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So yet again, the engaged couple canceled on me. I’ve been trying my hardest to plan their shoot around their schedules, but they keep coming up with reasons to put it off longer. Oh well. Maybe next weekend? By the time they finally go through with the shoot, they’ll already be married! Ha!

For this assignment, I decided to use the images I got from the Powell Gardens shoot we did instead of having class on campus. Below are my five favorites and here are some other decent shots.

I got a few shots of this guy. I think after a while he noticed I was taking photos of him so he put himself out of range of my viewing.

I took quite a few shots of this butterfly. It wouldn’t sit still, but I managed to get just this single shot of it in focus.

This was one of the shots I took while using the tilt-shift lens. The out-of-focus areas are subtle but I liked it.

I got a number of shots of her playing in the fountain. This was my favorite of them because it got a mix of the flowers in the foreground, flowers in the background, and the nice stone wall behind her. I didn’t manage to get any images that showed her face without a blob of water in front of it.

My attempt of a dragged shutter shot without a tripod.

So far, I am having bad luck with my shooting assignments for my editorial photo class. Last week I had 2 shoots canceled, my memory card failed and I lost the majority of the images from for my first assignment, then this week I drove all the way out to Kansas City, Kan. for the Quindaro Community Festival - but it began raining during the drive. Once I arrived, nothing had been set up and no one was there, except for a radio station and a few women selling some produce. I was excited to photograph the dancers, the African Drumming group, the art, games, the children playing, people having a good time - but it didn’t happen. In a last ditch effort, I went to the Burr Oak Woods nature trail in Blue Springs, Mo. My bad luck didn’t stop there… because I soon realized that my lens is not focusing properly and the majority of my images came out slightly blurred when viewed at full-size. So here are the six images I found to be the most decent out of the ones I salvaged. Some of the other photos I took today are located here.