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[9 September - 15th September]
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So I'm uploading in the middle of the week rather than the end which is nice :)
This week I finally sent letters and prints to my print giveaway winners! It was really awesome writing to people who I've met/admired on flickr and let's not forget, live across the other side of the world! Uni has been keeping me busy and I'm just so ready for my break.
This week we also remembered those who tragically died in 9/11, eleven years ago. In some ways, this event influenced the concept of this week's photo. They will never be forgotten <3
So I had this new space in our family room to use while we waited for our new lounge. I had in mind what I wanted the photograph to look aesthetically but I wasn't quite sure about what I wanted to convey and to express. It turned out to be quite a sad concept with a somber mood while also encompassing ideas concerning a life once lived and nostalgia.
P.S. I did think of Sarah Ann Loreth's work while taking this.
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traveling cross-country, this was my first time in chicago illinois, albeit only the o'hare airport. damn it was busy! the frantic energy was palpable. being exhausted, hungry, and a bit confused it wasn't as pleasant as i would've hoped, you know, as a photo opp :)
but at the last minute, nearing my gate at the end of a terminal i came upon this scene. i stopped cold, put down my goods, scoped out the people and realized that no one seemed to think this unusual. i myself have never seen a white wooden rocking chair in an airport. i speculated that the guy was traveling with it? no, that didn't make sense. someone else was and left it there? uh, maybe it was brought up from baggage, unclaimed?
i didn't get it, and i didn't get the nonchalance of everyone *about* it. even when i got my camera out and knelt down to shoot - usually drawing attention - no one even looked my way. perhaps unlike myself, no one else wanted to look naive, not "in-the-know"?!
delighted, i took a few shots without anyone blinking an eye. i thought of asking the guy sitting there if he knew what was what, but decided to leave it, preferring the mystery.
which reminds me - there are frequent enough times that someone will ask me where i took a particular photo and the best i can come up with is "well, i was walking around ______, so it was somewhere around there". i like wandering and discovering what might happen upon me. and sometimes it's wonderful, magical, to go back looking for something only never to find it again. don't always want/need to know all the answers ...
There is something so peaceful about rocking chairs on a wraparound porch. Makes you want to sit and look out at the world a little bit.
Here they sat on my Antique Rocking Chair for the Easter Holidays. They will be back next year on my chair of Honour, lol!
My very old creation but it seems to me very funny and curious enough to put it here! Sorry for small resolution :)
An early 1900’s photo of a woman reading in a rocking chair in a field. I think she must be one of my ancestors!
It's been ages since I posted a photo of one of my original paintings on here. This is a water colour I did many years ago when I lived in Canada.
Mister Bear (a Dan Dee 100th Anniversary teddy bear) serves as a greeter and tour guide in a vacation rental cabin.
Mister Bear is a "dump rescue" bear, found, perhaps appropriately, as bears are known to frequent such places, in a rubbish dumpster six or seven years ago.
Being a 100th Anniversary Teddy Bear, Mister Bear dates to around 2002, which makes him 21 years old now! Let the par-tay commence! He was found and adopted in Hatch, Utah.
Mister Bear's hat was purchased at a sporting goods store in Grants Pass, Oregon in 1982.
Mister Bear's rocking chair was given as a gift to my grandmother when she was three months old... which would have been in October 1912, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
So there ya go: over 110 years of history right there -- and all from years ending in "2." Weird, huh?
18 July - A Doll A Day 2023
The Sky Hermit guards the entrance to the Aloft Kingdom. The dark path to the realm can only be enlightened with his lighthouse. Not one single soul is granted passage without his permission.
His only weakness is sweet pastries.
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This build is part of the RebelLUG Archipelego collab.
The National Park Service employs a lot of landscape architects and a fair number of graphic designers. You see their work here - a design of the visitor center porch that is clearly intended to invoke a neighborly location in the American South from decades past. You wouldn't see this design in New Mexico or Montana.