today tomorrow until the end of time

I close my eyes and open my heart
I take a deep breath... I smile...
I feel it... I need it... I crave it... I want it.
It's all around me.
It's in me... it is me... I am it.
I AM LOVE.

~ Melly G.

quote of the day

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..." Eleonora Duse

dear universe

thank you for today...

thank you for yesterday...

thank you for tomorrow...

and thank you for everything I have learned

and will learn from it all.

xoxo

ME

ON REPEAT

been listening to this song over and over again today

quote of the day

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

~Anthony Robbins

got another A

so I didn't jinx myself on that last assignment. haha!!

I love having a camera in my hand.

I had a dream the other day that I was traveling the world taking pictures.

I say YES it will happen.

YES YES YES YES YES YES.... a gazillion times YES.

another pic.

I took this one today... it's been raining all week, shot this one in my front yard.

my photos

a couple of pictures I took of some flowers on campus the other day.

listen to your heart

Connect your head to your heart.
Learn to trust your heart's instincts.
Be open to it's signals.
Heed them.
Act on them.

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

quote of the day

“You must believe in yourself, because you are an unrepeatable human being with a unique gift only you can give the world.” ~Unknown

Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)

"When we get there we're gonna fly so far away, making sure to laugh while we experience anti-gravity."

4th assignment

today I turned in my 4th assignment for class
form / texture / design
while we were going over the assignment (which we do before we shoot every assignment) I had no idea what I was going to do.
the words "what the F*** am I going to shoot?" keep popping up in my head.
I GOT IT!!! o.k. maybe I thought...
I ended up shooting 36 frames and the one I ended up choosing I only got to take one shot of because it was a cloudy day and the sun was out for but a few seconds but it was enough time to get THE SHOT.
it's of a fire escape and some windows on the side of a building shot in specular light (direct sunlight) I LOVE the shadows the fire escape left on the building.
I like the way it came out. I just hope my instructor does to.
I stressed out over the first three assignments and ended up getting A's on all three. I hope this one is the same.

oh gosh did I just jinx myself. haha!

randomness

I want to take your picture.

yesterday I saw a guy downtown with an iguana on a leash. I had never seen that before... pretty weird.

today I woke up with a backache. super suckage.

I'm sleepy.

strawberries in the fridge... mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

to learn

Each day we meet someone new.
We're exposed to new thoughts, new ways.
Use every opportunity to add to your knowledge.
Go with an open mind.
Relish the chance to learn.
Enjoy the challenge.
Seek perspective.

no thank you, I'm already fat...

today after school I had to bus it to the Camera Exchange to purchase more photo paper and film for class. after my purchase I headed for the bus stop and passed by a huge sign that read "18 DONUTS for $4.99" my first thought was 'no thank you, I'm already fat.' it kind of threw me back... since losing 75 pounds (and feeling awesome) a thought like that hadn't popped into my head in a while. it felt weird thinking that. For a long time I wasn't comfortable with myself or my body. I finally had a nice long chat with myself and told myself 'you are SUPER just the way you are.' yes I was and am still SUPER... BUT I knew I had to take better care of my body... my mind... my entire being... so I made the changes that needed to be made to better myself, physically and mentally.

I still have things I need to work on, but NOW I full accept myself for who and what I am... IMPERFECT...
I am imperfect and that is perfectly alright...

I love me flaws and all...

I AM SUPER JUST THE WAY I AM!!!!

to find beauty

Beauty surrounds us.
BUT it's not always evident.
Seek it out.
Find it in love, friendship, nature, art.
See it in another's mind or spirit.
Look for the inner glow.

"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."
Turkish proverb

to take the wide view

Look as a photographer does.
Use all your lenses and change your position:
from close-up to wide-angle,
from aerial to x-ray.
Take in the small things but zoom out to see the full picture.
Look beyond the obvious.
Relish the complexities and the relationships.

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"If the doors to perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

~ William Blake