February 7th

     I have been very busy lately to the point where I have not had enough time to go and take photos to start that portion of my project, and the fact that I do not have a car for last week and this week does not help. Because I have been so busy with a lot of other things, I have been working on my research paper a lot since I can work on it when ever I have free time at home. I really want to start it now and get it done so that I am not rushing to finish it. I am writing my paper on the history of photography and how the different cameras and techniques have formed. I have already learned a lot and I am excited to learn more.
     I do have a lot of different things I need to get done before I can start the photography portion of this project. I just found out this weekend that when my sister borrowed my very nice and expensive Nikon D40, she dropped it and part of the lens broke. This is not a very big deal because I do have other lenses, but if i want to use my fish eye lens, I need to get the broken one fixed. The fish eye lens attaches to the lens that my sister has broken. It should not be very hard to get fixed though. All that happened is that the piece of plastic that attaches the lens to the camera body has broken off. It is still usable, but I eventually do need to get it fixed. Along with that, I need to e-mail my 3rd space mentor. A sophomore's dad is a photographer, so he will be helping me with this project. I do not really know him or his daughter. I heard about him from a few different friends.
     I also am talking to Ms.Pagano tomorrow so we can get started with forming my research paper. I asked Ms.P to be my mentor because I have had her for two of my four years of high school. I was in her Literacy class freshman year and junior year. She knows how I work and she is really easy for me to talk too. I know that it makes the most sense for me to ask Mr. Porter to be my mentor since he is the photography teacher at our school. I choose Ms. P because I think that I will need more help in the writing portion of the project and not as much help when it comes to learning how to use Photo shop and edit my pi cutes.
     I am already feeling very stressed about this project, but if I simply stay on top of everything I need to do, and do not fall victim to Senioritus, I think I will do fine.