Before and After!

So, I bet all of you guys are just dying to know how I took all of those wonderful Civil War pictures and still managed to make it back to the present in time for dinner. Well, I'm about to tell you. I used this handy-dandy little photo editing software time machine called Macromedia Fireworks. Its called Fireworks because when you take off, fireworks go off! It's pretty sweet.

Anyway, I decided that instead of going to Anderson River Park to get my pictures of "Civil War Day", I would just use Macromedia Fireworks to go to the real thing! And I had all of you fooled into thinking that I settled with Anderson River Park! I'm You're so funny!

So the past is pretty awesome, you guys should definitely schedule a trip there sometime soon. It had a ton of photographic opportunities. Too bad you missed it! But at least I was there to take them for you. What would you do without me, seriously.

So anyway, I took my little camera and headed to the Civil War. If you look in my world history book you'll see me waving at the camera from behind this soldier. It was a pretty cool moment and sure to spawn many interesting classroom discussions.

But I have a feeling that my pictures are far better than anything they have. Although, I did meet with a nasty surprise when I was there. I went to take my first picture and found that *gasp* my camera had gone from digital to *double gasp* film! Oh the horror! You have no idea! Actually, thanks to my sweet photography class, I was prepared for anything!

So I quickly adapted, snapped my pictures and then came the hard part: how to find a store that would develop my pictures! I searched around, asked some soldiers (who were very rude by the way, something about a war or something. Whatever.) and eventually stumbled into a town that was half-way civilized. I grabbed a coffee from a man named Star Bucks, and then headed into the store across the way owned by a very nice man named Wal. His place was called Wal's Mart. It was pretty cool. He was very helpful and pretty soon, I had a bunch of lovely color photos. Now don't be shocked, they did have color photos back then, its just that by the time they sit around for a hundred years, the color fades, poor things. Here's where my true genius came from. I decided that I wanted both the faded pictures and the color ones. So I went back to Wal's Mart and had him make copies for me. I then went and buried them under a tree, that would eventually grow in my yard! Then it was a simple matter of using Fireworks to get back to the future. I had those pictures dug up way before dinner. And I was going to show you, but decided against it. 'Cause then what kind of photographer would I be if I let you in on all of my secrets? (Actually I shot in RAW format and found out that it is the one format that Blogger doesn't support.) So, never mind!

I hope you liked the pictures, 'cause I risked my life to get them for you.