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This was taken on Vance Creek Bridge in WA. I spent the first 15 minutes practically on all fours, terrified of getting vertigo and falling off the bridge. Over time, as I tried to set up the shot that I wanted, the fear faded and I spent the last 15 minutes running back and forth from the camera to check the composition of the photos.
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Stepped out my back door just after 5am to capture this beauty. Never get tired of sunrises and sunsets :)
52 Week Project- Week 28/52
So I may have slightly over-hyped this image, but I never expected the type of response I got when I posted the light test yesterday. It took on a life of it's own, so you may be looking at it and saying, "this is it? This is what she was nervous about?"
Well yes. This is what I was nervous about.
For the past 21 years of my life on earth, I have always been naturally skinny. I could eat six cupcakes and drink a can of Monster in one sitting at age 13 and not worry about it the next day. That's just how it was. 21 came around, and with that, introduced self-awareness along with some changes in my body. I felt skin rolling over in places it never dared to explore before. I became more conscious of how my legs looked in shorts. In short, I gained some weight and also became aware of these changes in a very unforgiving way.
I was not nice to myself.
I made every effort to hide things that had softened and stuck out, hyper-conscious of how I looked in dresses. My legs became on object of obsession with me as I constantly beat myself down over how I looked. So when I was working on another idea with these orchids, I started to notice all those flaws. Flaws that screamed at me to do better, to be better. Something that was supposed to be a beautiful portrait, quickly became dark and I started to see the confidence drain from my posture as I looked through the images on the back of the camera. The more I yelled at myself for slacking on exercise or having that extra beer, the more I literally curled inward on the stool.
My self portraits have always been about how I've been feeling and I felt like complete garbage by the end of it. Convinced I had failed, I went back through the images and came across this one. "This could work" I told myself, quickly tucking my problematic thighs up and removing those stomach rolls. But it didn't feel right. I've been preaching self-love, yet I couldn't find it in myself to do the same. I even sent the retouched versus un-retouched to friends to see if they found those imperfections to be "gross" or "distracting". I caught myself midway through, realizing just how mean I was being to myself.
I realized, if I talked to a friend the way I talked to myself, I'd be alone in this world.
So here it is. I reversed the changes I had made, left my thighs in their natural thickness, my legs in an un-shaven glory (which I'm sure you can see if you zoom in, take a gander), and my stomach in it's roly-poly, bad boy self.
I'm legitimately sweating writing this, but I think it's time I allowed myself to be me. To not tuck myself away, to show that I can embrace and accept my body. Can you do the same?
Theme of The Week - In the style of Ilse Bing (1 of 4)
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In the style of Robert Frank (2 of 4)
"Goodbye implies loss or rejection but well wishes are meant for times when loss is undeniably absent." - Ian Cairns
For this week's topic I chose to work with oxymorons, a combination of contradictory words.
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Things that bring me joy. Family, home, nature, being creative, being helpful, and 52 week projects. :)
I've haven't been this proud of myself in a very long time. I've made it half way through my 52 week!
You guys never really like my hair flip shots, but I love this too much for words. The light was so beautiful, it went away so quickly though that I only had time for about three shots.
Ironically, this is inspired by Rona, one of the best photographers on flickr in my opinion (she's tagged!). I say ironically, because she's one of the reasons I even started this 52 week, and I think that it's really cool that this shoot happened to fall on my half way mark!
+1 in comments, it's the same one in black and white, it was super hard to choose! Many more outtakes from this day to come.
(February 28 - March 6)
Meep! I'm not sure if this will actually be my picture for the week. I can't decide if I like the edit or not. Haha, so yeah, I might not leave this up. I just really feel like uploading something and I really need to start experimenting more with my processing.
Anyway! Katie and I met up with our friend from grade school, Ruby, who we hadn't seen in ages. We had originally planned to go downtown to take pictures, but getting down there proved to be tricky so we just drove around near us in hopes that we'd find a good spot. We were just about to give up on trying to find somewhere when we found this really cool abandoned repair shop on the side of the road with this crazy hill that led up to all sorts of cool location goodness! (:
Week #12 Metal - The Haywagon. This old pick up is still working today! Only it is feeding horses on a farm. Best I can tell, it is a late 1940s Ford F1 pick-up truck. This was shot on a beautiful fresh sunny afternoon. (A little chilly!) A little tweaking was done in Aftershot Pro.
