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I am Sailing
"Home again cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy waters
To be near you, to be free.
~ Rod Stewart ~
L'accessoires is celebrating our one year anniversary on August 15th. We will be open until September 9th to share with you EXCLUSIVE limited edition items in celebration of the occasion. We would love for all of you to come down and join us during this exciting time!
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Designers for August 2013
| 22769 | AZOURY | BSD Design Studio | C'est La Vie | E-Clipse | Elysium | House of London | Kunglers | LaGyo | LODE | Lybra | MIAMAI | MiWardrobe | Modern Couture | NYU | *PosESioN * | Pure Poison | *SoliDea FoliEs* | Zibska |
| Photographer | Hikaru Enimo |
| Model | Mokatana Boa | Asia Romano | MeiMei Shiu | Cieleste Magic |
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I cannot believe a whole year has gone by since my sweet boy came into my life. Marky has made this year something special.
He has many talents. He catches absolutely every fly that comes in the house with amazing diligence. He also will hunt and destroy spiders.
When Marky first came home with me, I started training him to come when I call him. Every time I fed him, I would say, "Marky, come!" He eventually associated this command with food. Even now, I still use it when I call them for the nightly treats. So, whenever I see a spider, I say, "Marky, come!!" and that boy comes a-hunting. LOL. This is a totally true story. :)
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To celebrate our anniversary we went to Ananda Village and walked through their Crystal Hermitage Gardens. It was a beautiful day. Happy Easter....
365 days and still happy.
Thanks to JP, PR and MA for the initial motivation and everyone else for the ongoing support.
Although I didn’t join flickr until January 2014, my blog officially launched on December 6, 2013, which I consider my official plunge into retail photography. I didn’t think that many people would care about Albertsons Florida when I first launched, but my thoughts have definitely changed a lot since then, with my website generating over 16,000 hits since launching! While 16,000 hits over a year is nothing compared to what some big name websites and blogs do in days (and in some cases minutes), I’m still really happy. It’s been an interesting year exploring all of these old stores and learning their stories, along with improving my photography skills. There is a big difference between my photos from the beginning and more recently. Flickrwise, most of my photos from the past year have been of the Palm Bay Kmart and its sudden closing, which as of last weekend is still sitting empty. Over on the blog I wrote about my most popular posts of the year, so why not take a look back at my top 5 photos out of the 445 that I’ve uploaded over the past year (well, technically 11 months) on flickr (as of 12/5/14)?
5. A Final Look - Well, Kmart happened to snatch 4 out of the top 5 slots of my most popular flickr photos, with the Palm Bay Kmart taking three of those places. This was the third to last photo I took of the interior of this store, showing some of the clutter and randomness from the last day.
4. …And Good-Bye - This is the last interior photo I took of the Palm Bay Kmart on its final day, showing the ‘Thank You for Shopping Big Kmart’ sign behind the customer service desk, which was plastered with ‘All Sales Final’ and other closing signs. I really liked this photo, as sad as it is.
3. Until the Blue Light Fades Away… - This was a manipulated photo I did of the Palm Bay Kmart store and uploaded the day it closed.
2. Classic Kmart Bag - This was one of the first few photos that I ever uploaded of an old Kmart bag in my collection from the 80’s.
1. Evolution of the Walmart Bag 2.0 – 1995-2014 - This was the only non-Kmart photo to make the top 5. This photo has gotten more views and more favorites (13) than any of my other photos. This photo chronicles every design of the Walmart bag over the last 20 years, edited together into one photo.
While those are the photos flickr considers as my most popular, I have three others I’d like to add as my personal favorites from the last year, which are Kmart has left the Building (10/29/2014 #2), Former Albertsons #4466 – Port St. Lucie, FL (6/7/2014 #12), and Former Kmart Palm Bay, FL (9/29/2014 #2), which came in at #10, #16, and #42 respectively on flickr’s count.
I still have plenty more photos to upload here for a while. I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone’s retail photos over the last year on flickr, and meeting others who share this interest. Feel free to check out my 1 year anniversary post on the blog here, and new store photos this Tuesday here on flickr!
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
~sung by The Doors~
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Today just happens to be our 1 year anniversary. Besides my faith, I've never been so sure in any one thing in my life before as I am that she is my soul-mate.
