Well I promised a part 2, so here it is. If you happen to be the sort of person who enjoys multiple posts all coming right after each other, each of which is about a similar subject, I think you’re going to like the next week or so. There hasn’t been a terribly large amount of photogenic stuff happening around me lately, and I just came into possesion of a ton of old pictures I took on a trip last January, so that’ll likely be the subject matter for a while. In any event, here’s Conserve 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Hey, what can I say? I really love the fall colors. And the weather. And most other facets of the season. Heck, I just love fall in general.
Pretty Colors Once More
Erty’s Wee Ninja is actually quite a bit of fun to take pictures of (as he is perfectly aware). It’s incredibly difficult to actually get a shot of something when you’re facing the only source of light, but I think it turned out all right. I prefer the challenge of not doing touch-up work and it just feels more natural to me to capture the moment instead of manipulating it. I’ll never be a great photographer, obviously, but at least it keeps me happy.
Wee Ninja
Honestly, I’m not usually a huge fan of taking pictures of couples. I always feel like I’m intruding on something that I really shouldn’t, but in this case I simply couldn’t resist, and it turned out pretty well. Erty, Greta, I love you guys!
Lover's Embrace
Conserve has a pretty strict policy about not building forts, so what do the cool kids do? Build them anyway of course. This one is coming along nicely; there’s already a good roof structure and the walls are starting to come along. I had nothing to do with any of the construction on this one, but I did help build another one deeper in the woods. Some day I’ll get a shot of that one…some day.
The Hidden Fort
This is the shot I never got to take over the last few years. On campus there’s a neat place to hang out on a lake, and right on the edge of the water there’s a large tree that stands out from the rest and is absolutely perfect for climbing. This is the view from the top of that tree. The lighting was pretty terrible…. I’d like to get up there for sunrise some day. Absolutely breathtaking.
The Climbing Tree
Some of you may not know this, but I went to a boarding school for the entirety of my high school career. After spending so much time at Conserve in such close contact with my good friends made it feel like a second home. Last weekend I got the opportunity to spend the weekend there, and I’m quite glad that I did. It gave me a chance to think certain things in my personal life through, as well as spend time with some of my closest friends and enjoy the beautiful campus. And take pictures of it, of course. I picked out my 10 favorites. Today you get the worse 5 of the batch, in my opinion at least. Tomorrow, the best!
Last year I realized that one of the benches in the weight room has a face on it when you pivot it. I get the feeling that there is a brilliant LOLcaption to be made here, but I’m not sure what it is.
LOL Machine
Dick and Maggie work on a portion of the fall play, Arsenic and Old Lace. I don’t really know the dates, but if I’m able to go I definitely will.
Arsenic and Old Lace
A bunch of us were chilling out late at night when I decided to be rude with the flash. Opal got scared. Isaiah doesn’t seem to have cared at all.
Flash!
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud? Erty, of course.
Guitar Man
Autumn is an amazingly beautiful season. Every minute or so I was outside I found myself staring up into the treeline. Kawaii! *(^O^)*
Pretty Colors
Tags: Dick, Erty, fall, guitar, hill, Isaiah, lol, Maggie, Opal, play, trees
This week is homecoming around here, but due to tests and trips I’m missing the majority of the festivities. One of the events I was able to get to was the Powderpuff Football came in which the girls of MTU played flag football. I live in a very male dominated hall and it took the entirety of our buliding to put together a team: The McDream Team. I don’t honestly care much about these sorts of things, but some friends were going anyway so I tagged along.
"Tangerine, Apple! Hut, hut, hike!"
Our team is the one with tye-dyed shirts. We won our first game…
Run for the Goal!
…and the second, which resulted in a spontaneous outburst of pyramid.
Cheerleader Pyramid
By this time it was cold and my friends and I had truly lost interest. The sauna seemed like a pretty nice place to go to. I took one last shot of the goalposts and then we left. I have no idea how well we did in the end….
Goalposts
Tags: football, goalpost, powderpuff, pyramid