Julia and I drove up to Memphis, NY to visit Steve Smith. I'm really starting to get the hang of using the DSLR, I got quite a few good shots that I'm happy with.
The past few nights there have been some insanely intense thunder storms. (too many adjectives?) I stood outside with my camera trying to press the shutter when the lightning struck. Unfortunately it was way too cloudy to get a picture of the lightning strike but how the clouds were illuminated was amazing. I also took a video of the thunder and lightning but there is a lot of background noise due to the amount of wind. Got to love summer storms.
So I went to MOCCA festival over the weekend, I originally went to stalk out Danielle Corsetto of Girls With Slingshots but I completely missed her table even though I went through the entire festival three times searching for it. I didn't really buy anything because I have no money, my apartment is tiny, and I currently have over 1,000 books on my shelf already (this is not an exaggeration). I did however run into ZAK SMITH!!!! He was browsing one of the booths and I had to do a double (and triple) take because he was the last person I would have ever thought to be there (seeing as wikipedia says he lives in California). So I basically had a heart attack, walked up to him and said hello, probably sounded like a complete idiot because every intelligent thing I could have said to him left my mind as soon as he started talking. But basically, I met my idol and he was really cool. Still on a cloud!