Last hurrah...

"Sign of Fidelity"

So, the past several days have been intense. The first day of school is Wednesday. So, naturally, I am filled with tons of anxiety. This has caused many a night of minimal sleep, between not being able to fall asleep and having to wake up at a decent hour to do more work. So, I decided to take a short break in order to recharge the batteries. Of course, this cut into my sleep time, but I would have probably had trouble sleeping anyways. So, I decided to do some more artistic edits of photos I took at my brother's wedding. My last hurrah, so speak, before I have no free time ever.

This photo was a complete accident. There was a lag in the shutter. For some reason my shutter won't close sometimes when the flash is on. It's really frustrating. So I had moved the camera down as the shutter closed and it came up with this. I actually loved it. It seems artistic. Actually, if I hadn't written that above, I could say that it was in fact an artistic choice. Alas, I am too honest. :) I just added some texture and then some text from the wedding liturgy. The ring is in perfect focus and seems to be what the eye is drawn to. I thought that the text, through the slanting and the topic, would increase the chance that your eye would find the ring.

The text reads: "Take this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

So, now it's off to sleep, and then another day of preparation for the both dreaded and anticipated day. Keep me in your prayers as I begin teaching for the first time ever. I'm going to need all the help I can get!

Wedding!

"Charles and Kim"

So, my brother was married, I guess a little over a week ago. It took me this long to get all my photos edited. I didn't do anything fancy, just edited out red eye and messed with brightness and contrast. When I have more free time, I'm going to actually go through all of my shots and give some of them proper edits.

The wedding was beautiful! My brother and my new sister-in-law are so incredibly cute together. I really lucked out and got a wonderful new sister out of the whole thing. :)

So, there are more pictures, but they are on my facebook page for now.

Update

"Kiddie Wheel"

So, since my last post I have had my interview. It went better than I had thought and I will be teaching Sacraments and Morality at Central Catholic High School. It's going to be interesting working with my Dad and my Mother-in-law and all my old teachers.

Today I'm going to my future sister-in-law's wedding shower. I have to admit that my brother has impeccable taste...she is so incredibly sweet. They are really cute together.

Anyways, that was just a quick update. I'll try to say something with more substance later. Oh, and the picture above was taken at the Epiphany Carnival a week back or so. This is definitely in my top 10 favorite photos (of mine).