5 down! 17 to go!

it's time for the goals again...
april has been a busy and quite enjoyable month :)
goals with progress made:

get accepted to a stock photo site
i cannot say that i'm accepted yet because i still haven't applied. but when i attended the world photography awards and workshops this past weekend i picked up a lot of valuable info.
i'm confident i will get accepted as long i as i can get my models to sign the release :)

have a mini book club with steve (maybe 1984)
so, steve and i looked all over northern europe for 2 cheap copies of 1984 - to kill time during the 7 hour train ride to berlin. i found one for 3.25. we couldn't find a second copy. i read it. he hasn't yet.
hopefully he will before i forget the details.

master the use of photographic flash
by trial & error, i finally figured out the way to do the cool photos of dancers that leave multiple images of the movement in the frame (the key is a strobe light)
notice the technique and my cousin's moves:

by no means is this anywhere close to perfected, but i now have the concept down and will probably be renting a strobe light this summer. haha.

goals completed!

organize my harddrives

the beast is finally conquered

& bonus by going through all the duplicate files i found 24 gb of free space on my laptop

iphoto takes waaay too much room.

visit the U.K. and Germany

now, this may not sound like something that's entirely 'goal-worthy' but i put it on the list so that i would remember to save money for the trip. going to london was a great mental vacation and berlin was an incredible city full of things to see. (we also got to go to amsterdam and rotterdam)

i still owe you pics from the berlin chunk of the trip (and a couple stories) so i'll give you a sneak peek of some silly photos and write a complete post next week.

hanging out at the lego store

these cars are really lightweight.

with a small piece of the wall

would love to know how you're doing with your goals for the year!