i should be alarmed but i'm strangely not! what are you procrastinating for? seems like you've been doing that for a while then if i go back to see when the last question you asked me was from :P
i dont think that there's such thing as best season, its up to personal preference i guess or depends on what kind of pictures you want to create. regarding the weather its pretty much the same although i find cloudy days are much better to take pictures in as the light is soft and evenly diffused through the clouds. on a sunny day, i love the golden hour, sun rise or sunset. they're best for pictures in my opinion! :)

yeah i know we get to fail 2 modules anyway so I'm not fussed at all, plus I'm quite pleased with how i think i've done considering i only revised a few days before the exam. such a bad student lol
and yes blog! i have new pictures, i've already done two shoots and i am so so excited to share them but i'm not allowed to yet, will obviously put them on the blog as soon as i know i can :) in the mean time, i'll definitely have a few posts of the random pictures i've taken in uni so far, i put them up on my personal Facebook but i think i'll blog them as well and a few self portraits i did recently. i still have a million pictures i took in nepal, so there will definitely be plenty of new blog posts, but am only starting on them when i move back home in june as i won't have much to do then.
ps: it always makes me happy to see questions from you! (i'm guessing its the same person) hope you have a good day! :)

aaawww thank you nice stranger i should have seen this before this is the cutest thing ever! but the exams went fine! i'm finished now :D i think i messed up one pretty bad but i'm not bothered about it anymore, too busy catching up on sleep to be thinking about exams :P

yes and no! when my cusp allows me to be! being leo-cancer cusp which is the cusp of oscillation, meaning i tend to sway back and forth being very much like a cancer (shy, quiet, reserved) to being a raging leo (confident, flamboyant, LOUD!) i can never tell how i'll act in certain situations as i'm always torn between two very opposite personalities.

ha! seeing how my exam on friday went i think i may well be very capable of failing! not going to fuss over it though, just hoping i did enough to scrape a pass, got a massive killer exam tomorrow thats making me crazy as none of the notes make sense, only starting a day before the exam probably isn't the best place to be as well anyway- obviously not over procrastinating yet then, if i miraculously find a way to not procrastinate i will shout it out to the world :P

i'm really weird that i LOVE doing presentations, and i love knowing that people are listening to what i am saying and it empowers me in a strange way making me feel even more confident. i do get really nervous for public speaking though if its just me standing and speaking. the fact that i have something to show makes so much of a difference to me personally. of course it all also depends on how prepared i am. if you sneak up on me and put me on the spotlight, i will most definitely run away/ do anything to avoid it (this is where my cancer cusp comes into play ha!)
one thing that i've found that always helps me whenever i have to speak in front of people, is preparing well in advance, saying out loud what i want to say beforehand, first on my own so i can practise, and then maybe with a friend or two, or someone you're close to that you wont be embarrased by, even if you mess it up. imagining yourself giving the speech/doing the presentation before you do it also helps. visualise yourself giving the most awesome speech you've ever given, focus on how engaging you are being, notice how the audience is listening to every word you say and think of how good you feel! there's been studies that have shown this to be effective, and you can use this for other situations like in interviews as well :):)

i am just happy at least someone cares thats all :) i've only had 1 exam so far which went well, but have 6 more this+next week, kinda annoyed all of them are crammed together but hopefully i'll be okay, not too stressed about it.i'm only in the first year of my degree, i graduate in 2 years time *fingers crossed*!

oh someone i met in real life told me she liked my writings so i just assumed it was you who asked that question, my bad, but yay two people like it :D
and thank you! first one tomorrow and i'm doing everything except revision. awkward.

if you are who i think you are, then yes you have! thank you :):):)

right now, regardless of anything i end up doing as a job, i really hope i strive to make kindness a way of life. i'm not sure if its an aim.

hi there, sorry i've been mia. i feel like i have abandoned my blog. honestly speaking i dont even think about it that much anymore. i know i've said i would (try to) update it more often but it just doesn't feel natural anymore. i'm just waiting for the urge to kick in, and i'll start uploading again. i went to nepal for three weeks, so i have plenty of pictures. i just need time. i have exams and a lot of other things that i need to focus on and i cannot seem to be able to do everything. i do apologise. i just did a new post (not pictures though)...hope that makes up just a little.


