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Buster spent this last week with me and my girls. The events which brought him to our home are too laborious to go into great detail but the short story; he was found running the streets, brought to a five kill day shelter, on his fifth day a rescue group stepped in to save him, he was brought to a foster, adopted by family six states away, turned back in and landed safely at my home. He is a sweet and loving boy, who for all he had been through the last two months, did beautifully. Thursday he was placed with a permanent adopter. I learned several lessons from him.

 

Lesson One: Don't let yesterday's troubles weigh you down. Shake them off.

  

My camera suddenly started overexposing and at first I couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until I got home and started thinking about it that I remembered the camera has an assignable thumb wheel that was set to EV. In the previous evening I was doing something with the camera at home and when I set it down I accidentally turned the wheel and unknowingly dialed in about +3EV. I ruined a few photos as you can see here, but I have now set the EV back to zero and turned off the thumbwheel function. Lesson learned the hard way.

When a Bird is alive... it eats Ants,

When the Bird is Dead... Ants eat the Bird!

 

Time & Circumstances can change at any time...!

Don't devalue or Hurt anyone in life.

You may be powerful today.. But Remember,

Time is more powerfull than you!!!

 

one tree makes a million match sticks...

but when time comes..

only one match stick is needed... to burn million of trees!!

 

So be Good and do Good...!!!

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Way better on black

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Interior design this took around 3 hours.

Sketch of picture 4

when you set aside your expectations and overcome the fear of uncertainty

that's when you get the most out of it

 

regardless of how it turns out

embrace it

learn from it

My camera suddenly started overexposing and at first I couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until I got home and started thinking about it that I remembered the camera has an assignable thumb wheel that was set to EV. In the previous evening I was doing something with the camera at home and when I set it down I accidentally turned the wheel and unknowingly dialed in about +3EV. I ruined a few photos as you can see here, but I have now set the EV back to zero and turned off the thumbwheel function. Lesson learned the hard way.

I drew this with out a photo cause that's what the lesson called for, I think I gave her barbie doll eyes, but I'm happy with the way it came out.

First time developing my own film. Quarantine was a great opportunity to learn i guess. Pretty pleased with the results. This frame and some others didn’t receive enough developer due to loading the film with a little water in my hand da, causing the film to stick in places, not allowing the developer to properly process the frame. With that said I love this shot blemish and all.

 

Shot on Rollei Retro 400s with a Voigtländer VSL1 and Takumar 35/3.5.

 

D76 1:1 20c 10.5min

Christina shows Tiphani how to pose with an umbrella

Lesson's Motmot at the Hotel Bougainvilla, Heredia, Costa Rica.

Spread 0118 – Lessons

 

January 2013

 

Vintage and personal papers, napkin transfers, acrylic paint, gesso and matte medium.

 

blogged here:

apaperbear.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/spread-0118-lessons/

If your require coffee to wake yourself up in the morning, never attempt to shoot it! I tried so many zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Wha? Oh yeah,

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Thats it! I'm drinking the dang subject now zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

this young mother, holding her baby while they waited in a long line for the pharmacy at a mobile health clinic in northeast india, truly defined what it is to simply radiate joy.

it is a never-ending lesson for me in these places...if those in the most dire circumstances are capable of this much effortless joy, so should i be, in the land of plenty.

A typography lesson in 12" x 16". Sold out.

sb800's left and right. Left at 1/2 pwr right at 1/8. Processed skin in PS with a little dodge and burn on the rest of the image.

I took this with a damn cell phone!

 

Through the windshield!!

I remember piano lessons

The hours in freezing rooms

Cruel ears and tiny hands

Destroying timeless tunes

 

She said there's too much out there

Too much already said

You'd better give up hoping

You're better off in bed

 

You don't need much to speak of

No class, no wit, no soul

Forget your own agenda

Get ready to be sold

 

I feel now like Christine Keeler

Sleepwaking in the rain

I didn't mean to lose direction

I didn't want that kind of fame

 

And even though I got it all now

My only stupid dream

See you and me together

And how it should have been

 

I remember piano lessons

Now everything seems clear

You waiting under streetlights

For dreams to disappear.

 

S. Wilson

The lesson would be to short without the ancre.She needs to practice cause beating gravity 's not easy.

