Good Photography

I think this is a good photograph. It has good lighting, there's a good background but the subjects are centrally located so your eye automatially focuses to the girraffes. It's clear and there's no people in the background so you don't get distracted. It might be a better photograph if the color was more saturated and if the leaf in the bottom left hand corner wasnt there. Also, the bar on the bottom of the picture is a little distracting from the focal point. What makes a good photograph is a clear, easy to see subject. It should stand out amungst the background but not take up the whole picture.

It should be clear, not blurry, and there should be good lighting. Anyone can be a photographer with practice and good guidence. A good photographer takes skill, focus, and patience. Not every picture you take will be the one so take plenty so you have a large selection. Do research to find the best way and the best features to a good photograph. What really "wow's" me about a good photo is the clearness and good placement of the subject. It has to be a picture that draws your attention immediately and makes you know without hesitating what the main subject is. If you scan the picture multiple times and can't figure out what the subject is, it's not a good picture.

Special Thing You Can Do

I can run hurdles and high jump. Most people can't do them. When you run hurdles, you have to run through the hurdles and when you reach the hurdle, put one foot behind you and one in front of you completely straight and bend to almost touch your toes while running. You can't stop when your coming up to the hurdle. During high jump, you have to run up to the bar, jump up, and bend your back over the bar and land on the mat. If you knock over the bar, you fail. You have to completely clear the bar without it falling in order for it to count. Not everyone has to know how to do this because not everyone runs track or wants to do these events if they do run track. For those athletes who do want to run hurdles or do high jump, these are simple and easily understood directions on how to high jump and run hurdles successfullly.

New Technology

I would love to have the new iphone and an ipad, and a macbookpro. With this new technology, I would keep up to date on the latest stuff going on with my friends, and I would use the macbook to write for college. It would make my life better because my phone now is slow and not reliable. My computer is slow and old and has no appliations. It would allow me to have reliable and better technology to work with. I would use my phone and ipad for fun but I'd use my macbook for school mostly.

Four day weekend

You must blog about the following topic before 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 2, 2012. All of your blogs must be at least five sentences in length, have no spelling errors, and use appropriate capital letters and punctuation. This is a school blog!

Here is this week's topic: Your four day weekend!

My four day weekend consisted of going to my Grandma's house on my mom's side on Thursday. After my grandmas, I went to my boyfriend's grandmas house for a dinner as well. On Friday, I woke up at ten in the morning and David drove me to Toledo to meet my mom for some black Friday shopping. I bought a dress for sub deb at Macy's. After shopping I went to my Grandma's on my Dad's side. On Saturday, I went to the lights before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo. Sunday was just a day of relaxation. David helped me re-arrange my room and I watched the "Walking Dead".

Thanksgiving

What does Thanksgiving mean to you? Where do you go? What special kinds of food do you eat? Is there a tradition in your family about Thanksgiving? Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?

 

Thanksgiving to me means giving thanks for all the things that I have. Health, family, and friends. Also, I give thanks for the blessings I have in my life such as getting accepted into a college, having good grades, having a home and clothes on my back. I usually go to my grandmas with my family. My moms mother is usually Thanksgiving day, and my dads mother is usually the following day on Friday. The special kinds of food that I eat is ham, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. The tradition in my family is someone always writes out a prayer to pray at the dinner table. One person decides to have the prayer every year. We have the prayer to thank God for the things we are thankful for. We celebrate Thanksgiving because Christopher Columbus and the pilgrims found America.

Veterans Day

Veterans Day to me means paying respect to the men and women who served in the military to protect our country. We recognize veterans because me as an individual do not have the strength or the courage to join the military and put my life on the line for my country. Those who do have that courage, deserve recognition. This is important because those who never got the recognition during Vietnam deserve it now including the ones who are in the service currently. I am not interested in joining the military but I'm use to the lifestyle. My grandpa, my aunt, my dad and now my boyfriend have all been in the military. To serve your country means to earn your title as a military personnel. I have never participated in a Veterans Day parade.

Election

If I could vote, I would vote for Romney. I would vote for him because of his plan to keep the troops in Afghanistan. I believe the troops need to stay over there for our protection. If Obama wins, he plans to bring the troops home and if that happens, it will seem to Afghanistan as if we are retreating and they will come to the U.S. One of Romney's proposals is to get rid of the certain insurance companies and make them so they don't have to pay for the birth control. I agree with this because if we only had the certain companies that would pay for the birth control, our country would save money and the money wouldn't come out of the tax payers money. The commercials on the radio drive me crazy. I listen to one song and the minute the songs stops, they play both a Romney commercial and an Obama commercial telling me why I should vote for one or the other. I just can't wait for the election to be over with and for all of the political talk to stop.

