This Made Me Smile::Monday::The wonderful blessing of friendship

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival."

~C.S. Lewis~

 There are so many things I could say about the blessings of friendship. 

I could just ramble on and on (as I sometimes have a tendency to do), but I don't think I could say it better than good 'ol Clive Staples Lewis. He hit the nail right on the head. 

So today, when I think of friendship, I smile. 

Because friends are wonderful; and just the thought of them makes my Monday amazing. 

Wonderful. 

Great. 

Spectacular. 

Splenderific. 

The end. 

~Mackenzie Hope~ 

April Friend Shoot

Okay! I have finally finished editing pictures from a friend shoot I did exactly a month ago. 

My picture problems are fixed, and I have learned a lesson. 

You want to know what lesson I have learned? 

Okay here it is: Backup your pictures. 

The end. 

Thankfully I did not really lose any of them, just had a lot of problems. 

Anyway, I finally got a chance to do a bit of editing/organizing with these pictures and get them posted. 

For those of you who did not see my small preview a moth ago, (and for those of you who did) a friend and I did a shoot with my sister and her good friend. Both of these lovely ladies are great models and, despite the cold wind, had smiles on their faces the whole time (except when we told them not to smile). 

Like I said, I did this shoot with a friend of mine who is also a photographer.
Well, there she is in the background there taking pictures with my sis.
Hello Essie! 
Hello sis!

This one is one of my favorites. 

This one too.

It's a truck!!

These girls were so great to take pictures of because of their fun-ness. They were always coming up with new things to do and laughing about it. 

Thank you girls for doing this, it was so much fun!

~Mackenzie Hope~

A Friend and Her Flute

On Sunday we went skiing.
There was snow everywhere!....except for on the ground.
Yup.
The only snow we had was on the slopes.
It was really ice pretending to be snow.
We really did have a blast, the icy "snow" made for some good speed.

Anyways.......
I did a photo-shoot with my friend Lydia on Monday. 

I loved doing this shoot because I had so much fun. Lydia has a lovely laugh and smile, she was a pure joy to take pictures of. 

Thanks for letting me do this Lydia!

So here are some of the best (or my favorites) of the bunch. 

She plays flute very well (and I mean very!), hence the flute.
You can see (and hear) some of her stuff here.

Most of the time I would tell her to frown, "Look mad! Look angry!" I said and she would try. 

"Why? Why did you tell her to look mad?" you ask.

Because.....

...Every time she would frown and try to look mad she would break out laughing. 

Her laughter is lovely. 

All-in-all we had a great time and I learned one new concept about Photography.
Except for that I have to re-learn it every time.
You want to know what it is?
DON'T RUSH!!!
Arggggg....I do this all the time! So every time I do a photo-shoot I have at least 30% blurry pictures from either me moving while taking the picture, or out of focus because I was in to much of a hurry. Tut tut. I will have to reform.
Hmmmm......hey, it was cold outside, so my fingers were really cold, so maybe I had a right to have them out of focus.....maybe.
You think so?
Maybe?

Maybe not.
Maybe I was just rushing like a bad girl.
No excuses for me!
I have learned my lesson.
Finally.
So there.

The end.
Have a great weekend!

-Mackenzie Hope