See, Daisy darling? Several bites in....and your lipstick is still intact. And don't worry...I'll make sure you get lots and LOTS of practice from here on out. 😊

Dreaming Lessons ~ Pelajaran Bermimpi

 

Ada hal yang tidak dapat dipelajari di sekolah, kecuali bila ada yang mengajarkan:

Pelajaran Bermimpi

 

Sejak tahun 2009, aku ditugaskan oleh pemerintah untuk mengajar di sebuah SMP Negeri ndesit, yang terletak sekitar 30 km dari rumahku.

Dan aku dapati meskipun ini sekolah negeri, kemampuan akademik murid-muridku sangatlah mengerikan~

Bayangkan saja, murid SMP yang notabene sudah lulus SD, masih banyak yang tidak bisa membaca, menulis, apalagi berhitung dengan baik!

Aku pun bertanya-tanya kira-kira, apa penyebabnya?

Selidik sana, selidik sini

Akhirnya aku temukan sebuah fakta yang cukup mengejutkan

Tentang sebagian besar muridku yang datang dari keluarga kelas menengah ke bawah itu aku sudah tahu

Tetapi lebih dari itu, ternyata sebagian besar dari mereka juga datang dari keluarga berantakan.

 

Ayah meninggal, ibu menikah lagi, ibu meninggal, ayah tiri menikah lagi

Ayah-ibu yang bercerai, dan kemudian masing-masing menikah lagi dan punya anak sendiri.

Ayah-ibu bekerja jadi TKW/TKI ke luar negeri, di rumah hanya tinggal dengan nenek yang sudah tua, atau bahkan dititipkan kepada kerabat lain yang belum tentu baik hati

Ayah-ibu bekerja di sawah atau pabrik yang tak terlalu jauh dari rumah, tapi pergi sebelum mereka bangun, dan pulang larut malam

Ada juga beberapa orang yang ayahnya memiliki lebih dari satu istri baik secara resmi maupun simpanan.

Bahkan ada beberapa orang yang merupakan anak di luar nikah!

Atau lebih buruk dari itu, ada juga ayah muridku yang merupakan seorang preman atau maling!

Sangat menyedihkan~

 

Maka jelaslah sudah penyebab buruknya prestasi murid-muridku.

Mereka terjebak di sebuah dunia yang menyesakkan, kurang kasih-sayang, dan perhatian.

Hidup hanya menjalani sebuah rutinitas, karena merasa kurang lebih akan beginilah jadinya masa depan mereka.

Sama sekali tidak ada motivasi untuk belajar apalagi berprestasi.

 

Maka inilah aku untuk mengajarkanmu bermimpi

Dengar ya sayang, kemalangan hidup itu dapat di ubah

Di luar sana dunia lain yang lebih indah yang dapat kamu masuki

Dan kalau sekarang keluargamu kurang menyenangkan, di masa depan kamu bisa membentuk keluarga sendiri yang lebih bahagia dari yang sekarang kamu miliki

Jangan menyerah sayang, tolong jangan pernah menyerah!

 

Pelajaran bermimpi adalah pelajaran untuk menjadi manusia yang lebih baik

”Man jadda wajada” = barang siapa bersungguh-sungguh maka akan terwujud

”Man shabara zhafira” = barang siapa yang bersabar, maka akan beruntung

”Man sara ‘ala darbi washola” = siapa yang berjalan di jalannya maka akan sampai pada tujuan

”Man yazra’ yahsud” = siapa yang menanam maka akan menuai

---pepatah Arab, taken from a real story novel Negeri 5 Menara dan Ranah 3 Warna by Ahmad Fuadi, more about this novel and community please visit negeri5menara.com/ ---

 

Omong-omong, bapak ini adalah ayah dari salah seorang muridku.

Tadinya dia bekerja di ibukota Jakarta, tetapi akhirnya dia memilih kembali ke kampung halaman demi keluarganya.

Sekarang dia bekerja sebagai petani dan tukang ojek.

Aku lumayan sering mengobrol dengan beliau dan beberapa tukang ojek lainnya, saat menunggu bis sepulang mengajar di halte(?) itu.

Mereka itu orang-orang baik yang memiliki impian sederhana untuk anak-anaknya, yaitu agar anak-anaknya memiliki pendidikan yang lebih tinggi dari mereka dan kelak berpenghidupan yang lebih baik dari mereka.

Dan sekolah tempat aku mengajar itu terletak 5 km menyebrang dari tempat itu, belok 3 kali.

