The other morning Michael and I were feeling ambitious, so we both got up at 5:00am! We normally get up later than that, but wanted a change for a day. So as soon as he left, I decided to fulfill my daily exercising goal that I would go on a bike ride and take a camera along with me.It was a beautiful morning and I wanted to get the sunrise in some of the pictures, but I sadly
left too late for that to be the case. Instead I biked to our church building down the street and took pictures there instead. I'm pretty sure Michael thinks I have an uncanny obsession over churches - especially old ones with beautiful construction. Well, this church isn't n
early as old as some churches I've seen or would LOVE to photograph, but it was the closest I could come up with. :)
I really loved taking these pictures, and I almost equally loved photo-shopping them afterwards. I'm no professional, but I do give myself the credit of being an amateur artist, and that's a good start, right?
Picnik.com is the photo-shop program of choice - with
the free version I use there is more than enough for me to play with, and it's all online, which is really nice (it doesn't take up room on my c
omputer, which is a good thing because it would make it even slower - ha!)
I was ecstatic when I found that you can use the black-and-white tool to apply one of my favorite techniques, leaving most of the picture black and white while highlighting a focal point of the photo (or any interesting, colorful piece of the photo, for that matter). So I had fun with that. :) Most of the pictures I edited are variations on just a few of my favorite pictures.
On a different note, I had a funny and encouraging dream the other night. I say "encouragin
g" because it reaffirmed that I am a true mathematician at heart, even though I've been taking a break from math - you know, to get married and stuff. *insert extremely girly giggle here* :)
In this dream I was sitting on the steps of the math building at a prestigious Ivy League university with one of my friends, a fellow math major who I actually know from school in real life (however, she shall remain anonymous).
We were working on the project our professor had given us shortly beforehand, to create a picture telling an adventure story using mathematical symbols (*side note: although I remember the professor showing us some examples. They were mainly on yellowish card stock, and the examples' main characters were crosses between Pac-Man and Jack-O-Lanterns...). Well, we were sitting there, minding our own nerdy business, when a group of skateboarding hooligans with greasy hair and mismatching outfits came rolling around the corner! They looked at us with hatred, disdain, and the intent to do something surely nasty to us, when the leader of the group said loudly, "Oh, LET them do their MATH," turned his nose up, and led the group away. The end.
Needless to say, I woke up laughing.
Oh! I would highly recommend watching the movie Despicable Me. It was absolutely hilarious, witty, and it had a very good message. It is an awesome movie that anyone would enjoy. I gave it a 5-star rating on Netflix, but would totally give it 6 stars if it would have let me. :)
Anyway, thanks for reading! Have a fantastic weekend!
