Feeling largely devoid of ideas today. Took this on my way home from work. Must find an excuse to get inside the McEwan Hall for photo a day purposes at some point.

FD with a round thing! Someone stopped his car and asked if I'm alright ... oops! I apologized shortly, was not in the condition to talk more, as I just left the dentist who extracted a wisdom tooth.

HF:DT!

We went on a nice run together, which is a big deal since I run only half as fast as James. But I kicked ass on the downhill parts....

I thought a photo of a tree would be boring. So here is a pony in a forest.

I helped prepare the elements for communion before the Ash Wednesday service this evening. This looked too good not to get a few photos.

I was in the process of taking a series of shots down a city centre street into the sunshine that was glinting off the road surface (here: www.flickr.com/photos/sdm1798/8543156158/in/photostream) when Steve , who was sat in a doorway just behind me, struck up a conversation. After showing him the pictures I had taken he agreed to let me take his photo.

the legend in innovation yeaaaaaaaaah !

Aperol Spritz. It's time to celebrate afternoons when the sun is still up and spring is in the air.

I'm not sure exactly why I put turquoise eyeliner on my lips, but I thought it would do for an interesting photo, even though I wasn't able to Photoshop it the way I wanted it.

I didn't go to work today because I was sick :-( I have to take this awful-tasting medicine called Smecta...

I'm pretty sure I speak for most brides when I say that the wedding day can feel like a great big step off a very high cliff. After months of planning and stressing to make sure you get everything exactly right, when the big day comes all you can do is close your eyes and leap - figuratively at least.

In some ways it is a huge plunge into the unknown.

I have to say I took a very conventional approach to the big day. Church wedding with my Dad walking me down the aisle, three bridesmaids and a bouquet with purple irises and lilies. The organ and trumpets blared as we left the church to the sounds of Trumpet Voluntary.

All very nice. All very conventional, just how I wanted it.

Just right will be different for every couple. Today Stef and Simmo took taking the plunge very literally throwing themselves off the Kangaroo Point Cliffs on harnesses.

They stopped half way down and with a crowd waiting at the base of the cliff recited their vows before kissing and descending the rest of the way.

The groom cried, the bride beamed and the crowd cheered.

It's what the couple, who met abseiling exactly four years ago today, wanted and it was what they got.

"Since being with you, my eyes have never strayed. They never will," Stef said. "You have the ability to motivate me without nagging. You've made me write lists for God's sake. You're my 3.14, you're my salty buttery goodness, you're my one and only and I love you."

In reply, Simone said. "As we hang here today I want to tell you the top five reasons why I love you.

1) You inappropriate chicken dancing at Coles

2) Your pickiness about crisp vegetables

3) For being a germaphobe about our bathroom but overlooking our unwashed bed sheets

4) For never farting in front of me despite your renowned farting skills and

5) for still letting me eat peanuts regardless of your anaphylaxis. So for these reasons and many more I vow to keep you as my one and only lover. To be together until we are old saggy and senile, until we are unable to recognise each other but still fall in love every morning at the nursing home breakfast table eating our bowls of Coco Pops. I love you so much and can't wait to start a family and have lots of little chicken dancing babies together."

subtil

Day 68:

Saturday nights are my favorite time part of the week, but

Sundays can be just as good, especially during football season.

I’ve been teaching Sheri how to play the game and she’s really

enjoying watching with me. So today that is pretty much all

we’ve done aside from catching up on shows that we missed

during the week.

It was such a nice, relaxing day and a beautiful one as well.

While Sheri was taking a short nap a little while ago, I decided

to do my photo. I got a little experimental with fire and of course

it’s not a smart thing to play with fire indoors, but since Sheri was

asleep, I figured I could get away with it. :D

Not exactly what I wanted, but it I liked the smoke.

Click here for more into "The world of Gummy Bears".

in my hair there are tweezers, several SD and CF cards, Marie's glasses, and much, much more...

22 degree solar halo

(aka day 68-365 Year 5)

I took a huge delay in the posting of my daily photos but they were all made in time and I'm working to catch up...

Four of my photos were exhibited at the third festival “Photo of Women” of Alfortville. “Dark Angel” won the 2nd prize in the category “Black & White”.

Comments & tips are welcomed. Thanks.

Today I feel fine, but I know well the feelings of being smothered: by expectations, by fears, by others, by life. Wanting to break free but feeling trapped. Wanting release but feeling only tension.

I tried to capture that sense here...

The mapping of my surgically-induced epidermal numbness continues…as does my sensory discombobulation. The region is numb to touch and temperature, but not pressure.

