Monday, January 2, 2012

iPhoneography Mission #18: Falling Flat

This past week's iPhoneography mission was to "Study the texture of natural objects."

Meh.

I kind of fell flat on this one. We did so much running around this week. Much of my time was spent in the car, spent visiting and not thinking about photography, or spent sprawled out on the sofa. The times when I was working on creative endeavors were fairly plentiful, but my iPhoneography mission only crossed my mind a couple of times. I don't know if it just didn't inspire me like it should have or if I was just to focused elsewhere.

Now, that all being said, I did fulfill my mission in a couple of different ways...

The extreme closeup of textures:

Poinsetta Petal, Curled

My favorite of all nature's textures:

Psychedelic Skies

Mix-and-match textures:

Gnarled Wood by Stream

And finally, my favorite, animal textures:

Grizzled

I am very much looking forward to the next mission. Partly because I look forward to all of them! And partially because I want to do a better job this week! Now that I'll be going back to a routine, I can better manage my efforts!

Have a beautifully textured day!




Sunday, January 1, 2012

2012: A Year of Awesome!

New Year! New beginnings! New ideas and thoughts and endeavors and beauty and magic!

It is going to be an awesome year!

To start the year, I began with The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder (Thank you, Laura!). It is a book of daily thoughts, musings, prompts, quotes, and myriad other things to get one to embrace the awe that each day can bring us.

"Today I get to....consider all the possibilities!"

What will 2012 bring? What new experiences will I have? What new ideas? I'm trying not to plan, per se; I'm just trying to imagine all the wonder of the year to come!

New Thought (to be thought in 15-second increments throughout the month): "I am better than this."

I am hoping that can be my mantra in those moments when my red-headed roots rear their tempestuous heads. I can be quick to fury and indignation; I'd like to better quell that in 2012.

What Worked in 2011: Barn images, opening up, putting myself out there, compliments, being real, giving in to the muse.

I'm going to stick with all of those for the coming year!

I can't wait to see what awaits in these next twelve months!

Upward, Just Reach