regarding kony 2012, i don't normally like to voice my opinions but to keep it short, i like the message behind the video, but i don't support what they are campaigning for. there are a lot of problems that are deeper than the surface, and in this context kony is only a small part. i dont want to pretend i'm an expert on this because i'm not and i probably don't know that much anyway but i just know this much that there are so many people that are as bad, if not worse than kony that we don't even know of, and just because there's been a video on it, that everyone seems to be talking about, people seem to be jumping on the kony bandwagon without much thought at all. i don't judge, and even though i understand their actions are out of kindness and love, i can't help but wish they would think atleast once before supporting what they are 'really' supporting.

the world has a lot of problems that we are not even aware of. i guess atleast with this video some of these are being brought out into the light. that is all.

2012 has already been full of lessons for me to learn from. atleast i'd like to see them as lessons and not struggles. i have a lot to figure out and there's so much happening that i can't quite get my head around everything at once but i'm getting better at it slowly but surely. i'm learning to accept that i cannot always be happy and i am learning to not detest sadness or pain, but accept them for the beauty there is in them. its only natural to be sad and i am trying not to let myself get too caught up in wanting to get what i want thinking that its going to stop me from feeling the way i do. i talk a lot. these days i'm just wanting to find solace in silence. 2012 has been hard but i have so so much to look forward to and even if this isn't how i would have wanted things to be, at the end of the day i wouldnt want it any different. i have the rest of 11 months and i'm not okay now, but i will be :)

ps: i'm sorry i always talk rubbish on here. this is almost like me talking to myself. not that i already dont do enough of it :P

i hope life treats you kind dear stranger :)

thats the most wonderful thing anyone could say about my photography and all i can really say is that it means so so much to me that someone other than me notices, and appreciates not necessarily what i create, but more of what i want to say through the picture or the writing and i cannot thank you enough for making me feel like my art matters.
ps: we are all capable of creating something. maybe you just havent found out what it is yet...

hehe i will! would probably be easier if i myself was involved in any but being the lazy sod that i am and gifted with the skills of massively sucking at every sports possible, it doesnt even cross my mind :P

not really if i'm honest...i could try and incorporate movement in some pictures that i take but thats as far as sporty goes for me.

probably like a paedo but i guess i'll have to find out for myself. it starts to look a bit scruffy if i dont shave for even just a few days which is so annoying as i dont like shaving that much tbh

thank you as always! :D

hey thank you :) i appreciate that you check regularly :) i'm absolutely terrified but at the same time excited to grow up (in a way i kind of already have) but i'd like to believe i havent. i just dont feel that way yet. i still havent been able to reconcile myself for the loss of childhood as i barely have any memories from when i was younger which has always made me upset, and now i'm 19 i'm starting to feel more like an adult and no longer a teenager that i used to be. i know i make it sound like a big deal, its not, but i just thinkg about these things you know. tomorrow we're going to view our house that we're thinking of living in for next year (eeeek!) and it feels like everything is happening so quickly i just dont want to miss out on anything. sorry i blabbered on for ages!
the pretty suitcases belong to my friend ruby who was the model :)

i'm glad you're doing well! i hope you had an awesome break! :D

hey its not a bother at all :) i use a canon 450D. i'm really not the right person to be giving advice but if you are really interested in photography it is worthwile investing in a dslr. it doesnt matter which one it is, i'd suggest you start with a semi-professional first so for canon its 1000D, 450D, 500D etc and for nikon i think its D40, D60 etc. i wouldnt advise getting a full frame dslr straight away as i feel it should be an upgrade rather than a first camera however if you can afford it, you could just but the full frame ones so it'd be canon 5D etc. hope this helps :)

hey sorry im a bit late at responding but happy halloween to you too and hope you had an awesome time! i went home for the weekend for tihar but got back to uni on monday and we just went to a nearby pub which is really awesome on mondays. i didnt dress up though just had my friend put some makeup and red paint on me :P you can see a picture here even though its not that great http://tinyurl.com/car6b3r