State Fair - A Monday Post by Rachel

{I'm not even going to apologize for the lateness. Better late than never, right? Right.}

So, I decided I wanted to enter the State Fair this year. I had done it before, but I did drawings, and it was supported/done by a different company than the ones i'm doing this year.

I entered 11 photos.

Two in the youth contest (there were only five opportunities in the youth contest! I was not happy to say the least), and 9 in the adult contest. But, please know that there were SO MANY to choose from. It was extremely hard. But I didn't want to end up paying a lot over twenty dollars, just because I had set a limit.

Anywhoo, these are all 11 entries:

Favorite?

Guess That Picture

Last weeks picture ^

If you guessed...

cauliflower, you were correct!

This weeks' picture:

What IS that?

xo, 

Rachel Nicole

ps- did you welcome Sarah yet?

Carry Your Camera Everywhere

Ok, so maybe not EVERYWHERE, but everywhere. You never know what you will stumble upon and chances are, if you don't bring your camera you will miss some amazing opportunities.I recently changed out my purse for a smaller camera bag that holds just my camera, my wallet and a few other things. I cannot express how I feel about always having it with me. I can whip it out at a moments notice, get the shot and continue on with whatever I was doing. If I have one regret, it's waiting so long to start bringing it. At first, I was a big apprehensive because I didn't want people to "judge" me. Now I realize that whipping my camera out in public almost always ends with the confused faces of a few people, but some perfect images in my camera. I don't have any specific pictures to show you of just "whipping out my camera" but, I do have plenty of pictures that I wouldn't have if I didn't tote my camera around everywhere.

Here are just a few:


 The snowball stand where I currently reside opened for the first time this year! It was so delicious that my friend and I are going again after class today :) Snowballs are a major part of my life (for multiple reasons) and I am so glad that I was able to capture my first snowball in my college town so close to the end of my first year as a student here.

 




For those who don't know, I am a member of a greek society, and Sunday we kicked off the start of Greek Week with a BBQ. The person who was suppose to take the all greek picture didn't show up, and I was asked to take the picture :) Every greek on campus isn't in the picture, but I think that it is a pretty good representation of the whole.

 


My Friends are always happy to have their pictures taken and quite often use the ones I post on Facebook as their profile pictures.

 


 There are quite a few theatre kids at my college so, last minute headshots happen rather frequently. (Especially lately for people trying to get summer acting work)

 


I've been attending a few baseball games, and I almost always get asked if I'm taking pictures for the school newspaper. I'm not currently, but I did submit an application for next year ;)






I was walking one day and found these gorgeous little flowers on a tree. I love them and don't know what I would have done it I wasn't carrying my camera with me :)



 Having your camera with you at all times can open up so many doors for different types of photography. I heavily suggest it to anyone who wishes to further their picture-taking skills.

 ~Karalee



 *A good, sturdy camera case is recommended for the safety of the camera which you will be toting :)