A likely location for more pictures

Well, according to my local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Renaissance Faire (the "e" at the end of "Faire" was intentional, since it's a medieval thing, and old English doesn't spell things the exact same way as modern English) started today and will continue to June. It's basically a place where there's this Medieval village set up and there are a bunch of people as characters such as the King and Queen of England, the Queen of France (and their guards, of course! Those are who I remembered from last year...) and others. There will also be some other stuff such as jousting tournaments, complete with crowd chants, cheering and booing, and even swordfighting! (however, they don't let you take swords into the place unless you tie it to the sheath so it prevents you from unsheathing it...) so there will be all that, and other entertainment stuff such as... I don't know, musical stuff, like drinking songs, small musical theatre stuff, and the like. I could go on and on about this, but I'd probably bore you all. I think it would be better if I told more about it when I actually got pictures back from that.

PhotoShop Effects

Well, I've been doing some effects with PhotoShop in Photography class today, and I gotta say the effects on this particular picture was wicked awesome!

It was done using a few variations of the Find Edges filter and layer masking, and I really like how this came out!

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I may start to do some more of these in my free time (If I get any, that is...)

Toy Figure Pictures

Here are three of those pictures from the photography class project involving those plastic army men I mentioned earlier:

Window Sniper
A perfect place for that guy, isn't it?

Around the Corner
Nerves tense as two soldiers creep around the structure...

Hold the Line
Six soldiers prepare for an attack.

Got Pictures!

Ok, so I finally scanned in the ones from Shaw Nature Reserve! Well, I put them on my deviantART gallery, so I'll just link to those pictures. Anyway, so here are some of the best ones I scanned in:


I can do anything...
Probably my most favorite picture that I took there! Yeah, the smudges on the library scanner ruined it... but I still like the composition. That is me in the picture, BTW.

Two Trees
Yeah, it can be difficult to find trees just standing by themselves... this is the closest I could get.

Dried up Creek
You would think that a creek with water would make a better subject, but not all the time...

Wolf Run Trail
I really like this picture for some reason... not sure why, but maybe it has something to do with the arrangement of the trees in relation to the trail.

If you want to see all the pictures I posted on deviantART today, then my page there is linked to on my profile as my homepage.

Photography class project

Well, before I get to scanning in my pictures from Shaw Nature Reserve, I've been assigned a project for photography class. Basically, I'm going to take pictures of these toy figures in certain... hm, I guess you could say... artistic ways. (maybe... can't really think of anything else). So I chose to use a bunch of those plastic army men. I don't really know where I can take good pictures of them since it's raining really hard right now, and it's not supposed to stop anytime soon, but I'll try to think of something. I recently listened to the song "The War" by Angels & Airwaves, and since music is a major source of inspiration for my photography, I've been getting some ideas. I'll post them when I take them. I don't know if I'll use digital or film, though.