March 3, 2014 Sunset

Ever since the short, winter days kicked in, it's been very difficult to get any kind of sunrise, sunset, or even SUNLIGHT photo.  I work 10-hour days, so I basically drove to and from work in partial or complete darkness.  Now that spring is drawing nearer, I get to see a few sunsets as I drive home.  If it hadn't been close to zero degrees, I would have ran inside for my "real" camera, but with a newer phone, I was able to pull off a fairly high quality photo.

Breaking from Tradition

Once again, I'm going to break from the tradition of this blog and post an Omaha picture.  As I was out walking my boyfriend's dog, I noticed that the lighting was fantastic.  When I arrived at a walking bridge over West Center Road and the saw the view from that point, I had to come back after the walk was completed.  It was just too cool to ignore.

Capitol Sunset

Well, it's been a very long time since I've updated.  A lack of a good view and general busyness in my life kept me from having much to share.  Since my last update, I graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, got a job, and moved into an apartment in Lincoln.  After living a solid four years in a dorm room as a student, conference assistant, or resident assistant, the transition to apartment life has felt a little strange.  It's so bizarre to not have to carry a tote and towel with you to a public restroom when you need to shower or to not just walk over to a dining hall where food is pre-made for you.   Additionally, it has taken me awhile to wrap my head around the fact that I won't have classes starting any time soon.  In my college career, I never had more than two or three weeks off of classes or job training of some kind, so it's weird to think that, come August, I don't have to buy textbooks or do any homework.  To be honest, it actually makes me a little sad.  School was my life for 17 years and that fact that it's over--unless I go to grad school someday, which I'm not even going to get into right now--makes me feel nostalgic.

What HAS helped the shock of the transition to an apartment and working life is that I live very close to campus and downtown Lincoln.  I'm still in my prime photography and walking path area, so I do get to maintain a little consistency in my life for the time being. 

The other night I noticed a pretty sunset as I was taking out the trash at my apartment.  I can't say that I have the most amazing view from my window, but I'm in close walking distance of the Lincoln skyline, so I should be able to manage to snap a few awesome shots occasionally. I only wish that the Capitol Building was open at night because you could get some amazing sunset and cloud photos from that high.

 

Since I've "discovered" that I can manage interesting shots from my parking lot, I'm going to make an effort to keep updating this blog a little more.  Even if no one reads it, it's something for me to do when I'm NOT studying at night. :)

Snowpocalypse 2013

After days and days of weather forecasters predicting some kind of apocalyptic snowstorm today, the pictures above illustrate what is actually happening.  All the threats of 10+ inches of snow seem pretty lame right about now.  Public schools and universities all over Lincoln shut down...for this.  At least there's a little white on the ground now.  Everyone was looking pretty silly when there wasn't a single flake of snow on the ground this morning.  It finally started to lightly snow around 11 a.m., but we're still nowhere near the huge snowfall amount predicted.   We are supposed to see more snow overnight, but it seems like the predicted snowfall totals drop every time I check the weather.  My already poor impression of the National Weather Service has only gotten poorer after all this hooplah over a pretty typical snowstorm.    Maybe things will get really nasty after midnight and help them save face.

Omaha Skyline--January 26, 2013

In an effort to put something on here since I did a pathetic job of posting photos for the past year, I decided to break a little from tradition and post Omaha skyline photos.  They are the only recent skyline photos I have to offer!  These were taken while I was visiting some friends in Omaha.  We decided to venture down towards the Old Market to see what kind of photo ops we could find!

July 18, 2012

Well, it has been literally months since I have posted any kind of update, so I'll do it now since I actually have free time.  The combination of having a dorm room with a horrible view (the back of a fraternity) and one of the most excruciatingly boring summers for weather ever has left me little "skyline" material to post.  I was busy all of June with an awful chemistry class--I would NEVER recommend taking a science class in the summer--so I didn't have tons of time for photography.  It's not like I was missing anything spectacular, though...  This summer has been dry, hot, and a little dull as far as the weather goes.  I don't think it's really rained here for two or three weeks.  Instead, it's just baking hot and clear. Every. Single. Day.  

Below are a few pictures I felt somewhat matched with the mood of the blog.  The top pic is of downtown Lincoln as viewed from the top of the Capitol Building, the second two are of the Platte River/Mahoney area, and the last one is the only (mediocre) sunset I've been able to photograph this summer.  I have a few weeks of free time before RA training hits and I have zero photography time, so maybe something interesting will happen and there will actually be something to take a picture of in the Lincoln area.

April 15, 2012

I felt like I was due for another post, so here you go.  The remarkably nice weather continued throughout March and into April.  Everything is freakishly green today (as it has been for the past few weeks) probably due to the 3 inches of rain we got yesterday.  The Red and White Spring game was cancelled due to the constant storming yesterday.  We even managed to have a tornado warning a little before midnight, which sent everyone running for the basement.  Fortunately, everything nasty was north of us, and we were only stuck down there for about 30 minutes.  I wish I had taken a few pics yesterday of the line of cars coming to campus in the pouring rain.  Considering the fact that the National Weather Service acted like the apocalypse was about to occur all day Friday and into Saturday, I don't think I would have bothered to drive to Lincoln for a glorified scrimmage....