One day a few weeks back, I wore tube socks (circa racquetball days) and THAT was a confusing day. A part of the numb patch was compressed and the other part not, and my jeans rubbed against my leg and induced different sensations on the regular skin and exerted varying pressures against the socked numb part versus the un-socked part. These, in addition to all the strange feelings already emanating from that region--to describe it as a sensory overload would be an understatement. NO to tube socks.

Taking this photo felt unpleasant. Sitting on a virtual toilet is not a thing that I will do again willingly. Bearing my massiveness at such an angle hurts the front of my knee (the sliced & diced patellar tendon) and knee cap. My physical therapist says (as I understand/reinterpret it) that quadricep weakness (some medialis muscle) can cause the patella to not float or track smoothly in its groove, so that can lead to pain. I imagine things are grinding in there--lots and lots of erosion, increased shore break, less fun for the body surfers, unless they want to eat sand. I stopped reading three days ago, so these vague speculations are all you will get from me. What I got out of this? Further substantiation that I have a weak left quadricep. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

The cutaneous numbness persists, but is perhaps seemingly shrinking. Sense my uncertainty and fear of human error. It is day 68, and my skin exhibits about 38.6 square cm of numbness, a net decrease of 23.6 square cm in the last four weeks. Beneath this non-feelingness resides the weird zappy, ripping, tingly, bruisey, pokey, irrational sensations.

365 Days - day sixty-eight.

whoops. i've been slacking this week. been busy.

the appointment on monday didn't go well. ginger, may have torn a ligament. so she may need to have surgery. the vet said it'll cost $1200-$1300. i don't have pet insurance, so i am unable to pay for her medical bills. my parents want to get a second opinion before they shell out $1300, so they're going to take my dog to UC Davis school of Veterinary Medicine. problem is we have to wait until may 1st to call them back in order to make an appointment. hopefully they'll have something available, because ginger is in pain.

god, i feel so bad for my dog. i feel like crying every time i look at her. because she's unable to run and play with her buddy, kujo, without being in pain. she only has access to three of her four legs. thankfully she has pain medicine, but that may run out soon.

but anyway, again i apologize for the lack of pictures this week. i have to commute from home to sacramento monday through thursday now. my uncle and aunt's hot water heater is broken and doesn't plan on getting fixed (anytime soon). in addition to that, i've been swamped with tons of homework/projects/exams/papers.

what else? i got the BMP - old love/new love package. sadly i didn't get them at the mall like how i planned. a whole bunch of folks got turned away. so i bought them online. they should be here by tuesday. i can't wait!

ok, gtg. i need to get back to studying for my child development exam.

I've been feeling a bit uncreative with my 365's and needed some new ideas. Being in a different environment helped some with that. One day down, 297 to go. How far in advance do you start thinking of what your next 365 shot will be?

For 365, NGWC, Nikon Girls, and Just Shots.

This is for today's picture and now I'm caught up, woo :D

RMRG Contenders vs. FOCO Microbruisers happened tonight at the Roller Dome in Denver. FOCO took home a hard fought win. This ended up being my pic of the night chosen from about eight others I could have put here.

Day 68. Rolling hard!

A lycra and spice sculpture by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. Smelt very odd. Unfortunately, I had the wrong lens with me really, so I couldn't capture its scale...

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Taken on my walk home from my last day of class. Yay!

Day 68: "near to far". This is a view of Paris from the dome of the "Basilique du Sacré Cœur de Montmartre". The weather was gorgeous (almost a summer day) but unfortunately a bit foggy. Fantastic view anyway!

Shot with Fujifilm X-E1 + 18-55 mm

for his past couple of feedings, eric had started to increasingly behave in a way that i interpreted to mean that he was getting tired of having a bottle - closing his mouth, pursing his lips, blocking the bottle with his toungue etc. usually when this happens, the nurses are quick to "gavage" him ( feed him via a tube ), with the explanation that it's best to get his feeding done quick so he has enough time to digest his food.

tonight, when i was feeding him and he hadn't taken a sip in ten minutes, i started to signal to his nurse that maybe it was time gavage him.

i noticed that nurse marlene had been watching me closely while i was feeding; she walked over and gingerly picked up eric but to my surprise, instead of putting in a tube, she started to whisper to him that she had a lot of faith that he knew exactly what he needed to do to eat. and much to my suprise, in about five seconds, eric was guzzling away.

nurse marlene is the archetypal nurse caregiver. if you close your eyes and imagine the most grandmotherly of grandmotherly nurses and you'll likely being envisioning nurse marlene. her white, couffed hair, bifocals and ageing hands betray the fact that she's been nursing for quite some time and all that experience translates into the thousand little things that she's doing which result in an easy bottlefeeding.

she very sensitively explained to me all the things i was doing wrong. most obviously, she sits him up, while tilting his head back. i often lay him along my forearm, while holding his head with my hand, which tends to tilt his head foreward making it more difficult for the milk to go down.

she also showed me a great technique for getting the bottle nipple past his tongue. he likes to put his tongue on the roof of his mouth and pretend that he's sucking, but in reality he's just playing with the bottle. nurse marlene showed me how put the bottle in his mouth so that the nipple touches the inside of his cheek and then she swoops it past his tongue.

as if that weren't enough, i'm also being far too timid about putting the nipple all the way in his mouth. apparently, my fears of gagging him are vastly overblown.

