Well I have finally reached 2,000 pageviews! Yay!

That is all... <3

Well I have finally gotten around to re-editing my Tree photos (my most popular photographs of the dead tree). Frankly, I can't believe I actually liked the old versions after creating the new ones. The new ones are MUCH better.
This time (along with using simple tools such as levels, selective colour, curves, etc) I used noise reduction (which made the images look really nice and soft and got rid of the graininess in the tree and grass). I think the main alteration however was a black and white layer which I set to overlay, this brought out the shadows and highlights nicely in the grass and gave it more depth.
When I get around to it I'll eventually post the new versions up in replacement of the older ones.
Thankyou for reading! I hope to recieve lots of feedback on the new versions!

Well I got my mark back for my photos in class. Second highest! Yay!!! Considering all of my photos were shocking besides one, I was rather happy with that.
My teacher is rather harsh with what he likes, he often goes on about how he has only ever liked one students photo, and that was five years ago. However he seemed to think that my portrait was especially good! and he brought it up a few times throughout the lesson. So even if he didn't like it, he said it was a 'cracker' of a photo (whatever that means) and that I was the only one who used DOF deliberately and successfully. So I'm taking that as a win!!!
(If you are wondering which photo I am talking about, it is 'Come Hither' in my gallery. So Thankyou JJ for being my very sexy model!)

Now I know I am in my final year of school until I reach University or CIT, but I am completely sick of it.
Now this all is just going to sound like a huge 'whinge' but I have completely lost interest in it all.

None of the classes are getting anywhere, we are just taught the same things over and over again, and I see no point in learning something I will never need anyway. Last year it was alright, because I hadn't fully decided what I wanted to do, so learning basic things kept my options open, but now that I know I want to do photography, everything else just seems trivial.

Even though I love photography, the course at school is really bad. I'm stuck with a teacher who hasn't taught us anything, probably for the reason that the whole class can barely grasp the concept of 'depth of field'. The cameras at school are shit, and I'm not allowed to use my own for assignments. It is also rather annoying that we haven't done digital at all. Black and White film is the only thing we have done, and after over a year, we have only done topics on architecture, night and a little on landscape.
The people in my class are basically all idiots, I once heard someone in my class say 'Is the Mona Lisa a photo?' In which after hearing I basically died from shock.

I think there are serious problems with the students at my school, after the year 12 students still say 'ewww' at the sight of people holding hands. Because you know, anything of an intimate nature is frowned upon, even though the school motto this year is 'Building people of Love'.

What makes everything worse is that now I have absolutely NO motivation in anything to do with school, and after missing a few weeks due to being quite sick, I haven't done any schoolwork whatsoever, which means I get teachers hassling me the whole time I'm there. I suppose they have a reason to though.

My problem is that in order to get into the CIT course I want, I just need a year 12 certificate and tertiary english, so it really doesn't matter what marks I get, as long as I scrape through and finish the year. Unfortunately this means I feel no need to actually excel myself.