Apologies for the lack of posts or updates over the past month but school has been keeping me so busy. Still have finals to go through but in less than a week (gasp!) I'll be done. I can't believe it's Christmas time already. This semester has flown by so quickly. I am posting some photos I've taken over the past month with my camera. Most of them are from another visit to the river but there are also some that were taken with my prime lens. 

 If you can't tell by now I sort of have a thing for this white duck. He's so adorable!

I finally got my new camera last week when my parents came to visit me. Hopefully this means that I will post more often. The camera I bought is the Nikon D7100 and so far I think it has been a very good upgrade. You can definitely tell that D7100 is less of an "entry level" camera because it has a lot of functions and buttons that my previous D5100 lacked. I know that may not make a whole lot of sense but when I first tried out the camera I was expecting to be able to know how to use it pretty easily since I had owned a DSLR before but I was surprised to find out that I didn't know the functions of many of the buttons. I read a good chunk of the manual so I could learn the functions of all the buttons on the camera. As for the camera itself, of course it is great. The images are really sharp even though I am not using the best lens. I am actually glad that I chose to upgrade the time that I did because I found out that recently Nikon announced the release of the D5300 which I figure would decrease the price of my previous D5100 even more since it would be an even older model. Anyways, I might do an actual review of the D7100 when I get around to using it some more. But as for now, I'm gonna post a couple of pictures I took with it over the last week. 

I bought some beauty product recently and thought it would be a good idea to do a review because I think they turned out to be interesting buys. They both happen to be eyeliners because eyeliner is one of the beauty items I use the most.

 This is elf's cream eyeliner in midnight. This is actually only 3 dollars which makes it an amazing purchase. As you might expect, the packaging and brush are not the best quality but the product itself is very good. It stays on for a long period of time and it is hard to smudge. The consistency is good and it goes on very easily. This is the first time I've bought an elf product and it has made a very good impression on me.

The next product is L'oreal's carbon black Lineur Intense. This actually a repurchase for me. I bought this one or two years ago and it has stayed pretty much the same. It has a good applicator that is easy to use but it is very easy to smudge. I find that it doesn't last me the whole day a lot of the times.

I hope that this review was short and helpful!

I was looking through the photos on my SD card and I noticed that a lot of my favorite photos that I have taken are of flowers. Not only that but a lot of my favorite paintings I have are also of flowers. What can I say, I guess I'm in love with flowers. But then again what girl isn't. So I present my tribute to flowers lol.

Sorry for the lack of posts but school has been keeping me busy. Worst of all, I still don't have a usable camera. As of now my only camera is an iphone which is't too bad but also not practical for a lot of photos. As soon as I get my hands on a better camera I'll post more stuff.

I sold my DSLR on Wednesday on Ebay and I shipped it on Friday. It'e been a good camera and I have had for over two years. I went to my first job inorder to buy it but I think it's time for an upgrade. Normally I wouldn't hesitate to buy a new camera but I have to wait a little while at least in order to plan my budget. So I guess I have to live without a good camera for a little while. And by the way, when I was trying to sell two people trued to scam me with the same scam. I really think that these scammers think that everybody is stupid. And I've finally gone back to college. I'll still try to post as often as I can. For now here are some photos of my old camera to honor its deportation.