Photography, Photography!

We are now into the Spring Semester at BYU-Idaho, and things are moving right a long.  So I’m in my first photography class, and quickly learned that the school only rents out FILM cameras, which in my opinion is way “old school”.  Not only do you have to load film, you only get about 18 shots per roll.  Then the process to develop and enlarge film is time-consuming.  Loading the reel in pitch black, pouring the right amount of chemicals, aggitating correctly while watching the clock like a hawk is no fun when you find out you ruined half the film strip because you touched it! Sure, the enlarging process is exciting to see a picture magically appeared when dipped in the right chemical, but who has the time for all that?  I don’t, and since Duston and I both really enjoy photograpy we purchased a Nikon D5000 DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera. Ok so it is refurbished, and one of the cheapest “nice” cameras you can get, it will work fine for us entry-level photographers.  And I can’t wait to start shooting some sweet pictures!

On the side note here is an update of our lives- Duston is busy in school and working as an IT guy in the Library.  He only has one semester left after this one!  Duston’s dad had a seven-bypass-open-heart surgery two weeks ago, he is now home from the hospital and healing nicely.

I am now a first semester Junior!  I love all my communications classes, but both my video and math classes are lame so far, but I am sure I will learn something useful.  I am on a basketball team too, I practice twice a week at 6am.  We have a game every friday, our first one is this week so I am excited.  I am still working at Artic Circle but not as much, since my other job as a student secretary is WAY better! I even got a 5 cent raise, yeah!