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Nikon FE, Portra 400
Developed & scanned by The Darkroom Lab
The film broke and came completely out of the canister inside my camera. Guessing slight light exposure when removing the film from the camera in a mostly dark room resulted in the red spots on the lower part of the frame.
“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf
The BillyLlama
60th Birthday Portrait Sitting
“Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
The BillyLlama
Songkrat Festival
Wat Florida Dhammaram
Kissimmee, Florida
I've got a bit of a cold coming on and just felt like some freshly squeezed orange juice. Cleared out the fruit bowl of an assortment of oranges that were past their best.
When I came downstairs in the morning a few days ago my daughter said she had a surprise for me. She showed me these “flowers” that she picked for me sitting on the table. I appreciated her thoughtfulness and seeing beauty even in weeds....I thought they were beautiful weeds too.
Nikon D750
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
This mountain is the best place for experienced climbers and lovers of mystery who believe it to be the centre of the world #KeepingItReal
Keepin' it real, folks. :o)
This is what my sewing table looks like after a couple projects!
(I got a little note happy on this photo!)
Had it been visible, it would have been almost a full moon on this particular night (I think full moon was the previous night). I came here hoping to see it rise but this was the most I saw of it, peeping out of the clouds now and again! Still made for an interesting photo though I thought! Looks as if the tree is also a bit shy, turning it's head away! LOL! :-) Tempting to brighten it up a bit, but it was actually getting quite dark by now so decided I'll leave it as is.
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On a side note, it looks as if Yahoo have been tinkering again without informing its users. Not with Flickr but with Yahoo Mail this time. I thought the server must have been down because for a few hours last night and today I couldn't download my emails to Windows Mail. It turns out they have changed the POP and SMTP servers from .co.uk to .com. Yeah, thanks for telling us! Happy new year to you too Yahoo. LOL!
So if anyone is having trouble downloading Yahoo mail that's what you need to do - edit the info for the account. If you have Windows Mail (or equivalent program) set up to keep a copy on the server, make sure you log in via your web browser first and delete all the messages, otherwise it will download them all again after you've made the changes!!
I had a dream of you and I,
We were falling side by side
There was no where left for us to be
And nothing complicated
Just the way you looked at me...
....that a bit of happiness can be found whilst standing in the kitchen making soup from scratch, under the close supervision of billy the kid (yes i know, fur + kitchen = whatever) and simultaneously being on the internets. chop chop chop. tippity tap tippity tap.
day 21 :: a year of living positively
this is a photo taken the moment I discovered Big John, a regular at Ouest, sneakily snapping photos of other staff members and me......
I will be spending more time at work this weekend than usual, doing a double tomorrow....I'm learning to take things as they happen...and trying not to control so much....
Have you ever noticed that a "control freak's" natural companions are "anger" and "frustration"?
that's because life and people cannot be controlled....not through money, manipulation, coercion....in the long run, people do what they need to do and what they want to do...and the weather is what the weather will be....so the control freak will forever be disappointed, since things will never go exactly their way....
As I "let go and let God", I find that things actually do go more the way I want and maybe, more so, the way they should....
Like you all, I shoot lots and admire, work on, frown over and delete many, all from the comfort of my computer monitor.
However, we should all print out our images regularly as well.
For me, holding a real photo in my hands is akin to the book lover that holds a real book in their hands and shuns the cold, electronic efficiency of the Kindle or other similar devices.
These photos have a shelf life of 150 - 200 years depending on storage. I honestly don't know where my digital copies will be in that time.
Do it this week and remind yourself why you love to shoot photos. And do post your image of your images.
Thanks for reading.