Week 39:52 Graffiti (September 23rd - 29th)
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There are a lot of wonderful paintings on the brick buildings in the nearby 'city' in my area and most, if not all of them were permitted by the municipality. Decided not to use them for this theme because I took the phrase "without permission" and see the word "usually" actually does mean "always" for my interpretation of graffiti.
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There is quite a bit of this style around the area. This example is one of the closest to the main street in town. The others are on side streets and freight cars on the railroad tracks. Cannot be certain if this particular piece shows the work of 2 contributors, since at first glance, seems to be the case... or possibly 3.
We're celebrating Holga Week at Fotodiox this year with gear reviews and creative tutorials featuring Holga film cameras! Holga week is a celebration of all things Holga, and runs from October 1-7. Click here to see our first Holga Week video: youtu.be/iQKW4sN6EbA
Week 33 : Architecture.
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
The Len Lye Centre is an extension to the Govett-Brewster, built to display the works of artist Len Lye. The Len Lye Centre was opened on 25 July 2015. This is the first gallery in New Zealand to be dedicated to a single artist.
>> In dreams, we plant the seeds of our future. - Unknown <<
When one of my favorite photographers starts a project and invites me to join, of course I just jump into it without even thinking about it for a second. So here I am, doing another fun project to challenge myself and I couldn’t be more excited. <3
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Was given this as a gift and thought it might prove useful for this weeks theme, as well as looking pretty! Hopefully you know what it is.
Week 6 is Alley and there aren't many proper alleys here in Bedford I have to admit. However, I remembered there's one or two near Castle Road and found this.
It's a bit of a snap to be honest, or at least I feel it is, I've deliberately tried to accentuate the walls narrowing toward the lamp post and beyond and the fact it's a wet day adds some atmosphere with wet surfaces, reflections and threatening cloud from above. Perfect for some monochrome shooting!
yep, another miserable windy, rainy week but everyone should know by now i love a good windy hair pic :)
HELLO my name is frankie
and this is my 52 week project! #letsgetcreative2014
it is dedicated to Ella Ruth and her
Welcome to Day 6 of Technique Week! Yes, I am aware that I am posting this on day 8, but hey, better late than never.
Today's technique is a circle! :D Specifically one using curved 4x4x2 quarter round fences. First, stack a 1x2 plate on top of a 1x2 plate with 2 vertical clips, then a 1x2 cheese slope on top of that. Do that 20 times and attach all of those to the bars of the curved fence pieces to form a 20-sided shape, which is pretty much a circle. To make the circle taller, you don't need more fence pieces; you just need to replace the 1x2 plates with longer plates. You will need more cheese slopes though.
I think this may have applications for sci-fi, especially large sci-fi, and seeing as SHIPtember isn't too far off, this may prove useful soon...
If you're interested in similar techniques, check out Halhi's well technique, which works by using a minifigure life saver and 1x1 plates with horizontal clips. You can also adapt that technique to get a slightly larger circle using technic steering wheels.
Day 7 is coming soon!
Click here for more days of Technique Week and and here for previous techniques.
Theme of The Week - Autobiography in 4 Parts, Ch 4
We grow up, we move away, we come back.
We lie, we get lied to, we lie to ourselves.
We're happy, we're sad.
We go on adventures, we stay on the couch.
we fail, we succeed
42... the meaning of life
Ahh! Thank you thank you thank you so much you guys! In my latest picture: "Say, I love you!" I got over 300 views!
Oh my gosh. I am forever grateful. I love all my contacts and followers. <3
Okay so other than the amazingness I've had a pretty nice week this week. Hehe. Other than coming back to school since Spring Break is over.
I got a haircut today. Right after school since we came out early today. Yeepee! :D It looks really nice. I added some volume to my hair which it needed. :] I hope everyone has a nice day. Thanks again. ^.^
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