Perhaps I've Come Back

You know it's been ages since you've updated your blog when your very own web browser can't remember the URL. A sad day indeed. 

I've been loving every moment of being at UGA, from riding the bus to meeting the people in my major department. Life is good right now. It's going to take me more than one post to catch up, but I thought I'd start with one before I head to school for some studyin'. 

These are all photos from a beautifully rainy day in December. I remember I was cooking/baking most of the day and I wanted to go outside so badly. I finally just threw down my rubber gloves and went out. It was drizzling some of the time, and the light was amazing. My camera is notoriously bad with low-light situations, but I didn't care and I'm glad I shot these anyway. 

I'm going to go ahead and start posting my Project Life 365 posts here on the blog, though they are iPhone pictures and I feel like they throw a wrench in the atmosphere of my usual blog photos. No matter, I will be glad I did later. I'll write up a little explanation that goes beyond what I post on Instagram (carolinelarousse is my username there if you'd like to follow me!).

Project Life 365 is a fun challenge and it's never too late to join! Search for Project Life 365 on Facebook or Instagram to follow along!

- Caroline

Septembre est quand je veux écriser à la blog...

Translation: September is when I like to write on the blog...

It's the truth; come September, I'm in the mood to blog. It's been quite a while since my last post - before SCAD and... Okay, so I haven't really done much between now and then. However, for those of you who I haven't talked with since SCAD, I had a really great time, absolutely LOVED my Figure Drawing class, met some pretty awesome people and learned tons.

Other than that, I finished Algebra I with the help of Erin (thank you *so* much), I finished up American Lit, I'm nearly finished with four other school subjects, and I bought a shiny new computer. :)

So today I was rummaging around in my shiny new computer and I remembered that I had never edited my gazillion pictures from Charleston, SC. Sara, Mom, Quinn, Henry and I went there for a weekend in July on an engagement shoot - it was lovely. I took 700 pictures, not including the engagement shoot. Go me!

This is what I saw on the drive there:

This is Henry at the hotel... What a goofball. He was a little out-of-it when we arrived.




This is the third time in my life that I have seen the ocean. I think its gorgeous.



This is called a tilt-shift photo. Thanks to a fantastic action by Totally Rad Actions, I can make tilt-shift whenever I please...

And, lastly, I love the orange shutters. *heart*

There are about 60 more pictures I want to post - stay tuned! Hopefully you will be hearing from me more often now that we are going into the fall. ^.^

ttyl,
- caroline

burnt offerings

Hi there.

I don't know why, but I've suddenly felt like blogging.

Yesterday I walked around outside with the Mark II, which was really fun. Our neighbor's storage barn burned down last month and the ruins are still sitting around. Here are some of the things that I found...

A very old GQ magazine, from a time when men wore too-big suede jackets, beige turtlenecks and tweed pants.

A mighty collection of hotel bar soaps. This is just a few of them - there had to be hundreds.

I love this. Butt squared. It was in a PC World magazine, no idea why it says Butt squared...

An ashy broom.

Lots of cigar boxes.

A charred tree.

A charred copy of the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, which is cool.

Someone had attempted to make it into a box of sorts, you know the kind that you stick liquor in...

Quinn found a tiny apple by the apple tree. I like the detail in his skin, all ashy. Isn't that depth of field like crazy? It's at 1.8.

So, after we ransacked the ruins, we investigated our own yard (which is rather boring, after four years of taking the same pictures.) But we did find wild roses:




I absolutely did not edit the flowers in this picture. I give you my word that it is straight from the camera - all I did to this picture was darken the background.

And honeysuckle... Isn't it funny, how it's so perfectly centered, two on the right and two on the left, and just sitting there away from it's family...

This is a bluebird. You can actually see its colors, in the original, full-sized image, if you zoom up. Very impressive.

I think this chicken picture is my favorite, from today. I rather love it!


This is a tropical cake that Quinn made yesterday. It's really delicious, with pineapple, cranberries, pecans and maybe something else, but I can't really remember.


By the way, Jamie, I LOVE my hula-hoop.

This is a shot of rain. It started to sprinkle, so I jacked the ISO up to 3200 and the shutter speed up to 8000 and froze the raindrops. It looks more like snow, though, doesn't it?

So that's it, for this post, ladies and gentlemen. (Though, mostly ladies, I believe...)
I bid you good day. :)
- caroline