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Week 41
This week I decided to try something a little different. I took something I had written and attempted to make it into a photo... I was fairly pleased with it, let me know what you think!
"My pillow is too hot, I should flip it over. The neighbors next door are fighting again. This time I guess he forgot to take out the garbage. I can hear almost every word through the paper thin walls, "I told you right before I left specifically because it's too heavy for me..." Blah blah blah. It's already 2AM, I'm so tired but for some reason I can't close my eyes. The main street outside my apartment window isn't busy but every so often a car roars by just loud enough to bug me. Oh, there goes a truck now. I can even hear planes flying and trains blowing their horns every few hours. The silence between the disturbances make them seem more significant than they really are.
My eyes have adjusted so well to the moonlight squeezing through my blinds it could be daylight, I wouldn't even know. I have always had trouble sleeping at night, and probably always will. When I was little I would walk out of my room an hour after my mom had put me to sleep and complain that I wasn't tired. My mom would then ask me if I had tried closing my eyes and I would think back, only recalling studying how the moonlight touched everything in my room and think that I must not have tried closing my eyes and return to my room without another word.
So I tried this now, closing my eyes. It's never really worked before so I don't know why it would now, but I'm desperate. The shouting from my neighbors pierced my silence, almost causing me to wince. I thought about them, the cars, about work and life. I noticed my eyes were open yet again and I shut them instantly. After rolling over multiple times to get comfortable I decided to turn on the radio to keep me from thinking about life and to possibly keep a constant noise and maybe even drown out everything else.
I begrudgingly left my warm sheets to cross the room to the radio. The cool air hit me like a brick and it took all of my strength to not return to my blankets. My feet screamed on the cold carpet and I dragged myself to the window just to make certain it was closed. It was. I then turned to my alarm clock which I had strategically placed on the opposite side of the room so that in the morning I was forced to get out of bed to stop the angry beeping. The clock was already set to my favorite station and some smooth guitar chords started swimming through my head. I turned down the volume so it was just loud enough to keep the cars and couple at bay.
I crossed the room again to my bed which had become cold in my absence. The rough voice of a man with a broken heart joined the guitar, adding a new color to the music. I thought about him, what was real in his story and what was fiction. Do we all exaggerate? Just a little bit, I'm sure. We, as people, like things to sound good..."
Thank you!
The big news of the week is that Olive has started sleeping 12-13 hours a night. While we're super excited that we now know she's capable of it, we'd love to see a little more consistency. Ah well, one day.
Her little personality continues to blossom. She's become very silly this week. She loves to tilt her head to the side and grin wildly. It's ridiculously cute. She also loves when daddy hangs her upside down and bounces her crazily on his knee. She has been much more confident in her voice this week. We took her to Target one night and she sat in the cart and babbled loudly. Luckily everyone around us thought she was adorable and not annoying (or at least that's what they said).
The biggest change this week is how well she's mastered finger foods. She loves to pick up steamed bits of apple and sweet potato and eat them. She's definitely starting to chew her food which means we give her a lot more table food. She still loves to eat and can put away a ton of food now. Her current favorites are apple sauce and pumpkin that Ryan flavors with brown sugar, maple syrup, nutmeg and cinnamon. Our girl eats well!
Week of Women panel discussion and networking event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London, 17 November 2016.
This week's challenge was to shoot an image SOOC. I'm used to doing a minor tweak or two to most of my shots. If I had my druthers, I would have done a slight crop to eliminate the dark corner in the lower right.. But I would not have made any other changes.
This was one of the best Ferris wheels - the light patterns were just awesome and I found a shorter exposure allowed me to capture more interesting light patterns.
Week 33/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Anticipation"
"Anticipation" ~ def: visualization of a future event or state
As it turns out, this has definitely been a week of much anticipation and anxiety for us. My son in law was waiting for news on a job that will ultimately relocate him, my daughter and grandkids to Georgia. Wednesday they received the news that it was a go. I sit here still today with such mixed feelings and emotions. I am entirely happy for them since it will provide such a better opportunity, but saddened that they will be that much farther from us. Because even though they didn't live around the corner from us, they were only 3 1/2 hours away as opposed to 8 hours now. But, I cannot help but feel excitement and anticipation for them in their new venture.
Don and I got up this morning to watch the sunrise. I decided just last night that I really wanted this shot for this week, don't know exactly why. Symbolic maybe to a new sunrise (beginnings) for my daughter and her family. But here it is.....a beautiful morning on Daytona Beach I share with you all..........with a hug.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!
Irela
xoxoxo
Canon 5DMii: Lens Canon 24-70L; ISO100; f5.6: 24mm; 1/400; WB~Kelvin
On tripod; Very "light" adjustment in LR
52.Weeks: The 2014 Edition "The 7 Deadly Sins"
I take so much Pride in my image making that not even being in ICU can stop me from making and editing images. I'm processing the studio stills for my next short documentary film.
