11 posts tagged “photos”
I appear to be in a spontaneous "sharing" mood right now, and it's been ages since I posted any new pictures at all. I don't really change much, and I'm not much of a picture person anyway, so I guess I don't see the point a lot of the time. However, I'm sure it's nice for my friends to be able to see that there's a real person on the other end of all this babbling now and again.
That's just a little webcam capture from a few minutes ago -- nothing fancy. No make-up, no postwork or clean-up in Photoshop. Just me as I looked sitting in front of my computer working on a project a few minutes ago. It's the very same me you would have seen if you were sitting here with me.
Back when I used to be more into posting photos and whatnot, I used to go through lots of trouble to look stunning and all, but these days I guess I'm just not that into spending a lot of time on my looks every morning. I really don't have it to spend these days, so I tend to save make-up and extra fuss for days when I'm going somewhere and planning to be around the general public.
To be honest, I think I look fine without make-up. I don't know how or why, but I apparently haven't aged a day since high school. All that's changed about me even somewhat recently is my hair length. Right now, it appears to be a mere six inches away from being waist-length in the back and that's after this morning's trim. I swear my hair grows faster and thicker than a garden full of weeds.
Not that you can see much of it in that photo, but I'm also wearing the infamous pink dress today. With pearls, no less. I feel like the mixed race woman's answer to Bree from Desperate Housewives. (Since you can't see but a peek of the whole dress, and I'm too lazy at this point in the day to go take more pictures of it right now, you'll just have to take my word for it.)
"Normal person" colors aren't nearly as bad as I always thought they were. I actually feel awfully cute today despite the fact that I'm not wearing anything black. I also feel a lot less like I need to get in a time machine and book it all the way back to winter. All part of my attempt to actually give spring a chance this year. I think I'm ready.
Today turned out to be a pretty decent hair day despite the disgustingly jungular weather we're having today, and I will be needing some to work from for a painting I plan on making in the near future, so I decided to take a couple of pictures. (Yes, I made up the word "jungular". I have such a strong need to be unique that I can't just say "hot and humid" or even "jungle-like".) It's been a while since my last self portrait day anyway, so here's what I look like today!
This first one I just really like, and I'll probably wind up using it for the artwork. I feel like I look like one of those old cameos you see sometimes. Not everyone would consider that a good thing, but I'm disgustingly enthralled by the idea of anything old-fashioned, so I do.
Then there's this other one that I also kind of liked. You can see more of my face. I didn't clean these up as much as I normally do, since I feel the late-afternoon lazies coming on, and they were taken with the intention of being used for painting reference anyway. Still, I think they look perfectly decent for blogging purposes.
These are a couple of days old actually, but it's been a while since the last time I posted any pictures just from "every day life". We were out for a little drive on Saturday enjoying the world as it is when it's just been thoroughly rained on and we spotted this cool little tower thingy we'd never seen before. It looked like a nice place to stop for a stroll, so we did just that. It was called Fox Tower, and it appeared to be a war memorial of some sort.
I actually like this picture the best of the batch. Seth describes it on his My Space as me listening to the voices of the war veterans... hee hee.
My arthritis was acting up because of the rain, so I was walking around using my umbrella as a walking stick. This is me in front of the tower.
My hair looks terrible in this picture, but I like it anyway. The rain is lovely, but it's not so nice for impossibly curly hair that one prefers to wear straight, you know? There are more important things in life though, right? So hoorah for freedom, justice, and umbrellas decorated with Tudor cats!
And Seth personally happens to think democracy rocks!
Maybe he's thinking about it right here!
There were also some short videos I took with my phone on the same day just of the scenery and just some silliness, since video is apparently one of my new capabilities. They're nothing mind-blowing and they're only about 15 seconds each, but they are uploaded to my video section at my My Space for people who are interested.
This photo is kind of doing double duty.... both as another installment for my ongoing self-portrait project and as my "homework" that I assigned everyone in my Live Journal a couple of days ago. (For those of you not on my Live Journal list, the assignment was basically to take a self portrait as a character you invented or as one aspect of yourself separated from all the others.)
This isn't way out there from what I normally look like in my photos, but it is actually me as a character I dreamed about the other night. The character's name was Strawberry Bess. Personality-wise, she seemed to be an amalgam of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wicked Queen from Snow White. She seemed young, but she was actually thousands of years old. She dressed all in red and picked strawberries all day long. However, the strawberries she picked were all poisoned. She was apparently the only one who could touch them. She was not a ghost or a fairy, but it was clear in the dream that she was actually a part of me... of my spirit. The strawberries seemed to be Bess's thoughts and the things that she knew. At least that was the impression I got.
