something secret

via PLola So... I've been missing. For about a month now. College... it gets in the way.  But classes are done, and there are 2 finals between me and freedom. Yipee! I'm still going to be gone until probably the middle of May, but I wanted to let everyone know that I'm not dead or hiding. I have tons of photos to post from the last month or so, and I excited about hearing back from SVA in a bit. College is over and now the real world is pressing in. More adventures! See you in a month or so!

via PLola Photo #88: Maljoe Needless to say, she wasn't too pleased when she caught me!

via PLola Photo #87: Pondering I loved this guy. I'm not sure why he was at Union Square, but he looked so... absorbed. It was great.I also just love the way this shot came out. The colours from the flowers in the background etc. It came together really nicely and I loved it :)

via PLola Photo #86: Old Friends I LOVED this guy. I actually couldn't stop following him around. (You'll see more shots of him soon). Do you SEE this print? It's gorgeous! I love that as a young man, he's fashion savvy enough to recognize how beautiful it is, and not be afraid to incorporate non-bland things into his wardrobe. (And OMG that haircut. Yowza!)

via PLola Photo#85: Protest I have no idea what this guy's story is, and I only got this shot by chance, since he was actively running away from me (I assume like many Occupy members he didn't want his picture to turn up in a paper). But I would have loved to find out his story. I'm always drawn to the interesting faces in a crowd. But then, isn't everyone?

via PLola Photo#84: Punk This kid was awesome. I really like him. And his style sense was great. I'm really into the whole "see how the real people put things together" sense. 

via PLola Photo #83: Happy Couples They were cute. I'm not a huge fan of PDA, but they looked so happy and I'm down :)

via PLola Photo #82: Guy Fawkes I remember when Occupy first started there was a lot of uproar over whether or not it was appropriate for the protestors to wear masks. While I'm not explicitly against it, I do think it sends the wrong message. I won't even lie, the V masks skeeve me out a bit.

via PLola Photo #81: Up in the Air This shot took me ages to get, and I'm still not super in love with it, but it was hard to get using a long lens in a crowd. Eh. It happens. It helped that this guy was determined to get this tricked down and literally did it over and over and over again. Slow and steady my friends....

  via PLola Photo #80: Dimple In case you were wondering, I haven't abandoned my 365 Photo Challenge . I've been super busy, so I've fallen almost a month behind, but I'm back on track, and I'll be posting the missing photos over the course of the next week with a "backdated" tag, so that when I come back to them I'll know I fell behind. Anyway, this photo is from a set that I shot while in NYC last Friday. You'll see the rest of them in the following weeks, and in the backdated posts.  I was on my way to visit the grad school I'm applying to for next year, and found myself in Union Square, stumbling onto Occupy Wall Street 2.0 in the process. It was an interesting experience, and I even saw a small altercation with police. (One officer pulled out his camera phone to record a protestor...) There were so many interesting faces that I was like a kid in a candy store. I only meant to stop for 15 minutes and then move on, but I ended up staying for...

via PLola Photo #50: Preview 2 Tomorrow the big reveal!  Or you can head over to facebook now and see them early.

via PLola Photo #48: Casual It's always adorable when people just don't know what to do when faced with a camera.

via PLola Photo #47: Fashion vs. Art Shot a fun little story for the Buzz today. Went pretty well.

via PLola Photo #46: Gurgitators More from yesterday's post . This is what the contestants had to eat in 30 minutes: -one triple bacon cheeseburger -one plate of fries -one large root beer -and 8 scoop ice-cream sundae with 3 brownies at the bottom 5 people finished. 3 broke the previous record.

via PLola Photo#45: Rhett's Challenge I have never seen anything so gross in my life. So much food.  The pictures from this event were epic in the worst way.  This guy came second. A girl won. (Yay girls!)

via PLola Photo #44: Laughs All smiles.

via PLola Photo #43:  shot these as part of the student profile project I was doing. 

via PLola Photo #42: Community Bulletin Board More from yesterday's post .

via PLola Photo #41: Chinatown For one my classes I have to create a multimedia snapshot of Boston's Chinatown district. It was fun to shoot there, but the attitudes of the locals ranged from vaguely racist to super nice. It was a frustrating endeavor to say the least.

via PLola Photo #40: Distraction Smartphones. I'll get one eventually. But only when I'm forced to, and when it becomes completely impossible to function in the world without it.