Your name:  Alaina Eubank

Workshop:     week 2

If you have a nickname, what is it?  I have a couple of nicknames. My friends call me Allie or Naina, my mom like to call me Lainie…and there is not way I am divulging the nickname my brothers torture me with.  

Are you single, married, have children? Single

If you have children: how many, what are their names, how old are they: Nope, none.

What state do you live in? Texas

What do you spend way too much of your time doing? Working, looking at photography forums, and running around doing all those little annoying, time-consuming task that have to be done.

What do you wish you could spend more of your time doing? Taking pictures and learning how to use PhotoShop better.

How did photography find you? One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was looking through our huge assortment of pictures and photo albums; However, it was not until last year, when a friend introduced me to a good SLR camera, that became interested in taking pictures. I had so much fun using his camera that I had to go buy a camera and lenses of my own.

What is your favorite thing to take pictures of? In my opinion, people are the most interesting subjects to photograph. I believe every person has a unique story to tell. Every picture captures a fleeting moment of their story. If you stop and listen hard enough, the picture will tell its story to you.


How long have you been doing photography? I bought my camera last October…so not very long.

Do you have a photography business?  If so, for how long? Kinda, sorta …I’m getting there.

What is your favorite food? Hmmmmm…..I am not that hard to please. I love Italian food. Pizza is high on the list of favorites. I am also addicted to Sonic Powerade slushes. As long as it isn’t shrimp or spicy Asian, I’m happy.

What is something you can’t live without? My family, chapstick, my heating blanket, funky socks, and my camera!

What is something no one knows about you? I can be really, really hard-headed and strong-willed at times


What is on your iPod or Playlist: Jim Brickman, David Lanz, Colbie Caillat, Bethany Dillon, Frank Sinatra, Switchfoot, Jack Johnson, Bing Crosby, RelientK, David Klinkenberg, and a bunch of soundtracks to my favorite movies.

Are you a night owl or early riser? I guess I am more of a night owl; however, 11:30pm is about my limit.

What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Shirking work that I should be doing in order to be lazy and watch a movie or hang out with my family or friends.

If you could have dinner with anyone in the world…dead or alive, who would it be? Bob and Peggy Hughey are some really good friends of mine in TN. They are like grandparents to me and I don’t get to see them often enough.

What are some things that you like? A roaring fire on a cold night, Twizzlers, blankets, hot chocolate, my tigger socks, taking pictures, figuring out something new in photoshop, tennis, and reading a book that is so good I can’t put it down until I have finished it.

What are some things you don’t like?  People who don’t take me seriously just because I am young, barking dogs in the middle on the night, mosquitoes, hot chocolate that is not hot enough to melt marshmallows, and being cold.


When you can do anything, what do you do? Read a book, go find new shoot locations, take pictures, photoshop, watch a movie, or sleep.


What do you have to do before you die? I would like to go back to Belize and visit the town I live in for a while and spend some time on the Cayes.  I would also like to go back to Guatemala and go to Tikal again.



Tell us something more about you:

Funny: I have the hardest time keeping flight times straight. I am usually one of those people that are running through the airport lugging a jumble of stuff from security that I did not have time to put back in my bags. I guess it would help I double check flight times. On one particular flight, my brain did not register that there was a 1 before the 2 on my departure time. That time I don’t think I even got my shoes on before I got on the plane.

Serious: This last year has been really hard because it has been characterized by loss and broken relationships. If it hadn’t been for my parents helping me through those hard times, I probably would have gone insane because I don’t let go of things very easily.

Entertaining: I have had some form of ongoing dental work since I was about 5 or 6. I am just about to get out of my second round of braces. I jokingly tell people that I have had so much metal in my mouth that I should be able to pick up XM satellite radio without subscribing, just hook me up to the car antenna!

Philosophical: God’s gifts put our most magnificent dreams to shame. Unfortunately we often have expectations of how we want things to be and we expect God to perform to meet our expectations. It’s only when we let go of our expectations and fully trust God and what He is doing can we receive the blessings God has been waiting to pour out on us.

Exciting: I have the opportunity to come to this awesome workshop!!

True: I am finally not classified as a teenager. I don’t know how exciting that is to anyone else, but it is exciting to me. Hopefully now people will be more willing to take me seriously.  

Powerful:
“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To cry is to risk appearing too sentimental or too weak. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing at all. The person who risks nothing has nothing, does nothing, and is nothing.”




Name 2 of your weaknesses:
1) I have a bad habit of procrastinating if I think the task at hand is hard or unpleasant
2) I can be really hard-headed and strong-willed at times


Name 5 of your strengths:
1) Quick learner
2) Problem solver
3) Focused
4) Organized
5) Hard worker