I am happy to say that I finished shooting for a photo competition I am entering. The clock is ticking and the deadline nearing, but I should be able to make my print for Ilford’s Lyrically Speaking student competition tomorrow. Then I will send my print off and wait to see what happens.

Despite my happiness, I do have one issue that is bugging me. I was going to work with someone who was going to model for me, and although she agreed to do it, she never followed up with me on locking in Monday after class as our shoot. Nor did she make any attempt to just show up knowing I wanted that time for shooting. (The thing to note is that she was the one who suggested working after class on either Monday or Tuesday.)

Well, that didn’t happen. Ultimately, I had to go with another idea I had instead for my project and did that, and looking at my negatives, I am really happy with what I see as possibilities for printing tomorrow.

But at the moment, I can’t get over how unprofessional, inconsiderate, and thoughtless she was. At one point I had begun to call this person my friend (which is a designation I give only sparingly). Yet I don’t see how that can be true. Friends care, and they communicate too. But she didn’t do any of that and seems to have serious deficiencies in these areas. If she couldn’t make it or changed her mind, she should have said so–not leave me in limbo.

I would talk with her about this, but I am at this point where I don’t think she cares, which makes addressing the issue one-on-one useless. Ultimately, I feel that if I were to strip away the seeming congeniality of her personality, I would just find someone who doesn’t give a damn.