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14 FEB 13
Happy Valentines Day! Don't you moan and groan at me! What is so incredibly wrong with celebrating a day dedicated to the act of love?!? In this world we live in today more so then ever, we've learned that life is not a guarantee and each day is a gift, not a right. If seeing a giant heart on a desk reminds you or someone else to say I love you, then you or they are better for it! I view it as just a day to let people in your life know you love them. You should do it everyday, but why not have a day that is about love, simple as that.
I have so much to talk about. If you don't know by now, I am not one to write a paragraph and be done, so here goes, the tale of my Valentine's Day.
I have been so trapped these last weeks that I haven't gotten to go downtown and go on my long 3 hour city walks. Today, I just went for it. Loaded up the camera with the intention of doing the F8 challenge as well as do some genuine street photography. I parked on the far end of the walking/running trails for the free parking, but that meant a good 20 block hike until I would reach my destination...but that was a good thing because as part of Lent, my job is to exercise everyday for the 40 days. Last night I went hamburger on weights and some ballet work to work my legs. I felt every muscle fiber in my legs groaning as I ascended and descended those hills and stairs, but it felt good to be in the fresh air with the air a crisp 66 degrees.
I made it into downtown. I got some advice that one should sit in one place and let the people sort of come to you, but the first place I went, City Hall, had a maintanence worker parked out front watching me, so I didn't feel comfortable, so I left and walked another 4 blocks. Much to my surprise there was a GIANT sized basketball and hoop outside the Wells Fargo Building. I took a couple of shots, and then forged on. At this point, the trip was not going well. I attempted to be stealthy and shoot from the hip, but all the images came out cut off, incorrectly angled, terrible, so I kept going, kept trying to talk myself into courage. At one point the "mean kid" in my head was yelling, just do it p-----y! But I didn't. Finally some blocks down I saw a police officer on a horse stopped at a red light. Maybe in your city this is unusual, but here, we have them even patrolling Mall parking lots. I'm sure every out of towner goes, omg, its true what they say about Texas. I just have to roll my eyes.
I made it to the city mall up those stairs. I've grown to love the shopping center because its great canvas for photos, you can see bits of the city on the walkways, and its built over the city streets, so you can look down and shoot right into traffic. I did manage to get a few decent from the hip shots of a gaggle of girls, but not much else. I was failing at the mission. The longer I walked, the more I chickened out. I wanted to go home at this point because I felt defeated, but then from the sky walk way I saw the dome where the All Star Game is Happening this weekend. It was covered in red and like a beacon in the night, I followed its siren calls.
I made it to Discovery Green and the worker bees were alive with activity. Everyone was scrambling around setting up for parties, Limo's were everywhere, they were setting up for activities all over the park, and media was on every corner. It was exciting. There hasn't been this much buzz since the Superbowl was here...um...even though the All Star game is like every year here.
I saw a k9 unit with their dogs and I wanted to shoot that, but I chickened out again. I shot some guy being shot one camera for CSN news, but this was a pathetic effort. That is when I managed to walk by this guy pictured and my day went from lack luster at best, to fantastic!
I was passing by and this guy yelled out, "you should take my picture." I thought, yeah, okay, I'll have something for the day, and so I shot it in a quick snap. I noticed he had a strong accent, so I asked him where he was from and he told me he was from Senegal. I told him where I was from, and he smiled a huge smile and beckoned me over to sit next to him. We talked for a bit and then he told me he was a photographer as well. I must have been extremely oblivious looking back on this image, because he's wearing a media badge, he's got a camera bag, and turns out a laptop bag along with his iphone. Anyway, he wanted me to see his pictures after I explained that I was trying my hardest to shoot some street photography but I was a nervous pathetic wreck and couldn't do it. He laughed but not in a you suck way, more in a, its not easy, but you can do it way. He whipped out his laptop and showed me his images. F'in amazing stuff. Beautiful African women with colorful beads in their hair, some of his young family and his kids, a lot of shots of the beaches and nearby towns, some to die for sunsets...I was in shock at how incredible they were.
He then said, you know what, I want to walk with you. He said, will you please wait here so I can drop off my laptop at the hotel and I will be right back. So I figured, what the heck, so I waited and he did come back with his camera in his pack. He whipped out a professional Nikon with all the latest everything and we began to walk.
