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Happy new year everyone! This year I am going to try and complete a photo a day project! After two failed attempts last year, I think I am prepared to try again.
here's to fresh starts and new beginnings
"the most beautiful rainbow and sunshine, comes after the worst storm."
This is how the early mornings looked like only three weeks ago. Now the trees are full in bloom and surround our flat with their lush green coats of leaves. Very different from our old place, and still good.
I've been giving the 365 Days project some thought, and I've decided to join. My reasons:
One, my muse has been fickle lately and photography hasn't been as satisfying to me as it used to be, and I believe that this project will force me outside some of my comfort zones into new modes of creativity and productivity. If I only have one subject and I have to find three hundred and sixty-five ways to make it unique and interesting, I'm hoping it will help.
Two, I like the challenge, and hope I can meet it.
Three, one of my goals is to become better at lighting and to learn as much as possible--particularly portrait lighting. While taking pictures of myself is kind of a pain in the rear as far as focusing and composition, at least I don't have to hassle anybody else to be patient enough to pose for me over and over until I get it right.
I wanted to start the project on New Year's Day because I think it will also help me with some other goals, and I wanted to start it with an image that makes me happy because I think starting anything on the right foot can help set the pace and direction for the whole course.
So here I am, ready for a new year, full of new challenges, new opportunities, and maybe, if I'm lucky, some new friends. Cheers!
My diary was used all through last year, and the camera is what I will be watching this year through. The goals are listed for the year ahead; 12 books piled up for the one per month, the rose representing the garden and the watch and apple for the exercise and healthy food. A reminder for myself for the rest of the year.
Out with the old and in with the new!! It was time to update my blog logo, as I don't think I've changed it in well over a year. And since I'm trying to devote more time to blogging, I needed something of a fresh start...
And yes, those are real birds! Ha ha!
May your mind be free of worry
so you are open to new possibilities.
May your body be unburdened
so you can dance with great joy.
May your spirit be light
so you can embrace life’s magic.
Wishing you peace, love and laughter
in the new year ahead.
With love and best wishes,
Maureen
. . intervenes.
. . with Flickr posting. Apologies for not having posted and not keeping in touch. I have been watching your postings from a "distance", and taking the easy way out - doing nothing. I've been busy, and that's no excuse, some of you guys are keen shooters, processors, posters, commenters AND you keep a balanced life with family.
Maybe I'm an old fart, or do too much, or work too hard, or had a young family late in life, or can't manage time, but I struggle to keep up with you guys - my contacts - whose streams are just simply fantastic.
I was going to post some "Americana" from a couple of recent visits to the US (4th July and all that).
But Thailand has just held an election, with Yingluck Shinawatra, a youngish attractive (politically inexperienced) woman emerging as Thailand's next prime minister. Congrats to her.
She is of Chinese ethnicity, not Thai, as most of Thailand's wealthy are, and she is, wealthy that is (despite the imbalanced and incorrect reporting of both BBC and CNN a year ago, claiming that the then political strife was a war of the have-not's against the haves, poor against rich, the deprived against "elite").
The clue is in her family name. Four syllables (or more) - Chinese. Two (or three syllables) - ethnic Thai (or Thai-Lao, or Thai Khmer, the people from Isaan who elected her).
If she is NOT the clone her brother (a deposed, former prime minister, who fled the country after being found corrupt by the highest judicial court of the land) says she is, she could well be the leading light Thailand needs.
Let's give her the chance (but keep those checks and balances in place).
the first picture I took of Corn Lily leaves on a hike to Hellroaring on Mt Adams has long been one of my most popular photographs on flickr. I'm always on the lookout for these plants, hoping to take another great photo, with my higher resolution camera. I love the GREEN and the lovely curves and lines and really love the misty water droplets.
a misty day in Paradise on Mt Rainier
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Goal:
To create a Series Graphic conveying that we are not defined by our mistakes or things that hold us back from having a deeper relationship with Jesus.
Audience:
The churched and unchurched
Direction:
Write out a bunch of negative stuff, erase it, then turn the eraser dust into the words "Fresh Start"
This is our new series for the beginning of the year about creating a clean slate and pressing the reset button on our lives.
I created this video by taking about 550 photos for a timelapse with a wireless remote (see the setup in the comments.)
Since this series corresponds with a 21 days of prayer, fasting, reading the Word as a church, and journaling (S.O.A.P.), I wanted this graphic to tie in all of those things and what people might be trying to rid themselves of in their lives.
Any feedback and comments are welcome!
Check out my new website:
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford
A self indulgent piece taken on my way home from a productive meeting about going back to uni to do a masters degree. This I suppose is slightly representative of a new beginning and in stark contrast to this one that i did when my last few days at work drew to a close....that was a dark and depressing time, now with some renewed purpose, the future certainly seems a brighter place.
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Olive was a bit reluctant to leave the party to do so..but I did tell her it was important that we wish all of our friends out in flickr land a wonderful, happy and proseperous New Year!!!
now back to the party.......
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Things of nature were some of Chris's favorites at the time. When I chatted with him in the alley, he was trying his hand at something new, a portrait.
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
At the time this was taken, Chris had gotten Junior just 4 days ago. A neighbor didn't want this dog around her own (afraid of mixed puppies) and offered him to Chris. Chris said he was a great companion and he didn't even have to train him. He was just a good dog.
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
1. This is a happy shirt so how can today not be huh? Have a great day guys! #freshstart #goforit #positivevibes, 2. A little bit of sunshine to start the day! #tinypinkstars #dogsofinstagram, 3. Photo, 4. Just ritual #wizardwilbur, 5. Thursday hooping #hooplife #hooping, 6. Photo, 7. So happy to see the penguin today, 8. flickr.com/photos/93304956@N00/25487758471/, 9. Kerbside...., 10. This is so pretty and too small for my bed so I have awesome plans to wear it!, 11. Spirit and heart....., 12. Jump! #tinypinkstars #dogsofinstagram, 13. Photo14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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I've been seeing so many pretty images of buds on trees around flickr so I had to try my own. I've never been able to do a successful one as far as composition and bokeh UNTIL this! I'm thrilled with it!! woohoo!!! Isn't it great when you finally get something right you've been wanting to create for a while? What a great way to start my day today. :)
BTW, I love the feeling of a fresh start that spring brings us, don't you? If nature gets a fresh start each year, then I think we can all have one too. :)
Lopped it all off for a fresh start. Since mom died I've sort of let myself go a bit.
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Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/
Fresh Start Catering Company: Generating Revenue and Employing CJT Graduates. Learn more at www.dccentralkitchen.org/freshstart/