The Lost Sea. The largest underground lake in the United States and 2nd largesst in the world.

 

I'm glad to finally have my car back. It was in the shop for almost 2 months after getting demolished by the hail storm in April. I also didn't have it for the 8 previous months because I was in Spain. Now I get to enjoy it for about 2 months before I am car-less again.

Not too much going on this summer besides working a little bit and spending time friends and family. Needless to say, I have some free time on my hands. So tonight I got my basketball, camera, tripod and remote control for my camera and headed outside. I sat up the tripod in several different positions and starting taking pics while shooting around. I put my camera on a two second delay and had the remote in my pocket so it wouldn't show up in the pics. So after 30 mins I had about 60 pics and here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

Here's a video of one of my classes saying goodbye. This was my second year with this group. They weren't usually excited for class, unless we were doing karaoke, but they are a good group of kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PlFH181pVM

Another site with my pictures. pretty much all the places I traveled to over the past year. Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamal424/

 

Norris Lake. This was taken at 2:30 am with only the light from the moon.

Had a great weekend with the 50mm lens. I definitely enjoyed it but did not fall in love with it. I will buy it at some point but it is nothing that I necessarily need right away. I am sad to send it back to borrowlenses.com tomorrow however I will use their services again soon.

I'm renting a lens for my camera so I'm exciting about getting to play around with it this weekend. I've heard nothing but good things about the lens so hopefully I will be able to make some good things happen! If it goes well, I'm pretty sure I am going to buy this lens and probably do away with my kit lens.

 

the sunsphere

 

interesting flowers at the World's Fair Park

 

el pato

 

Concord Park

 

Concord Park

Time for an update and a break from the photos. Last week I received an email saying that I was accepted to participate for another year in Spain as a cultural language assistant. This means that yes, I will be heading back to Spain again. I will not be in Aguilas this time, but in the capital city of Murcia. I'm looking forward to my fourth trip to España!

 

working hard with the medicine ball

 

Exhaustion

 

 

tennis ball workout

 

The trainer

 

Dre's workout session

 

Teo, my landlord's dog

 

Spanish churros!

 

Windsor Castle (The Queen is there!)

 

Jesus College (Cambridge)

 

Kings College (Cambridge)

 

Buckingham Palace

 

Stamford Bridge Stadium (Chelsea F.C.)

 

The London Eye attempting to hide