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Week 30 - 29 July - 5 August 2015
More fun with double exposures. Was thinking of posting stuff from Melbourne Open House this year, but that's on another album.
Anyway, this late posting is another of the few "Double Exposure" shots I've been playing with. More next week.
Estas dos cartas ya están listas para ser enviadas. Solo falta meterlas en sus sobres y echarlas al correo. Saldrán bien pronto y espero que a sus destinatarias les gusten <3.
¿Alguno de vosotros está participando en el 52 weeks of mail? Si la respuesta es afirmativa, yo aún sigo buscando a gente para intercambiar correspondencia... así que si os interesa, dadme un toque por aquí ♥
Me at 32 weeks. I'd be good with just a few more weeks and then I think I'm ready. :) Baby shower is this weekend!
Not sure why the quality turned out so crappy on this.
Having looked forward so much to this SOOC week I ended up with only a few hours yesterday to take my shot. I was lucky enough in the end to have several shots from which to choose. I finally returned to this one - a land/seascape shot of the area where I live.
Basically, this is the view (weather dependent, of course) that greets me on the train home from work each evening. On the right is Killiney beach which looks out over Killiney Bay - the adopted home of a small pod of 3 dolphins. Occasionally I spot the dolphins from the train as they frolic about in the bay. On the left in the distance is Bray Head in the shadow of which is the town of Bray where I live. To the right of this you can see the Little Sugarloaf and Big Sugarloaf mountains. These are the gateway to the Wicklow Mountains - one of the most scenic areas in Ireland.
From the several shots on my short list, I chose this one because it is absolutely SOOC with no need of any pre- or post editing as the camera really did capture what I was seeing at the time with the naked eye and I believe that no software or processing could improve on this view that I am privileged to have on my doorstep.
Victorian Country Week .Yarrawonga Lawn Tennis Club on Monday, February 13, 2023. MANDATORY PHOTO CREDIT TENNIS AUSTRALIA/FIONA HAMILTON
I had a perfect picture planned for this weeks ago. My plan was to go to a field with a little girl or boy and capture some great pictures of them holding a bunch of very colorful balloons. Well, Mother Nature had other ideas. We were hit with a few inches of snow during our "Spring Break". My husband, kids and I all built this snowman and I do have to say it is the best snowman we've ever made. We had a balloon in the house that I attached to his stick arm for balloon week. Definitely thinking outside the box on this one :)
To BabyHoeft: I spend a lot of my time wondering what you are going to look like kiddo. We heard your heartbeat yesterday, and it sounded awesome! The midwife said you were perfect, but lets be serious, you are my child after all! It is hard to imagine that someday you will be all grown up and I will be old, and feel like everything went by so fast. You are already growing so fast. Take it easy.
So, how does one prepare for the greatest challenge of their life? What makes a good parent? What makes a bratty kid? Spanking or no spanking? McDonalds? Wendys? Organic? Sports? School districts? Will they think I am awesome? There are Grand Canyons filled to the brim with questions like this flowing in a Nile sized river through my mind. Constantly. And there are no answers. For some reason they don’t bother me though. The questions fly by in a continuous stream, effortlessly. And I find myself jumping from one to the next as quickly as they get thrown at me. Never worrying about the never ending deep beneath all of these questions, that is waiting for me to trip. But enough about me.
We get to SEE BabyHoeft again on tuesday! That is going to be awesome. We are still not finding out the gender. I get really excited when I think about the first time I know BabyHoeft is a Boy/Girl. I am going to have girl-boy Hats/Whistles/Cigars/lightsabers everything!
Anyways, Next week is the big 20! Half way! we are gonna have to do something epic. This week the weather kept us inside again, hopefully we get some warm weather for next week.
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)
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!
11/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Blue"
Oh he is BACK!!!
