Nanna and Pop Pop Come for a Visit to See Their FAVORITE Granddaughter Graduate!!

I had a wonderful time with my grandparents during their visit to Seattle!!! I love them both to pieces and was so excited to have them in my neck of the woods.  We did a few touristy things such as the Underground tour, which is a tour of the underground city of Seattle http://www.undergroundtour.com/.  We also Rode the Duck, which gave us a wonderful tour of Seattle via a WWII amphibious landing craft!  The Captain was quite a riot!! Pop Pop had a really hard time letting someone else be the 'comedian' but he wasn't afraid to drop i n his two cents every so often!!

On the Duck!

Being Gansta

I captured who is REALLY in charge! ;)

Eating at Dukes Chowder House

<3

Pop Pop deciding how much he thinks this is worth..

 

 

 

I graduated from Cascadia Community College on Friday with an Associates in Applied Science-Pre Nursing Transfer degree.  I couldn't have been more thrilled to have a handful of supporters by my side...as well as Hannah; someone I  met at the beginning of my college experience, and I know will be a life-long friend!

Us with Emilie-our amazing teacher for Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology.  She truly made learning these challenging subjects enjoyable and understandable!! I am so proud that she has turned into much more than a mentor, but also a great friend!

Pop Pop just HAD to get a picture with his girls!

hahahaha-spreading our wings to FLY!

Love you Jonsey!!!

My Final Photo Project

Any place near the water, comforts my soul.  This probably has to do with growing up near the beaches in southern California and starting my young adult life living in the state of 10,000 lakes.  About two years ago I stumbled upon South Lake Union and the massive yachts that call that it home.  My eye was quickly drawn to the wooden boats and wood boat-making shops and work areas.  I really wanted to go back to the wooden boat center to use the techniques I had learned over the quarter to re-shoot this area.  I am definitely pleased with the way my images turned out.  The images have an older, yet fresh feel to them.  I feel as though the editing remains true to the content in the image, but still incredibly appealing to the eye.

Darnit, I need to figure out how to rotate!!

My Ceramics Class

Along with photo, I have been taking a ceramics class.  Here is everything I made!

Birthday and Cake plate

My first project...a pot.  

Trying to use up the rest of my clay, and caring more about the glaze rather than the technique.

Box-not sure what I plan to do with this just yet.

Coffee Mug!

the large bowl was one project, and the 4 small bowls were my final project.  My plan for this was to  be a salad bowl set...but unfortunately, they shrank while in the kiln more than I expected...maybe FRUIT salad bowls.  

Project 4-Illusions

For this project, we were to create illusions WITHOUT the help of photoshop.  I struggled at first but I am finally happy with the results.

I broke up the set of 6 photos into two separate series.

"Creeper"

Since the first set was so creepy, I decided to have the second set be full of wonderful places...  I used photos that I had already taken, and printed them up to use with my crafty keyhole.  My concept for these three pictures was, "if you could open a magical door, what would you hope to see on the other side"

Random PIctures from the Last 2 Years

So over the last two years I have really gotten into photography and photo shop.  Here are pictures from mostly Seattle.

Some of these need to be rotated, but I can't figure out how to do it...

Ballard Locks

Cody and his best friend Chad in Tahoe

Jelly Fish

Leavenworth, Wa

Bishop, Ca

Frozen grapes from a winery in Leavenworth.  These are used to make ice wine

Long Beach

Tahoe

Long Beach

Queen Mary