I celebrated another birthday on the 28th. Lots of reflecting. Life's too short for the things that keep us from being our happiest. Going to try to change that this year. Less drama and negativity. More laughter, more celebrating, more joy and happiness.

Happy New Year ! Where did 2007 go? Off to 2008 we go. Have a happy and safe one my friends ! Muahs

Same Auld Lang SyneDan Fogelberg (RIP)

but still none the wiser!

© 2018 Sir Mehedi

The sun sets on another year...................

Ah, yet another unsuccessful shoot. This wasn't AT ALL what I was aiming for, as it were.

January 31st is my new friend Cecilia's birthday, and she wears warm neutral colors really well, so I thought I'd knit this great scarf for her- from a pattern found in elemmaciltur's photostream- in this fabulous hand-dyed dark green Manos de Uruguay yarn I had left over from another project. (get used to it- I'm the queen of the run on sentence). Coincidentally, my birthday is February 2nd (Ground Hog's Day- don't get me started on how awful it was to be a fat child whose birthday was that auspicious day), so I had this concept to entitle the shot "almost finished" as a double entendre about the project and the ending of my 53rd year.

BUT... the (I thought) great idea was to shoot up from the floor with a skew shot that would capture all of me but in a wildly disproportionate way. Well... it DID do that, but every shot I tried was essentially an unintelligible photo of my foot with nothing else making any sense whatsoever. OK, scratch that idea.

Next I thought I would take the shot from behind and above, with the same concept, except my head would be the foreground. Tried that about 10 shots, but re-setting the manual self-timer for so many mediocre shots got real old- especially since I was trying to keep knitting between the pushing of the buttons- for the verity of the shot. Nothing even vaguely useable.

Finally I settled on a more ordinary shot from the front. Only problem is... I didn't want to use the same backdrop I'd used on one of the previous shots. Now HERE is the ultimate problem. My housemate's father died recently and John brough a significant portion of the family furniture back home. To a house already full of furniture. So at the moment, the only rooms that aren't full of furniture floor-to-ceiling are my bedroom and my studio. Kinda hard to get differing vistas for shots when they're all taken in the same small, cramped, overstuffed, badly lit, cluttered space.

No matter what I did from the front, it looked too much like one of the earlier shots. Sigh. So finally, in desperation, I pulled the tripod so close to the chair that I was straddling the legs, and took a few more. This was the best of them. Still a bit cluttered- "noise" is what the professionals would say, eh?- but a little different. And I like the way the angle down makes my face look thinner than it is. Kinda the booby prize bonus.

Ironic, isn't it, that I have these really precise concepts, but always end up with the vague, fuzzy photos. Still a lotta room for improvement.

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I always find it sad when the decorations come down. It marks an end to not only the parties, good food and time spent with friends and family but also an end to the goodwill and general niceness that people exude during the holidays. Ah well, only 11 more months until we get to do it again.

This was shot with my new Lensbaby Muse. Not my usual kind of thing but I find the little plastic-lensed muse to live up to it's name. The dreamlike quality of the images produced by the little Muse really changes the way I look at things. When I use that lens I can see stories in the images that I would have otherwise missed. I like that. :)

Going away.