had gone all summer without DP and one of my fellow interns, KT, found one for me. This picture captures the sheer joy I was feeling at that moment!

This is also from Romania. I absolutely adore this kid! His name is Sam and his parents were the mentors for our missionary internship that summer. He and I are coloring on the train in this picture. He was the coolest little guy ever.

I have been going through lots of old pictures lately so I'll continue to post some of the ones I come across that make me smile when I see them.

Is it really that much to ask??

(In case you're not aware, one of my best friends, Rynn Miller, is living here in London with me.)

With only two people travelling together, we rely on strangers to take pictures of us quite often. Rarely, if ever, do they do a decent job, to say the least. Usually, we ask them to take a picture of us in front of some monument or attraction or something, and they can NEVER get both us and said attraction.

Here are a few examples:

Please take our picture with the massive lion?

I was standing up here and Rynn was going to take a funny picture of me for an inside joke with Kory, until this man insisted we both get up there and he take a serious picture of us. Really beautiful backdrop right?

This one is taken in Oxford. We are near a really cool pub, awesome streets, the city walls...but no, we get wall, fence and empty kegs instead. Awesome.

We were in Scotland on a trip to see Loch Ness and we saw another group's tour guide all decked out in Scottish gear--kilt and all. So, being the unashamed tourists, Rynn and I went to go take a picture with him. One of the guys in his tour group took the picture for us. We weren't really interested in seeing his lovely blue button-up shirt, silly! You can't even tell he has a kilt on unless you're really looking for it. Ugh.

This one probably takes the cake as the worst picture ever. First off, this man had no idea how to use a digital camera so he kept holding it up to his eye to look through the little viewing thing. Then he waited so long to take it that the camera went on stand-by so he thought it was broken. Next, he took several pictures of the ground trying to figure it out. All this time, he left Rynn and I squinting into the incredibly bright sun without ever telling us when he was going to take the picture. Also, this is taken at the amazing Edinburgh Castle...so we've got a castle in one direction and incredible views of the city in two directions...but we got trees, a fence, a shadow and two very unprepared girls. Thank you very much sir.


SO, because of this, when some random person asks me to take their picture, I take my time and do a FANTASTIC job! I put a lot of effort into it because I know the feeling of defeat when you check out the picture that night on your way home and realize they failed, yet again. Oh well, I guess they do make for pretty good stories!