What I did on my summer vacation

[Bonkava!]

I.... I don't....

what?

He's asking if you're flamboyant.

Anyway, I lost about 80 pounds and stopped biting my nails and now I look like a person rather than a gross.

[potthole]

I.... I don't....

what?

You might be too young to know that reference.

He's asking if you're flamboyant.

Kinda/sorta, I guess.  Sorry, my humor may not have been appropriate.  The gay guys I'm friends with have been open for a long time and are quite comfortable joking about things.  My remarks here might not have been the most sensitive.  Sorry.

[Little Sampson]

No, I'm totally cool with that. I seriously just didn't know what you were saying.

We all good.

[HomeStarRunnerTron]

We all good.

We seriously ALL good.

Potthole, your photography work is REALLY impressive-- coming from the dude that just came out of Photography class. Fantastic framing, expert use of natural lighting and aperture, interesting composition-- and most of all, you seem to truly capture your subjects. I know you'd had this since before we went on forum sabbatical, but wow. I'm so glad I can appreciate it more now... I seriously bought two completely separate Canon film cameras, and they were BOTH broken to the point that every picture I took was completely exposed, so I had to do pretty much the whole year digital. LAWL. It was hilarious... Just wondering-- what camera(s) do you use currently?

And-- Deputy Laser Action & The Sneak, I want to see, respectively, proof of your interview and proof of your written works! If at all possible. Please.

Also, if you guys need somebody in a wheelchair, I could be this abomination of a character from that abomination of a TV show:




And I'd be Asian, which would make it doubly diversifying.

...
But something inside of me would be yearning to be THIS Artie.


As for what I did...
I finished my first year of college, and got into an animation program!





And um, I have a girlfriend! A-an honest-to-goodness girlfriend... who has yet to dump me, and actually wants a future with me, and really supports me. H-hah... i-it's greater and more unbelievable than any dream already. And-- you guys all know how crazy my dreams personally are.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/AAXn52_ZnSc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/AAXn52_ZnSc</a>

Here is she, in all of her magnificent, idiosyncratic, whimsical, starry-eyed and phantasmagoric glory!

And to end, I'd like to share with you a video I've been working on the entire time we've been away from each other! Hopefully, the full version of this song will come out by this Christmas...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/-SRskEbF0Z4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/-SRskEbF0Z4</a>

[potthole]

Potthole, your photography work is REALLY impressive-- coming from the dude that just came out of Photography class. Fantastic framing, expert use of natural lighting and aperture, interesting composition-- and most of all, you seem to truly capture your subjects. I know you'd had this since before we went on forum sabbatical, but wow. I'm so glad I can appreciate it more now... I seriously bought two completely separate Canon film cameras, and they were BOTH broken to the point that every picture I took was completely exposed, so I had to do pretty much the whole year digital. LAWL. It was hilarious... Just wondering-- what camera(s) do you use currently?

Thanks for the accolades.  I feel that the sports photography is my strongest, but find I like my portraits more and more each time I shoot.

Camera is a Nikon D300S.  I've been shooting with it for about two and a half years.  Really need to get around to upgrading to a full frame body, but have a lot of saving up I need to do still.  Crop body isn't all that bad for sports on a big field, but for portraits and "close" sports like basketball, full frame would be nice.

The photos I shared feature a handful of different lenses.  The football shots were taken with a Nikon 400mm f/2.8.  Basketball were with Sigma 50mm f/1.4.  Baseball photo was Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8.  The portraits, boy... tractor was Nikon 105mm f/2, bridge was that Sigma 50mm, other two were Nikon 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6.  I quit using this lens last fall, was never happy with its performance.

[Homestarguy]

Now we just need somebody in a wheelchair to sit next to you and Sonic on the BHZ calendar cover.

Was thinking this, maeby...