Mobile Processing · RX100M3 > #EyeFiCard Mobi > Galaxy S3 > VSCO Cam > Add Watermark
Theme Of The Week - Nothing in Focus
The London Eye from the back of a taxi on the Westminster Bridge
Since last Polaroid Week I got a new position at my work which doesn't give me as much desk time therefore less time to get up take a walk the the sole purpose of taking photos. So with this past week being rather busy and/or poor weather and the fact I didn't realize it was Polaroid week until Wednesday...I managed to get some instant shooting in on the Friday! And having ten sheets of Type 72 (the unopened box of Type 55 is being used this summer) I went out and got five shots, not bad for ten year expired instant film, but one fogged on the one side I learned, you have to make sure your 545 back is nice and snug when shooting it with an Intrepid camera.
Intrepid 4x5 - Fuji Fujinon-W 1:5.6/125 - Polaroid Type 72 @ ASA-400
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2015)
For this week I have a really bad quality capture.
I am so sorry for the lack of comments and posts. This week I'll catch up and continue to post once a week, as I used to.
Arthur is having some healthy problems lately.
First an otitis (an inflammation in both ears - I don't know if that translation is correct 'cause for that I used Google. Please, if it's not, let me know). I started the medications a couple of weeks ago and it should be healed by now but he still cries when I touch his ears. Or even when he itches.
Then, a week ago or so he woke up with a little something in the inner conner of his right eye... Like an allergy. Red and slithgly swollen. I'm using eye drops, but isn't working either.
And last but not least, just now we came back from our last walk of the day, as usual, and he was fine. I did everything I always do: changed his water and filled his bowl with food. He ate and went for his every-second-minute-hour nap. A few minutes later, he woke up and was limping (again, only translation I found, idk if it is the right one). I thought he was with the "sleeping" leg, like we do sometimes when stay in a wrong position. But then I tried to touch it and he cried. I still did some "exercises" with his leg, but couldn't find the reason of the pain. He can stand up, but then he won't move from there because he can't touch the floor with the right leg. If he starts to walk, kinda drag his leg. I'm really worried about that, especially because he never showed any sign of pain ou anything before. It was totally unexpected.
Tomorrow I'll take him to the vet to see what it is and take care of the other two problems as well. Hopefully won't be anything serious, but my heart is coming out of my mouth. Hate to see my little boy in pain and not be able to help him.
Anyway... Hope you guys have a great week!
Project 52 2013, Week9
Strobist Info: Nikon SB-26 bare camera left @ 1/32 power, Nikon SB-26 bare camera right @ 1/64 power.
week of February 12th, 2011
This week has been crazy busy, but it's opening night for my the musical I am in at our school. :)
week of January 15th, 2012
Chicago!
I attempted to copy instagram style haha
The date thing in my camera is off by a day....
Day 6 - Thursday, 7th August 2014
MALAIKA (GBR3900N) - Grand Soleil 39
OLD MOTHER GUN (GBR626R) - Humphreys one-off
LOCALLETTERBOX ZERO II (IRL39000) - Mills 39 Custom
SOLENT EVENTS - HURRICANE (SWE450) - Elan 450
I am considering this one for Week 4 theme for delicate. Not sure if I like the composition but I do like how the petals look like the red is paint brushed.
I swear that in the last week or so, Olive turned two. All of the sudden she's climbing the tallest slide at the playground and going down it all on her own. She didn't cry at drop off either day this week. She hugged Ryan's leg, said goodbye and was off. That was huge!
Her school brought in Children's Theatre of Charlotte to perform Balloonacy this week. Since she wasn't going to be in school the day it was performed, the three of us took off early from gymnastics to see it. She sat in my lap, still as a church mouse during the entire 40 minute performance. Occasionally, she would point or turn back to me to make a comment about what she was seeing but other than that, she didn't stir. I was amazed and so proud of her behavior. It was fun to see her understand and follow along with the play. I know Ryan got excited for all the plays and movies in their future.
Our friends Greg and Katya sent a sweet care package to her this week and to my surprise, she spent as much time carefully unwrapping everything as she did playing with the goodies inside. She hasn't seen a wrapped present since her birthday and it was fun to see her totally get the concept. Made me really excited for the holidays!
I keep telling Ryan that "what's this" must be the 20 month version of a 3-year-old's "why." It's all we hear, all day long. Sometimes she genuinely doesn't know what something is but sometimes it feels like she's quizzing us. "What's this?" she'll ask as she musses her hair. "Your hair," we'll tell her and she'll nod at us with a slight smile.
The biggest way I know she's truly growing up is that we can now successfully rationalize with her. She's still rear facing in her car seat and lately it's become a big battle. She doesn't want to be in her car seat and she wants to see what's in front of her. She wants to see us and she wants to be able to communicate with us more easily while in the car. It's frustrating for all of us but it's especially frustrating while in a parking lot with a toddler that is too old and too strong to simply bend into place.
Lately I've talked her through why she needs to get into her car seat. We'll discuss how we're hungry and what we want to eat. I'll explain that we can't get to an activity or see our friends until we get in the car. Maybe it shouldn't but it amazes me to see her think through her options, visualize something that isn't in front of her or immediate and still make a rational decision. We've been able to successfully have this conversation even when I've allowed her to get completely worked up.
