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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!
For the very first time, the Abode of Divine Mother rejoiced an entire week as the whole ashram filled with so many sweet offspring. Wherever you looked, there were babies, toddlers, courageous pregnant women and amazingly open-minded parents and kids from all over the world who came (some for the first time) to spend their holidays together in an unusual and, for many, a very new environment. A daily schedule was created to be appropriate for parents, school-age and kindergarten kids. Activities such as puja, yajna, Bhagavad Gita games, Mother Earth meditation, bhajan singing, dancing, sharing, free time and games showed that spirituality on the bhakti path is not something boring, but brings fun, joy and learning too. The stone for a new era has been laid and is now waiting to be built upon! Jai Gurudev
bhaktimarga.org
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!
Theme Of The Week - Inspired by your country
I'm cheating this week with a few pictures I took on vacation back in 2014.
Most people call it the Statue of Liberty, but her real name is
"Liberty Enlightening the World"
Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
The Brobecks
May 1st, 2013
@ Amplyfi, Los Angeles
If reposting on any other website leave credit to "Katie Kettenring" and link to this page!
The Apple - a metaphor for an object of desire
Olympus E-30
1/250 sec at f/14
ISO 200
OLYMPUS 12-60mm Lens
35 mm
Copyright 2011 Ben Gethin
Strobist info:
YN460-II (1/64 power) placed in the back of the apple that has been hollowed out to take the flash head and triggered with PT-04 trigger.
Apple placed on a 40cmx40cm black polished porcelain tile for the reflection.
A smarter, cleaner setup than mine can be found at flic.kr/p/54bmuh
Week 40 - 14-21 October 2015
Shot of the Gold Coast at night from the hotel room at some ungodly hour of the morning. What a sight? More next week.
OK so here goes. I never thought it would be so hard to answer just a few questions:
1. Favourite word: (Forgive me, I can't pick only one...) Hope. Possibility. Magic. Grace.
2. Least Favourite Word: Inflammation.
3. What Turns You On? Nature, the power of intuition, great food,
4. What Turns You Off? Aggressive drivers, selfishness,
5. What sound do I love? My daughter's squeaky laugh. birdsong.
6. What sound do I hate? Angry voices.
7. What is my favourite curse word? Bloody Hell.
8. What profession other than mine would I like to attempt? Writer
9. What profession would I not like to do? Sanitation engineer (the utility company has been working on the drain outside my house this week...and whew! boy do those guys have my respect.)
10. If heaven exists, what would I like to hear God say when I arrive? You did good.
The aquascape has been through a massive algae attack, but a 3 day blackout and the removing of some leaves seemed to solve the problem. Now it's running low-light (2x18 W, 6 hours a day) for a couple of weeks, and i also raised the amount of fertilizers. We'll see what happens...
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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
Theme Of The Week - Nothing in Focus
The London Eye from the back of a taxi on the Westminster Bridge
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!
Struggling to get out this week due to shifts bla bla bla , so have to make do with an old shot I took of some Dippers on the river Lyne.
This week i sewed some more nice pillows for kids. The embroidery design is called "loulou girls and big boys" made by kunterbunt-design. I love the little knight with his hobby horse :)
NOLCHA FASHION WEEK PRESENTED BY RUSK.
FASHION+CULTURE+ATTITUDE. NEWYORKCITY,CHELSEA PIERS AT STUDIO 59. RUNWAY SHOW. DESIGNERS BY JUNGWON,GABRIELLE ARRUDA,NINA ATHANASIOU,L.CATHERINE LONDON,DANY TABET. PHOTOGRAPHER ALEXMARTINEZ-ALEXMTZPHOTOS.
Yes, a fifty two week project. I will finish it, I promise.This was taken on the first week of January, so it counts, right? :D
I swear I just love my manual mode, I usually would NEVER use it, I was always afraid of screwing up, I now think I have really improved, what do you say?
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 23/52
Theme: Fashion
2013 Ellenburg Project 52
I struggled to come up with some ideas for this week. I stared at my closet hoping something would come to me. Ultimately I decided on a classic and my favorite, my denim jacket. I've had it for years and it never goes out of style...well, not in my mind at least.
I went to the Christmas market in Essen with Tim's mother and her partner. We visited the Primark and I bought way too much stuff. It was so much fun! :) Look at all those Christmas lights, it was SO pretty!
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.
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)
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.