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Waterfall #2

Scrivener April 9th, 2008

Waterfall #2, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

A dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being

Scrivener April 8th, 2008

A dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

Our first day camping it was chilly and damp.

March 2008 Mosaic

Scrivener April 1st, 2008

March 2008 Mosaic, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

So we’re only a quarter of the way through 2008 and it’s becoming difficult to come up with more self-portrait ideas each day. I’m getting a little sick of taking pictures of myself, which means this is where the project really starts to push me, right? There weer definitely stretches in March where I thought I had nothing really to do and that my pictures would be lame, but looking at the images from this month, I think most of them are pretty decent, and there is at least one picture from each week that I really like.

1. 3.1: Stress is a perverted relationship to time, 2. 3.2: Express what’s in your heart., 3. 3.3: Waiting for Wilco to go on, 4. 3.4: Strep throat, 5. 3.5 Still strep throat, 6. 3.6: My life’s not *all* zaniness & glamor, 7. 3.7: Zany, 8. 3.8: C, 9. 3.9: whiskered, 10. 3.10: Milk shake toast, 11. 3.11: All our days here are unsure, 12. 3.12: The end of a very long day, 13. 3.13: Butterflies, 14. 3:14: SP with jump rope, camera bag, and a bottle of beer, 15. 3.15: I make my bed, I change the sheets, 16. 3.16: Cuz you will never stop looking and I will never stay, 17. 3.17: Sorry!, 18. 3.18: moustache, 19. 3.19: Fallen in too, 20. 3.20: I survived, 21. 3.21: How it shakes and how it glows, 22. 3.22: Mud, 23. 3.23: Waiting for the hint of a spark, 24. 3.24: Tired of living in a cloud, 25. 3.25: So long, 26. 3.26: How can anybody know?, 27. 3.27: camping in the living room, 28. 3.28: in the hearts of men, 29. 3.29: Stop counting on that camera, 30. 3.30: Silly faces, 31. 3.31: There are spaces open and wide

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Excitement for classmate

Scrivener March 27th, 2008

Excitement for classmate, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

I attended (another) awards ceremony at Eldest’s school this morning. I’m glad to see how proud she is of herself for winning awards and how happy she is to have me at these things, but I think my favorite thing is watching her get so excited for the other students in her class for their awards.

ghost stories

Scrivener March 27th, 2008

ghost stories, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

Good things for the week

Scrivener March 14th, 2008

I have been pretty-much hired (i.e., we have a verbal agreement that I’ll do it but haven’t settled on how much I’ll charge, but I’m fairly certain we can work it out) to take photos at a child’s birthday party next month. Very cool.
My friend Ellis showed me a few new tricks in Bridge to use when converting from camera RAW that will make a big difference in streamlining my processing. Almost exactly a year ago, I couldn’t do anything at all with Photoshop Elements, and now I’m starting to feel like I’m halfway competent with CS3.
Earlier this week, I tried out an idea from jo(e) with the kids: speed cleaning (I can’t remember if it was in a post and I’m not going to hunt around for links right now). I set an alarm to go off in 10 minutes and told the kids that our job was to clean as fast as we possibly could for 10 minutes, then we could stop and have a snack. They had fun racing against each other and in less then 10 minutes they had done a pretty good job of straightening up their room and I had done a pretty decent job of straightening mine up. I’m planning to make this a weekly thing.
Lots of exhausting dissolution meetings in the last week, so I’ve been pretty wiped out, but there has been progress toward an endpoint, which is a good thing.
I have not improved much with the guitar of late, but I have stuck with it through all the chaos enough that I least I haven’t gone backward I think, and I think that’s not a bad accomplishment.
I’m singing in the church choir, which is fun, but crazy-weird given that before a couple of weeks ago the only people I had ever sung to at all were my two kids.
Apple pie and ice cream, always a good idea.

February Mosaic

Scrivener February 29th, 2008

I spent last year, in my Project 365 learning new ways of seeing through photography. Lots of my fellow 365ers have said one way or another that they are looking to learn different ways of seeing, too.

You know what the difference, for me, between Project 365: 2007 and my self-portrait Project 366 is? This year, I am learning how to be seen. Which means, first and foremost, to be willing to see myself.