03.30.16

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: When it is summer in the light and winter in the shade. - Charles Dickens-


Charles Dickens describes Moses Lake springs perfectly. Stepping outside in the warm sunshine feels so good and you can finally dress a little bit lighter, only to regret it the second you step into work. I work in a service drive and it is always SO cold, even with the sun shining so brightly outside. It is so deceiving! Anyways, work is work, I've been busy as usual trying to finish up orders and prepare for my cruise. I really want to purchase a new camera, I'm still doing some research between the Canon 5D Mark III and the Sony A7S II. In the meanwhile, I purchased a lens for my Iphone to test out and see if I could wait to purchase the camera, or if I could use my phone as my travel camera. (Also, I just switched over from Android to Iphone. I will probably make another post with the pros and cons from using both phones.) I haven't been able to test out the lens too much, I am more interested in making videos than anything so I still have to go exploring and hopefully take some awesome shots. However, I did go take a few pictures in my backyard and I am pretty well pleased. 

 

These close up photos were all taken with the macro lens, this was the 10x I believe 

These were taken with the 15x macro, which is even closer and more detailed

I was using the wide lens here

I'm pretty happy with these lenses, however I know that in the future I'm still going to purchase a DSLR. I'm just going to use these in place for the moment. I mainly got these for the wide lens, so that when I travel I can fit in more of the landscape into my pictures. They also come with a fisheye but I don't have any good photos to post yet. 

I also wanted to give my sweetest little niece a birthday shoutout... She turned one yesterday! 

Isn't she just the sweetest?! I melt. Happy birthday darling Aniyah!! You are so very loved. ❤️

Happy Monday!

So I recently came across this image on Pinterest and for some reason it just blew me away. I don't think I have ever heard anyone say "I love Mondays." or even read it, or comprehended that someone could love Mondays. All my life I've been surrounded by people who hate Mondays, or so they say. In school you'd hear the groans of everyone claiming they hated Mondays. At work they blame their sluggishness and mistakes on it being Monday. Don't get me wrong, I have done that more times than I can count. But I never thought anything of it, of having such negativity on my mind every Monday, and how much of an impact it could have on the day and even the rest of the work week. I've been trying to change my attitude around this past month, to let go of negativity and stress and not complain about work and whatever else there is to complain about. When I took notice to how much I complained, I was astounded. I never had anything positive coming out of my mouth, all I did was complain. Complain about work, or my hair, or the weather, or this, or that, or anything really. Complain, complain, complain. I'm surrounded by it so much that I never gave it a second thought. I began to think, how would it feel to be around someone who was always negative? How horrible! So, with that I began holding my complaints in, and started trying to find the good things in my day. When something good happened, I would say a silent thank you in my head and move on. When something negative happened, I would take a deep breath and just let it go. What good comes from holding onto the bad things? It doesn't get you anywhere, aside from aiding you in becoming a rotten person. With that being said, how can you try to be a positive influence in someone else's life? I would love to know what an influence you could make in trying to be more positive, to smile more, to laugh at the little things. After all, it really is a great day to be alive!