Photography Final

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For my photography final, I am supposed to mimic a photographer from a list from the teacher. I chose Richard Misrach - http://www.edelmangallery.com/misrach-main.htm

I'm trying to decide which ten photos are my best so I can submit my assignment.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34009969@N04/
If you have time to check the 19 or so photos I posted on flickr and care to let me know which you think are better or worse, I'd sure appreciate it!

Any opinions?

New Furniture

Isaac built the crib today. We still have to get a mattress and bedding, but it's cool to see the crib in what has been a big empty space the last three or so months. I'll post a picture when it's all done, but for now, here is our dog. She was playing with the leaves we tracked in. Too bad she dropped the one that was hanging out of her mouth a second before this... but the tongue is pretty hilarious.

Keeping Busy

Isaac started a second job a week ago. He is building suspension parts for Corollas at the NUMMI plant in Fremont until they close (at this point slated for the end of March). It's nice to be putting more aside with the baby coming in a few months, but he's working crazy hours. I probably only saw him a few hours between Wednesday and Saturday last week since he's home for just a short time after his 10-hour NUMMI shift before he leaves for a 4-5 hour shift at Elephant Bar... 5-6 days a week... He's been so positive about it, even though he couldn't have gotten more than 4.5 hours of sleep most nights last week. He's my hero.

Since he's been gone a lot, I convinced my dad and sister to go to the Behold the Light dance show at the Interstake Center by the temple last Friday. I was excited to see Danielle, Jon and even Dawna dancing, and they were great! Danielle surprised everyone by doing flips across the stage, even at about 20 weeks pregnant.
Really, who couldn't love any extra reason to get up to the temple, especially in December? I love all the lights. :)

Thanksgiving

Isaac and I drove out to Utah for Thanksgiving this year. It was my second Thanksgiving in Utah and the first one without my mom, but we got to see lots of Snow family, so it was a really fun trip.
Thanks to Matthew and Stephani for putting us up and hosting this delicious Thanksgiving feast! Yes, this is quite a feast for eight people, and it was all good.

We did a temple tour in the area. It was awfully cold and windy, so we just drove around the outsides. I saw Draper (above) and Oquirrh Mountain for the first time, then Jordan River, Mount Timpanogos, and Provo the same day. The following day we walked around Temple Square in Salt Lake too, bringing us up to six temples.

We saw snow, which is great because it's pretty to look at, but we managed to avoid driving in it, which makes this experience all the better! (I'm just not a fan of snow traffic... or the cold.)

Eight Snows... We were only missing Jon and Emily's families, which was pretty impressive considering only Matthew, Stephani and Sarah live in Utah. It was a blast seeing everyone, eating at my favorite ice cream places, playing games, shopping in a Shade STORE (instead of online, lol), and then hearing that BYU beat the U on our way home. What more could we ask for? ;)

Panoramas

The assignment for my online photography class the past two weeks was to shoot strings of photos and stitch them together into 5 panoramas. This was not the first time I've put photos together for a panorama, but it was the first time I'd used the Photomerge feature in Photoshop CS4, and it's WAY better than Elements. Wow. It was so easy; I hardly had to do any of my own blending. Anyway, here are some of my favorites:

I love the golden sky from the sunset and the reflection on the water. We're so lucky to live in such a pretty part of the country that this was a less than ten minute drive from our condo. :)

This last one is from up by CSUEB, a little further away, but still within about 20 minutes.

Risk Taker

I ate this whole piece of cheesecake yesterday even though I had a doctor's appointment to weigh in at today, and I was under strict instructions not to put on more than three pounds in the last month.

It was SO GOOD. Thankfully, luck was on my side, and I only put on 2.5 pounds this month. Now the doctor and I are both happy. :)

Happy Halloween!

Last night we went to the ward activity (hot dogs, Charlie Brown for the kids, and Trunk-or-Treating). We dressed up all together again this year since Isaac didn't have to work. Isaac's iron-on didn't work, but we attempted to pull off this literary allusion anyway...

Edward Cullen, Bella Swan & Jacob Black and here we tried to be serious like the movie poster, but it just makes me laugh to see us trying so hard. I photoshopped his eyes for this one, which has served to make me very happy that Isaac does NOT have amber eyes.

Then we went to Mom & Dad's for hot chocolate. Mmmmmm...