BrokenDoll

I haven't slept in....well I have infact lost count of the hours at this point. I have however accomplished quite a bit. I did some coding for my site, organized & edited some photos, and wrote a list of things to challenge myself with my camera's this coming week. Though I still can't find my 50mm lens, which I need for one of the projects.

I went like gangbusters and scanned in over 100 photos not realizing that I had left it on 600dpi after the initial 2 that needed that high of a resolution. No big I thought, until I started to edit them and some of them were just a mess. I guess I have to expect this kind of flub with no sleep, haha.

I am not sure if the new theme will be up, but on Monday @ 12pm PST  my "Photo of the Day" will officially restart!

I doubt anyone really reads this crap. I guess I need to branch out and make lot's of new vox friends.
The photo below was a long exposure taken down the driveway/alley way to the beach. The only light that was on was coming from the window and patio on the right. It  was all great until it got windy and the shutter snapped. But I like this photo because of the strong orange and greys in it.

Lookingdowndrive

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Not only don't we walk in LA, apparently we do not sleep either. Sometimes this can be a blessing in disguise. You know those times when you can sneak about your city and capture things that no one else sees while it is bathed in the beautiful dawn light. But alas my week of sleep depervation has not been due to fun photo expeditions it on the other hand has been triggered by stress & migraines. Migraines are never fun, not even the drugs you get to take with them are fun. They don't work either.

So I have decided to upload some of the photos I will be using on BrokenDoll as part of my photo of the day that people seem to really enjoy. They are much smaller here than they will be over there, so feel free to check out that site in the coming weeks.

I have finally visualized what I want the site to look like and that is fabulous. This means a lot of code tweaking. Normally I would be excited and challenged by this and take it on full force. Not right now though, right now it all seems like a burden. I think it has something to do with 1. losing about 8 years worth of material and 2. doing so much stuff for other people it just isn't fun anymore. Same thing with my photography. I realized that the more of a job it became the less of a fun thing it was. Though I have not lost the passion for either they just seem to be on hold.
This is what I am loving about vox right now I can just sign in and go!

Mushroom

Upon rising today I was overcome with the passion to once again create. I spent most of the day putting all my otherwise random thoughts onto paper. I came out with a nice little list of things I would have never thought to photograph and places I would have never thought to go.

I think sometimes having LA right in front of me makes me very indifferent to it all together. So I figure I will jump in the car and go elsewhere to grab back some of that creativity I feel that I have lost in the last year or so.

I realized a big part of why I was no even bothering to do anything for myself was because I had taken what I I loved doing and started doing it professionally. It dawned on me during one of the gazillion senior portraits I did this year. So now I am going to take a little of that back form myself. Try new techniques in both pre & post production. Try new ideas all together and get my head back into the space where all I see is beauty around me, not just people and traffic.

Heinbottle1

Am I the only one who dreads the downloading and editing of photos. I used to love it. You couldn't hold me back from it. I would go out for a day and by days end my photos would be up on my site.

This year though it seems in rebuilding my site, I am a big ol procrastinator! It is not that I don't have anything to say or show or even redesigning a new theme. I have plenty of ideas, photos, and code worked on....it just seems that I almost dread the whole internet, haha.

Lets hope this changes. Any suggestions from anyone out there?  

I never thought I would join yet another "social networking" type site for the simple fact that I really didn't like the options most of them had. I have the obligatory myspace and facebook and twitter. I use each for different things. I even have my own weblog online. But none of them seem to have the good privacy set up that vox does.

After researching it in 2006 I held off until now. I feel like it is the right time to become part of the vox community. I like the freedom of being able to have family, friends, business associates and new online people with the same interests in one place and being able to include them in 1 or all my postings. It just makes sense.

One of the biggest reasons I finally switched on is because I noticed that through twitter I was making tons of new friends, ones who like myself didn't really dig myspace and usually (as do I) only have a face book for family and real life close friends. I am hoping that this will allow me to get to know many of those friends better!