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Posted by Eva

Friday, June 3, 2022

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Um it was just March, I blinked, and now it's June...? Huh.......?
Thankfully life did manage to slow down a bit during April, but oh sweet baby jesus lordy—the entirety of May was a month-long nonstop sprint. Just running and running, kept going and going and going.

My month of May was characterized by... spraining my ankle, helping fome move to a new apartment, big work projects, 9 day long stressful but amazing business trip with lots of walking on injured ankle, a national tragedy, and then I ended it with a bang by helping volunteer for Fanime our local anime con.

Specifically it's because I have lots of friends involved with either running or performing for the Dance so I signed on to help with A/V and thought I'd try my hand at taking some photos as well!

Honestly I had dreaded this weekend, not for any external reasons other than that I knew I'd be exhausted. πŸ˜” Going from preexisting exhaustion to a highly exhaustive, physically demanding gig with extremely long hours and high social pressure aaah. I wasn't wrong with these predictions; it felt like I was pushing myself to my limits and somewhere in the middle I even cried from fatigue......

(staff vest bright pink,,)

But what I didn't predict was that. I would.. end up.. feeling pretty happy about the entire experience? Despite the lows, it felt... fulfilling? What I'm left with is only.... glowing feelings? Is it Stockholm Syndrome?

This weekend I met a lot of cool people and made new friends—and I didn't expect that that would put me into such a state of giddiness. πŸ₯Ί I'm not necessarily the type of person to actively seek out new friends but how can I not be excited about having met and spent time with folks that I got along with well?! And the little community that formed out of all of us working on this event together and supporting each other warms my heart. Attending the shows was fun too since the performers gave tons of energy, bombass remixes, and it's awe-inspiring to see a huge room of people get hyped over their favorite anisong hits haha.

Admittedly I also have to mention that it feels amazing to see people using the photos that I took. Feels like validation that they liked my amateur photos and just being someone who's considered useful/helpful to others is what I live for. It's extra gratifying since taking photos was purely my idea, nobody asked me to do it, yet it ended up becoming something somewhat significant; I feel honored to have been able to contribute like that and help some of the performers be able to immortalize their experience from what sounds like was a meaningful stage for many of them 😭

Plus, I'm not a real photographer so every compliment I've received on my work has meant a whole lot!! There were certainly ups and downs in my photography—especially at the end of each night when I was most tired, the quality suffered—but I want to think that overall I can feel proud of myself. ;u; This may have been my first time experimenting with angles like this too!

Anyway I just wanted to share some of my favorite shots that I managed to take~ I'm not including every artist and it certainly doesn't reflect at all on my opinion on any of them or their incredible performances. πŸ™ This is essentially from a photography standpoint.

Regrettably there were four nights of shows, from 6 PM til 2 AM, so unfortunately I just couldn't make it around to capture photos for every performer... And like I said, my work was really inconsistent—most of the shots came out poorly because of the dark room, ever-changing lights and haze, constant movements, my fatigue, sore arms, having to borrow fome's camera for one of the days and being unfamiliar with it, and not having fast enough shutter speed. These are the shots where luck aligned somehow!


Yes, there was a marriage proposal between two of the performers!!! It was super sweet, they're both so cool, such a beautiful power couple!!! πŸ’• I'm extremely happy with how these photos turned out. ^^


Story goes that they were the final act (it's like 1:50 AM?) so I was sitting down in a corner because tired... then I suddenly saw that the audience started busting out their phone lights so I JUMPED up onto my feet and ran towards the stage to snap this pic, not realizing that my camera flash turned on in the chaos......... But y'know, I kinda dig the "old fashioned" look of this—reminds me of photos my parents would take of me as a kid. :')

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Just for fun and posterity for my future self, here are some of the performers' posts that I've seen.
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(fome was actually the one that took this photo; I just wanted to post it bc she's a friend and the talented person who did my red hair dye job last year!)

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 15, 2022 at 3:46 PM

    Ahhhh it's so cool that you took these photos! You have such a wonderful artistic sense that you can just casually capture great photos! Many photographers might consider getting one good one out of dozens to be a big success. It's great to hear that others appreciated the photos too. I'm sure that contributed to the fulfilling weekend. You make such an impact in many people's days.

    You always surprise me with how much you can get done in just one month! I hope you've been taking some time to rest and that your ankle is feeling better too. It's gotta be tiring to have such a packed schedule. Hopefully you get to enjoy summer too! Beach? Mountains? Food.

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    1. EvaJune 16, 2022 at 7:24 PM

      Baww thank you!!! 😭 I've never been told that I have wonderful artistic sense before, feels like I've leveled up !!

      Hope you're having a nice summer πŸ’• Beach sounds fun... Mountains idk unless there's hot springs involved lmao. Food yes please.

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