Halloween

This year for Halloween, I am going trick or treating.You're never too old to trick or treat. If it's a celebrated holiday marked on the calendar, anyone should be able to participate. Halloween parties are fun, but some people just use that as an excuse to do stupid things. In elementary, my favorite costume that I wore was probably my vampire costume. I got to use fake blood on my mouth and wear fangs. My favorite candy to get in my bag would be Reese's peanut butter cups. I love carving pumpkins. I start carving as soon as I start seeing them being put out at stores and farms. I did carve a pumpkin this year. I carved out a cute picture of a penguin.

I am perfect...or am I?

Am I perfect? In my personal opinion, I am not a perfect person. There are many things I would like to change about myself. The main thing would be my self confidence. I should change this because not everyone looks like the models on TV or a Barbie, but we are all beautiful in our own way. I feel as if I would be a better person because I would finally be OK with who I am and what I look like and I would be a better person because of it. Self confidence goes a long way and knowing in your heart that you're OK with the way you look shows that you have pride in yourself and I think that everyone deserves to think that of themselves. Not a lot of people think that I have this issue with myself, but I guess they do now, considering I'm blogging about it.

My weekend

This weekend was pretty relaxing for me. Friday I went to the movies and saw "Sinister" after that, i don't think I want to see another scary movie. My boyfriend and I had to go to Walmart and buy the Disney movie "Despicable Me" so we could sleep at night. Saturday, we both had to wake up at six in the morning to go bowling for a Poole function in Ann Arbor. We bowled until about noon and got home at about two in the afternoon. We took a nap when we got back and waited until about five thirty to get ready for a dinner my Grandma wanted my family to go to. We went to Weber's in Toledo. The next morning was David's birthday so i gave him his birthday present and we went to lunch with his mom. We chose to go to Olive Garden at two. Sunday night I got home and the power was out at my house. It didn't come back on until about four a.m. That was my weekend.

FALL

My favorite activities in the fall would definitely be carving pumpkins! Making all different shapes for Jack o' lanterns and drinking apple cider. Carmel apples are also really good to enjoy during the fall. The color of the leaves are really pretty and raking them are fun because you can jump in the finished pile after you're done! Halloween is one of  my favorite holidays because you can dress up as whatever you want and get free candy! I love the change from summer to fall because instead of being hot and sweaty all the time, you can go outside and enjoy the cool weather in a hay wagon with your friends and go through corn mazes. My family usually goes up north during the fall and hangs out in the backyard at the bonfire. I love taking pictures of the fall leaves because the colors are so pretty and editing them in photoshop makes the picture pop! My favorite thing to do in the fall that you can't do any other time of year is carve pumpkins, eat Carmel apples, and make cooked pumpkin seeds :)
Happy Halloween!
<3 

Spirit Week!

Starting today; October first, is the first day of spirit week! Spirit week lasts five days and has different topics to dress up as throughout the week. I will be dressing up because i want my senior class to get as many points as possible to be able to go to cedar point. Today was sports day so I wore a Detroit Pistons jersey. Tuesday is camoflauge day, Wednesday is wacky Wednesday, Thursday is awareness day so we're wearing white for lung cancer, and Friday is Aggie spirit day so the school wears as much green as possible! Some of he teachers participate in spirit week and personally, I think the teachers should participate to show their Aggie pride but they shouldn't participate in the pep assembly because the pep assembly is for the students. Not the staff. The pep assembly is on Friday and takes up the last half of the day. All the students gather in the gym to cheer on the participating students. I've participated in the pep assembly once or twice but this year all the seniors get to participate. If asked, i would participate. The teachers, like i said, shouldn't be involved in float building or the pep assembly because it's for the students. Happy spirit week :) <3

David and me :) <3

one of my senior pics :)

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Shelby's Weekend!

My weekend was just one of those relaxing weekends. I didn't do much, I just chilled with my boyfriend and hung out by the bonfire that my brother had. He had a couple friends over and my parents made me be the supervision. I didn't get my homework done and I was bored most of the time. This weekend should be better,