After a foul first 4 hours today - that was me being utterly foul because I left my lunch bag on the train - I got a really awesome compliment on my photos. It was the best! Someone said they like my band photos better than another band photographer who has way more experience than me. Wow, that was so lovely and made me feel really good. Even put a smile on my face!

I'm learning that it's not just about taking a photo. You need to research your photographic subject (ie what it is you are taking a photo of, the theme) and get the posing and angles right. It's important to direct your subject and communicate with them. I'm so pleased with the way the photos turned out from yesterday's shoot but I have a long long way to go.

I've just discovered the Jim Jones Revue. OMG I couldn't stop tapping my leg on the train and drumming my fingers away to the music and moving my head around. They are awesome! I'm going to check out a tix for their sideshow.

So I think xmas is next week? Wow, how did that happen.

I'm so bored at work. There is so much filing it's ridiculous. I just don't want to do it. It's so ....... worthless.

No jobs that grab my eye at the moment. I'll keep looking but I kinda need to be in mine at least until I do my workshop in Qld. Blegh, do I really want to do this degree? Is it just to prove that I'm just as good as the loy-yers at work or wherever? I don't know. But I can't keep doing what I'm doing and I don't want to be a legal assistant anymore. I need to take a further step up.

I cancelled my PSC appointment today. As much as I'd love to learn photography properly I just won't have the time for it next year and it's almost the equivalent of my law degree. I need money behind me to support myself. Right now I've pretty much depleted it all - again. There's so many more things I need to get (ok, photoshop) and now I have to pay off the huge amount I've just spent on photographic equipment (eeep!). So I gotta be real diligent with the cashola.

I'm hoping to shoot J as a rock n roll outlaw. A friend in my photography class lives in the bush and in a church! I thought it would be a perfect setting. His guitar as his gunnysack - well ok, I'll probably have to have him have a gunny sack too as well as the guitar ...... must research !!!!! Very important to get the colours and the clothes and the surrounding and the posing/standing right for this.

So my stupid little head came up with this awesome idea that once I've done the photo shoots I'll have a mini exhibition (because I'M NOBODY HELLO!!!) and the prints on the wall and people can buy them if they like and I'll have music, and nibbles and drinks and yeah it'll be awesome! Maybe a collaboration with other friends and their work. I'm awesome for ideas!!