my niece had her very first birthday.
it was cupcake themed.
she sat in her cake.
worth it.

editing has been awesome!

marty mcfly.

its almost becoming a pattern for me. a pattern of basically dying for a month or so and then getting my head back in the game and being on top of it.... then something snaps and I go off and die again. well, this being what is, my muse and motivation (cant believe i just confessed that), I refuse to die again.

Im going to focus and edit a specific number of photos everyday until I am completely done with the projects I have started. I know its in my nature to procrastinate and put off... put that should just stop.
I have finished the "book" from the tour I was apart of at the beginning of the year. I am pretty excited about it. all the footage from said tour will be completed and posted once I acquire ILIFE '09.

my fall 'to do' list is looking pretty awesome and Im excited to check things off of it. it should be a full and fun fall.
also, I am looking to do more weddings. so if you (or someone you know) happens to be getting married in the near future... send me an email, Id love to be in touch.

other happenings? my niece is turning 1 this weekend. we are having a cupcake themed party (which might have been my idea but was completely stolen from me and turned into a monster, as most things are with my family). tomorrow will be spent baking and preparing so the saturday isnt a huge fiasco. it will be cute, photos will be taken. you just wait. (notice in advance: I claim no decorating credit on the large cakes.... only cupcakes... just sayin')
also, seeing brand new tomorrow. what? yeah. Im pretty excited about that. excited enough to mention it here... so there you go.
thats all for now, take care!

I guess one was going to come up eventually, right?

I had no intentions of posting this here... however it gets getting insanely positive compliments.... so there you have it. it was taken with my cell phone, in a hammock, in my backyard.
Im feeling very irritable today, with no reason as to why. so I will keep this short and sweet.

take care and enjoy your summer.

click on it and view it bigger. i really like the way this came out. I was going to put it into a pano, but i really like the way the images line up right next to each other like this. the only editing done to this set is some sensor cleaning. the rainbw really was that bright, it was insane. more rainbow photos! haha

My housemate, Tarrna, taking a photo of the rainbow.
let me tell you about that rain. it was one of (if not the most) magical rains i have ever experienced in my entire life. being completely serious about this, right now. I went out back to lay in the hammock (its kind of my thing to do when i start to feel stressed out, which i was definitely feeling that day) and it started sprinkling. it was a nice, cold sprinkle. the sun was still out so the light warmth of the sun mixing with the chilly sprinkle not only felt amazing but smelled amazing. I sat up out of the hammock to talk to one of my other housemates while they were jumping on the trampoline and we saw the most bright brilliant rainbow. which resulted in the photo you see above. a little bit later there was a double rainbow. prisms are beautiful, no hippie.

I live with artist's, musician's and the general creative types. it was very intimating at first but I find it to be very inspiring now. its almost as if I wasnt being exposed to what anyone else was really doing and I feel that as a result i wasnt pushing myself to try new things, which may have been the catalyst for my feeling so stagnate. I'm very happy and starting to feel very enamored with everything once again. I have seen several possum's in the garden and its super cool everytime. I still haven't seen any raccoons.... which im told are abundant here... and yet i still see NONE. I told someone here that i was going to build a doggie door and put the dogs food by it so I could stake them out and see them. it sounds so creepy when I type out my plan to see live raccoons.... i wonder if it sounds that creepy when I say it aloud. probably.

I really need to re-calibrate my screen.