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This week's challenge was to critique our own photo editing...and redo. I set this shot up several times and played with all kinds of compositions before I settled on one of the simpler ones. I will still be looking for a better background...this bench is too narrow. Without Lightroom I did all my editing in PSE10 including some minor changes in hue and levels and adding a warming filter. I also added two of Kim Klassens textures, Desert and Subtly Yours. I still find it a bit dark along the bottom edge but preferred it to some of my other edits.
Last weekend we had snow and sunny weather with minus degrees and now we have sunshine and plus degrees and all the snow is gone. Crazy weather.
1. magnolia print, 2. Pillow Post, 3. Tidy..., 4. Summer in our wintergarden, 5. shopping, 6. kia hing fay #5, 7. preparation, 8. one metre, 9. Cinquefoil, 10. Japanese Anemone, 11. screen printed tiles # 9, 10, 11 & 12, 12. Ripe for the picking, 13. Atelier XT blankets / Mantas atelier XT, 14. Noch ein wenig Sommer, 15. My New Home, 16. completed doll quilt for ??? DQS4, 17. Robot scarf, 18. Brillen Lisa, 19. two singing birds, 20. arlo's sign, 21. The boy's new kitchen, 22. i may get to it..., 23. diaper bag, 24. the new kitchen, 25. things make me happy, 26. New Pottery, 27. Autumn in the park - art quilt, 28. sofia gocco, 29. Untitled, 30. Vintage Apron, 31. Untitled, 32. mein moodboard details, 33. Autumn colours, 34. Romanitc rose memoboard, 35. Coasters on a plate, 36. Needlework (C365, days 332-5)
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Week 1: As we move into the New Year I once again finding myself making resolutions. This year its around getting back into shape. I'll enjoy these 3 Innis and Gunn because they may be my last for a while.
For as many Thanksgivings as I can remember, our family has made pierogies together. As children we all made them together and as my brothers grew up and moved out I made them alone with my parents. When Michael had his girls, they were taught and joined in the tradition with us. Now I have a daughter and we are teaching her the same as my Bacie taught me.
Cheese are easier to fill than sauerkraut (because it’s so pokey!) but no matter what you fill, it’s important not to overfill because they will come apart when boiled. And the filling of them is only half the art. It’s also important that you wet the rim of the dough and use your fork to not crimp only one side, but both sides of the pierogie. This will ensure that more pierogies make it through the boiling process (though if you ask my dad and brothers, the more noodles, the better). I remember my Bacie teaching me these things.
My job was to fill and crimp. Mark helped me. Michael often rolled out the dough which my mom made. My dad would stand in front of the stove and an open window, cigarette smoke and steam swirling around him, as my mom and he debated again, as they do every year, how many minutes after the pierogies have risen do you then take them out of the pot. As a child, this conversation would end in a phone call to my Bacie, now it ends in someone searching for the recipe and the notes written and crossed out on them over the years.
We all have our own traditions now and I can’t remember the last Christmas we all spent together but I think we all still make pierogies to eat with our families on Christmas Eve at Wigilia after we’ve broken and shared the Christmas wafer (usually a cut out sugar cookie in our house).
Wigilia is my favorite part of Christmas. As a child, I loved setting the extra place setting for the stranger and listening to my father’s stories of looking for the first star in the sky. I love breaking wafer with my loved ones, hugging them and wishing them well. I can remember my parents hugs as they whispered wishes of an amazing new year after a particularly difficult year. I remember the excitement on the years when I was on the precipice of a large life change like graduation, a move or my pregnancy with Olive. I love how we all greedily ate pierogies on the one day a year they were available to eat. And how after dinner, too full to get up and do anything, we sat around and told stories about when my brother’s were little or about my father growing up in Fishtown, Philadelphia. I would sit ay my place at the table, look at the tree in the next room and sleepily dream about the next morning.
Growing up, no one I knew celebrated Wigilia and I loved having this tradition which was so ritualized and special to our family. I hope that Olive grows up feeling the same way. I hope that my family will always be able to join us and that our house is always welcome to friends and strangers at Christmastime.
The Maverick Stampede began full speed with the MavsMeet Convocation on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at College Park Center. University leaders and guest speaker deejay Edgar "Shoboy" Sotelo inspired students to do their best in the academic year ahead. The AfterParty provided a fun time before classes started the next day. The Welcome Week extends into September with social gatherings around campus so students canget to know each other and UT Arlington.
Top: Express
Vest: The Limited
Pants: Express
Shoes: Madeline at Proffitts
Earrings: silver
Necklace: The Cottage
Bracelet: Express
Watch: Bulova
Week 2:
1/2 pound cucumbers
1 pint strawberries
1 bunch radishes
1/2 pound lettuce
1/2 pound Chard
1 bunch spring onions
1 Chinese cabbage
3 seedlings
Should have been: July 22nd, 2013. Actually: July 30th, 2013.
Posting this for the sake of catching up.
From a shoot two weeks ago, in Annapolis.
Just realizing how much blue there has been in my 52 weeks, so far.
That needs to change.
facebook // website // tumblr // prints // getty
If you're interested in looking at my design for Week 8, here's that: facebook link.
:: white dress gift from devonrose
:: plastic vintage barrettes thirfted
:: pink sneakers walmart
:: leather purse mine as a kid
Project 52 2013, Week 52, Saisha Khatri, Austin, TX, Settler's Ridge Apartment
Strobist Info:
* (Key Light) Nikon SB-26 @ 1/32, camera left, no gel
* (Fill) 42" reflector, white side, camera right.
365 Days: #76, 05/04/07
And you're rolling
In the blender
With me.
And I can love you
Like a color
TV.
Here we are 38 weeks and 4 days...I have started on rasberry leaf, thinking about duckwalking but I am at least doing more normal walking than I have in weeks. Feels more comfy now that baby isn't lying on top of my hip bones. What do we do now....DIY of course! We just finished repainting bathroom, Graham is making storage closet doors, and next is to start clearing things out and I have to finish my quilt.
Well its week 35 and I have hit a creative slump I think, really struggled with this weeks theme. I found this little guy (its an echidna) hiding on my shelf and thought he fit the theme. I am very proud to say that this is my first photo in Manual mode thanks to an online course I am doing. There is an outtake for the theme in comments, which I shot on a recent holiday.
Relaxing on the beach and watching the sunset.
Aaaand...I am back on track with the project..phew!
F-stop: f/1.4
Exposure time: 1/250 sec
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 50 mm
10/52: Fishing for photos
June 3 - June 9
Had quite a big night on Saturday so wanted to take it easy on Sunday.. later on during the week, and without sleeping, I grabbed my fishing rod and headed out behind my apartment to the river in hopes to catch the elusive salmon.
It was tough, trying to take a picture.. especially with my inexperience and lack of "eye", but it was enjoyable, and I took heaps of different things. The grass with the blue river background was fun, but I often focus on the green and tried to find something different.
This was a rapid where my fish kept escaping my lure! So...
Snap.
This is what it is!
Had a busy week with friends, work and shows, but.. hay. It's up!
Live it up, all.