i am legit. FINALLY!

this fancy guy has a new home.

MINE!

i would like to tell all of you out there in blogger world how excited i am that on this day >>> July 29, 2011, i purchased my very OWN and my very FIRST DSLR!

a nikon D7000!

i know what you are all thinking ..

I THOUGHT MELANIE WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER?!

i am.

let me tell you a little story.

i LOVE film.

always have. always will.

while i was studying photog at UVU i did a lot of film.

i delved into digital here and there.

why didnt i buy a camera then though? thats the good time to use student discounts right?

well i was still a poor college student.

duh.

AND i loved my little nikon n55 and pinholes and holgas!

so i borrowed UVU's digital when i needed.

i used friends digitals as well.

mainly lisa janes! 

[thank you btw]

then when i finally thought i should do it, buy my very own digital, i got the answer to serve a mission and went to the beautiful and cold land of Wisconsin.

well why buy a fancy camera when you cant really use it for 1.5 years?

my thought exactly.

so now i have been home for almost 1.5 years.

i have borrowed my dear cats camera a lot in that time.

also papa cards too!

[thanks guys!]

i talked to my sweet fiance [who i get to marry in 3 months from today!] and told him my savings amount and he told me to go for it! he is a good man that mr. barlow.

he knows i have been wanting to officially own my own camera for a long time!

it may not seem like a big deal but for me it is!

especially b.c. i paid for it all at once. no credit cards for this handsome nikon!

i am so excited to use it!

guess who my first model is gonna be?!

obvi this little frogy man!

i am driving to the great hotness of AZ tomorrow!

all by myself. 

should be fun.

i cant wait to meet my nephew and snuggle and photograph him 1,000 times!

i am just a happy woman right now.

also on a happy note we went to a Harry Potter art gallery tonight in Alhambra.

AMAZING.

more on the life size He Who Must Not Be Named to come ..