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So, I was sitting in the garage contemplating my New Year's resolutions…then I saw the defeat from previous years gone by. Not sure if that helped me or hurt me. Time will tell.
Canon 5D Mark II | Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L USM
me trying to do yoga.....right....lol
So one of my new year's resolutions this year is to do yoga twice a month, because the end of my 2008 was very hectic and busy, and I need some time to collect myself and get it all back together.
also, in the background, you'll see a huge pile o'things.....collections from my childhood, which my mom forced me to bring back home with me last Easter, which I have...done nothing with. The second box is a box of stuffed animals that is literally falling apart. O, and both my pants and shirt have holes in them.
And...a quote:
"Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever. Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise. Only from that point of even-mindedness will the true nature of the world (and yourself) be revealed to you. True Yogis, from their seat of equipose, see all this world as an equal manifestation of God's creative energy- men, women, children, turnips, bedbugs, coral: it's all God in disguise. But the Yogis believe a human life is a very special opportunity, because only in a human form and only with a human mind can God-realization ever occur. The turnips, the bedbugs, the coral- they never get a change to find out who they really are. But we do have that chance."
-Eat, Love, Pray, by Elizabeth Gilbert
not my favoritist quote- but one of my reasons for wanting to do yoga more
for: The Rogue Players- Falling Apart
FGR- New Years Resolution
Theme of the Week- Book Interpretation
January 1 - A new book with 365 blank pages lies before us. How are you going to fill yours? Happy New Year to All!
Oh! So, it's a new year. Here are the main resolutions I'm working on.
#1: Don't buy any unnecessary expensive camera gear--like, nothing over $100--until I deal with my credit card debt. I've made myself a deal that I can buy a new lens for my Leica once I get my Discover card paid off, then I'll let myself buy something fun every time I knock, say, $2K off my main debt pile.
#2: Don't go out to eat so much. Specifically, I'm not letting myself go out to eat until I've dropped ten pounds. Then I think I'm going to make it a thing where I can go out to eat once for each time I drop five more (not counting however much I go up when I do go out to eat).
(I'm writing this in the future, so I've stuck with it at least 9 days in. Except I let Courtney take me out to eat, but she paid, so that's okay.)
New Year's Resolution #2: Take a photo every day (with the secondary resolution of taking a self-portrait every day).
This probably necessitates another resolution: Get a tripod that isn't a cheap piece of crap so my camera will stop wobbling when I'm not holding it.
Resolution #1 here. Resolution blog post here.
For FGR and New Years Resolutions.
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.