Five More Days

I admire my roommate!

Monica and her boyfriend have been together for close to a year and a half but for the last 4 or 5 months the only time she has been able to see him has been via skype from halfway around the world. Asher is living in Germany right now and in 5 days Monica will be getting on a plane to actually see him for the first time in almost 5 months.

I can't even tell you how many times I've felt selfish for even thinking about missing my boyfriend when it's been five days since I've seen him, let alone months!

Monica was laying on her bed today holding the bear her boyfriend got her just after she was telling me how excited she is to spend her spring break traveling around Germany and Rome! (And I thought California was a cool place to go for spring break!) You could see the excitement and anticipation on her face and I told her, don't move an inch....

Day 66

March 7

"Five more days"

Starbucks with Kelly

Today Scott and I met up with his friend Kelly, who was helping Scott set up an account with a modeling site. Scott and Kelly were sitting on one side of the table and the whole time as I was watching them I couldn't stop thinking about how the back of the booth would make an amazing backdrop, especially with Kelly's red hair! So I asked Kelly if I could use her as a model and ran out to the car to grab my camera!

So here it is

Day 65

March 6

"Content"

Adventure to Gross Reservoir

In high school I always went on 'photo adventures' as I would drive around the country side searching for a new picture to add to my collection. Since I've been at college, I haven't done much photo adventuring. My boyfriend and I hung out with his best friend and I suggested when we were trying to figure out what we wanted to do I suggested we go on a photo adventure, but I didn't know what I wasn't prepared for the kind of adventure we were going on.

We drove into the mountains to a reservoir they had gone to before and when we got there we realized that it was a little windier and colder than we thought it was going to be. This is my time to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the dark, or I guess I should say, I'm scared of the things that could be hiding in the dark. The whole time we were outside I couldn't help but think of a bear coming up behind us and we wouldn't hear it because it was too windy!

After a bit of the boys playing with the ice on the edge of the reservoir, we set up our tripods and cameras for some nighttime photography!

So here's my shot!

Day 64

March 5

"Gross Reservoir"

Jimmy Johns adventure

Yesterday was a crazy day for me. I started classes at 9 and once class was done I had to go to the darkroom to make prints for my assignment that was due by 6. I made sure to have the whole afternoon free so if I needed to, I could spend the whole afternoon in the darkroom, but I wasn't expecting to spend the WHOLE day there. I got to the lab around 11 and ended up leaving around 6:30. I was running on about 9 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours and all I wanted to do was eat, get and in bed, and watch a movie! By the time I got to my dorm the dining hall way closed and the last thing I wanted to do was go out driving to get my food. So I ordered Jimmy Johns!

I got a phone call from a guy who said, "Hi this is Jimmy Johns, I'm downstairs with Sydney's order" I told him, "my name isn't Sydney but I ordered Jimmy Johns" and he told me they must have gotten the wrong name so I grabbed my money and ran down the stairs. Right as I got to the bottom of the stairs I saw a girl grab a bag from the delivery guy and he walked out the door and all I could think was "She stole my food!!" I looked around the lobby to check if anyone else was there who could have my food and decided to go upstairs to get my phone.

I was in the elevator with the girl and looked at her bag and finally asked her "Did you get Jimmy Johns" and she said, "Nope I got Chinese!! =)" I thought to myself, crap, now I need to go back downstairs, but when I did he still wasn't there. I went BACK upstairs grabbed my phone and called him back and he said he went to the wrong dorm and he would be downstairs soon.

After our big run around I finally got my food and was so hungry I couldn't help but take a bite before taking my picture =)

Day 63

March 4

"The Turkey Tom"

Tavalo

This is the package design I made for my graphic design class in December and I took a picture of the three packages but didn't really take any detail shots. Our teacher told us about this graphic design competition. I realized that my picture didn't really demonstrate the details of my design so I decided to reshoot it for the competition. So here it is!

Day 62

March 3

"Tavalo"

Joey + Casey

I met with Joey and Casey at the DU campus on Wednesday for their engagement shoot. At the very beginning of the shoot I asked them to kiss for me and after that they just couldn't stop, I loved it!

They met on the corner of Evans and University near the DU campus about three years ago so they decided that the campus would be a close place. We spent a while walking around campus and at the end of our session we ended at the place where it all began!

Here are a few pictures from our session!

Day 61

March 2

"Joey+Casey"

As the World Flies By

I finally shot my last picture for my graphic design project! This project has been weighing on my mind for the last month and a half and I'm finally finishing it up! This is my third and final attempt at this photo and I'd have to say it feels good to finally have an image I'm happy with! With this image I wanted to show the busy street life in comparison to a stationary bench that is just sitting there as the world flies by.

Day 60

March 1

"As the World Flies By"