Tuesday:
Taking pictures of animals is hard. They don't want to cooperate and stay still :( probably and especially when there's a nest involved. It took me forever to get these pictures of the sparrows. And even so I'm not completely satisfied with them. (Is it just me or do sparrows look REALLY toylike and fake?)

Wednesday:
The fun thing about Oklahoma is that there are fields pretty much everywhere. Okay, slight exaggeration, but still fields are pretty easy to find. Anyway, the power lines caught my attention as I was driving and I had to loop around a couple times to find a ditch of sorts so I could park my car and wander to get these shots. (It's amazing how curious people become when you're walking around with a camera)

 Thursday:
In my quest for letters I was driving around with my camera in my passenger seat. As I drove by the water tower I thought it'd be cool to get a shot. (Note to self, it looks really suspicious when you're stopped at a traffic light and pull out a camera with a telephoto lens--again weird/confused looks ensue)

Friday:
Instead of the actual sunset I decided to tried to capture a different point of view. ( I like trees. They don't move or squawk at you or leave)

shooting ducks/geese

A friend of mine told me that there were babies at the duck pond. WHO CAN RESIST BABY ANYTHING?! So armed with my telephoto lens I went on a shooting spree. I think it was nap time at the duck pond when I went because there were quite a few geese sleeping--btw geese eyelids are creepy. I don't know why, but it just looks... weird... I didn't include the photos that weirded me out but if you need evidence the whole wild goose chase is on my laptop :P

this week

Monday:
the squirrel sketches that I took from the video. there's a part where he just rubs himself against the ground and it's super cute--but when drawn out it doesn't translate as well.

Tuesday:
The day after I did the sketches a friend of mine posted a cute picture of a squirrel asleep on an angel statue. so I went ahead and doodled that



Wednesday:
I was at my parents' house with my camera so I walked around with my camera taking pictures. this one was my favorite.



Thursday:
I have technical difficulties drawing/doodling/sketching cats. THIS IS SOMETHING I NEED TO OVERCOME at some point. Anyway this was from a little video I took of my cat eating cat treats. yeah, it failed, but oh well.


Friday:
I think I need to start a project where I photograph sunsets every night and just accumulate a years worth.... maybe some year when I don't work 10 hour shifts (not happening for a while)

Due to my work schedule, the storm, and the lack of internet at my parents' house. this is a little late.

Tuesday:
I love vines and ivy. I'm not really sure what exactly this is but it covers one side of the art building and apparently has flowers too. These two were my favorites out of the ones that I shot.  I like how the flowers give a focus to the greenery and contrast the sky. The bottom one I liked because those aren't flowers, they're actually chunks of paint that detached from the wall that almost mimic the flowers.

Wednesday:

I took a little bit of time to explore a book about the birds of North America. This is a sketch I did from it

Thursday:
I enjoy making amigurumi when I have free time. This is a little fox that I crocheted and put together

Friday:
This is a little lizard made from seed beads. While waiting out the storm I found a bag of seed beads and randomly flashed back to elementary school when making little bead animals were "popular"

so I spent a small portion of my lunch break chasing a squirrel around campus. It amuses me that they're not afraid of people. They won't let you get too close, but they just kind of accept that we're there. Anyway, this was my favorite photo that I took. I also captured a little bit of video so I'll probably take that and do some sketches like I did for the petco mouse/rat

rest of the week

Wednesday:

I found one of those mosquito-eater things outside my door so I took the opportunity to take a few photos.

Thursday:

this was a sketch that I did while I was brain storming for ideas I think it took 15-20 minutes? give or take ... some time (yeah I really wasn't paying that much attention to time, but I feel like I didn't work on it that long)

Friday:

Once again I was in LOVE with the cloud formations. These were a few of my favorite.

photos

Monday:

I had this but I just forgot to post it. I followed my friends around the Medfair. This is a picture of Maria playing with a snake at the petting zoo. it has a nice depth of field focusing on her and the snake and blurring out the background

Tuesday.

I was feeling pretty crummy and sick today so I took the day off to recuperate. Towards the end of the day, I started feeling less woozy so I ventured out to the ceramics building to decorate my piece incase we do have the pit fire tomorrow. While there I took a panoramic picture of the sunset and view because it was really nice once the clouds cleared out.