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Colorsplash

Posted in creativity, from the dark room, photography on January 10, 2010| 2 Comments »

I got an ipod touch for Christmas and one of the apps I downloaded is called “colorsplash”. Oh, it’s such fun! You load up a photo, it turns it into a black and white version then you use your finger to “paint” back the colour.
Here are my first attempts. I hope you like them….

This app reminded me just how important it is to have some fun in life, to just play sometimes, just for the creative pleasure of it. This week’s been a difficult week for traveling due to the snow and ice, but one of my train journeys home flew by as I made these four photos.

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Clearing up

Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, personal growth, photography on January 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

This is a time of year when we think about our lives isn’t it? A time for doing some clearing up, getting things in order, making plans, decisions, resolutions and so on…..

I was passing through the main market square in Aix in the other day and suddenly I saw just how beautiful clearing up could be! Yeah, sure, you can look at a scene like this and see a horrendous pile of garbage…..but then, just pause, look again…..don’t you think this scene is incredibly appealing?

You can see where this is going, can’t you? 2010? A better year? A year where we tackle what needs tackled? Where we clear up what we don’t want cluttering our lives any more? Make good choices this year.

And, hey, even if you don’t do that…..at least I challenge you to see the beauty, the wonder, the “emerveillement” all around you, every, single, day.

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playing with words

Posted in from the dark room, photography, writing on January 2, 2010| 5 Comments »

I do enjoy word play…..finding other meanings in phrases, or words which sound similar, for example. One thing I really notice about French is how they often love to find the words within words, breaking down a word into separate sounding parts and revealing a relevant meaning within. Here’s a simple example I spotted the other day

You get the idea? This one works because the French don’t pronounce “th” except as a “t”, so for them “therapy” is “terapy”. This is a key part of their word play which is based on what the words sound like.
This was a holistic massage office, by the way.

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New Year’s wishes?

Posted in from the dark room, photography on January 1, 2010| 1 Comment »

So what are your hopes, wishes, goals for 2010?

Here’s a few suggested by a shop I passed in Aix en Provence……..

Need a translation?

Opulence

Extravagance

Sensuality

Treasures

Elegance

Love

For 2010

…….how different would be your list?

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Blue moon

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 31, 2009| 2 Comments »

well, here it is…..a blue moon.
You weren’t expecting it actually look BLUE were you?
A blue moon is the second full moon in the same calendar month. This one just makes it – I took the photo at 3 minutes to midnight – so it was only a blue moon for three minutes longer!
Next blue moon on a New Year’s Eve? 2028!

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just snoozing….

Posted in from the dark room, photography on December 28, 2009| 3 Comments »

When I arrived back at the flat, I saw this man lying in the wheelbarrow. “There’s been a MURDUR!” I heard Taggart growl in my ear! But, no, he wasn’t dead, just snoozing…….half an hour later he was up on the roof repairing broken tiles….