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The Daily Shoot Recap

After a long week of dailyshoot.com photography, it's time to choose some winners! These are my favorite photos from each day.

Day 1: Foliage
I really like the lighting in this one, and the color of the bricks.


Day 2: Complimentary items
Love the background story about a beer suggestion that compliments the dessert! Also like the color of the wooden table/seating.


Day 3: Something you carry with you
I really like how the ear phones are arranged. The iPod is a cool color, too!


Day 4: Something soft
Adorable! If this thing isn't soft, I don't know what is. Beautiful blue sky, too.


Day 5: Use a mirror
Am I allowed to like my own the best? I just really like the colors and repetition in this one.


Day 6: Chaos and disorganization
I absolutely love this picture. The colors and shapes are so great, it turned out really well.


Day 7: Symmetry
The color editing looks great. I also like how this is very representative of campus!


Day 8: Stack of books or magazines
I like how there are some books that are neat an organized, and others that aren't perfectly aligned. Cool touch! Also think the black shelf and book look good together.

The Daily Shoot 8

A stack of magazine/newspapers/ads that were on our kitchen table. Before they were thrown away, they were captured in my daily shoot.

The Daily Shoot 7

Symmetry! This one was challenging for me. Once I decided to play with food, it became fun :) One of my favorite things to do is to waste time and people watch... I bet you can guess where!

my image story

Following in her Footsteps

While researching my rare ankle injury (os trigonum syndrome), I stumbled across a website about a ballet dancer named Michelle who had the same injury. Michelle blogged/posted images about her injury, surgery, and rehab. I practically read the entire thing, because I had no idea what the recovery from the surgery would be like. Her posts and pictures really opened my eyes about the entire thing. Not all doctors prescribe the same rehab treatment, but I didn't realize there was a chance I could be in a cast for several weeks! I had surgery on my foot two years ago and had a nerve from the ball of my foot removed. I was able to walk three days later. Getting a nerve removed, bone removed.. same thing, right? Wrong! I still need to talk to my doctor, but her posts really got me thinking about when I should have the surgery done and made me realize what an awful winter break I'm going to have! I'm not quite sure if this blog counts as an image story, but it certainly has impacted me and I'm really glad that I found it.

Michelle's Website


This injury is very common in ballet, soccer, football, and gymnastics. When the foot is pointed, the os trigonum bone is pinched between the distal tibia and the calcaneus (or in plain english, the heel and back of the ankle). It sometimes is mistaken as an achilles tendon injury. The surgery basically consists of just removing the bone, which I think is a little smaller than a marble.

Michelle's story has been both intimidating and reassuring. It's scary in the fact that surgery is surgery is surgery. No matter how minor it is, you're still going under the knife! However, it's very comforting hearing a success story and all of the details about it. Hopefully my recovery will be just as successful!

The Daily Shoot 6

This prompt was kind of fun! I think my hair product picture would have worked really well, but I ended up choosing that one to use yesterday. Anyway, Amy's mom keeps our house fully stocked with candy, this is the variety we have this week!

The Daily Shoot 5

"Use a mirror as a part of a composition." I thought this one was really fun! I started off using a small mirror, like one that flips open. Then I grabbed my big mirror which I never actually put up on my wall, and started trying that out. I think the pictures came out so differently, which is pretty cool. In the second picture, you can actually see the framed drawing which is in the first picture!

Which one do you like best? I haven't decided which I want to post to twitter. Or tweet. Whatever you call it.

two umw victories this weekend

Another long weekend of soccer, two games, two wins! Saturday's match was against Wesley College from Delaware. After a very long, ugly first half, no goals had been scored. Our coach was NOT happy with how we were playing (no one was, really) and he took off all of our starters. By the end of the half we were playing a man down, that's how pissed he was. After a nice half time "talk" we came out and played much better in the second half. It took us not even 45 seconds to score our first goal, and we scored another 5 minutes later. The game ended 4-0.



