Parcels in the mail

Look what arrived for me this morning…

LP books

Yay!  My Lonely Planet books – a big THANK YOU to the gorgeous Brooke, because if it was not for her, I wouldn’t have been able to get my hands on these books.  Thanks  B!  You’re truly a star!

The Travel & Urban photography guides are by Richard L’Anson who’s seminar/book launch I went along to back in October (see previous post on the subject here).  I really wanted to buy the books on the night and have him sign them, but I was simply too poor.  These new ones may not be signed by the author and fab photographer himself, but I can live with that – they are so inspirational and chockablock full of vital technical knowledge.  Top stuff.

And while I was at it, I also got some for my friend M who is big into travel photography especially.  He’s gonna be stoked!

I won’t be able to read these until after the course but its going to be nice to have something to look forward to. I found out today that it IS actually possible for me to get all my work in if I just keep at it (which is fab, because I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I was so far behind and that I won’t get the certificate because I won’t have every thing done in time).  It’s kinda given me more motivation to keep plugging away at it.  Not that the certificate is worth anything anyway, but it will be a nice feather in my cap.  More for myself to prove that I can achieve something.

Heading back into college tonight for more printing. I cracked a hissy fit today about the darkroom time on Monday being taken from us, so now we CAN print in the afternoon if all our photoshop work is done. Even if it’s not done, there’s no reason why I just can’t keep plugging away at my photoshop at home. God knows I’ll get more done at home than with those ancient machines at college!!

So please, keep your fingers crossed for me… I will barely scrape through (and only by the skin of my teeth) and I don’t care if its not done brilliantly, just as long as its DONE as well as I can given the restraints we’ve got.  It will be worth it once I’m out in the real world!