2018 WEEK 8: B&W Shadows. Eggs, Natural Light and Shadow.

we live in the past

and wait for the future

instead of realizing

that we’ll never leave the present

I have been part of an online forum for almost four years. about two years ago I started writing down what I did and felt like every day before I went to bed. those information are my diary and I saved them in that forum which stopped working four weeks ago. I thought I had lost those memories of the past two years forever and it made me realize that I should concentrate on the present more often. I’m trying to retain every little memory, I write down my thoughts, I take pictures. I want to be able to look back in twenty years and know what I’ve been like. but sometimes I just need to live, right here and right at this moment.

the good news is that I have all my texts back and I’m currently saving them to my computer.

this is Jenna, by the way. my new film camera I purchased on ebay. it was very cheap, so I just bought another one so that maybe one day I’ll have a big camera collection.

now say “Hi, Jenna!“ everyone. :)

[january 25 – 31, 2010]

on a vase.

For the Curves theme at 52 in 2017

... and looking desperately for Antonio Banderas :))))

the weeks are flying and we have survived 11 months of herding by Jazz.

52 Weeks of 2019

Week No. 30: Silhouette

Category: Technical

A bucket, a spade and the seaside. What more could you ask for ?

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[ 44 / 52 Weeks - 29 october - 4 november ]

This week subject: Vintage. ( ❤ )

"And the sky is full of dreams

But you don't know how to fly

I don't have a simple answer

But I know that I could answer

Something better

This feeling won't go

Wait for it"

[This is Your Life - The Killers]

I have been listening to The Killers non-stop lately. I'm so in love. But I also bought an old Kings of Leon album and a couple Spoon albums... As well as a ton of other ones. I've spent too much money in the last little while... All on music. But I'm okay with that xD

Also, my photos have been extremely dark lately, mainly because I haven't been in a very good mood. But I'm starting to feel a bit better, so they should be getting a little brighter in no time :)

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Are you a Border Collie or an Aussie Minty? She is an Aussie but when we play with a certain ball she has the eyes of a Border Collie. I was about ready to kick her favorite ball here and she was very focused! I wanted to get an action shot for this week but it was very dreary outside and my action shots were just not very sharp.

Thank you all for the good wishes last week concerning my kidney stone woes and my husband having Covid. We are both doing much better this week.

Collective 52 Photo Project 2017

Cupcake Liners Ready to be Filled

...feeling fierce...

Decided to go out of this world this week. Well not quite. Using household objects as planets. The "comet" trail was a blue pen light I swished across the blackboard. Apart from contrast and cloning of dirt this was produced in camera.

Explore 23/07/2013 Thanks everyone for making my image onto Explore!

Well, this kind of reflects my life lately. Sit down to do something to try to relax and !%#!

For the Broken theme at 52 in 2016.

It was a busy and rainy week. The early darkness makes this project a lot more difficult too but I knew this wouldn't always be easy. ✨

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It was Fleet Week once again in San Francisco, which meant that I would have to sneak out of work, climb up Telegraph Hill and view the Blue Angels.

Six - Week Number Project - 06-DVSC08239a

Playing basketball is one of the things I do to keep an active lifestyle... need practice on my shooting, though!

☆ Pledge Week 2

Sunshine, sisterhood, and Sigma Xi Psi 🌸So grateful for the amazing bonds I’m forming with my line sisters and big sisters during rush week! ✨ The assignments are fun, the company is even better, and there’s no place I’d rather unwind than by the pool!!

I decided to be brave and go into the forest despite the raging hoards of mosquitoes. I was definitely a sight to see, swatting them off while my grey card while tripping over roots, an adventure I dare say. Probably will try this again soon.

Anywho, enough of my ramblings..happy friday eer'body (:

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Theme for this week is Shadow. It's cloudy outside so I shot this indoors. Not too exciting, but kind of simple and sweet.

I love the weather at the moment. I like it when the colour of the sky turns into a cloudy but bright white, there is many wind but no rain. I often call this "Irish weather" ;-)

CW 21/2015

Song of the week: Mumford & Sons - Believe

Happy Autumn!

So what happened to bulletproof weeks in your arms

What happened to feeling cheap radio songs

What happened to thinking the world was flat

What happened to that

{217/365}

I love spring so much. <3

Hope you guys had a lovely weekend!

Since retiring it has been wonderful to indulge myself with yoga practice. It is my routine to attend at least twice a week.

Our instructor has a perfect soothing voice.

This is the view from my mat at class.

Namaste

Oldies

[This photo is for C. London's 52 Weeks of Photography Challenge - www.clondon.me/blog/52weeks0]

I want this year to be an opportunity to be more present and aware of the privileged life I'm fortunate to live. 2019 was a year that often kept me in low places, and I continually found myself beneath a weight of burdens that I let tie themselves to me rather than let them pass over me.

To that goal, my partner suggested journaling to me. To write down the things that I struggle with. Write down the things I'm grateful for. Write down the things that are important to me.

My photography goals in 2020 mirror that of my mental health goals. I want to feel more open to being creative, and I want to be less selective about what I share. I want to spend less time under the weight of being perfect, or better than the last shot. I'm not built for that grind.

I scanned through the first journal entry I wrote in my new journal and came across the phrase "I want to be happy."

I wanted to share that piece of my journal without revealing all of my other sensitive things I'm writing about, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to embrace my photography goals as well.

I want to be happy. I want the people around to me to be happy and healthy as well.

Here's to a happy 2020.

For the Metal theme at 52 of 2014. We've been hanging pictures at the new place so I happened to have a pile of nails! Eight second exposure. Explored!

We're Here - Post Apocalyptic World

52:2017 - Bob Dylan - the times they are a changin'

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Everybody is free to create an image

based on his/her own interpretation of these lyrics :

"Come gather around people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

And if your breath to you is worth saving

Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changing

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no telling who that it's naming

For the loser now will be later to win

Cause the times they are a-changing

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's the battle outside raging

It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changing

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly aging

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

Cause the times they are a-changing

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slowest now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fading

And the first one now will later be last

Cause the times they are a-changing"

© Bob Dylan

I came to this location because only a small stretch of the road is paved, but you can't really see that with the snow. :)

Week 14, yes that old one.

"Michael, your moment of the week?"

A recreation of the 'This Week' TV studio - a BBC political discussion show with hosts Andrew Neil and Molly the dog plus guests Michael Portillo & Diane Abbott.

Location: Seven Weeks Poort in the Little Karoo.

Description: Seven Weeks Poort is easily one of the most awe-inspiring and spectacular of all the mountain ravines in South Africa. The magnificent vertical rock folds, reaching for the skies on both sides of the road, reflect the inconceivable forces of the volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Often the converging slopes leave only a narrow pass, just broad enough for the Huis River to pass through, while the precipices of naked, distorted rock-faces tower like walls of a natural rampart, obscuring the sun.

This photograph is dedicated to everyone who thinks it’s cool to break into someone else’s car to steal stuff... may they all rot in hell!

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Equipment: Nikon D300 (Sigma 10-20mm)

Date: January 2009

52 Weeks of Pix 2012 - Week 7: [Alto and Bass Clarinet] Love

26th February - 4th March

new dawn fades

I finally managed to take some new photos even if it was now how I imagined it. I'm pretty tired and ill but next weeks seems pretty exciting so I hope I will get better.

Polaroid Week Spring 2018 - Day 6 - Picture 2

Polaroid Orginals One Step 2 with I-Type film

some light painting experiments...