Updating with Photos that are NOT Mine (but still really good)

I guess it is a good thing I decided the middle of last semester to take a photography class this semester. It has forced me to get back into photography and focus on what is in front of me and the camera. My hard drive is still in limbo, and may be for a few years until I get the couple of thousand dollars to get send it to California to get it taken apart and the information retrieved. Oh well..... I know they should be there. They are just out of reach, like when a person gets a concussion and some of the connections between circuits get damaged or destroyed. The messages keep trying to get to a spot they know is there, but it just cannot find it anymore.

Anyway, I have been taking a lot of photographs and I am finally learning the finer points and uses of my camera. The Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority are now under my control. My professor says 'We will never switch back even to Program Mode ever again.' I doubt it because sometimes when I get into a setting that I am photographing, I just want to focus on the images, not the settings, and I rarely find issue with the settings Program chooses.I won't argue with her though, because she doesn't seem the type to take it well. Besides, I want to pass, and to actually have her teach me something, not just avoid me because I contradict her.

Yesterday when I was taking photographs for a project on using Shutter priority, we were in a little culvert with a pipe coming out that drains an area near by. I didn't have mud-boots on, just short rubber galoshes over my boots, and I was afraid of getting into the water (yes, it isn't frozen there because it is moving) and getting too close to some things I had been eying. Zach then asked if he could use my camera and take some images, getting a foot wet here and there to get close or climbing up on that sheet of ice to perch next to the small waterfall to see the ice hanging off of the vegetation. He won't believe me that they are awesome images. (He says they suck, partially, I think, to pic on my because I am standing up for him when he is putting himself down) Some could have been framed better, but these are all him. If you agree with me, say so, cause this guy needs encouragement.