First journal entry for my Deviant art page...photography class. Beware, very long and I'm sure pretty boring to you.

Well...I've been going to photography class and I really really love it. I'm so glad that I decided to take it. I've been going to the class for about two or three weeks and I am wanting more and more. I guess it sounds stupid, but I wish I had photography class everyday....I don't know, it just really fascinates me.

My teacher is really awesome, she's a professional photography and has her own business. She's been doing this for 40 years, so she is really good. Lately people haven't been showing up to class. Only three of us have been there consistently everytime. I felt bad for my teacher cause she kept asking if it was her, if she was a bad teacher...stupid fucking kids.

I Mrs. Hampton that I wanted to get an Associates Degree in photography and that I wanted to be serious about it. She was asking everybody if they were just doing it as a hobby or if they wanted to really be a photographer. Well, she said to talk to her after class cause she would lead me in the right direction as to which teachers to take classes with if I wanted to be good and get the best teaching as possible. So, she showed me all the classes and teachers and told exactly who I should take classes from, it was awesome. Then the other day while in the darkroom we were doing enlargements and making prints for the first time and it was bad ass. She helped me do the first one and as I was finishing up developing the print in all the chemicals, her and another teacher from a photography class saw it and said wow....thats a really good shot. They asked who took it and I said me and they were both like great job thats really nicely done. Mrs. Hampton asked me if I was sure I had never done this before and I was like yeah I'm really sure.

I also asked her on Wednesday how to get started as a professional photographer and how to get your name out there and all that stuff. So, she told me that she has a wedding she is doing on October 2nd, and that if I wanted I could go with her and watch her, and see how you shoot a wedding. Then her next wedding after this one, I could go alone again and she would let me shoot the wedding with her, how fucking awesome is that? Thats bad ass, I hope I'm a really good photographer and I can have my own business and be successful, thats my dream. I wanna be a world famous photographer, but I know thats crazy, but hey, I can dream.

So, next semester I think I'm gonna try and take two classes, maybe three...that would be fun. I'm already looking forward to going into Digital Imaging 1 and Intermediate photography.