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Winners have been announced! thanks to everyone who entered!

(Did I just really type that? Did that really just happen?)

With dedication comes patience, with patience comes growth.

That is what my 365 has brought me: dedication, patience and growth. In three hundred and sixty five days, I have learned how to extend and retract my tripod in lightning speed and use a remote. (Haha, just kidding, I learned so much more than just that, DON’T WORRY.) This year, I learned what dedication truly feels like, what pride in one self means, and I (hopefully!!) learned how to take better photographs.

The reason why this project means so much to me is because I let it become something personal and meaningful to me. I documented all my emotions, days and thoughts in photographs. These photographs are not just frozen times in my life, but memories to me. The changes that I have gone through this year are all captured in these pictures. The relationships I have lost and made with people… each chapter closing and opening can be found in these very photos. This project has allowed people of acquaintance to accept me as someone more than a giggling, blubbering lunatic (or not, right, it’s up to you).

That being said… “people of acquaintance”: Thank you for being here for me. Thank you to everyone who has complimented my work in likes (Facebook), favourites (Flickr) and comments. Thank you to those who have inspired me, encouraged me (especially when I felt like giving up), and given me support. I would not have made it this far without your support- I would have quit. Thank you to those who have loyally followed me on this journey from day one, your sweetness cannot be thanked enough for. And THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE EXPECTING SOME MIND BLOWING LAST DAY PHOTO!! YOU GUYS GAVE ME SO MUCH PRESSURE!! :P (So, I guess I gotta apologize if this photo didn’t meet your standards!! Sorry, guys!!)

I think I got a lot of the serious stuff out of the way… Let’s talk about all stupid behaviour that I have conducted in this project. I cannot count the times that I forgot my memory card in my laptop and went straight out with my memory card- less camera!! Oh man! Or those times that my battery decided to die on me but I was too lazy to charge my spare the night before, so I had no camera at all! Ugh! And all those times that I was shooting in a public area like a park or some open road where cars just kept passing by! ALL THOSE AWKWARD GLANCES AND STARES!! Hahah, today, I was shooting in front of a full tennis court right. I was right in plain view of the tennis players and it was really awkward, but I just kept thinking, “SCREW IT. LAST DAY. I’LL DO WHAT I WANT AND THIS WILL NEVER HAVE TO HAPPEN AGAIN!” And all those times where I had to walk to my location! UGH! My legs are so sore from all the walking that I did today! I went out from 2 PM to 6 PM trying to shoot something decent, but I came home very unsatisfied. So I went at 7:40 PM and came back at 8:20 with my final photo.

So this is what I’ve accomplished in a year. The amount of improvement… I am actually not sure if I got any better or if it was the change of my lens that has really helped haha.

This year has been tedious and hard; with the combination of school, my social life (WAIT WHAT SOCIAL LIFE HAHA) and a huge dedication, I can finally relax! (Ohkay just for a week and then school starts again.) There is no doubt that I am incredibly proud of myself, but this pride would not exist without all of your help.

Lastly, this is certainly not good bye. I will not disappear off the face of this earth. I am planning to start another photography project, perhaps another 365 or maybe a 52 weeks project or just a one month project. I am undecided in that area, but what I have decided is that I am going to do a print giveaway!
I’m not sure if I want to do the print for my outtakes as well, so leave your opinion in the comments below and… I guess I’m finally done.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Is it silly that I feel tears in the corners of my eyes?

My friend, Jennifer, took this photo.

I went downtown yesterday with a bunch of friends.
It was an amazing day and night.
My legs just like they're going to fall off.

Only two more days left of my 365.
What do I do. What do I do??

360||365
friday, august 26

a wish for change

i don't know what i'm doing and i'm going all the wrong ways. i just wish that everything turns out alright in the end.
because the end is making me want to cry.
i can't think of anything, my inspiration has abandoned me, and i'm so frustrated.
i just don't want to disappoint anyone.

this project isn't for me anymore, it's for you guys.
you who has supported me everyday for an entire freaking year, who stuck by me in my most horridly embarrassing and bad days, and you who gave me encouragement when i most needed it.
i thought it was for me- i thought that the only person's disappointment that i cared about was mine, but it isn't.
it's ours.

five days left. what's happening.

thanks to andy for being my human tripod in this photo!!
(the plan was to go out, get ballons, come home, grab tripod and go shooting. but we ended up shooting at a church with no balloons or tripod, so i made andy hold the camera for me hoohoohoo)

run down of the day:
- tiffani's house from 11:30 to three
- baked lemon cupcakes without icing oops D: !
- went to hillary's house
- went to explore the abandoned house it was really dark and creepy, never again!!
- went to dollarstore on elgin mills (for the balloons!!), bus took us a bit past elgin to crosby, walked back to elgin, discovered store was shut down, asked lady for nearest store that blows helium balloons up, remembered there was one down back at crosby, walked back to crosby, couldn't find the store (it was all the day down yonge and weldrick!!), went into the catholic church
- we were the only ones in there although a man let us in (i think he was the priest or something)
- hillary and i swore in it though (i was way worse LOL)
- uhm, we partied hard and had to try to remain silent but when we were walking it was very creaky so it was hard as hell D:
- we bussed back and walked back to hillary's while making cars honk (yo, no one knows what that honking action means. -__- WE GOT THIS ONE TRUCK AHAHAHA WE WERE LIKE "HONK!!" and the driver pointed to the man on the bike in front of him and made the motion of the biker flipping over on his bike LOOOOOOOOOOL but he honked after the biker went in front of him)
- then we sat around and just talked waiting for my mom to pick me up

I WANT TO DO SOMETHING WITH BALLOONS. I WILL DO SOMETHING WITH BALLOONS SOON!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARUGH.
I really think I'll do something with balloons tomorrow!! :DDD

anyways...
idk, i really hope my last few photographs are proving something. |:

it still feels weird to look at myself in the mirror without glasses. sometimes, i try to push my glasses up my nose and realize that i don't have any. haha, i've had glasses since third grade. :P