About laurelfactorial / Laurel  

Hey. I live in Oregon. I take pictures. I'm in the SCA (I'm Lady Eulalia de Ravenfeld), and I like the outdoors. I went to Reed College.

I am not very serious about photography, although I do really enjoy it and I would like to improve.

I just recently got a Canon Rebel (woohoo!) but I'm still a little bit too afraid of something awful happening to it to have taken many pictures with it.

I mostly use a Pentax Optio S40. It is a very good little camera, and has a lot of fun settings which are not too intimidating and can actually make your pictures turn out better.

I learned about photography from my dad, whose photos were featured in a recent National Geographic article.

If you are exploring my pictures I suggest you start with my sets -- I have even taken the time to collect my favorite pictures into one convenient album.