 

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There is something that couldn’t be learn in the school, except if someone taught it:

Dreaming Lessons

 

Since 2009, I was tasked by the government to teach in a village Junior High School, located about 30 km from my home.

And I found, even if my school is a state school, my student’s academic abilities are terribly so bad.

Imagine this: junior high school students who in fact have been graduated from primary school, where can not read, write, moreover to count well!

So I wonder, what is the reason?

I try to investigate it.

About most of my student were come from middle class family to below, I’ve already know.

But more than it, most of them were actually come from broken-home family.

 

Father passed away, mother remarried, then mother passed away and the step father remarried again.

Father and mother divorced, then each of them were remarried again and have their own children

Father and mother were working out of town or country as a domestic worker or labor, and left them in home with only an old granny or deposit (?) them to another relatives whose couldn’t be insurance to treat them well

Father and mother work in rice field or factory which not to far from their home, but they go before them wake and back very late

There are also some of my student who their father have more than one wife whether official or mistress.

There were even some of my students who were a children out of wedlock, --children of adultery—

Or more worse than it, there is some of my student father who is a gangster or a thief!

What a heart crushing~

 

Now it's clear the reason of poor performance from my disciples.

They were trapped in a world that is oppressive, less affection, and attention.

Live just underwent a routine, because they feel this is the future they also would be.

No motivation to learn, furthermore to excel!

 

So, here I am to teach you to dream~

Listen dear, misfortunes of life could be changed

Out there are also available a beautiful world that you could enter

And if your family is now less fascinating, in the future you would be able to form your own family that full of love and affection more than what you have now!

Don’t give up dear, please never give up!

 

Dreaming lessons is a lesson to be a better person

”Man jadda wajada” = who is seriously make effort would be succeed

”Man shabara zhafira” = who is patience would be lucky

”Man sara ‘ala darbi washola” = who is walk on his way would arrive to the destination

”Man yazra’ yahsud” = who is plants would be harvest

---Arabic proverb, taken from a real story novel Negeri 5 Menara dan Ranah 3 Warna by Ahmad Fuadi, more about this novel and community please visit negeri5menara.com/ ---

 

By the way, this man is one of my student’s fathers.

He was work in capital city, Jakarta, before but he decides to back home for his family.

Now he works as a farmer and a motorcycle rental driver.

I quite often to talk with him and several other motorcycle rental drivers, while waiting for my bus in those bus stop to take me home after working.

They are nice persons, who have simple dreams that their children would have a better education and later a better life than their own.

And the school where I teach is located 5 km crossing of those roads, turning 3 times.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J56IkSxHzaI&ob=av2e

Maap, ceritanya kepanjangan kan ya… ;p

    

Part 1 Lesson 4 freehand from EP

A pile of broken coupler knuckles, under the trainmaster's office window, bears witness to the challenge of moving tonnage trains over undulating territory.

Lucca street scene - local colour vs shadow first

As I've taken a lot of photos over the last few years, I've also looked at a lot of photos, too. Portraits and other pictures of people appear to me to be,the most popular ones. Wildlife, landscapes, flowers also rank high on the list. But one location stands out in my mind, though, for its universality, and that is the train station or, more precisely, the train boarding platform.

 

This may not be so surprising when you realize that these photos are often, in themselves, lessons in linear perspective, a drawing technique lying in plain sight that was somehow only "discovered" in Renaissance Europe. This scene looking west from the East Lake MARTA station platform, with its rail lines converging in the distance and corresponding diminishing column height, illustrate this nicely.

 

Using overt perspective as a way to reassert a 3-dimensional order on a 2-dimensional medium like photography turns out to be a useful device. It's no coincidence that an early film by the Lumière brothers, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1895), enlists an approaching steam engine as its dramatic centerpiece.

 

The appeal of these kind of scenes is multifold. In an austere sense, as pictured here without people mulling about, the view down the platform represents how a human-made rational order can be imposed on the natural environment, extending beyond the rail bed to include parallel-running, looping power lines. Of course, the emotional content is heightened with a bustling train station with all its implicit tales of journeys either just beginning or just coming to an end.

 

Even without people present, these views up and down the tracks invite us to reflect. As we peer toward the distant vanishing point, we can sometimes imagine that we can see what the future holds for us.

Gymnastikstunde ;-). Ich muss abnehmen!

 

Gym lesson! I have to loose weight!

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