Yearbook Camp - i.e. place to take awesome photos camp.

This year I went to yearbook camp, like the past two years. It was on the last weekend of summer from Friday to Sunday morning. Kind of sucked that it was labour day weekend, but I had a really good time, so whatever. I had to work the Saturday in the middle too so I got away for a little bit. What sucked about the Saturday was that it was month end so I wasn't allowed to balance until after the shift was over, and some idiot came in at 12:59 and I had to help him and he had like 50 billion things to do and so I didn't get to start balancing until 1:30 and then I didn't balance at first. Ah, the life of a teller. Anyway, this is supposed to be about yearbook camp. So, as always, when we are supposed to be sleeping, Kate and I are taking pictures in our dorm. Which was COLOSSALLY better than last year's. It even had its own bathroom! We were also listening to music on Rach's iPod dock but eventually someone told us to turn it off.:P

Kate in her new Quebec clothes looks altogether cool on her bed.
Kate got so many new clothes from Quebec! I love them all and am quite envious of a few of her shirts that have writing on them and awesome designs that are totally my style. This shirt is more her style though, and it's awesome all the same.

This was crazy. We discovered a mirror and if I took a picture of Kate from a certain angle, she didn't have any legs because they weren't reflecting in the mirror. It was quite funny.

I used the mirror this time to duplicate Kate which was quite interesting also.

Then the blurring experiements started with the mirror. This is Kate blurring.

This is me blurring. There's something about the aura of these photographs that I really like... I think it's probably the lighting and the colour of the wood in the room. It just really went well with the feeling of the pictures and how we were feeling that night. I think if I ever see some wood like that again I will instantly go back there. Also I think if there were lights like that. They were just like the lights from our crappy dorm last year. I don't know... do you read me?

Here's double time again. Kate. There were two really good ones of me this way but Kate deleted one of them when she had the camera. I was secretly upset but I didn't tell her.

Here's my double photograph. Still pretty cool.

This blur is intense because you can see me standing there in real life but then I'm walking through the mirror. I wonder if someone out there thinks this is as cool as I do, and I'm not just some photography freak. I am getting there though.

You can kind of see my face in this one which is really intense. Anyway, enough with the mirror pictures. The next ones were fun pictures taken outside. Kate was unaware at first about this one. She had been taking a picture of the basketball.

Kate, serenely taking a photo.

Her silhouette, outlined by the sun at her back. An interesting shape formed out of this one.

A photo I took of the flowers that were EVERYWHERE at the Rothesay Netherwood campus. They were really pretty. They're significant too because Kate and I took pictures with them last year and this year's are infinitely better. I found that really interesting and eye opening.
So Yearbook camp, where we are supposed to learn about how to create page layouts, how to sell your book, how to create hype, how to organize your book, etc... became learn to become a better photographer camp. I loved it. Oh, and we watched 21, one of my favourite movies of all time.
I'm sad that I will no longer have yearbook camp as it is my last year on the crazy expedition that is yearbook. But I am sure Kate and I will find other ways. I am thinking of a fall colours excursion down to the commons sometime soon, I think that would be insane.
Now, I am off for a run in the rain, and when I get back I will have to force myself to tackle my insane amount of homework and pray that Andrew is feeling well enough for me to go see him tonight.
Peace and love.

Imprints

When I resolve into the essence
That I most truly am,
I feel a deep connection
With every living thing.
For that which most imbues me
With my identity
Is somehow in the other, too,
So that when I look around
I see myself-reflected.
Hidden in this union
Is the wonderful discovery
That if indeed the angels
Have wings-
Then so do I.
And if the essence of a flower
Drifts out on a gentle breeze-
Then so do I.
And if the midnight sky
Is radiant with light-
Then so am I.
And if the silent mystery
Somehow becomes revealed
In tiny dewdrops fair-
Then so will I.
For every lovely thing
Manifests the essence
Of which I am a part,
So beware, my soul, beware,
And move with gentle heart
Throughout this mystic veil.
For if Love has left its imprint here-
Then so have I!

Donna Miesbach