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Dress: Mod Cloth

 

Shoes: Anthropologie

 

Belt: Handmade

Even the simple act of a fallen leaf leads to a much bigger importance.

 

Katsuhiko Matsunaga, a marine chemist at the Hokkaido University, discovered that leaves falling into streams and rivers leach acids into the ocean that stimulate the growth of plankton, the first and most important building block in the food chain.

  

Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.

www.flickr.com/groups/3186229@N21/

Full Blog: www.photographythrive.com/mrs-death-waits-for-no-one/

 

Happy October 1st, the official month to celebrate Halloween!

 

Mrs. Death was born out of a challenge that I made for myself. I had purchased a styrofoam skeleton head from Michaels and forced myself to come up with as many concepts as possible utilizing that prop.

 

This image was very fun to create and I cannot wait to share the rest of the series this month.

Twelve a Year: January

 

"You think you've seen her naked because she took her clothes off? Tell me about her dreams. Tell me what breaks her heart. What is she passionate about, and what makes her cry? Tell me about her childhood. Better yet, tell me one story about her that you're not in.

 

You've seen her skin, and you've touched her body. But, you still know as much about her as the book you once found but never got around to opening." - Dominic Matthew Jackson

 

Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.

www.flickr.com/groups/3186229@N21/

I’m looking for a Content Manager Supporter who can help me create videos, visuals, and organize content for my social media — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Patreon.

You’ll also have access to my full photo library, be able to communicate with me directly, help with choosing outfits, themes, lighting, and assist with moderating my Live Sessions.

 

If you’re creative, organized, and excited to work closely on content creation, I’d love to hear from you.

Please send your portfolio, CV/resume, and a short motivation letter in English.

 

📩 nastjacd@gmail.com

Blogged here: elsita.typepad.com/thehiddenseed/2009/09/brown-skirt.html...

 

Top: Love Stitch

 

Skirt: Forever 21

 

Shoes: Anthropologie

 

Belt: Anthropologie

 

Headband: Vintage

 

Invisible Petticoat: Vintage from the Rose Bowl Flea Market

 

Blogged here: elsita.typepad.com/thehiddenseed/2009/11/blck.html

 

Sweater: Anthropologie

 

Skirt: The J. Peterman Company

 

Under the skirt: My vintage petticoat

 

Shoes: Madden Girl

The conspiratorial lean and the lopsided smile say that the story she’s telling is clearly getting to one of the good parts.

 

Unposed shots are just so much more fun. You'd never recapture this as a posed shot.

 

It’s cool how the gray, urban background makes it look like color-splash, when, other than cropping and watermarking, it’s OOC. And, I love the psychedelic rainbow Tribbles turned into earrings.

 

24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.

Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.

DO YOU EASILY GIVE FLIGHT TO THE THOUGHTS THAT HAUNT YOU?

I’ve been giving this topic a lot of thoughts as I prepare to teach my very first “Book of Happy” Class in January at Kim Winey Photography’s Reboot Workshop.

SO many of us go on about out daily lives haunted by what goes through our minds. Thoughts pour in and out, running in the background like the processor of a computer. You think them, give them life, feel them, all the while perhaps not acknowledging what they are or how they’re shaping your past, present and future.

At first, I worried about teaching about my Book of Happy. I have a pretty great life. It’s pretty great now because I worked at it. My parents have been the best teachers in happiness and positivity that I could have ever asked for. During our conversation this past Monday morning, my Mom said, “You weren’t always happy. You weren’t exactly a happy kid but you’ve always worked at it.” I appreciate her words so much because they’re true. To get to a point where the haunted thoughts are far less than the purposeful and happy thoughts takes a great deal of work and effort.

It begins with a commitment to oneself to do something different to achieve a different result.

“THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS.” – ALBERT EINSTEIN

Continue reading here: www.photographythrive.com/haunted/

 

   

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Twelve a Year: November

 

Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.

www.flickr.com/groups/3186229@N21/

 

"Her messy hair is a visible attribute of her stubborn spirit. As she shakes it free, she smiles knowing wild is her favorite color." - poetry by J. Iron Word

 

I have difficultly putting my emotions and feelings in to words. I search for poets and writers to give my photographs the words I cannot express.

Twelve a Year: November 2018

 

“He created a world in which I never knew existed.”

  

Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.

www.flickr.com/groups/3186229@N21/

Untangling the past. It may take quiet moments, and last for days. It's important. It's necessary. Each of us has potential, a special gift. I'm sending this out in hopes it may inspire you to unwrap your package (your future) by releasing the knot of your past. Set yourself free to be creative, and giving. xo

 

Apps Used:

Camera+

Mextures

Image Blender

Lo-Mob

 

"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully ... To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours ... To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone's passion by the radiance of the setting sun."

-- Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

 

As always I appreciate your visits and comments, my friends...Have a nice week...!

Best seen on black - press L or click on image above.

Twelve a Year February 2020

 

If you just wait, the world gets louder when you're by yourself. Listening to the sounds of the natural world is a gift that many block out.

 

Started a group on Flickr for those who would like to join the "Twelve a Year" challenge.

www.flickr.com/groups/3186229@N21/

The forest in selfexpression

Camera Voigtländer Perkeo II

Film Fomapan 100

Dev Adonal

Day 18 submission for the Flickr 21 Day photo challenge, prompt is 'Inspiration'. Captured with multiple exposures and light painting on a Nikon Zfc.

Emotions, powerful in their own nature.

Emotions, allowing us to communicate and connect.

Emotions, giving color to the otherwise dull.

Emotions. We are all gifted with them.

Powerful in their own way.

Able to adapt, change and erupt.

Emotions.

Do we control them or allow them to control us?

Models: Me and Jonathan Chape Photography

Click here for the full blog: www.photographythrive.com/emotions

 

“For all the women who feel voiceless. Our voices are a powerful thing.”

 

www.instagram.com/adbrucephotos/

 

Amanda Lepore at Berlin Nightclub

 

Chicago, IL

Wall Art in the Plaza District of Oklahoma City.

She insisted that I retake the picture with the fan open, and that I post it.

 

24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.

Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.

 

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Skirt: Made by myself

Top: H&M

Sandals: Tommy Bahama

Tiny flowers on hair: Vintage

 

Blogged here: elsita.typepad.com/thehiddenseed/2009/10/cardigan-love.html

 

Cardigan: Paul Smith

 

Skirt: Anthropologie (with my vintage petticoat underneath)

 

Shoes and tights: Target

 

Belt: Vintage

 

Necklace: Handmade by myself

My take on a shot by JenniPenni.

Andddddd J is for "Just Wondering"

 

:D

Finally going home today! I'll miss my grandparents, yes, but I have limited props and wardrobe here! It was killing me!

 

Um.. this was supposed to be a bit ironic.. I feel like too many are taking it seriously. Giving me the meaning of life! I mean, I adore everyone's opinions, htough :)

Dress: Max Studio

 

Cardigan: Paul Smith

 

Shoes: Target

 

Belt: Target

 

Pin: Made by myself

 

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