Don't forget to name your layers!

Picture from my trip to Japan; I'm in the middle, friend Joshua to the left and friend on right met through trip.

I'm trying to save my money this time for a new camera because my old camera, old meaning 4 months, is not quite good enough for handling the kind of pictures I'll be taking at the first wedding I will have ever done which is in march. So at the moment I'm trying to figure out how much equipment I can buy/borrow for this upcoming wedding. I know you probably are thinking, "Joshua why are you spending all your money as soon as you get enough to buy some new gadget?"... maybe you're thinking that who knows, but I see these things such as my macbook pro, lenses and this new camera as investments that will pay for themselves in the long run and yes they are also some of my favorite toys.

I'm trying to figure out my next trip to Japan somewhere in this equation as well and I fear it will be in the backseat for a while since I'm college age and have no solid source of money. Because I have no major source of money I am going to try and get into this wedding photography stuff more and hopefully I will at some point be good enough to be able to pay for my trip in just one shoot... that's my dream anyways. Every job I have ever had, the first thought that crosses my mind is, "finally I can get back to Japan and visit all my friends and of course make many more good ones" but life doesn't work in such a way and of all the average jobs I have worked I have never had a chance to make anywhere near enough to pay for a plane ticket and 2-3 months of expenses. I know that Japan is meant to be though because I have dreams of Japan and being there speaking legit Japanese with real Japanese people, even a dream where I woke up in tears from meeting my old friends from Japan.

*sigh* So much to do. I am trying to get my grades and all good enough to go to Savannah college of art and design in Georgia. My best friend is looking at going there too for video which would be quite exciting for both of us to be there, we'll see how that pans out. My best friend who also shares my name, Joshua, has already been there and says it's amazing as in 2-3 monitors hooked up to a mac pro for the serious videographer. I want to see what they have for photographers and am currently planning on visiting at the end of the semester.

I think I'm out of words. I didn't think I had anything to say when I started writing this... Wrong!