Our second match was at Averett University in Danville, VA. We got on the bus at 6am and headed south. After the poor start to yesterday's game, we were threatened with several days of fitness if we didn't bring some intensity right from the start. We scored in the middle of the first half, but they came back with a goal several minutes later. In the second half, we dominated the possession, and finally scored with about 20 mins left. We held on to our 2-1 win, went to pizza hut, and watched a few movies on the long bus ride home.

No practice today :) but it will be a hard week leading up to our next conference game on Saturday at home against Frostburg University.

The Daily Shoot 4

Another tricky theme! I love my bed, it's the softest thing of mine. I was going to take only a close up of the blanket, but I think everyone can relate to a comfy bed, so the pillow made it into the background.

The Daily Shoot 3

I don't really carry a charm of any sorts, but I definitely have my anklet on all the time! I don't quite remember when I made it... probably the beginning of the summer. Usually they don't last through soccer season, but this one's holding up pretty well!

The Daily Shoot 2

This prompt was certainly much more challenging for me than the first one. I tried a few other objects, but didn't like anything that came out. I then stumbled across a few "complimentary" objects in our kitchen. It is Saturday night, after all! However, I'm staying in tonight because we have a game tomorrow.

The Daily Shoot 1

This is the first of seven daily pictures. I'm really curious to see what the next prompt will be! This plant is actually on my desk in my house, I love the stripes on the leaves!

umw defeats randolph macon

We won our game yesterday 2-1! Our record is now 3-1-1, with our first conference match coming up on Saturday. Amy scored the first goal on a break away, with a perfectly placed shot past the keeper. Below is a picture of her getting pummeled by their gigantic defender. To celebrate, Amy and I came home and made image stories of our favorite movies. Because that's our favorite thing to do :)



A link to an article about the game: UMW Athletics

Image Story

One of my favorite movies :) Sad, but so good.

Adding Pictures

After a long week of having a dysfunctional blog, I'm finally getting it going again! I've been playing with backgrounds. The header is a picture of our starting line up before our game v Rowan University this past weekend. Below is another picture from the game against the nationally ranked team. It sums up what I had to do all game, track down their All-American forward, #2. Talk about a long game! We ended up losing 2-1, but were the first team to score on them all season (and #2 didn't score :) ).

Next game is tomorrow v Randolph Macon!

Shark Week

Shark Week

A lovely day at the beach, my girlfriends and I decided to take a dip in the water. All of a sudden, we heard a commotion on the sand. I thought people were checking us out, but they looked frantic. We turned and saw a dark shadow in the waves and realized it was a shark! We ran for our lives and found the relief of the hot sand. We looked back and discovered a fat man in a shark suit trying to scare the beach goers.

A quick narrative by Carlie Hampton , Mina Recta , and Karen Strat

Web 2.0

The internet is constantly changing and evolving. As new products and software are being developed, the capabilities of the internet expand greatly. It’s logical that the name “Web 2.0″ seems appropriate, but I disagree. It should be more like Web 100.0, by now. Sure, there a lot of new things about the internet, such as letting users add data to a site and allowing the data to grow on it’s own. Or automatically updating software, not making a new version for users to install every several months. What about all of the other changes that have occurred in the past decade? The internet is certainly not stagnant, these changes have been occurring over time. Who decided that these changes should be labeled as an upgrade now?

The examples given in this article are very foreign to me, as I have never used the majority of the products they are talking about, and don’t even know what they are or what they do. DoubleClick? BitTorrent? Akamai? Am I the only one who has no idea what these are? If anything, this article has successfully made me aware of how unaware I am of the internet. Thanks. Despite my ultimate confusion while reading this article, the class discussion made me realize how different the web versus the internet is. Apps are such a common thing, they are nearly taking over technology as we know it. Little did I know they function in an entirely different way than a normal web browser does. I think are a great tool and will continue to expand. In turn, I think cell phones which can facilitate these apps will become more and more popular as well. My mom just got an iTouch so she could check her Facebook when she's traveling to see her mom next week. I guess that's just keeping up with Web 2.0!