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Today's theme in We're Here! is about New Year's Resolutions and I don't really do those. So, I figured: "What the hell, I'll just say mine is to 'take more photos' and do a phone photo of me holding my DSLR..." The bonus was that my phone (LG G5) is reflected in my lens (40mm macro). Totally in-camera (or in-phone, if you prefer). I just cropped it a little at the top and bam... here we are.
I've never been one to make a resolution per say, but I try to promise myself that I will try to improve. So here's to a new and improved me. A healthier, thinner, happier, calmer, more adventurous me. A more financially secure, more motivated, more confident me. A better friend, employee, daughter, granddaughter, niece, photographer, and human being. I wanna be me - just kicked up a notch.
I bought an Iron Gym on Tuesday. I've been wanting one for a few weeks. I waited until someone put it on sale. I bought it at Target for the regular price but got a free $10 gift card. That's the best deal around right now for this product.
I quickly put it together (4 minutes) and "installed" it. I stood holding it for several minutes before I let myself trust the device to hold me (supposedly holds 300 pounds, I weigh 185).
In just two days, I can now do a few full pullups in succession.
This is part of my New Year's Resolution to work out every day. That's really easy when you don't have a job! Also, people who ride bicycles every day still need to work out, because bicycling doesn't work out a hundred other muscles that want part of the workout.
P.S. The only suitable door in my whole apartment is the bathroom door. My bedroom door is arched. So is the door to the living room. My roommate's bedroom door is French. Whatever works.
Photo: Martina Clausen
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve done this past year. What was rad, what wasn’t. How can I have an ever better time next year? What made me really happy?
At one point, in the summer of 2010 I lived as a wandering, 2 wheeled, transient. For over 2 weeks, Andrew and I cruised around The Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island on our bikes. Camping on cliffs, kayaking on the edge of the Pacific, squatting, jumping off waterfalls and riding our bikes through epic lands. During that time we also worked and ran our design shop. Several amazing friends joined up for different parts of the trip. We rode all sorts of boats and ferries. I love BC ferry rides.
I had my entire life on the back of that bike. We would fly down mountain roads on Vancouver Island at 80km, carving up the road with our silent steeds. There were rivers & lakes everywhere, I wore only shorts and flip flops 90% of the time. The ocean, of course, was ever present. We ate ridiculous amounts of berries, cooked an entire salmon over a fire on the beach of a tiny island on the Pacific Rim, had several bear scares and countless mind bending sunsets. I made business calls while balancing barefoot on gigantic mossy logs in the middle of an ancient forest. We drank delicious bourbon. The ocean would sparkle with bioluminescent plankton ( Unicorn Chum ) every night. Every single minute of every single day was an adventure.
I have never felt so free.
Next year, I want to do much much more of this. And I will.
I wrote this right after I got back and put up some photos:
“Got back on Sunday from a 16 day trip. Took my 24 year old road bike, strapped my camping stuff and laptop to it… and set out to devour this summer. We were transients… wilderness camping, squatting, trespassing and just generally sleeping wherever we could find good spots. We would stop at diners and such to connect through our phones and work on our laptops.
700km of biking, 5 days of kayaking. Awesome times.”
Planner begins with some of my thoughts about this process and a quote from Neil Gaiman.
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Inspired by Lisa Sonora Beam's Goal Setting for Creatives
~ Macro Mondays ~
Theme: New Year's resolutions
January 04, 2010
I have a few knitting projects I'd like to accomplish this year. This particular project is a scarf I've been working on for two years. I resolve to finish it.
3/365 for Project 365
truth be told: I've been steadily gaining weight: 80 pounds over the past 8 years, to be exact. but, THIS is where it ends. 2010 is going to be a great year! :D
Finally our friends managed to reach the crest of the hill and disappeared from sight on the other side.
Shortly after, I found Pinkie alone, playing intensively with snow and looking all sweet and innocent.
One of my new year's resolutions is to digitise 365 of my analogue photos. Here's just a few of them being organised/prioritised
inspired by this photo
Strobist info:
tumax 880 through wgite umbrella camera right on the floor, pentax 280t behind odd lamp in the corner :)
"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
Fran Lebowitz
Linda Hartong Photography. ©All Rights Reserved. 2009. Do not use, copy or edit any of my photographs without written permission.
I began 2010 with renewed interest in film. www.flickr.com/photos/senroy/4232020560/ I believe I still fired more digital pictures than film ones, but it was closer than I believed it would be. The two cameras pictured here will replace the Rollei and Nikon in the 2010 pic I linked. My goal is twofold:
1) Take more film than digital.
2) Develop all my own film. (Yes, including C-41 and E-6.)
The 5D will still always be at hand, I have to keep the grandparents' inboxes freshly full and digitial is just far too convenient for this. But if we travel this year as hoped, I will be leaving digital at home.
Sidenote on the pictured EOS3: Both the metering and the AF performance handily eclipse my 5D. It's also lighter, easier to navigate settings/menus, and it makes less noise and vibration when taking a picture. Excepting having to buy, develop, and scan the film, I see the 5D as a backwards step in just about every way!
For FGR - New Years Resolutions.
1. Rid my accumulation of credit card debt.
2. Lose 50 lbs this year
3. Stop stressing out about my photos
4. Work on being less paranoid/neurotic.
Just to name a few things I would like to work on this year. I was able to keep last years (stop smoking), so I know I can keep at least one of these.
My New Year's Resolution (for Flickr Group Roulette as well as for general sentiment): To FULLY participate in this new year of the 365 Project. That is, to ACTUALLY take 365 photos of myself for 365 days.
Additionally, to take/post a photo of one of the kiddos each day. Between my own four and my niece and nephew that I babysit, I have plenty of photogenic subjects that I've been neglecting.
Pretty cute little dude, isn't he? Especially given that he's SICK at the moment. (High fever the past two days, etc).
Cliche, right? Of course it is! But yes, my goal is to weigh 140 again.
And no, this is not my current weight. First off, I had the camera on me. Plus, I may or may not have tweaked the scale a little bit to skew the numbers. I am no where near as brave as Sarah Judith.
Jan 02 2017: [Resolution] I'm maintaining my New Year's resolution to recycle and help keep the environment a little healthier. For no other reason than to just prevent the planet from becoming a giant garbage dump.
My 2008 resolutions........
One is to stay healthy - I realize that I don't have a LOT of control over that, but I can keep a positive attitude, follow up with my doctors, eat healthy and exercise.
My second resolution is this..... in this journal, every single day of 2008 I will enter 3 things that I'm thankful for that day. They can't overlap, so that will be 1098 unique things by the end of the year.
We are all so blessed - even when things go wrong, or we have a bad day, rest assured that someone else had a worse day, or is suffering more than you at that moment in time. Be thankful for what you have - for those close, for your job, etc. I plan to focus on not only the large things, but the small ones as well. Too often we let the negativity overtake whatever positive we have going on. I hope this will teach me not to do that.
And the best part? I found a PINK journal - yay :)
So far I have:
My Sweetie
My Mom
My Sister
My Nephew
My Niece
My other Niece
Pasha
Freyja
Mischief
My Job
Photography
Tulips
My Vehicle
The Color PINK
Enough money to pay my rent this month
I'm not really into new years resolutions, but here's a short list of my photo related ambitions for this new year:
- Learn more about lighting (and read up on strobist.blogspot.com/)
- Practice shooting in manual mode (just to get a better grip on how things work)
- Shoot a nice portrait of a stranger
- Get into top 10 on explore
- Appreciate the fact that the Fugger group is still alive and participate in more invasions!