School yearbook lady

Where have I been this last week? No, I didn't go to WPPI (though now I wish I had). I was right here, at the computer, as usual. The difference was, and this was only perceptible to myself probably, I wasn't working on photography, I was working on the kids' school yearbook. Yes, Science Night got over, and immediately it was yearbook crunch time. Last year I was the yearbook assistant, and this year I got promoted (by virtue of the previous committee chair's kids going to middle school). So I didn't do the school portraits for the kids. But nearly every other picture in the yearbook, and there are a LOT of them, was taken by me in the last week or two.

Including this super-fun center spread photo of the whole school. Go kids! About 200 of them asked me later that day "How did you get on the roof?" My answer: "I'm a really good jumper!" (They were not convinced, but I didn't want them to know how easy it really is.)



So the timing emergency was because my copy is due to the printers next Monday, which is spring break, and I had to have it edited/reviewed by the staff ahead of time. Today was my last chance. Last night at 2:00 am I finished these collages:





So cute - don't know how I managed to make them (and I was too tired to check the spelling...) These were 2 of the 20 or so collages I'd been working on.

THEN, just to keep with the tale, I tried to print out my rough draft for edits. Our old printer ran out of ink, so I installed the new one (a process in & of itself). The new printer ran completely through a cartridge of black. The last 2 pages I tried to print were nearly illegible. And I had no more ink left, so that's how it went down to the school.... it helps that I'm a volunteer with this... So it's an HP Photosmart C4750, FYI, and to me that is a crazy-lot of ink usage. I printed not quite 64 pages - granted they were maybe 50% photo or more - and now I need another $67 for more ink. YIKES. Might take this printer back to Costco & see if there's something a little more economical out there.

And that is the story of why I haven't gotten any photography done for a week... I apologize to all of you out there waiting for galleries! I need to sleep tonight instead of working, but I'll be posting a bunch of stuff in the next couple of days.