Fall Cleaning

Today I gave a talk in church. It went well, and everyone has been really nice to compliment me all day about it, which I find funny since everything I said wasn't nearly as elegant as what I had actually written on the paper. But, I figure it's better this way because it was more natural for me to just say what I wanted to say to everyone instead of reading my talk word for word.

I got home and cleaned my room. Several things happen simultaneously when I clean my room. First, I get really happy. I like feeling productive and seeing that things are cleaner because I worked at it. Second, I love my room even more. I have a really cool room. It's the simple truth about that. It's even more cool when it looks like its ready for a magazine photo shoot (it's never actually that clean, but I'm getting there...). Third, because of a combination of the first two, I want to spend time in my room, even though I don't know that I really have anything to actually do in there.

Without further ado, I present today's photos. Zac's room = Zac. These photos sum me up and all of the feelings I described above.

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I'm hanging out in my room. Also, I got a new shirt yesterday. I love it. I obviously go on a lot of dates with a cute face like that, eh?

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On a completely random note, I bought an 8GB Memory Stick. It can hold 1600 photos. Worth every penny.

ZJB

Potted

For ten years I have been pretty much obsessed with the Harry Potter series. Though the series is over, my love for the seven books has definitely not faded. If anything, it has only grown fonder as I can pick apart the details of the plot and the characters as they progress. Well, for the last few weeks I've been rereading books 4 through 7. I started number 7 today and can hardly wait to read it. I don't know that I could ever really choose a favorite book from the franchise, but number seven is certainly not my least favorite, that's for dang sure.

Classic

I'm pretty much a new person after I've had all of my hair lopped off. I love it. Oh, and Mexico Ray-Bans are a win.

 

Verde Valley

We traveled the road to Camp Verde to visit my awesome Granddaddy for day-before-but-practically-Father's-Day festivities. My camera died before I even got photos of family, which was sad, but I got some fun stuff still.

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International

Throughout my entire life I have wanted to travel to far away places and experience the many different things of this world. While I haven't been a lot of places internationally, I have been fortunate enough to have visited some really great places, including but not limited to San Francisco and New York. Deep in my heart, Italy has been a place I have dreamed of and is at the top of my future travel plans (directly behind London but before Spain). Venice is definitely at the forefront of my Italy interests. I saw this shirt and knew it had to be mine for a number of reasons. Mostly, because it was on clearance, but also because there lies Venice, showing me the potentials of my life.

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[My I'm-going-to-travel-the-world-someday face, dimple and all]

Silhouette

I was sitting on my bed in the near darkness, admiring my photographs of my trip to Salt Lake when inspriation struck.

Never Too Much of a Good Thing

Day three. In all honesty, I really wanted to go to San Diego for vacation this year. We went to Rocky Point last year. We had a really great time, but I wanted to mix it up a little bit and do something we hadn't done in a while. I obviously didn't get my way, but it was absolutely worth it. We had such a great time. Even these photos that are so similar to last years make me happy because it was so chill.

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Pensive Stare

I try not to be so self-interested to post too many photos of myself and call them art, but I just like this one too much. Oh, and this was the only good photo I took today, so that adds to it a little bit.

New Material

I'm taking care of the Farr's home right now while they're on vacation. I went over to take care of the plants and maybe test out their new pool. I couldn't resist the opportunity to take some photos in a new environment. I think the tree house is my favorite. Also, I don't generally have my camera in the car, and I had been envisioning some self portraits while driving... which may or may not be a serious faux pas while driving, but I was focused on the road while I snapped photos, so I figure its kosher.

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Baker on the Roof

All of these were taken on the roof. I was trying to get some good ones of the palo verdes in the neighborhood, but it didn't work very well. There were no Zacs harmed in the taking of these photographs.

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[I don't really have 5 o'clock shadow like that, but the contrast knob made it look super dark]

Emotional

So emo. Still love it though. And yes, they are different photos.

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Running Wild

I went for a run today. I ran two miles straight, and am very impressed with myself. You're thinking, "that's really not very far..." Well, considering in the past three or four weeks I've easily doubled the distance I can run, I'd say that's pretty good! I'm prepping for the Pat Tillman Run at the end of April. Well, at least I hope it's at the end of April. At any rate, it's 4.2 miles, and I'd really like to run the whole thing. No stopping. How cool, right? Anyway, after my run I flopped down in the nice, cool grass to take a quick breather. It was heaven. And, the macro on my camera is better than I thought, because I was definitely not going for the focus on the grass blades but was pleasantly surprised! Nice work, camera! So nice I want it to be gigantic.

Shutter Bug

We have this old Canon Rebel. It shoots film, which makes me sad. One day, I decided that I would shoot a role of film, just to see what it was like. Yeah, well... it sucked. Some people really know how to make it work, and I'm sure it just takes practice, but I sure wasn't good at it. Even in automatic mode. But at any rate, any time I get near a big gorgeous camera with a real lens that you have to twist and hold to support the camera, I dream big and anything is possible. Including photographs of a camera, like in today's case.

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Shades of... Brown

I don't really use sepia often, but the late-afternoon light complimented it so well that I really got into it. I think it adds some interest to the photographs. It definitely mixes up the color photos I've been taking ever since I got this camera. The reason I started taking color photos is because I think it's a greater challenge to get a really excellent photo in color. Whether that's true or not, these photos made me happy.

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