Feb 27
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John Rockefeller said, “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” One of my greatest pleasures is photography. I have begun to play more and more this year. More often than not I am with my camera while I am running around town. I have been asked to shoot two hockey events this weekend and a family’s portraits at the beginning of March.
I had begun to complain that my laptop was running rather slow as of late. I have since found out what was causing this issue ~ 6600 plus photos. Last weekend I transferred those images over to an external hard drive. My wonderful husband bought me Aperture 2 for my birthday. I can’t wait to start playing with it!
Feb 14
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So we had a golf tournament last weekend for NJ’s high school hockey team (fund raiser type stuff). Since my family doesn’t play golf we were volunteers on the course for the day. Evo and I sat at hole three and watched for hole-in-ones. We only had one golfer come close but he did not make it! Basically, we sat for many, many, many hours watching the golfers. I took my camera with me and took pics of the golfers and the wild life (sometimes they were one and the same)! Here is one of the shots I took of a jack rabbit. They were just chasing each other around the golf course.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox said, “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.” I think this is so true. I have seen many marriages come and go over my lifetime. The ones that seem to stick are the ones that begin as friends. Now I am not saying that you literally be friends first but that you truly must be friends! Evo and I have been married 19 years in May and have been together 21. I think we are both extremely supportive of each other. We both have busy lives (both personally and professionally) but we still find time daily to sit and chat about our day. I have come up with some wild things to do in the past and he helps me to work through all the kinks and make it work!
My hope is that everyone can find someone as wonderful as I have to share their life with.
Enjoy life!
Feb 07
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Albert Einstein once said, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” I find this an extremely funny quote. Sometimes I would like my reality to be an illusion that I could wish away if need be.
Currently there are things going on within the community in which I teach that I am shocked still go on within the world. I am speaking of racism. I am not so naive to that it doesn’t exist but on the scale to which I am seeing it is what I am upset about. There is a movement to try to get the school to stop busing in students from other areas.
I guess the old saying is true, “Two steps forward, one step back.” We shall see where this ends up.
Sheila
Feb 03
Topic: Updates|
Georg Wihelm said, “Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” I have had a renewed passion for my photography! I have always enjoyed taking pictures but I had never really set out to create a series or a portfolio. I am working on several projects right now that are a lot of fun and I am learning in the process.
Last night we were out at the Tempe Market Place. They have several fountains throughout the center. One specific fountain has a fireplace on one end with the water flowing at the other. The water is illuminated by different colored lighting (as seen here)!
This morning I woke up and immediately went outside in my pjs and took pictures. I am hoping to edit those images tomorrow so that I can get them posted for whoever would like to take a look. I have a small water fountain in the backyard and was able to capture water droplets in motion.
Look for more water pictures to follow!
You can always check out the photos at Flickr.
Enjoy…
