The First Wedding and Lifetouch

Rather self explanatory really... to be honest, weddings so far, have been a pain in my ass. I'm sure the more I do, the better I'll get, etc etc. But my God it's a lot of work, and sometimes people can be really unappreciative.

But on the bright side, this was only my first wedding, and I have a lot of improving to do, but I feel as though I have learned so much already. There is a lot to learn, and I think the second wedding that I shot on the 14th, had a considerable amount of improvements already.

Here are some of my favorites from the wedding on the 8th:

Sorry, these are a little small, and blogger is compressing them pretty poorly, so sorry about that. but oh well, what can you do. Stupid narrow blog format. haha. SO click on them to view them larger if you want, they are easier to see.

Well that's about enough of that. Obviously that doesn't cover all the photo situations of the wedding, but I just wanted to post some of my favs.

ALSO, I've started my new job as a Lifetouch Photographer, for school portraits. I was going to tell you all about it tonight, but it's been a long post, so I'll tell you more about it later. I start my 3rd day tomorrow morning, (I have to be up at 5:30...blarg). But I'm excited and I pretty much love getting paid to hang out with cool people, setting up studios with my own music playing, and taking pictures. Radness. It's just training right now, so there will be a lot more driving later on (which I get paid in full for which is awesome) as well as hair pulling stress when I actually have to photograph 500 kids a day, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Peace, Love and Photobugs,

Meena<3

I Heart U Telephoto Lens

So, while I was in Mexico, I got this email from Lois, one of my ACP advisors, and it was about a volunteer opportunity doing a newsletter for something about batman baseball. (Okay, so that's not what it said but it went in one ear out the other because it had very little meaning to me at the time, so if you had asked me, that's probably what I would have said.)
Anyway, during some of my valued 50-peso-an-hour minutes, I read this email and thought to myself, oh my, another volunteer op.
Oh volunteer ops. You are the bane of my existence because, one that seems to be all that's available for students (and all the paid jobs seem to be out in the interior - like, screw the interior,) and two, because you are so god damn useful that I feel wretched when I don't have the time or money to do them.
So I was beginning to feel disgruntled at my loss of a networking opportunity, and great portfolio pieces when I realized, hey I'm not in school anymore, running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to catch up with ACP's absurd amount of work (I mean, for 2 years it practically takes your soul that place.)
So I responded and expressed that I was interested. Suddenly 5 months later I was booking time off work for something that I still was kind of unsure of what the name was.

THE 2010 BANTAM GIRLS CANADIAN FASTPITCH CHAMPIONSHIPS

(see? It's a lot to remember)

If I can think of one word that would some up my time there it would have to be....

RAD-TABULOUS

(I couldn't pick between rad and fabulous. And no, I don't know where the T game from)

Seriously, what's not to like about these things:

1. Girls that can windmill the shit out of their arms and throw a ball so hard it would probably kill you if it hit you in the face.
2. Free burgers
3. 7-8 hours of direct sun a day - hell ya i'm a Brownbaby.
4. Getting to take pictures of sports all day and interview coaches and then get to tell people it's your JOB. (okay sure it was only my job for 6 days, and I didn't get paid for it - but it was my JOB to get the JOB done. So there.)
5. Walking around with a media pass and feeling special.
6. Experiencing an amazing National event where hundreds of dedicated girls get together to show their talent of have fun. 

Yeah. Pretty awesome.

Celebration After a Grandslam

Celebrations After Winning Gold

I now have a new respect for fastpitch soft ball. I had a fantastic time learning about the sport and I left not only with some terrific photography and publishing portfolio pieces, but also with a feeling of inspiration. It really is touching to watch girls and coaches who have worked so hard and come so far, putting their hearts into their game.


Congratulations to all the teams who traveled to Victoria for the nationals. You all deserve it.


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