The dream itself apparently came about because of a number of things from the day before, as is often the way with dreams. We had been to the grocery store recently and bought strawberries (some of which you can see in the photo) and I had been eating them for lunch. I do love strawberries! They remind me strongly of early childhood because my grandmother used to always have fresh ones that she cut up and sprinkled with sugar for me. To this day, the smell or taste of strawberry makes me feel happy and at peace... like a kid again. Also, I had just gotten Tori Amos's American Doll Posse album, and the concept of all the different aspects of Tori that made up the Posse itself probably made me dream of Bess.
So it occurred to me today that there hasn't been a self portrait included in one of my entries in a while. As with pretty much everything else about me, I kind of have to be in the mood. So much for the "one a day" notion... but then I kind of knew from the start that "one a day" would probably average out to "a few a month". I'm not much of a photo whore, but every so often I feel moved to share.
In case you're one of the many who is staring at that rubber duck in the picture and wondering what the hell that's about, he's one of a bunch of neat little gifts Seth bought me at the mall over the weekend. I just love baths, and I love fun little things to float around in the tub or things that smell great that I can add to the water. I've always wanted some rubber duckies, but I've never actually had any, so now not only do I have some, but they have horns... and little red tails... and my cat is terribly suspicious of them which makes me laugh heartily. So yes, I now take baths with Rubber Ducks of Questionable Virtue! You really do learn more about your on-line friends every day, like it or not, don't you?
So these are a few days old... from last Friday if memory serves. It was atrociously late in coming, but we finally had our first significant snowfall this winter, and because I love the snow so much, Seth and I have started a little tradition of going out for a walk together in it if we're home together when it happens. It was very late at night when we noticed how hard it was snowing, so these aren't as clear as they might be, but I figured my friends might enjoy them anyway.
I'm trying to make good on my promise to post more pictures this year, don't you know. I would have posted these sooner, but Seth installed a new, much faster computer for me over the weekend and the photos, as well as my Photoshop program, are still on my old one. As a result, I'm kind of styling with two computers and using both, at least until I can get everything transferred over to the new one.
Seth took this of one of the very Narnia-esque lamp posts we have here where we live. I absolutely love this shot. There's just something about it.
This is me, standing underneath another one of said lamp posts. It was snowing quite profusely, so you can see that I also have my umbrella and my floor-length leather coat even if you can't make out much else.
Here is another of me. I think I look rather wraith-like here. Not altogether a bad thing. I certainly feel like one sometimes. I'm jsut so grateful that the snow finally came. At least I'll have the memory of one surreally beautiful night, even if it is the only one like it this winter.
It occured to me that I really hadn't done one of the self portraits I was supposed to be doing on a daily basis since November 1st. The only reason I remember that is that I distinctly remember taking it on the first day of NaNoWriMo. So much for doing one every day, huh? Exactly my reason for promising nothing when I started the project in the first place, as some will no doubt remember. For some reason I had both energy, time, and inclination to take a few new pictures today though. Most of them weren't anything special, but I really do like what the sun is doing to my hair in this one. I do so love having red hair, and I'm in love with this new shade I just tried.
Lately I have, for some reason, been bursting with excess creative energy even though it's been a while since I did any new art, or put fingers to keys in an effort to write. I think it's that Seth and I have been really attentive when it comes to nutrition lately, religiously taking various vitamins and dietary supplements and such. We've both been feeling great as a result. I personally have two poems almost completely written out in my head. I just need to commit to translating them into actual language so that I may share them with others. As for art, I can't even tell you how many ideas are chasing each other's tails in circles around the inside of my brain case.
Yes, I know... not-so-hot cell phone picture, but really too cute not to share, especially since I am well aware that I don't post nearly enough photos (or blogs for that matter). Elle became fascinated with this little Ziploc full of over-the-counter medications Seth keeps in his bag, and I happened to have my camera phone handy at the time, as I was fooling around with my wallpapers and such.
One of my official New Year's resolutions is to try to blog more and post more in general, so sometime today I plan on writing down some year's end thoughts, reflections, and maybe even some resolutions for next year. It's a miracle.
Granted these aren't my every day pair, but they are certainly one of my favorites. I originally bought them because they looked like something Rita Hayworth would wear, and well... who wouldn't want to channel Rita Hayworth every once in a while? I love being a housewife, but I absolutely refuse to become one of the grey, frousy, blah variety you see shuffling up and down the aisles at the Safeway, so every once in a while, you will catch me wearing shoes like those, a really cute dress with cute stockings, or a really wonderful-smelling perfume for no real reason. I don't need one, I guess. I don't get this whole mentality where women will make themselves pretty and feminine for perfect strangers, but never just for themselves. In my opinion, the number one person you should always be trying to impress is yourself. Not that there aren't lazier days where I'd rather sit around in sweats instead, but you probably get the picture. Feeling pretty and elegant can make such a huge difference in how you feel on any given day.