I was going with a totally different idea this week and the props are sitting on the counter since Sunday, but being that it is Thursday, I am at work, it's Tax Season and I have to pack tonight to travel Friday night (to Miami for two shoots), I have no choice but to grace you with Danbo the Robot!!! Heee-Heee.. I asked my nail girl to participate and she so graciously agreed. I picked the color blue because, 1) he is afterall a boy and 2) just in case I didn't get a chance to do my other idea. Good planning on my part...I would say!! LOL
Also, I am truly sorry I have not been able to comment on all your photos because, I always like to leave some love on all your awesome work. But, I will be lucky if I get through this week/weekend without losing my mind. LOL But I will most certainly leave some love...somewhere along the way.
Ok, must run.........Tax Returns to complete, Tax Extensions to file.
Oh and Happy Pi Day to All......Ooooooooooo Pie.......... :) :) :) :) :)
Irela
xoxoxox
Week of Women panel discussion and networking event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London, 17 November 2016.
Berlin, Germany - March 26 --- during the 2023 League of Legends EMEA Championship Series Spring Split at the LEC Studio on March 26 2023 in Berlin Germany (Photo by Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
Our 10 year old brindle boxer Duke was once the picture of high energy. In his youthful years he wouldn't hold still long enough to take a nap. Now, many years later he spends most of the day slumbering...with his tongue out. It's not the shot I wanted but I'm weeks behind and I had to use something just to get past this one and get caught up again.
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.
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
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
Theme Of The Week - Nothing in Focus
The London Eye from the back of a taxi on the Westminster Bridge
Project 52 2013, Week9
Strobist Info: Nikon SB-26 bare camera left @ 1/32 power, Nikon SB-26 bare camera right @ 1/64 power.
It’s the beginning of November and it’s quite chilly out. A cold rain began to drizzle as trick-or-treating was ending, knocking a lot of the color of the trees. Seasons in Charlotte tend to end abruptly or maybe that’s how it is everywhere when you don’t want to let go of the mild temperatures and blue skies of spring and fall.
The three of us have colds that refused to die when the month did. The time just changed and the nights seem so long and the sun so fleeting. Today I’m thinking about the calendar I’m about to write out. Olive brings an excitement to the change of seasons that wasn’t there before and also a busyness that can quickly turn to obligation.
It seems like every November Olive goes through a stormy period and then by December she’s back to being more even tempered and cooperative. I wonder if she can sense the busyness of the season, too.
We had a wonderful Halloween. We were so lucky to have my parents come up and trick-or-treat with us. Olive has been asking all month, “Is it Halloween time? Is it Halloween?” When she woke up on the 31st and we exclaimed “Happy Halloween!” she said, “It’s light out. It’s not Halloween yet.”
She had a fun day at school and then ran errands with me after. We didn’t even attempt a nap. Instead, we carved all our “icky gooey” pumpkins and welcomed my mom and dad when they arrived. We had a quick dinner of chocolate chip waffles and fruit and then got Olive into her costume. She brought her baby “Carolina” who was also dressed as a pumpkin and loaded herself, her baby and her treat bag into the wagon.
She charged up the driveways of the first few houses and then told us that we could stand by the curb because she could do it by herself. A few houses had scary decorations but she was just curious about them and rarely got nervous. After traveling about 75% of our neighborhood, she requested to go home. She said she was ready to sit by the fire, look through her candy and drink hot cocoa.
Once we got home, she crunched through four or five lollipops before we told her that it was enough candy for one night. We watched the Curious George Halloween special that I Tivoed for her and then she was off to bed.
It was a fun, easy night. A few days later she helped Mimi and I take down all the Halloween decorations and told us that she was sad it was over. She asked a few times in the days after why it couldn’t be Halloween again. We assured her there would be a lot more fun and a lot more decorations in the months coming up.
I suspect she will think that the time between Valentine’s Day and Easter will be quite dull.
I invited some friends and we made a tasting of beer. We had ten different German beer types. When we tasted and rated the beer, we didn't know which kind of beer was in the cup. So we were open-minded and the rating was more convincing. And the result of the tasting is that the cheap beer isn't the worst and the expensive beer isn't the best.
Saturday 16.1.2010
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....
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.