Archive for Month: June, 2011
Canvas, FTW!
Congratulations, Heathersaurus!
Thank you to all who entered. I wish I could give you each one. Still, even if you didn’t win, your odds of scoring are still better here than in any bingo game,
so stay tuned for more fun giveaways!
Weekly Winners {The Random Addition}
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
- Katharine Hepburn
Monochromatic Wall of Lane
I’ve been dreaming about creating a photo wall, up along the stairs, for as long as I can remember, since our first house, back in Buffalo. I’ve finally gotten around to it, and I’ve decided that the whole wall is going to be black-and-white portraiture. Right now I’ve only got three photos up there, but I’ve got a growing folder of pictures ready to get printed, either to be framed or made into a canvas print. I want a mix of both, really. I also want a mix of posed and candid shots. This summer I want this wall to be covered in photos!
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Yesterday, Davey and I traveled into Atlanta for a birthday party for Renee’s little boy, Mekhi. Davey was so excited. Not only did he get to see Mekhi again, the party was at Imagine It! Children’s Museum and there would be so much for him to see and do. Add pizza and cake; Davey was in his element!
I brought my camera along—50mm f/1.4 affixed—and snapped away. I wanted to document the day, from my perspective for my friend, but also I was sure that there would be some cool captures that would make it into the folder for my “Monochromatic Wall of Lane”.
They aren’t the typical posed portrait, but I love them just the same.
I was contacted by Easy Canvas Prints to turn one of my photos to canvas and they also gave me an 8×10 canvas print to giveaway, to [you] one of my readers.
The middle canvas, of all four of the kids, was from them.
The site was easy to use, and the canvas is just awesome. At Easy Canvas Prints, turning your favorite photo to canvas is so easy that all you do is choose what size you want, upload your photo, select the border, and you even have the option to apply affects.
To be entered in the 8×10 CANVAS GIVEAWAY just link me in the comment section to a photo (on your blog or photo sharing site) that you would love to have printed on canvas. You can change your mind as to what picture you actually print, if you win, I just love an excuse to see your favorite photos!
The giveaway will end a week from today, and you can share a link a day, everyday of the week, to be entered!
That’s good odds, yo…
[Easy Canvas Prints provided me with a 12x12 canvas print, but I was not compensated monetarily for this post.]
Weekly Winners {The Dog Lovers Edition}
These photos make me miss our Sadie-girl. I wish she was with us, healthy and active, full of fur and spunk. This week I’ve thought about her a lot.
I remember how she’d bark when Michael and I would play fight. Oh, what fun it was to see her defend one and then the other, though I’m certain she defended me more.
I remember how she barked when she heard a ding on a game show on TV. We never did get to watch that Ben Stein’s Money show because of it.
I remember how sweet she was, how good she was, how she was the perfect “first baby”. Maybe not when she ate my nylons and pooped them out on my in-laws lawn.
I remember how she loved coffee. Michael couldn’t hold a cup of coffee without her hounding him for a lick.
I remember how she would drool while we ate. A strand of glistening jewels hanging from her jowls.
I remember how kids fell asleep on her. Her belly the perfect pillow for a toddler.
Oh, the memories how they equally hurt and ease.
And, just now, as I write this post and think about it, I realize that it’s been two years without our brown sack of sugar. Tears stream down my face because she was our best friend. Two years seems like such a small amount of time. Because, dammit, it feels like it’s been forever since I said goodbye to that sweet girl of ours.
They sure do leave a mark on your soul, don’t they?
Inked
Needle pierces through skin. A burning sensation begs my brain to process the feeling. Beads of sweat begin to form on my brow. I close my eyes and imagine the needle jetting in and out, delivering ink that will form the symbol to be carried through my life, upon my wrist, where I will be allowed to readily see. Always, even.
There to remind me what’s important. To remind me how I’ve changed. It’s there to remind me to focus.
The sweat now barrels down the side of my face. I giggle nervously; cracking a joke, I look up at the artist. I’ll remember her forever, just like I remember the first artist that I entrusted to deliver ink to skin. Both rooms white, only this room the music wasn’t my choice. In this space I sat, feeling the zapping sting of her instrument, I focused on the fast beat. I heard that sound you hear in all music. That “zzzt zzzt zzzt” that was much like her tool of trade. Decidedly, it was time to open my eyes. I look down at my outstretched left arm. With her right hand she concentrates over it. Conversely, I concentrate on MY right hand, my camera, my tool. The instrument of passion that I bend light with on a daily basis. I click. Again.. And again. The whole time it never left the hand where it often resides. To my left are my two eldest children. Does it hurt, they ask. Yes, it hurts, I breath, but it’s fine. Passion can hurt, but rest assured, I say, it will be . . . fine.
This symbol is to be carried through my life.
Reminding me of where I’ve been, where I’m going, how far I’ve come, and how much further I have to go.
Yesterday I wrote:
The symbol means so much to me, like the one I got in 2004. It’s an aperture at f-stop 4 with six components that come together and give focus. That represents my family; four kids making six of us, total. The ring, of course, the circle of life; a never ending circle that neither ends nor begins. Overall, it represents my passions. My familial passion. My photography passion. Life changing passions. I placed it on my wrist so that I could remember those things that make me feel good—always!
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