I love the taste of pizza. Especially when it has pepperoni, sausage and no specialty items on it.

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Just brought home some custom framed orders for my exhibit in May... more info about that will be revealed VERY soon!! :)

Cousin It.

so, every family has their christmas traditions, and my family is no different...but our traditions might be a little different from yours...first of all, my 16 year old sister wakes us all up at 6am, then we go downstairs...usually, there's an open present for each of us, to occupy our time for a while, and we can look at our stockings...at 7am we're allowed to "wake" my parents who have been pretending to sleep. this year, they didn't bother pretending, they just came down and we started opening gifts almost right away...we do a couple of rounds of "everyone open one gift" and then we switch to free for all... after we've opened everything and played with our toys for a little bit, we have a family breakfast, and start getting ready for our day... we pack our bags and head to indianapolis to spend the next two days with my dad's side of the family...the whole thing... we drive to indy, leaving around 11:30 and arriving around 2 chicago time...we're the first ones there after the aunt, uncle and cousins who live there and my grandparents who spend the week there. as the day goes on, the rest of the family starts showing up. all told, we're 23 people and two dogs (mine stays home). this picture was snapped in the entry way of the house that used to be my grandparent's and now belongs to my aunt and uncle

constructive criticism welcome

Day 68 went not so great. I comfused out of my mind with softball, homework, school and other small things. My brother having huge problems and stuff and don't want to think of right know, didn't help me any. I just fell retarted during softball, and then having to be the heaviest girl on the team and finding pant botton that fit right and finding out the zipper does work and a team member mom is fixing that for me. So I not everything is working out for me. Hopely monday will go well.

But I am happy to get my timbuk2 bag though. Its a metro.

"She in the mirror dancing so sleezy, i get a call like "where are you yeezy?"" ;P

I love Kayne West

Please DONT use my work without permission KTHNX

Fine silver, sterling silver. Hollow

Rainy Saturday night. Waiting for my son to come home on the Mega Bus. Had a few minutes to grab a shot downtown. This is Crusoe Umbrella by Claes Oldenberg in downtown Des Moines. A great rainy evening that needed a large umbrella.

3.9.13

March 8th, Day 68

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. -Russell Baker

We're counting down the days, finishing up some Christmas shopping, errands, and making an itinerary for our trip…and hoping we don't look like this when we get there!

…an alternate name for this shot was "What!…Yeah!… Okay!… Lil Jon goes to Scotland."...hahahaha

Strobists:

AB800 camera front left, 4ft and approx. 30 degrees in front of me in collapsed reflective umbrella @1/4.

AB400 2ft from the background with 7" reflector @ 1/32

White reflector camera front right less than a ft away from me just out of frame.

1/100 @F/8 ISO 200

Nikkor 80-200mm 1:2.8D

Triggered with Cybersync

see setup

this week it's all about hitting the ground running to get it all done.

still, 10 really good things right now:

1. look how sunny it is outside! this, after crazy weather here in the tri-state area.

2. it's 58 degrees!

3. i'm going solo to seattle on thursday for a long weekend with good friends.

4. friday morning we're going to the woods along the puget sound to meet more friends.

5. there's a labyrinth at the lodge where we're staying.

complete non-sequiteur...

6. vanilla caramel with dark chocolate and sea salt.

7. my favorite hot pink cords.

8. crocus are busting out of the ground everywhere and the magnolia trees have buds!

9. my family is going to california in 15 days.

10. the promise of mexican food and in n' out burger.

Day 68/365

Strawberry, bokeh, fork...what more can I write here?

VK

Today, due to bad weather & me attending the Twin Cities Auto Show, I photographed the first thing I can find on the way home & I found two Metro Transit buses: one older (left) and one newer (right).

Bus #1048 (Route 74, left) and 1112 (Route 84, right).

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Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, chapter 1. Blogged at apinnick.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/season-of-darkness/

Brought my electric to school.

Now I can play RATM right.

... and snipe my roommates.

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