10 Things That Make Me Happy

There are a few things in life that make me just want to jump up and down with joy. and these are ten of them:
1) Music, without it, i don't think i would be able to get through my day.
2) Drawing, the best thing to do when bored.
3) My amazing friends, who i couldn't live without.
4) Listening to the sound of rain, which i find so very calming.
5) Photography, which allows me to capture a moment in time that i don't want to forget.
6) The official Owl City Blog, which is always very inspirational, funny, and beautifully written (i got this from there, thank you Adam <3).
7) Not failing at technology, which i often do.
8) Super Awesome Pens, that were worth the money.
9) The CSC after school programs I'm in, which are always fun and entertaining, and i am so glad that i got the chance to take part in these clubs.
10) Laughing, because there is no point in living if you can't laugh every once and a while.

And that is why i would like to thank everyone who has made these thing possible for me. i would like to thank every great band/musician out there. Thank you Hao, for getting me into drawing. i would also like to thank Rosa, Alyda, Sahara, Lisiana, and everyone of my friends out there. i don't know how i could survive without you. thank you mother nature, for providing earth with rain, and thank you to all other great photographers before me, and all who will come along after me. thank you Adam Young, for just being so awesome. You are so inspirational, and your music just makes me feel good :) thanks to my camera, for making it so easy to upload pictures to my computer. thank you Northwest Art and Frame, for every time i enter that store, i feel truly enchanted, and i realize just how many possible beautiful things there are to make. you make me want to stick around on this Earth for a long, long time, so that i will get a chance to see how i can make a few simple art supplies come to life. thank you to everyone in CSC, thank you Geo, Mrs. Brooks, and Mrs. Milleson. thank you to all the kids who attend CSC, and everyone who supports us. and, most of all, i would like to thank everything and everyone who had ever made me laugh. thank you, all of you. i mean it.

Alyssa

unedited photos vs. edited photos



Heyhey. As you guys may know, i am a photographer. and though photos are often beautiful without any outside help, sometimes you just need to touch them up a bit, to make them look perfect. i use the photo editing site called picnik. you can use it for free, or upgrade to picnik premium for a bit of money. its really handy for fixing up your photos.  below are some examples of edited photos and unedited photos:



 

unedited



edited

 as you can see, the edited photo looks much more vibrant, with a wider variety of colors. i also cropped the photo, to improve my composition.





unedited

edited

i only wanted one part of this photo, though it was very well composed, but i just wanted the rose so i cropped it, then i used the tint option to make it all tinted red, then i used posterize to do that other thing... idk how to describe it... watevs.

unedited

edited



now you can see why i didn't put this on my photography blog. not really school appropriate.... but its was funny so i wanted to show it >:D

so as you can see, the original... kinda sucks. but when you add text to your photograph, it turns from boring to hilarious. i also made the colors less dull looking by changing the temperature and contrast.



unedited





edited

now, this photograph was freakin awesome already, but when i used auto fix, it somehow made the corners get darker, which i thought was cool... I'm not sure why it did that though.... HEY WAIT A SEC, THESE AREN'T EVEN THE SAME PHOTOS! hold on....





the real unedited



edited

there we go.. i took to many pics of the same mountains that they all look the same... i also changed the contrast because i wanted to make more of a difference in color between the mountains and sky. for some reason they all turned out a bit dull looking...

you can also add words that describe what you were thinking while taking the photo.

unedited

edited

OK, i didn't take these photos. I'm not sure who took them. whoever it was, thank you, and please don't sue me. so, those of you who know me well know about my obsession with Adam Young, from Owl City. he's freakin sexy (don't make fun of me because i said that... or else i will hunt you down and i will slap your face so freakin hard...). so yeah, but i wanted to have the beautiful sky and pretty yellow balloon kinda pop out. so i again changed the contrast and temperature, then i changed the picture to black and white, but used that thing that only changes part of the photo to black and white. so Adam Young and the surrounding trees and black and white, while the balloon and sky were still in color. then i clicked on the 'ortin-ish' option. I'm not sure what it does, but it made it cool looking. so yeah, that's how i did this one.



unedited

 

edited



now, the edited version of this one just seems more colorful than the other one to me. again, just changing the contrast. (and i freakin took this from like 15 feet away! MY CAMERA IS EPIC.)



unedited





edited

 for this picture, i used the 'sepia' option. it kinda made it look like an old photograph, because most old photographs looked like that.

So there you go. unedited photos vs. edited photos. thanks for reading. and you guys should really check out picnik. there is a link up there at the top. >:{D <--- that thing right there is an evil little mustache man.... yeah :D.

damn blogspot...

DAMN BLOG SPOT IS BEING STUPID. its making it complicated to upload photos. i put a photo on my post, then it just disappears.  i upload it again, and it doesn't show up. then, when i press 'preview post' it shows it like 3 times on the post! then when i go back to edit my post, its gone again. and it wont let me move the damn pictures, AND THIS THING IS FREAKING STUPID. damn it, I'm turning into Rosa... no offense, you're still AWESOME. UNLIKE BLOG SPOT.

GEO IS SICK AND I AM BORED

GEO IS SICK AND I AM BORED. I WANT TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS BUT GEO ISNT HERE SO WE CANT DO THAT I HAVE TO GO TO ACADEMY, THEN ACTIVITIES CENTER. AAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH GEO WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SICK?!?! WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO !!! AAAUUGGHHHHH D:<

im so bored

I AM SO BORED OMG SOMEONE HELP ME. ahaha that rhymed.... UNINTENTIONALLY! :D