Quick Find!

Found this picture and added a different watermark per the suggestion of a dear friend of mine, which helped me because I needed to update my watermark anyways. 

Location- White Sands New Mexico just outside of Alamogordo 

A Couple New Shots!!!

Christmas rolled around and I got a lovely little Nikon Easy Share Digital Camera from my amazing Dad! I love taking pictures, something of which I have been lacking lately :( but with this New Year I'm really going to try and take more! Starting this weekend! Maybe I can book a photo shoot or two, at least one would be nice! Back to the camera :) .... I've taken many a picture with it so far and I LOVE the panorama application on the camera! I've always wanted to do a nice quality panorama shot but I don't have the capability to stitch photos together, though this camera does it for me!!!! 

Here is what it does! 

View of the Ruidoso Mountains from Capitan New Mexico 

Shortly after Christmas we have New Years!!! The time for celebration, drinking (if that's what you do), coming up with new resolutions to make this year better than the last. During this time of celebration it's quick, loud, totally and completely random yet beautiful all at one time. This next picture isn't one of those oooohhhh ahhhhh pictures but I think it captures New Years in an appropriate manner, or at least it captured how my New Years went at a friends house, as we played Xbox and danced like crazy people and lined up plastic toy soldiers on the floor. 

It's not a crystal clear image, and I prefer it not be. New Years is a quick passing memory of fun and joy, hope and passion, dreams and desires.... whimsical in a way. 

been a while

Just a quick little hello to anyone who reads my blog. Sorry it's been a while since I've written, I'm really going to try and work on writing more often. Big news going on in my life, I'm going to California for my very first Vacation to see my Aunt! I'll be taking pictures the entire time and will do my best to update you on what I'm doing and post pictures of what I see :) I'm very very exciting to be going!!! Have a lovely day!

Nothing about Photography Today

Discovered a new website http://pinterest.com/ -- great place to find creative idea's for used objects at home, also a wonderful place to get outfit idea's if your a girl. Cooking ideas, organization ideas and soo much more. I've been surfing it for hours and plan to start doing some things at home with items I already have.

Another thing I found on the same website was this picture i'm fixing to show. This is a picture of True Beauty, an iconic, classy and loved lady.

Marilyn Monroe 

Gorgeous, Curvy, and Real! 

Anti New Year Resolutions---Day to Day Resolutions instead!

Every year we make New Year's Resolutions, though most of us never really follow through with them. And why must we wait until the New Year to decide to make changes in our life? We have 365 days in a year and we have to wait till the 1st day of January to make decisions on what needs to be changed???!!! We should be making these decisions every day whether it's wanting to eat better and lose weight which is what...everybody's goal plan (getting kinda pointless really). I say that because we are all fine the way we are. If you eat correctly to begin with and if you do some sort of work out during the week your fine. Size 0 to a Size 16 and up! We were not all created to be one size, the same size, the same body, or the same person because that would get boring pretty darn fast. Other New Year's Resolutions could be to start saving money...yeah, we do that everyday folks!
Here's a new idea! Make small goals each day. Making breakfast, lunch or dinner instead of buying it. Spend more time with family...as long as they live close it shouldn't be that hard (something I'm trying to work on). Spend time with friends, just because you are with friends doesn't mean you have to spend money either, or drink till your death, or eat bad foods...just hang out and shoot the shit people! Go outside!!!! -I've found myself enjoying being outside more often than being inside unless I'm dog tired, or it's cold. Listen to music, read a book, write a song, decorate your place, etc etc. To Hell with New Year's Resolutions, lets make Day to Day Resolutions! that's my new idea and i'm stickin to it! :)

Rambles...

I haven't blogged in a while, my life has been crazy and it's starting to run me down. I work a lot, I don't get enough sleep and I hold onto things wayyy to long when I should just let it go. However I did recently move into a new lovely, non smelly, and considerably larger apartment that I now call home. I'm in the process of making it my own and even though the move in was kind of frustrating with a few WTF moments, I was able to survive the chaos and enjoy the apartments simple beauty. :)
Among other things that have happened, I talked with an old friend of mine the other day, and it was sort of enlightening. I realized how much I do judge people, specially her and I had to stop and actually look at the entire situation. Yes I still hold a few things against her from the past because words that were said truly did hurt, and yes I don't always agree with the things she does but she is who she is and I will always consider her a friend and love her no matter what. I realized that in a way she really is living the life that many of us would love to live. Though in a way she isn't. Constant searching for something I fear she has lost herself. For I too have gone through a similar situation but I found my feet again. I know what I want to do but I also know it's going to take time and I have other responsibilities that come first.
On a lighter note: my photography business is picking up again :)
-Photos of children at a daycare
-Photos of birthday parties
-Family photos
-And of course my random ventures out into the world to take pictures the way i see things.

Here is one of my favorite pictures from the other day ....

This is the beautiful baby Gavin on his 1st birthday! 

Fall 2011 - Nogal Canyon New Mexico 

A few thoughts

It's 12:57 p.m. on a Saturday night. I'm tired, yet I haven't gone to bed yet. Lately I've been feeling a lack of... well, a lack of life. Maybe also a lack of Meaning. I know that I help people during the day, but what am I doing for myself? Not a whole lot really. I'm working  a lot. Which is fine, I need the money. I laugh at that line though because every person overly tired, cranky, unhappy, and antisocial is an over worked person caught up in the crazy web of society...and they always say "i need the money". That though, truthfully isn't a lie. With out that silly green piece of paper we couldn't have anything.
Anyways, I have the next two days off, kinda...I still work Monday but not until 5:30. So, in the mean time..I am going to try and do things for myself, the first thing...get some sleep! After that, start doing yoga again, eating healthy like I love to do, read a book or two, take some pictures, Go HIKING!! and last but certainly not least, I really miss looking at the stars.
If you read this, who ever you are...please remember to take time for yourself :) We only have one life on this planet, and why waist it in the constant battle for paper.