Well, despite suffering an urpy and unhappy stomach all day (...ugh....), I managed to finish, upload and submit (I'm #99 btw) my 26 Things photo scavenger hunt gallery today. It technically runs July 1st - July 31st, but seeing as the owner of the site is in Australia, it's already August 1st for her. Aaahhh...so, I hurried up and got it finished. *grins* I was really worried I wasn't going to find enough things for it - I rarely get a chance to go anywhere and so most things were found in and around my apartment. I changed my mind a couple times on what to include and what not (like I was originally going to use M&M Mini's for "little things" but the pictures came out subpar and I ended up settling on beads - which would have also worked for "color") It actually took a lot more thought and work then I thought it would when I decided to try to do it. (Granted, I only had like a week to take my photos since I didn't start doing it until like last week, but still...I really had to try to think of things that fit but weren't all too similar) Browsing through some people's galleries makes me horribly envious of their locations and cameras. I have to take half a dozen shots of things in the hopes one of them comes out halfway decent. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that I got the camera at all - it was a gift from some readers over a year ago now - but it's still really hard to get the kind of shots I want. It basically won't focus without the flash or if anything is closer then like four feet away. *shrugs* I make due, but it gets very frustrating sometimes wanting to capture something the way I want it to look and not being able to.

Anyway, go take a look. :) You can also leave any comments about the photos here

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 7/31/2003 08:12:48 PM ~ ~