50 just seemed like a good age to start blogging again if for no other reasons than to help me remember and help me appreciate my life. Thank you for being here with me.
yosemite
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
I remember when we moved here in 2015, I said to myself “I can’t wait to go to Yosemite and Ansel Adam’s my way through it!”Almost nine years later, I finally went and it did not disappoint. Let me start by saying I recognize I am no Ansel Adams. I wouldn’t even be able to take an image on the type of camera he shot with. That said, I love landscape photography and tried my best to capture images that resembled his. Honestly, I think it’s almost impossible to take a bad picture in Yosemite, it’s just that beautiful. Since I haven’t really acknowledged the obvious, I have a boyfriend. His name is Olivier and he is a really great human, we went together to celebrate his birthday. Olivier has like 47 cameras (kidding), all film, so we nerded out and tried our best not to completely ruin his film… the jury is still out on that. If you get the opportunity to check out the park, do it, it’s amazing. Here are some of my favorite images from our time there, I hope you enjoy them.
Please don’t use any of my images without permission, reach out.
busts, soups and lions
“Some of us want soup. Others want soup. Still others prefer soup.”
—Percy Keese Fitzhugh
No one is more is more surprised than me that I’ve actually stuck to this self imposed challenge. I didn’t have much faith when I actually made the decision to try this, but I’m learning, if I don’t keep promises I make to myself, I will never truly trust myself. So, here I am on week three and I’ve shot every single day. As you can see, some are just “filler” pictures, a way of keeping the promise, but phoning it in. It’s been raining a ton here, and I’m not trying to make an excuse, but I’m not taking this camera out in the pouring rain. I’m left to shoot inside, it’s amazing how boring everything you own becomes when you need to shoot an interesting picture. All the deets are below the pictures with links to recipes and what-nots.
With love,
Rebecca
tea, poo, and stew
“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
—C.S. Lewis
Holy crap, I made it another week! I’m sure it doesn’t seem like much, but trust me, it is. I’m forcing myself to shoot with my professional camera instead of my phone, which isn’t as convenient, obviously. I like it though, it’s helping me to be more creative when I can. I wrote the deets of the pictures below… I included some links as well..
Here’s to keeping promises to myself.
Rebecca
roses, rain, and teenage angst
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
—Kari Barth
I gave myself a challenge. I’d like to take a picture a day using my big camera (not my iPhone). I’ve kinda fallen out of love with photography and I’d like to see if I can reignite the passion I once had for it. I’m going to share my weekly images in the hopes that I’ll stick with it. I have a tendency to start and stop things.. (enter coughing sound). I have high hopes, I’m all in and then I have an off day, or I’m PMS’d or, or, or… enter any number of excuses. So here are the images I took this week. A couple of them were just snapshots of nothing in an attempt to stick with it. It’s harder than it seems. If you’re reading this and you want to try to challenge yourself to do it with me, I would love it. Even if all you have is your phone, try it. Let me know how it’s going. (Description of each image below)
Here’s to finding joy (again) in the things I once loved.
Rebecca
wish me luck
“If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.”
—Robert Brault
I have started and stopped and started and stopped this blog more times than I care to admit. I get the inspiration and then I lose it. I feel creative and then I don’t. I wonder if anyone would even care and I always end on “no, they won’t”, and I delete everything. I second guess myself over and over and over again. It’s a cycle I’ve been in for years now.
I just signed up for a writing class and I’m using it as a reason to start this blog again. I have less than zero idea where this will take me, but I would really like to commit to this space and stick to it. Not because it’s a New Years resolution, not because I just discovered an amazing new recipe, not because I’m going on a trip, not for any other reason than I want to.
Hopefully, along the way I’ll learn a bunch of new things. Hopefully, I’ll make some new friends. Hopefully, someone will find it helpful. Whatever it ends up being, I will be happy just for doing it, even if it’s just me typing into the void, that’s ok.. it will be my journal and when I'm old and gray I can look back at this and feel happy just for trying.
Wish me luck,
Rebecca