Stress.....to un-stress

Got back from  Senior Retreat and had a really great time with everyone. It was excatly what I needed a break from everything including pictures!  Mrs. Perry took lots of pictures.....I only took a few. I did not like being in the pictures but glad to get a break!  I needed Senior Retreat to relieve some stress. I must say I have not done much this week because we have been gone. I have been working on research for my research paper. I am making flash cards and working on my thesis and outline. My picture days and senior project will run next week in the Knightly News next week. I am hoping to get a big turn out for my project. I have been talking all about my Calendar as well. Last week my photos ran again in Knightly News from See you at the Pole and the week before Fall Festival. Really enjoying pictures. Starting to line up dates and get people for my photo days!

Click....Click.....Click Click Click

Click......Click......Click...that is the sound of my camera and it seems to  be the sound I hear the most latley. I have been busy. I have been taking hundreds of pictures everyday. From Fall Festival, Doughnuts for Dads, Cowboy Day, See You at the Poll, and Sports my last week has been very busy. I have been busy with Knightly News as well. One of my photos was published in the Spartan Weekly that was exciting. I am going to be advertising for my first photo day which is October 22. I am going to start getting the word out here in the next week. I am struggling on figuring out the details on location price ect. I think I am going to take the pictures at Converse College or somewhere local. I have also entered one photo contest and entering more next week. If I win a photo contest the money will also go to help with my senior project. To purchase a yearbook camera. I have been getting emails and notes put on my locker to take pictures. As for now I am busy taking pictures every single day. I have gotten frustrated and overwhelmed looking for ways to better manage my time.

Accepted

My project has been accepted which is quite exciting. I was forced to face my fear of talking to people and it seemed to go well. I got lots of advice from the board. I am now looking for companies closer to home to print my Calendar. Along with looking for companies I am looking for a way to narrow down photo days. I have been busy taking pictures at school as well as looking for a good location for these days.  I will soon start advertising my photo days. I have now decided on a final paper topic. My topic is about  photo editing and how models and other people in magazines are made to look perfect  how young girls are made to  think they should look a certain way. I have now had 5 Knightly News each with my section of pictures from the previous week.  I am trying not to get overwhelmed but I have not gone a day without taking pictures in over two weeks. The one thing I know I will make sure that I have big squares on my calendar so everyone has room to write!

Staying Busy

I have been working a lot on my  project. The list of photo events I need to photograph seems to extend everyday. I have now worked on four issues of Knightly News. All issues contain my photos. The challenge so far is keeping track of events and making sure I find something interesting for each weeks issue. In the next few weeks I plan to advertise my Senior Project. I have also been doing odd photo jobs around the school. I am the basically the photographer at every event Oakbrook has. I receive emails and get asked by teachers and students to constantly to take pictures. I enjoy this a lot.   I plan to go ahead and make sure people know my plans for my project especially my two photo days. I am going to advertise not only inside the Oakbrook community but also open it up to anyone who may be interested. I have four clients already. I am excited, and I think this will be a great way to learn a lot. Along with Knightly News and photographing Oakbrook events, I may have the opportunity to shadow a Herald Journal Photographer.  I really hope I get to and if I do I think it will be a great learning experience. I am enjoying my project already and I have barley begun.

Knightly News and Good News

I have already begun working on Knightly News the weekly news publication at Oakbrook. I will be assisting Mrs. Ledbetter my mentor with Knightly News each week. I plan on having a section each week with either my pictures or my personal section called "people in the hall." I have already enjoyed working with Mrs. Ledbetter and looking forward to my Senior Project. As for now I have planned two photo days one on October 22, 2010 and March 18, 2011. Along with these two days if people are not available I will take their pictures at their convenience. Before even advertising I have been asked from two families and one senior to take their pictures, this is exciting because I have not even gotten the word out about my Senior Project and I already have clients. I am excited for my Senior Project and glad I decided to go with photography. I think it will be a huge success.  Along with Knightly News I have enjoyed photographing Oakbrook events. Also along with Knightly News I will be working with my mentor Mrs. Ledbetter on the Villager the yearly publication at Oakbrook. My pictures will be published in the publication along with helping Mrs. Ledbetter organize it. Overall I am grateful and excited about my photo days being asked to take pictures before I got the word out and then telling my clients that the money will go straight to helping Oakbrook and Yearbook and Journalism classes to purchase a camera, everyone seems excited with the idea.  I look forward to continuing my Senior Project.