Pleasant Grove High School Boys tennis, 2013!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ts9q5iqaxq29vpm/jRGy46dFac

Hey! This here is a link to my dropbox account which has a whole bunch of photos I took for my schools boys tennis team this year! Those boys are amazing, and photographing them actually made me want to get into tennis.

Flowers

Well, I now know one thing. I'm terrible at blogging. I even forgot that I had one until my father told me that I should post the pictures that I took of my grandparents beautiful flowers on facebook. But, I reminded him I could just put them on my blog... 
Oh yeah, my blog. 
Well anyways, I really wanted to share these with my family and especially my grandfather. He has the most BEAUTIFUL garden I have ever seen! It has so many amazing flower, one's I've never seen of or heard of before, and it's a shame that they go unnoticed! So, before we left my grandparents's farm in Canada, I decided I would take pictures of the beautiful flowers because I love taking pictures of flowers! That has been my favorite thing to photograph ever since I started doing photography. 

The cool thing about these flowers are that most of them are really bright! Sure I messed with contrast and levels and such in photoshop but I didn't really have to do much when I went through to edit them beside fix the lighting. However, on the pink one's I dulled the colors a bit and gave the leave a blue "ish" tint. OH! That second to last flower, as BIG AS YOUR HEAD! The thing is MASSIVE! Loved it! 

WOW!

..Oh my goodness. I feel like such a failure. I make a blog, and then forget about it for a straight week.

...Whoops.

Any-hoo! Here is how I make up for that! This little slide show that I posted was for an English project I did at school. We were learning about Thoreau and we had to do a project at the end of the term. So, I decided to take pictures of what I found beauty in, and stick them into a slide show. I have to admit.. working on the project for hours on end for two days was not fun.. MASSIVE headache. However, I had a lot of fun taking all these pictures. My favorite picture in this is the one of my little brother. It makes me laugh so hard and I love when he gives me that cute, toothless smile. My families favorite is the one with the globe. Now, I'll be honest.. that picture was pure luck!! I have no idea how on earth I got the glare like that, but it was pretty awesome. Another one that turned out pretty well was the one of me writing. I didn't have any ones hand to use so I had to use my own and take the picture with one hand. That was quite the challenge because that camera is kinda heavy.. :)

Well, enjoy the slide show and if you have any questions on how I took the pictures, feel free to ask! 

Welcome! 
So, this is my first post. How exciting! Any-hoo, this is my photography blog.. 
yes, I know, there are no photos yet. BUT! That will change! Well, I guess there is one picture and it's my background. I've spent all night customizing my blog and haven't really gotten around to posting anything quite yet. This is just my hello. 
 The reason I thought of creating a photography blog was because one, I love it. I've never been too great at expressing myself through words so I thought; hey, I'm an artistic person, why not express myself that way instead? And two, I think it would be a fun thing to minor in college. I want to major in the medical field but that's a lot of schooling and I need an outlet ;) I thought about photography being my major, but I don't want my hobby to become my profession.. I'd get sick of it. 
Well, when I do get some photos up, I hope you'll enjoy them and give me an opinion on what you like, don't like or possibly ideas or what I could do better or even if there is something you would like to see! Thanks!
-Shain :)