exploding water balloons

For my latest photography project, I had to come up with a way to make TIME visible.

I toyed around with many different ways and took a lot of pictures.

One Saturday afternoon Caleb and I filled up some balloons with water, went outside and he started popping them with a pin one by one while I tried to capture the water while it was exploding.

We went through probably 200 balloons and I used the continuous shooting feature of my camera and took about 500 pictures in order to capture a "good enough for Taylor" picture.

I'm pretty sure Caleb thought the first few were good enough and was ready to be done after being soaked over and over again. But he was a great sport and stuck it out for me!

I eventually came up with 4 different types of projects (bubbles, water balloons, melting ice cream and a story sequence) to turn in to my professor, but this water balloon session was my favorite!

(Sorry the photos aren't edited very well concerning color and contrast. I don't have very good photo editing software on my little laptop as compared to what we have in the photo lab for class.)

it's all His

what do you think about this quote?

my guess is that a [real] artist would have a lot of unhappy things to say about this

BUT.

me, I kinda, really actually like it

the [photographer/artist] in me actually thinks is makes a lot of sense

the things that I photograph are not my art.

those things are His.

He created them.

God equipped me the eyes and the passion to "steal" His art.

sweet life.

SB2K11

Spring Break this year consisted of eating a lot, sleeping a lot, watching a lot of tv, and camping!

Alivia, Annelise, Stephen and I all decided to go camping at Assateague Island for 3 days!

Stephen was our camping guru for the trip and taught us so many practical things:

how to pitch a tent

how to make a fire

how to cook over a fire
how to cook [in] a fire

And some other things:
a fire is like a baby that always needs to be fed but never actually needs to poop
horses poop on other poop instead of in a new/clean spot
a warm wind comes before a thunderstorm

We played bocce ball on the beach, hiked around the island, went to the Ocean City boardwalk, played hide and seek in the woods, climbed some trees, and played with some wild horses (at a distance of course)!

Rose of the trip: SUPER fun time with SUPER great friends!
Thorn of the trip: thunderstorms both nights.. blechh