Oh Voice, Voice - where are you?

hmmmm - assignment: finding your voice.  List ten things.  Reduce it to 3 or 4.

1. happy
2. sarcastic
3. funny thinking of combining into sarcastically funny
4. in touch with me
5. photo - of what?  is it about the photo?
6. The adventure
7. Rolling with life
8. How much is too much?
9. What to share?
10. POSITIVE (hearing my friend Lucie)
11. I don't want to be naked, but I do want to share.

Then I read Everyday Glimpses post on this assignment and decided I needed a second list about Bringing the Brave Out.

1. Baby Steps
2. or a giant leap (we all know "the net will appear")
3. It is about the adventurous journey.
4. "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Jung (in an email today from The Happiness Project (link below)
5. Be Renee (from The Happiness Project)

P.S.  I reserve the right to change, scrap and re-create at any time.

Photo: I think it is from the Chicago Art Museum.  The words are mine.  Starting to keep my eyes peeled for this light strand.

The crow & dog moments

on the way to photograph two horses

to sketch later,

I happened upon two morning moments at the pond:

crow with bug 

(didn't realize it was a bug until I downloaded the photo)

eww, but very interesting.

two swimmers, one runner

wasn't expecting the dog,

but there you have it.

BTS Focus.

modified my header a bit.  

added mission statement.

will probably change the whole thing.

learning is like that.

The Why

The BTS "Why I take online photography creative classes" - because it is the match.com for creatives. My "real life" friends (RLF), while they get and support me, are not the type who sigh when they see a beautiful photo or frantically dig in their purses for their phones to snap a quick pic or will only buy a purse if the Sony a55 fits comfortably inside .  I love them all, and couldn't live without them, but I play-play-play online.

My "Oh, I get it" story:  Three years ago, I decided, rather than try to bake cookies, nuts, bread, etc. for our holiday exchange I would take a photo, photoshop it up for the holidays and frame it for my friends.  After Christmas, I received wonderful thank you notes for the lovely frames.

This cracked me up, gosh did I laugh! They all were so sweet and a bit mortified when I later told them that the gift was the photo already in the frame.  In a way, it was kinda nice because they thought my little photo was the one that was in all the picture frames at Target.  It was really sweet, seeing the world through their eyes.  It still makes me smile.