Talk about amazing this guy. He said the reason he was here in town for the All Star Game was because in Senegal he was and is a lover of basketball, so he created a blog about the Senegalese teams, the only such blog to his knowledge in existence. He just happened to be friends with one of the VPS that admisters these games here, so he called him up and said he wanted to cover the games here for his blog. Next thing he knows, he has a free plane ticket and free hotel and free tickets to cover the game...hence his media pass. Not only that, before I walked by, he'd literally just gotten off the plane, shuttled over his first time in Houston (though, not first time in the States), and had been sitting for a few minutes and then here we were about to walk through the city together. It was like a freaking movie. A few steps into our walk we were stopped by the hype patrol who proceeded to give us free t-shirts that read #real Fan. So now I have a free shirt which I think it pretty neat.
Laumine (I'm really probably screwing his name up) and I began our walk. He was a funny guy with a stutter. I wasn't sure sometimes in our conversation whether he was having a bit of an English problem or a stuttering problem b/c he would stop and look at me as if he didn't understand what I was saying, but then sort of find the words. It made him that more interesting really. We walked and walked and I began to relax and just point the camera. I talked about my nerves with doing this and he said, you no longer have to be nervous because I'm here with you. He was right. I stopped focusing on my nerves and started actually shooting. I aimed my camera directly at people, shot from behind them, climbed up and down to get shots. It was fun. I told Laumine that I am going to show him a secret about our city that not many outsiders are aware of when they come here. I said, we have an entire city underneath the city, miles of shops, restaurants, and connective pathways that connect all the downtown buildings. So we went underground. He seemed genuinely surprised that it was there and we walked it for a while before surfacing clear across the city.
By this time it was starting to get into the hour known as traffic hell, but I showed him the disappearing gnomes. Laumine was good. Even though he told me he was not a fan of Valentines Day, I explained my theory of just having a day to remember love to honor love not candy and flowers. He said, okay, he could agree to that. Then whilst I was taking a picture, he presented me with a rose he'd torn from a near by bush. A flower for you he said smiling. It was pretty funny. Going through his pictures and our conversation about Valentines Day, this guy had managed through his pictures to create an entire story about Valentines day. He had strategically taken photos of women with flowers, the signs about Valentines Day, flowers in the pathways. He said he was going to go back and compose his tale and interpretation of love day from the images. I was looking over mine, like, um, I'm just going to probably never let these see the light.
Afterwards, we said goodbye, exchanged information and away I walked. That experience really made my day.
Accidentally hit the shutter when changing the camera from landscape to portrait. I like the result. :)
No no, Rite Aid. See the little 100s on all the yellow pills? THOSE ARE WRONG. Those are double my normal dosage. Those little white ones? Those are right.
Everyone... please double-check your prescriptions when you get them. I can only imagine what would have happened if this had been an important medication for someone old-enough to not see little numbers well. Double your blood pressure medication? Double your insulin dosage? That would be VERY BAD.
Was hoping for the 37 to be leading when I went out to snap Steve "KitKat" Read on his overnight GBRf-operated tour of Merseyside running as 3Q85 23:02 Crewe Carriage Sidings L&NWR Site to Derby RTC (via Sandhills / Ormskirk / Kirkby / Newton-Le-Willows / Crewe / Stafford / Stoke on Trent).
However, it wasn't to be and instead the Mk2 DBSO 9714 was leading the Infrastructure Monitoring Ultrasonic Test Unit (UTU) train through Hartford.
Full consist: 37 057 + 96608 99666 72630 9806 62384 9714
Sei du selbst die Veränderung, die du dir wünschst für diese Welt.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Model: Ramona
Foto+Bea: unplugged-photography
Talk about taking a wrong turn. The car is good, but not that good. The guy is now suing his insurance company for payment. The car was insured for double its value. SCAM!
This was for a project based on 'Wrong' i decided to do a story based on two girls who decide to go to the circus but take different paths. One takes the right path and the other takes the wrong path. Initially I was gonna do a book but, inspired by outdoor snakes and ladders (yes random but that's how my brain works) I made two versions of snakes and ladders on A1 - one white, depicting the 'Right' journey and the other black depicting the 'Wrong' journey
holga
fuji provia
torrey, utah
july 2014
when a google maps mishap leads you here.
slowly making the move to: whenbeautysurroundsyou.tumblr.com
Natalie Imbruglia, canta tan lindo :-D
El espejo está sució y manchado, como yo. Hoy, fueron unas españolas con un negativo horrible y le tuve que arreglar cada foto ¬¬ espero que lo valoren ;-) xD
Y mañana, mañana VEREMOS!! :-/
Por ahora, mucho cansancio! Me quiero largar de vacaciones LUEGO!! Y yo, típico.. Siempre salgo con mis fonos, en todas las fotos! Es mucho pedir que me los quite? No! Pero me encanta escuchar música.. Ñañañañaña xD