I'm learning my camera this week. The shot above was taken this morning in my bedroom. I shoot mainly in manual and aperture-priority but now I am learning shutter-priority and it is fun! I'm zipping around the house taking test-shots of things with different shutter speeds and various white balances. I really want to know what I'm doing when I get to Jordan, and seeing as the technical functions of my camera aren't my forte-I am studying hard. I'm more of a point and shoot kind of gal, in aperture-priority mode. I will be on this trip with people that swamp me in technical knowledge and gear, so I'll be "the little engine that could" hanging on for dear life! Wish me luck I only have a few months to really know what I'm doing.
I have some link love today;
Gallery Thirty One, a twenty-photo essay about the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico.
This ornament would make a startlingly beautiful addition to any festive tree!
We are heading out to get a turkey today, and all the trimmings (so they are as fresh as can be) for tomorrows little gathering at our house for Thanksgiving. I'm no Martha, but I want to make it a pretty presentation.
How many times have you judged, without trying to see both sides of the story? Or bought into a single story of a person or place? There is danger in a single story.
One of my best friends lives here. What a hip city! I have her, her husband & daughter on my "must visit" list. Her and I try to talk on the phone a few times a week, it is our time to vent & laugh. You can read a little more about her here.
Happily reading the following:
Digital Rebel XTi/400D Digital Field Guide
Paulo Coelho's BRIDA
Paulo Coelho's THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
Here is a snippet of one (that fits beautifully with Day of the Dead celebrations):
XCII
My love, if I die and you don't die,
my love, if you die and I do not,
let us not give pain more territory:
there is no expanse like the one we lived.
Dust in the wheat, sand in the sands
of time, the wandering water, the lazy wind
carried us like sailing grain.
We might not have found each other within time.
This prairie in which we find ourselves,
oh small infinity! we give back.
But love, this love has not ended,
and just as it had no birth
it has no death, it is like a long river,
it only changes lands and lips.
(Yes, there are 100 like that in this book. Such delicious words!)
Last but certainly not least...I'm topping off my list with Frommer's Los Angeles 2009.
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Have a love infused week. Stay true to who you are; bow down to no one...forgive yourself mistakes you've made and pledge to learn from them. Embrace new opportunity. Carve out a new niche for yourself. Study something new...the brain thrives when you feed it new information, so give it a good old fashioned work-out. Sleep well, eat well, and take brisk walks. Remember how important your contribution is, don't diminish yourself with pity, or self doubt.
xoxo






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