Hobby: Another Favorite

I love what a photo can express. Does he/she look sad to you?

I took this at the Elephant Conservation Camp in Thailand. Elephants are so amazingly gracefully and stunningly HUGE!

So, in an effort to get better at this photography thing, (and learn how to use all the buttons on my camera), I bought a book and DVD from Amazon.

Hobby Mastering in Progress :-)

Hobby: Photography

Finding, and mastering, a hobby is part of the Jordana Project. I want to have a skill just for fun. Something that is useful. I've always loved photography, but I was a point & shoot kind of girl. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too difficult.

Last year, Chris convinced me that we needed the Nikon D50 and it's been one of the best things to ever happen to me. Our everyday pictures are so much better.

But then there was the engagement shoot. And the boudoir shoot. And the wedding shoot. And suddenly my good pictures look blah.

I want to be better. I've got the eye, but I want to know what all of those buttons on the body of my beautiful camera can actually do. So, I'm going to buy a book and I'm going to get better.

Although, sometimes, I just hit it.

I love this shot. Played with the color a bit in Photoshop, but I adore the juxtaposition of a person standing in traffic. This was one of our first shots in Bangkok, driving from the airport into the city. The traffic there is like nothing I've ever seen before. And I though LA was bad.

Getting Ready for Thailand

If you remember, I totally forgot we were heading to Thailand two days after the wedding... because all I can think about is the wedding! So, I've been scrambling to get it all together. We need summer clothes - shorts, bathing suits, light & airy clothes, etc. And not so many people sell those kinds of things in January.

Thank You TARGET! Target came in big for me. They have some summer stuff on the shelves and we scored big time this weekend. I grabbed a few bathing suits and a beach cover up, some shorts and a few tank tops. Chris was over in his section and the same time and we bumped in to each other with seperate and full carts! He is the proud owner of some shorts and t-shirts!

I also forced him to purchase a new pair of Rainbow flip flops as I could smell the old ones from multiple angles and distances. Unacceptable.

I've been trolling online for a while now and I'm really not finding so many options. There was a really cute pair of shorts and Banana Republic, so I ordered those. When I received them, there were the extra tall version. Stupid J, didn't read the print. I got so caught up in the excitement of finding a pair of shorts in January that were only $14.99 at Banana that I just got click happy. These stunning "shorts" hit my knees. Eh, perhaps I'll rock the long short thing.

I did come across something fabulous. They're cashmere and satin eye

masks from Banana Republic. I wanted something to help me block out the noises and people on the plane. The front is satin and the back is cashmere. I bought two... pink for me and green for Chris. And this totally looks manly enough for Chris, right? We'll see if he uses it :-)