June 5th, 2009
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” -Frank Outlaw
From the entrance to the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens “Promenade” by Robin Rhode. I love this piece!
This quote is speaking to me right now in how our thinking truly shapes the outcome of our lives. Happy Friday and enjoy the weekend!
May 22nd, 2009
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr Seuss
This photo was taken at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens. The sculpture in the photo is called “Cenotaph” by Adriana Farmiga and it’s wonderfully deceiving. On either side is the back of the man, there is no front – so while he looks as if he is staring across the water, if you walk around to the “front” he appears to be staring at the rest of the sculpture garden. I loved how unexpected this was!
You can tell I’ve been negligent in processing photos as the trees are bare, spring had not yet hit when I took this photo and it was an interestingly gloomy day. I’m glad the sun is back and the warm breezes and the luscious leaves on my favorite tree.
March 6th, 2009
“Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them … one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us … an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace … loose consciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.” -Paul Cézanne
Photos from the inside of the PepperMill Casino in Reno, Nevada
February 1st, 2009
January 28th, 2009
January 19th, 2009
Broadway Station, Astoria, Queens
Effect created using action “Old Toy Camera” by Smaragd
January 9th, 2009
This is a photo I took at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls. I was there with my husband to celebrate our 2 year wedding anniversary. The conservatory was amazing – I expected butterflies behind glass windows and in reality they were flying all around you, landing on shoulders and bringing about smiles and laughter from even the toughest character.
Thank you Schmaps for including me in their Niagara Falls Guide (and previously in their Portland Guide)!
January 7th, 2009
“Wisdom”
When I have
ceased to break my wings
Against the
faultiness of things,
And learned
that compromises wait
Behind each
hardly opened gate,
When I have
looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm
and very coldly wise,
Life will
have given me the Truth,
And taken
in exchange–my youth.
Sara Teasdale
I spent most of yesterday in New Jersey taking photos for a job I am working on. I took this shot of the skyline view just before I left to go home. Wouldn’t it be nice to see this out your window all of the time, especially when the sky is sunny (and the weather warm enough to actually stay outside and enjoy it).
I loved taking the trains out to the various locations I was shooting at – it’s definitely my preferred method of transportation and I was completely satisfied looking out the window, watching the world go by.
*Effects of image created using Dave Jaseck’s “Midnight Black” photoshop action and Holga Black Border by Smaragd.
November 19th, 2008
All this beauty
You might have to close your eyes
And slowly open wide
All this beauty, we traveled all night
We drank the ocean dry
And watched the sun rise
You can ask about it, but nobody knows the way
No breadcrumb trail to follow through your days
It takes an axe, sometimes a feather
In the sunshine and bad weather
It’s a matter of getting deeper in, any way you can
All this beauty
You might have to close your eyes
And slowly open wide
All this beauty, we traveled all night
We drank the ocean dry
And watched the sun rise
I can see your new awake
Let me assure you friend:
Every day is ice cream and chocolate cake
And what you make of it, let me say
You get what you take from it so be amazed
And never stop, never stop, never stop
You gotta be brave
‘Cause all this beauty
You might have to close your eyes
And slowly open wide
And watch the sun rise
And watch the sun rise
And watch the sun rise
November 18th, 2008
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