The Spanish Language and Culture class participated in a Photo Scavenger Hunt they designed to practice the use of the imperative mood in Spanish.
week 13.
what beautiful weather we've had this week, shame ive been working :o( as i finish early on a wednesday (5pm), me and alex went to sit up on the moors (which is like 3 mins behind our house), its beautiful up there, so peaceful :o) we took a drink up with us and sat chatting :o)
had a little scare at work when a lady told me a guy was filling up his bag at the front of the shop, i caught him stealing a bag full of packs of kit kats, i grabbed the bag off him and told him to leave, we then took all the kit kats out of the bag and at the bottom of the bag was a smaller bag filled with drugs and syringes, and his coat. it was then i realised 'oh my god ive just stolen his drugs'!! eekk!! i started panicking thinking he was gonna come back after me.... we had so many shoplifters in that day, luckily we were all on the ball and caught them at it :o)
stacy made me laugh with her 'fringe headache' hehe :o)
walking dead and crossed came yesterday woohoo :o)
met alex after work and we went for a meal at the brown cow in bingley, oh so yummy food :o)
now we plan to have a lazy, pamper day aahhh :o)
Olive met Santa on Saturday and we were lucky enough to share the experience with her grandparents. She was, in keeping with her personality, skeptical of the whole thing, though she did not cry. As we walked away, she did her typical crawl higher on my chest to get a better look at the man she was just sitting atop of. Those raised eyebrows kill me every time. Before Santa, she sat on Ryan's shoulders and watched a mini performance of the Nutcracker. She was mesmerized and sat still and watching for 20 solid minutes. She looked over at me at one point and their was literally drool coming from her mouth, she was so steady in her concentration on what was happening before her.
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On the way to a playdate on Friday a friend texted me, "Have you heard about the school shooting?" I turned on CNN in the car and the awful details came flooding in. I cried, of course. My baby, my one-day-Kindergartner, was in the backseat. I thought about presents already wrapped under the tree, dresses hanging in a closet waiting for next summer, trips planned for when she's "a little bit older."
I thought about how, just that week, I'd made fun of people who say, "I can't remember life without my baby." I quipped back, "Oh, I remember that life. I can totally imagine what life would be like without her."
Listening to CNN, crying for those sweet babies, I realized that what I meant was I can remember life before Olive. But no, I can not imagine life without her. When we arrived at our friend's house, I took Olive out of her carseat and stood in that driveway for a long time just holding her close. Not since her early newborn days had she felt so precious, so fragile in my arms.
In the days that passed, I'd find myself exasperated by Olive's whining and I'd remind myself, those parents would give anything to listen to their child whine again. I'd like to say that the reminder would make me present and thankful but I believe in being honest, so I will not.
Olive is pressing on her boundaries and testing her autonomy. She's so mad at a body that is not as capable as her mind. She has two fangs (teeth 9 & 10) that are bulging painfully at the top of her gum line. I don't enjoy the days when she whines endlessly and nothing makes her happy. I get frustrated by her clinginess and dissatisfaction with a life she seemed previously pretty happy with.
But, oh am I grateful that I have been given the gift of more days with her.
Monday 10th December- Monday 17th December
The week that time stood still...
After having arrived home last Sunday, the week just past was pretty boring if I'm honest. I loved being home, I enjoyed the change and everything but in comparison to having all the uni work I felt like I had nothing to do. Don't get me wrong, I need the break, I worked to the point of being ill, but the week was just a tad empty. The weekend was lovely though. Lots of riding, exercise on a bike, seeing my boyfriend, hot baths and even more birthday presents! (I swear I'll be 22 by the time these celebrations are over!) The idea was great though, 21 presents around the house, one for each year. So much fun!
This image was taken on one of the long days in the middle of the week where I had lots of time to kill. I'm pretty happy with it!
Christmas next week everyone! Wooo!!!
Missed last week b/c of my insane work schedule. I had some IEP stuff to work on that kept me at work until 6 or 7pm most evenings (the kids leave at 2:05), and then had to rush home to do wedding editing that I'd fallen behind on. I didn't sleep much.
17/52 - 52 Weeks of Jedi
I had promised Jedi a soft serve ice-cream from McDonalds if he ever got his title in CCD Obedience.
Today, I had to pay up! He scored his 3rd and final pass with 92/100 and placed 3rd! What a good boy!
He sure enjoyed that ice cream... Little does he know, it was a one off!
26 weeks! i'm looking more and more pregnant all the time.
top is from goodwill. cords are old navy maternity. best shoes ever from salvation army.
The maternity selection at Goodwill is pretty sparse and mostly crappy, but I figure even if I find a few gems it's worth it to stop in weekly. I have been having a big hang up lately about getting dressed. Even though I'm pregnant I still want to look like myself, you know? So this top was a great find. totally Katie. nice fall colors, too.