This summer semester at school has been a rough one. The summer session is only 10 weeks long instead of the normal 16-week semester, so cramming two 16-week classes into two 5-week sessions made life challenging, but I survived. I felt like a steam locomotive this summer. I was a little slow out of the gate, but once I got rolling, there was no stopping. I’m still hoping that I get a 4.0 GPA for the semester, but it’s going to be close and I won’t know until next week sometime. I might be able to find out tomorrow, but its not likely that I will. I have my 10-minute conference with my clinical instructor tomorrow and then I’m off for two weeks before diving into the fall semester.

I’m hoping to find some time for personal photography during this two-week break. It’s going to be difficult, but I’m gonna find a way to make it happen. The newspaper is ramping up for football season, which means that I’ll be going to a lot of the county schools over the next two weeks making pre-season football photos for the annual high school football special that comes out on opening day of the season.

I would like to spend a day at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC making photos again. I love photographing the old train stuff down there, and I haven’t been recently. I think it would be a great outing with the Canon PowerShot G9 and a small tripod. I may also be making a day trip to the North Carolina Zoo at Asheboro. The G9 would not be the best camera for that trip, but if I go, I plan to take it. I’m going to set a personal objective of adding at least 10 photos to the 1000 Faces collection during my break as well.

Mainly I’m looking forward to two weeks where I can get more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep every night :)

Art Photography, Miscellaneous