One of my first photos with my new camera, I took this during a Mother’s Day walk at World’s Fair Park with Samantha, Michael, and Stephen. It’s a thin metal cut-out man who resides on the bench.Category Archives: photography
Photoblogging: Orange Man
One of my first photos with my new camera, I took this during a Mother’s Day walk at World’s Fair Park with Samantha, Michael, and Stephen. It’s a thin metal cut-out man who resides on the bench.Filed under photoblogging, photography, world’s fair park
Flying Solo for a Few Days
Song Lyric of the Day:
Sun is shinin’ in the sky / There ain’t a cloud in sight / It’s stopped rainin’ / Ev’rybody’s in a playin’ / And don’t you know / It’s a beautiful new day / Hey / Hey
Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) / “Mr. Blue Sky”
I’m on my own for a few days. Rich is off to Hampton Roads to visit a lot of our friends and attend one friend’s graduation. Sounds like fun, right? So why did I stay behind? Because both brothers-in-law will be away this weekend, leaving both my sisters alone with my little nephews. So as much as I wanted to see Joan, Sharon, Kathy, Christian, Kristen, Matt, Elaine, Dale, Sallie, David, and all the others, I had to stay behind so I can be here in case the siblings and nephews need me. Not to mention our fur kids needing to be taken care of.
As with any time Rich is out of town, I have grand plans for how productive I’ll be. I’m going to work on both my books, including an agent query letter for the first one — finally! I’m going to post hundreds of photos I’ve been sitting on to my Flickr albums! I’m going to exercise every night! I’m going to take care of lots of tiny home improvement projects! I’m finally going to teach Troubadour the “bang, you’re dead!” trick! Will any of that come to pass? Um, we’ll see.
More realistically, I’ll manage to exercise a few nights, write a few pages, have my sis and brother-in-law over for dinner, and manage to not kill Troubadour. Provided my sweet, overly ambitious puppy doesn’t attempt anything along the lines of the other night’s Great Pork Chop Heist, he and I should be fine. Still, I do plan on taking advantage of the solo time. And Rich has ordered me to relax on at least a couple of nights, which I fully plan on doing.
One thing I have managed to stick to lately is daily writing exercises. I bought myself a pretty journal from Borders the other day with the sole purpose of dedicating it to writing exercises, and so far I’m doing pretty well with it. If I can at least stay the course with that while Rich is gone, I’ll consider my solo time a success.
I really do want to post photos this week, though. My new baby, my Canon EOS Rebel XS, arrived the other day, and I’ve been getting to know it and taking lots of photos (of course). (I got a great deal on Buy.com, although the price has already gone up from when I bought it.) I’ll be sure to post a couple of new photos here when I do.
Filed under photography, solo time, writing
Photoblogging: Jellyfish
I took this shot at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga the day after Valentine’s Day. It came out better than I expected, since I took it with my camera lens pressed to the glass.Filed under photoblogging, photography
Photoblogging: Brooklyn Bridge in Black & White
This is one of many, many, many shots I took when the hubby and I walked the Brooklyn Bridge during our last visit to New York City, October 2006.Filed under new york city, photoblogging, photography
Photoblogging: Buster’s Humiliation
Taken the same night I dressed Troubadour up in his Halloween costume. Buster is my pacifist Zen kitty, although you wouldn’t know it from his expression here.
Filed under buster, photoblogging, photography, tabby cat
Photoblogging: That’s the funniest thing I ever heard!
I like to think Troubadour was laughing at a very funny joke he’d just heard. He didn’t bother to share it, though.Filed under photoblogging, photography, puppy, troubadour
Photoblogging: Cades Cove in the Fall
Taken the same day we saw three bears on our hike. Also known as the Day the Teddy Bears Tried to Have Their Picnic.
Filed under cades cove, photoblogging, photography
Photoblogging: Purple Monkey Troubadour
I don’t have a kid, but I do have a puppy. So guess who got dressed up for Halloween?
Filed under costume, halloween, photoblogging, photography, puppy, troubadour
Validation!
Song Lyric of the Day:
Found a photo of you when we were married / Leaning back on a broken willow tree / That’s one memory that I choose to carry / A weary memory i can always see
9:24PM.
As a child, I dreamed of growing up and becoming a photographer. Specifically, a photographer who got to take pictures of celebrities (how cool would that be?). My dream was inadvertently squashed when a relative said, “You’ll never make any money doing that.” So while I allowed my ambitious 10-year-old lifelong dreams to die a quiet death, I have remained a die-hard amateur photographer ever since.
Make your own South Park avatar here.
Now, thanks to my love (read: obsession) for documenting almost everything I see and do, particularly when I travel, that hobby has paid off. Well, not literally. I haven’t earned any money from my photos (next stop: Etsy shop), but I am happy to say that two of the shots I took on my last trip to New York City were selected for inclusion in Schamp New York‘s online city guide. You can check them out on Schmap’s Restaurants – Lower East Side page; just scroll down to Lucien, and my photos will pop up in the right nav bar (click the arrow to see the second shot if they don’t change automatically). How cool is that? Of course, I would never have taken those photos or enjoyed the best French toast of my life if my Aunt Bea and Uncle Louis hadn’t taken me and Rich there for brunch. So a big thanks to them.
As for how I see myself as a photographer, I think my South Park avatar sums it up pretty well:
Make your own South Park avatar here.That, and my inherent love of Star Wars (read: childhood dreams of marrying Han Solo).
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