I love living here because ?

 I love living her because ?

   Cottage grove in a super small town upper end of a large valley in the state of Oregon and  I like living there ! I hesitate to use the word love as it a pretty strong emotion.

I have lived in other town and cities - some smallish like Roseburg and some huge like NY-

but I like living where I do !

Cottage Grove is an old town with some interesting historic sites, and some cool architecture,buildings  and alley ways .

Another reason I like living  here is because it hold lots of unique  possibilities for me to practice my photography .

It has many classic old homes and closed mills  that make great backgrounds for my models.

I also like the location of the town because its close to lakes and rivers where I can swim and fish .

The town is close to larger cites where I can easily find Goodwill's and saint Vinny's to add to my photo props . there are also many chances to get out in the nearby forest or bike ride for miles on the bike paths , or Rollerblade and run /walk my dog !

The town is small! somewhere  around 10,000 so it is sorta laid back and friendly .

when I travel 20 miles north in to Eugene I always notice the pollution in the air because the number of cars and other factors because of its size.

Yes I like living in Cottage Grove .

To me it the right size , has the necessary locations , and its clean and friendly .

my second essay in class :} enjoy

When you hit rough spots in a relationships.How do u get back to normal?

first of all let me start off by saying this is a work of fiction it not true !  It was  the topic , so here's what I came up  with . I'm not gonna mention  names ill use xxxxx for names
enjoy. BTW any feedback on this is great or any of my work for that matter 


When you hit rough spots in a relationships.How do u get back to normal?


I have this friend named xxxxx !
   He is one of my best friends but oh boy do we hit a few rough spots every now and then .

xxxxx likes to be a diva , and wants all of my attention when he wants it for instance, whenever we go out to the club and another friend comes up to me , he gets all jealous as hell !
He wont socialize with anyone . He always always always looks bored, and wants to leave early

xxxxx likes, no -xxxxx love to be in charge ! but never pulls it off very well .

 If xxxxx calls me and I don't respond right back , he gets really upset .
as if he should be the most important person in my life . some of the things he will do is call me and hang up .
he will tell me he's not my friend anymore and he will call me names .

One thing that I found that helps gets up back to normal is to give him space to think it over !
 when he calls ,usually fairly quickly after a blow up , I invite him to come for a visit  (as we live in separate towns ) or I invite him to go clubbing .
I also let him come up with a idea or a planned get together .
        
  But with xxxxx there's no guarantee that anything will work every time
but for now we still remain best friends




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that was the first essay in my class they only have to be 5 paragraphs  or so :)

My photo shoot with grace love was awesome :P

My photo shoot with grace love was awesome :P

I had the pleasure of working with grace love !
She was fun, opened minded, creative with her poses, sexy,
had ton's of wardrobe ! It was all around fun.
We went to the Industrial park and Dorena lake (baker bay) to take some on location shot's !
  So ya went to the industrial park and got some awesome shots and we were sweating are asses off then we headed to the lake so we got there and did what what we came to do!
there were cat calls ,whistles someone with binoculars passing around little boys asking for grace's number! a hot guy asking me  to take his pic with his cool car with grace and he standing next to it .
loved   it  but sadly my lights went dead so we did not shoot :[
anyhow here are some of the photos for the shoot ;P

My Prom Shoot and Collaboration with Verity Moonshine

Had a great shoot with my new friend /photographer Verity Moonshine aka Jasmine Crosby.  (check her out) She was just lovely we were doing a prom shoot in natural light as I normally uses studio lighting or strobes ! I was wanting some tips on how to shoot in natural light and some practice doing so .

I was contacted by my friend Trish to do a prom shoot with her and her friend Jaclynn outside so I thought to my self what a great clab opportunity to work with jasmine crosby .

So a few days later we did that shoot got  bunch good pictures and some tips to boot!

Tip 1.  Adjust your focus point to focus on your subjects eyes .

Tip 2.  Watch out for your backdrop so nothing distracting  take your focus away from your subject.

Tip 3. Be constantly aware of where your  light/sun is.

Tip 4. Texture rocks haha! play around with your scenery!

Tip 5. Collabs are fun and you get back up photos in case yours suck :}

It was fun and I made a new friend from it or even two as her hubby was pretty cool as well haha.

So as you see those are some of the things I've learned above!

It was all in all invaluable experience! Here's a few photos from the shoot if you want to see more check out www.myspace.com/tommylandrum420