Fall Photo Rush

So I haven’t been posting a lot, one reason being, I’ve been busy taking photos! I founded and currently run the GVSU Photography Club, so I’m always planning and participating in Photo Shoots for that, most recently being a night time photo shoot, and a walk though downtown Grand Rapids viewing Art Prize pieces on display throughout the city. The other event being a wedding I shot, as representative for the Photo Club. It was so much fun! I hope to do more weddings.

Click through the images below to see more on flickr!

Night

Art Prize

Wedding

(not available on flickr)

These are not all the photos lately. These are just the ones from the beginning of October. I’ve been so swamped with school and NaNoWriMo and other projects that I’ve been slow to get around to edit my photos. So expect fall photos round about when it starts snowing! Just kidding… I hope.

Dancing and Meteors

#3. Watch a meteor shower, and #6. Go clubbing, have both happened this summer. And at the same time. Well… on one occasion.

Anyways, over the summer, me and my gal pals actually drove up to good old GR on a few occasions to go clubbing at the Wednesday night 18+ place. It was lots of fun, and quite enjoyable. Though at first it took some convincing of my mother, but that was settled. I love clubbing now. Dressing up cute and just letting loose and dancing for a while with a bunch of girlfriends until you’re exhausted, and then piling back in a car to drive back home.

However, on one of these particular rides home, I grabbed shotgun. And as we get away from the city lights and out on the dark highway, I begin seeing little flashes of light out of the corner of my eye in the sky. I begin watching the sky and realize that there’s a meteor shower! About every 1-3 minutes we would see a shooting star streak straight down towards the southern horizon in the sky. It was beautiful, and I loved having a, literal and figurative, front seat. Haha.

So this post is very late, but it still counts right? Of course it does. Onwards to check off more on my list of 101 Things to Do in 1001 Days!

Back on Campus

So it’s been my first week back on campus. I’ve been reuniting with friends and wandering the campus again. And I’ve started a new flickr album for the many more photos sure to come this fall as I run the Photography Club for it’s first full year.

First Photography Club Photo Shoot

Well, this weekend we conducted our first Photography Club photoshoot. It was cold, in the 20’s, very windy, and we got hit by lots of snow on the last part, but it was great fun and I got a few good shots. Only four of us showed up, but I assume the weather was a big deterrant for most people planning on coming. I think it was worth if for those of us who braved the weather. Check out my best shots here.

Broken Promises and Student Organizations

So, I’ve done something I promised myself I wouldn’t do this year, and I’ve done it twice. I’ve become an officer of two student organizations. Before you say, “Oh, but that’s such a good thing to be a part of!” let me tell you that I agree. But I have something to explain.

In high school, I was Secretary for two organizations, a grant giving committee my sophomore year and my school’s chapter of the National Art Honor Society (NAHS) which I helped to start my junior year. Let me tell you, that it sucks to be the “responsible kid” and be voted Secretary which means you’re stuck taking lots of boring notes. This is even more of a pain when you don’t even take notes in your classes as it is, but people always assumed I was the “smart kid.” FALSE! I hated taking notes and I had been slacking off in my classes since middle school and was a solid A/B student. And I was the furthest person possibly interested in taking notes.

Whatever! Point is, I’m a decent person, and I did it anyways, and I did my job well. So well, that my senior year, both organizations had voted me President. With a busy senior year schedule of both high school and college classes, and meetings sometimes at the same time (not by my choice) I would often have to end up choosing which meeting was more important for me to attend. This meant a lot of pressure.

Long story short, my freshman year of college (a busy one by most standards) I promised myself I wouldn’t get too involved in student organizations so I would have more time to relax, de-stress, do homework, etc. Well, I joined Apples & Oranges, the university’s Mac user group and I became one of the regular members (cuz I’m an awesome dork like that) and they needed a Vice-President ASAP for some requirements, so BAM! I’m a VP. Which was okay because I honestly don’t do anything.

But, I made it worse by deciding one night where I was obviously light on homework, that my university of 20,000+ students really needed a Photography Club! You’d think that a university of this size that they would have a photography club already! I mean, there’s a Harry Potter Club and a Knitting Club but not Photography Club??? So I started one. Yes, me. Which means my freshman year, I’m running around from building to building, playing e-mail tag trying to reserve a classroom, messaging masses of potential members, trying to get this club up and running and make it interesting so members will want to come and stay.

Yes, student organizations are a great thing to be involved in, but I promised myself not to join too many. I went out and did worse than opposite of that and started a brand new organization which means 10x more responsibility than joining too many in order to preserve my sanity. So, why did I do this? 1- because I’m awesome, duh. 2- because I know that it will be so worth it later.