January 13, 2012

• {photography. word of the year. and what century is it anyway}

  
  
  Guess what? I’m writing from Starbucks again!
  I know. right!

  And this time, I feel very twenty FIRST century, thank you very much!

  apparently, as a commenter pointed out last post-
  I had a temporary brain lapse on what century I’m living in~
  saying,  “I feel very 20th century…”

  I must have been listening to 80′s music beforehand.
  cause that’ll do that time warp thing to your head every time!

  I’m waiting on Emma at dance class around the corner.
  I usually stay to watch her, but lately, the parents waiting room has been freezing!!
  And I’m sick, which makes me even more cold!
  And it’s studio policy for everyone to remove their shoes when they enter –
  making it even more cold!!
  especially if you happen to get a wet sock! bleh. hate that.

  it’s a bit of a dance show in itself watching people leap. jump. sashay their way through the little puddles…
  trying to avoid that dreaded wet sock.

  I think I’m going to just become a true Canadian and take slippers with me everywhere!  

  It really is more of a Canadian custom, than in the states, for people to remove their shoes.
  Even when people just stop in for a minute and I’m, “don’t worry w/ taking your shoes off…”
  They still do. I think it’s really perceived as rude here not to.

  So.. if you ever visit anyone in this country~
  bring along some cozy slippers, or make sure your socks don’t have holes in them!
  
  It’s really been a mild winter so far. Not much snow..
  though today has been trying to make up for it. with a steady dusting all day.

  It’s like a giant snow globe outside… small, lacy flakes falling perfectly from the sky.
  Every now and then when the wind picks up,  it’s like someone turned the globe upside down and everything goes a soft misty white.

  magical.

  There’s something I really love about snow. if only it weren’t so C.O.L.D!
  
  
  
  One thing I’d like to try to do this year is to learn more about photography~
  to let this be the year I figure out what all this f-stop/ shutter speed stuff is about!

  Shayne keeps suggesting me starting a business.
  which makes me react on two levels -
  one. it seems every stay at home mom in north america starts a photography business.
  {just because I own a fancy camera doesn’t mean I know what I’m doing!}
  and. I’m not really confident to CHARGE people for my work.

  for now. I might just make up a little flyer and pass out to our neighborhood here.
  see what comes of it….

  At the end of the day taking pictures will always be more for me than anyone else~
  just capturing the memories floating round my own little home here.
  I guess if I could do that for others, cool.
  and get a bit of money for doing it, even cooler.
  So, we’ll see where this journey leads.
  
  First things first though – I need a camera that WORKS!
  Something has been not right with mine for months now.
  It’s like it doesn’t want to focus..
  shifting in and out before finally focusing, then, having to press the shutter down hard to get it to take!

  
  
  Someone told me that was a “fault” of Canon 40D’s – the auto focus goes.
  Someone else told me it was the lens – 50m. 1.4 they had one do the same.

  ??not sure which or what. I hate to send it away to Canon..
  last time I did it was gone nearly 2 months! {long story. but short version -  they lost it!}

  What about those of you out there who know camera’s better than me..
  {don’t be bashful.. you know who you are!}
  Any suggestions or ideas?? Anyone had this happen to them??  

    
  
  Now. several of you asked last post what I used to put up those book pages?
  um. I hate to even admit it, but… SCOTCH TAPE!

  and not the cheap, it get’s twisted before you can even tear it off kind from the dollar store -
  no. the nice extra wide kind with purple plaid that they say is “designed specially for wrapping!”
  
  I tried that yellow tacky stuff teachers use to hang things in the classroom..
  but it just bulged out and was totally visible through the thin paper.
  and since I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it/ keep it up,
  I didn’t want to use any kind of glue or something more permanent …
  
  so. for now it’s held up by plain old tape!
  
  I wonder if I were to decide to keep it up more permanently what it would be like to use a modge podge over it all??
  Though I guess that would give it a more stiff look~
  and I kinda like the more natural look of the looser pages.

  Any ides of what else to use to hold it up??

  {I guess I could have titled this post, “Where I ask for your opinion alot…}
   
  Speaking of modge podge here’s a fun idea I’m going to give a try~
  isn’t that great!!

  
  
  For the past several years I’ve chosen a “word of the year…”
  Last year my word was HOPE~having no clue when I chose it how I would have to cling to it.
  more importantly, cling to The Source where my hope is found!
  
  This year, the word I’ve chosen is, NOW.

  you probably thought it was going to be laugh..
  no. that was a just a cool sunset the other night I was trying to catch through that word in the window!
  though laughing more, in any year, is always a good idea!!

  But now was the first word that came to mind when I thought of this next year..
  which to me breaks down to mean not living wasting time looking back with regrets, or ahead with worry.
  just focusing on what He wants for me right now. in this moment.
  and simply coming to a deeper belief that everything that happens is from His hand. what He’s chosen. allowed.
  and because of that, being okay {yes, even thankful?} with whatever the now’s might be!
  
  Do you have a word or theme of sorts for this new year? If so. I’d really love to hear.
  I find it fascinating how much one word can say for where we are in life, eh.

  Welp. hope you all have a terrific weekend.
  they say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year..
  but I really think that title belongs to weekends!!!   {do i hear an amen?}

  
  
  
  
  
  
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  (¸.·´ (¸.·´ (¸.·¨¯`♥ amber

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