back to school.

so...i'm in this photography class.

andilikeit.

a lot.

here's a couple shots from last week.

this week we shot at the keeper of the plains.

we dodged the high river water,

managed to not fall off any rocks,

ignored 'do not climb'

and 'no one beyond this point' signs,

as well as jaywalked(justin loved hearing about all

the lawbreaking that we did),

and were even reminded of the odd people of wichita.

one guy asked a girl in my class.."do you think the high water is the result of the oil spill?"

then there was the grandma hand cuffed to

her 6 yr old grandson.

that was classic.

since i didn't capture any of those fun moments,

i'll just show ya the ones that i did catch.

i know you've seen my "through the bench" shot at the keeper

before.

my teacher had never seen anyone do it,

so this is for his benefit.

(i found out when i got home, that there are actually cameras that monitor the area

that everyone was doing their rock climbing and walking over roped off areas.

there are speakers that they use to tell people to get out of those spots. haha)

if you go down to the keeper island,

you can see this from the lower level.

if you didn't know,

you'd think wichita had been invaded by tourists.

if you're from wichita,

you know that will sadly never happen.

taking a shot of my classmates without actually getting them.

um, so if you've ever been down to the river,

you know that this is suppose to be an area where the water drops off,

flowing through a huge pile of broken tree limbs and all.

we've had a little rain.

blasted river came up past the banks,

over the sidewalks.

i hit a mud spot on the sidewalk and slid.

thankfully, i had a classmate standing right next to me,

a witness to it all.

did you know we had a troll underground??

i didn't.

even the city of wichita employee in my house didn't.

well, hope you enjoyed my field trip...

in your nice comfy chair...

without having to tromp around wichita in the 90 degree heat.

haha.

that was for eric...

he said we would all go home and curse his name

for making us be out there.

seriously eric--

it was a good photo day.