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This year is my 9 year anniversary of the journey of getting a co-infection of West Nile Virus and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. From the tick bite, it was still another couple of weeks before the bad symptoms started, but this is the anniversary of the month the infected tick got me. Oh, and if you would like to know how long it was before I found a doctor that would listen to me about all these weird symptoms that started with the tick bite, add another couple of months. For the most part, the medical field failed me last year. I had to go to seven doctors before one would take my word for it and another couple more that would test for something other than Lyme’s disease. It ended up being Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii), a very poorly named disease. It took me three months to get into an infectious disease doctor only to hear him say there is no way I got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in Texas, it only occurs in the Rocky Mountains. Really!? Really??!!! A quick search on the CDC website will quickly show you it is actually most common in the Eastern U.S. with Oklahoma having the third highest cases per capita. The CDC is going to rename the disease Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis to avoid confusion. Anyway, I was FINALLY given a three week round of the antibiotic that is used to treat ALL tick-borne diseases, Doxycycline (Cost: $4.00). If they had only done this treatment a couple months earlier I would have had very minor symptoms. If not treated in the first three weeks from the tick bite, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever kills 25% of adult males. I was treated at 2.5 months. So, halfway through the treatment I started to feel much better except for a severe headache, stiff feeling neck, and extremely sore back. During one of my six ER visits, a doctors says “Hmmmm…. Let’s test you for West Nile just to make sure you don’t have a co-infection.” Well, he was right, a week later I got the blood work back confirming it. Aren’t I the lucky one? Both of these diseases are potentially fatal and are bad enough on their own. Now I get to deal with a bacterium that feeds on the endothelial cells of blood vessels, organs, & smooth muscles, as well as a virus that attacks the nervous system. My primary care physician thinks I actually had West Nile for a couple of months prior to the Rickettsiosis infection, was handling it alright (most younger people do), and when I got the tick-borne disease, it suppressed my immune system allowing the West Nile Virus to take over. The odds of getting either of these diseases are very low. There were ~5,000 cases of West Nile (only 300 of which were the severe neuroinvasive form) in the U.S. last year, and ~3,000 cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Once I finished the Doxycycline, none of the symptoms of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever returned (i.e. blood pooling on the palms of hands, feet, and lower back; heart palpitations; major sleep disturbances; temperature dropping into the 94’s). Also, this was around the time I got blood work back confirming these two diseases. It is amazing how much better you do mentally once you know what you are fighting. In the couple months prior to diagnosis, I heard everything from MS, Lupus, Chrone’s, depression (wanted to punch that doctor in the face), and even cancer. So my mind was going all kinds of directions with those. Here’s the thing about viruses…. they can not be treated! They have to run their course, so for all the doctors out there that give you an antibiotics when you have a sinus infection, they are doing this just to make you feel better about your pretty little selves. Waste of time and money. So, I stayed as active as I could. Walked4-8 miles every morning. Only missed two trips into the field. I can’t describe the back pain. It was so bad I couldn’t pick anything up off the floor and had to go a couple of months without picking up my daughter which broke my heart. My wife did everything around the house, even the yard work. You are the best Lisa!! All I could really do was walk. Wish I could have slept. During June I maybe got an hour of sleep a night. That was the month I lost 40 lbs. too. Doctors kept telling me I was ok. LOL Wow. I really don’t like doctors or the medical field anymore. Anywho, I kept chugging along, Christians kept praying for me, hippies kept dancing around fires naked …. yadda, yadda, yadda… here I am! Whooo hooo! I tell you what though…. I would rather get bit up by mosquitoes and ticks than work in the office all the time. Not seeing the trees and grass or light of day is not good for me. “All office and no field makes Chris a dull boy.” Even last week, I returned to the exact location I got bit and had a blast. I am better prepared now with all my bug repellent and Elimitick clothing, but I swatted the heck out of the mosquitoes! I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a roaring rampage of revenge. I roared, and I rampaged, and I got bloody satisfaction. Mosquitoes died! I let the one tick I did find go so he could tell all his friends that I lived. Oh, the good part of this story….. I can never get West Nile or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever again!!!!!
Sorry to be uploading a day late. J and I went on a short trip to celebrate our 1 year marriage anniversary and didn't take computers.
This was before heading out to dinner at a delicious little spot called Alligator Soul, in Savannah, GA. The house in the background is where we stayed. Our first Airbnb experience, and I would say it went very well! We will most likely travel this way in the future, as it was so much cheaper than any hotels nearby.
I cannot believe I've been married for a year. Where the hell did the time go? I am so grateful and excited. Relieved to finally be moving forward to where we want to go. Who knows what year two will bring? The unknown is finally turning out to not be so scary after all.
Also, we found out that our favorite band shares the same wedding date as we do! Life is bizarre and incredibly sweet sometimes.
Today marks the 1-year anniversary of my very first upload to Flickr... meaning that yesterday a year ago was the day I purchased my DSLR and the very first day of my shooting photography...
I must say.. I've come quite a way from not knowing the difference between aperture and f/stop to being completely addicted to off-camera lighting and portraiture....
I've met a lot of awesome people in my first year here on flickr.... and I'm hoping that I will meet many more... To those of you who have inspired/encouraged me.... (you know who you are)... I'd like to give my humblest thanks for turning me into the photographer that I am now..
If I learned anything over the last year it is this: I still have soooooooooo much to learn.....
Cheers!!!! and here's to year two!!!! :P
Woohoo.. today is my first year anniversary on flickr. I have learned so much in the past year... and I thought I would share 15 of these with you.
1) You will get a pro account even if you are sure you won't.
2) Hobby does not begin to define flickr's place in one's life.
3) Focused and unfocused are not opposites.
4) Stay away from the center!
5) Put a camera in my hands and i will walk for miles.
6) Water in any amount is eyecatching.
7) After viewing 1000s of sunrises and sunsets.. each one is still miraculous, beautiful and different.
8) I can ID so many more species of birds this year than i could last year.
9) I can ID so many more species of flowers this year than i could last year.
10) macros + weak batteries = fuzzy, mushy squares
11) It is possible to continue to click after 30 minutes in 8 degree F without gloves (because they get in the way)
12) A clean windshield is imperative.
13) Not all of my loved ones understand my addiction, but they have all been bored almost to the point of tears by it :)
14) My 3 published photos did not make explore ~ guess they weren't interesting enough.
15) FLICKR FRIENDS ARE THE BEST... thank you all for a fun-filled wonderfully enlightening year!!