Day 127 - Upon Rediscovering Macro...

Oh macro, long have I abandoned you!! I apologise!!Again, I'm pleased with these! Two good photograph days in a row, this is quite good! These are pictures of a dandelion in my garden... I rediscovered the wonderfulness of macro today, and I find it quite exciting! :D

I went to see 'The Last Song' tonight with my friend Sarah... it was a very good movie! I don't cry in movies, I don't know why, I just can't, but I was seriously rather choked up tonight!! It was such a good movie, a pleasant surprise from Miley Cyrus there!

Day 126 - Zoom Zoom Zoom!

So it's not often that I say I really like a photograph that I have taken, but this is one of those times. I had spent quite a while trying to get light stream photographs of the cars going past my house, and they turned out okay, but weren't very interesting as they were very linear. Just as I finished taking the last shot I planned to take, my dad got into the car to drive out to pick up my brother. I quickly grabbed my tripod and ran to the corner to get this shot. I love the curvature of the light stream, and it turned out so much better of my ones with multiple cars!

Day 125 - "This Is Where Heaven And Earth Collide..."

Today I was taking some pictures of some art pieces for the school magazine... this is a piece I particularly like...

So I'm currently very much into the band Sanctus Real... if you're into Christian rock music you should check them out... I like them a lot!! The title of this post is a line from their song 'The Redeemer'. I would highly recommend them, they just make me smile a lot!

Day 124 - Retrospectiveness.

This is a picture of a toy truck that was lying on the grass in my garden... it seemed kinda abandoned.So I'm gonna talk about yesterday, seeing as I didn't get the chance to last night. So we (Bill, Mich, Corinne, Vikki and I) completed the Belfast Fun Run in half an hour!! Wooo! Go us! It was an amazing experience, I really want to do it again next year. Vikki commented on how there was such a sense of 'community spirit' and I agreed. It was a beautiful day and everyone was in such high spirits! I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

About the picture yesterday, we decided we would all wear dork glasses, and Vikki and I went the extra mile and wore shorts and stripy socks... we totally rocked that look! About the title of the post yesterday, we decided on a code word, "Doilies", to shout if we were lost or in pain. It worked pretty well I think!! :)

"DOILIES!!!!"

Day 123 - "Doilies!!"

We did it!! We ran the Belfast Fun Run - 5k! It was epic fun but now I am beastly tired! So I'll write more about it tomorrow when my brain is working!

Day 122 - Race Day Tomorrow!

^These are my new 'dork glasses'. I bought them because I wanted to wear them for my 5k tomorrow! YES! It's my 5k tomorrow! I'm kinda nervous / excited! Today some of us went to Belfast, to go to Vineyard Church (it wasn't bad) and to pick up race packs etc for tomorrow! Haha I'm not sure how ready I am for this! :)

Day 121 - Kumite

Today I was coaching at a karate competition, and I was able to get a pass to be able to take pictures so that made the day a whole lot more interesting! Here are some photographs of the fights... some of these were very painful to watch - watching your friend get beaten up or beat up someone else or even another friend isn't the easiest thing to do in the world... especially as we have to encourage them to keep on fighting. Ah well, I guess I'm just being a girl, that's karate for ya!

What was also rather annoying was the uselessness of some of the referees, Mich and I were screaming "JOGAI!!" (meaning 'Area', as many times people illegally stepped off the area) before some of them noticed. Plus there were times that they wouldn't realise that they needed to stop the fight as someone had already won... grr. I could have done a better job.
So we had an interesting experience in Lisburn today, the Translink website lied to us, so our planned bus home was non-existent! That was fun... lol!

Also! I'm gonna tick another one off my list!

#9. Meet someone new and make good friends with them

^Collin said he would be my friend if I bought him a donut. I did, but I ate it for him...

:)