I am thankful for God's creations. {and other stuff too}

Last week was Thanksgiving break. On Wednesday morning we woke up really early. We got a dozen bagels at Einsteins on Center Street. Then we met up with the other Matheson's in front of the old tabernacle. Emma Matheson switched to riding in big red with Pat and I, and then we were off to Moab! I slept for a good amount of the ride, but when i was awake we listened to music and stuff. Claire was a trooper that day despite her swollen, sprained foot. We were so lucky that it was a nice day! Very sunny, and probably in the high 50's. Perfect for a November day. Pat was so nice to me! He carried my 4x5 (byu's) toyo AND heavy duty tripod the whole day! He even put a duffel bag strap onto the tripod so it would be more convenient to carry. Go Pat!

Shooting the first 4x5 of the day. After finally figuring out how to set up the toyo (it was my first time using it!) and after metering, focusing, checking and rechecking, I finally made the photograph. I turned to Emma and said "that's a lot of work for just one picture eh?" and she said "YOU ONLY TOOK ONE PICTURE?!" Haha I guess it does seem pretty outrageous to take 15 minutes to make one photograph, but hey- that's what i do!

I could write and write and write some more about this day, but I think it sufficeth to say that the combination of being outdoors all day + being with people i love + making photographs + sun made that day really good for my soul or something. I wish we could have been there for a longer time. It felt so good to climb around on rocks and get a little dirty.

Pat, Marcy, Claire, Emma, Emma

(YAY BIG ROCKS!)

There's Pat and me and Delicate Arch

After singing in Double Arch until the sun went down, we stopped in Moab, Utah for some delicious Wendy's. Hamburgers and sunburned cheeks- the perfect end to the best day.

Peter

This cute ball of fur belongs to Sami. He is sick from riding the plane here from Arizona. He is so sweet!

He was kinda stinky... so we gave him a bath.



What a good doggy!



Then we were tired.



So we took a nap.

this one is for you, jordan

HAHA

one sunday we went to pat's house for dinner. his mom made south african curry and naan. i ate a lot a lot. i had a food baby. i am not even doing this on purpose! ok, i am. it took a lot of effort, but i guess i am pretty good at it. i am truly donald's sister.

w o r k {sorry about the cell phone pictures}

this is the darkroom i work in!

there's my enlarger...and sink.




we go through a LOT of paper!

one night pat and i were at walmart. we decided to get a snack. we got an artichoke! we didn't really have a proper steamer, but this is how we did it:

pretty!

this is what it looks like inside!

simon and garfunkel

i cut pat's hair last night....missed a spot....haha! jokes.

So this morning i woke up, determined to go to self defense class since i haven't been in a while. plus they were filming my class for byu tv. i missed my shot at being famous. anyways, i was putting in eyedrops, when all of a sudden i had a sharp and incapacitating pain in the right side of my neck. i thought it would go away in a second...wrong! here i am, four hours later, stuck in bed. it hurts. i may be dying. nah. it just hurts a lot. i'm really bored though because i deactivated my facebook a few days ago. so i've been on pinterest/hulu/gmail all day. then i remembered i haven't blogged in forever. so here goes.

HERE IS THE 4x5 film process:

1. check out camera and tripod.

2. load film into film holders. in the dark room.


3. set up camera.



4. focus. meter. calculate stuff. write it down in the exposure record booklet. this is the ground glass.



5. develop film. here we are washing it.



6. drying!