3 years together

Today outside was cloudy and cold, this wasted our plans to stay a whole day out taking pictures.

I wanted to try to plant two sunflower seeds. One comes from the present I received from the webmaster for my 21st birthday. The other is one year younger because I  hadsaved the “present fruits” and planted eight of them in following spring.

I had the luck to see a little sunflower blooming at the end of November and still looking nice in December, why shouldn’t they bloom a few days away from spring? We’ll see what happens.

These 2 little sunflower seeds, challenged by the weather conditions, remind me so many events that, I’d really love to see them blooming.

The ring is our promise ring and is two years old now. I love the way the numbers three and two repeated for several reasons today.

That’s me…

Nonessential, unusual and inefficient

Probably the only one in this place and time, and stronger than I appear. Probably not.

Definitely alive, real and loved

The story of the unusual sunflower

Hi!
I am a sunflower that has been planted in a wrong period and place (September in Sicily).

I’ve taken more than 2 months to grow a few centimeters.

There have been cold, dry and warm days.

At the end of September, when I was only a sprout came a very terrible storm at night, and a girl run outside, under the rain, in order to save me and my 2 little brothers living in another vase. Her mother yelled at her saying: “What did you do there?! You are all wet now!”

An animal ate all my first leaves, and this probably slowed down my growth.

In October there have been terrible rainy days that cooled air and killed my brothers, but I kept on going ahead.

I gave up growing too much. I gave up becoming as majestic as were my parents in July. I only wanted to live and do my best and enjoy and use every single ray of light that hit me.

A few days ago came very warm days that made me able to grew a little more but…

I started lacking of water. “Were was gone that girl? She no longer come outside checking me… I need water”.

2 days ago she saw me. She gave me water, she cared of me… I finally bloomed today.

Nobody believed I would have ever bloomed or survived, except that girl.

At first I hated her, I was suffering and wondering: Why did she plant me in such a wrong place and period?
I don’t know the answer.

Other people come and smile or laugh at me saying “Oh! You bloomed in a wrong period my dear” or saying “Oh! How small you are”.

I’ll never be majestic because I’ve been planted in the wrong period and place, but…

I’m alive and I’ve lived longer and seen seasons that all my other relatives have never seen.

I saw that girl smiling proud of me.

I won my little battle.

Strating from the color to (occasionally) end up with B&W

I love colors and till a few years ago  I’ve usually considered kinda ridiculous to take pictures in Black and White… unless there is a specific will, for example:

-”I want to make the picture look old”

- “I want to play with editing photos program”

- “I want to see how it looks like”, etc…

I found pretty annoying people that say “B&W is MORE artistic…”. Every time some told me such a thing I had to “bite my toungue” to not start asking: “What do you mean by “more artistic”? Why don’t you just say “I like B&W more”?”

I don’t have many B&W pictures… except those one that are”low key shots” (or kinda) like this:

or because, for some reason that I don’t know a picture seemed telling me:

“I might look nice in B&W, try”.

Thanks Lord taking pictures is not something that follows a 100% logical path, it’s a lot based on instinct (or feelings if you wanna be a little more “romantic”).

I NEVER take shots directly in B&W, even when I think that I’ll  turn that picture in a B&W one. Why? 2 simple reason.

1) A man I trust a lot (as a photographer) once told me that it works better if you take your pictures in raw and color mode. So the first cause is that I’m able to “trust”.

2) I’m a dreamer (or unsure) kind of person: I always think that later I might enjoy that shot more in color than in B&W, so “Why should I cut a chance of a better beauty in my life?”

Here I’m just telling my “way to be” with no intention of teaching something… How could I?
I’m the “living abortion” of a physicist and an i-photographer (imaginary photographer) who knows pretty few about post production and quite nothing about photography history… therefore my words worth quite nothing in both worlds, but I do think that I might share “Beauty I see”, therefore I’ll keep on taking this blog. At least it helps me to not get crazy and start hating life

Enjoy your life!

The bending sunflower

Today I worked on 2 pictures, one was an “HDR” work (well, not properly and HDR , but probably close enough…):

(well, not properly and HDR , but probably close enough…)

This picture has been taken on July 10th 2009, as the following 3 pictures, that I edited on July 13th.

And this:

The second one I edited today.
It reminded me that in the following days it fully bloomed and… I just ignored it because I just become unable to take any other pictures… seems like this last sunflower knew its destiny and started opening in a way that it already can seem dead or, just bending in front of something it cannot control…

And, except for a picture, I haven’t take so “colorful” and “detailed” pictures since that day.

It’s weird, so weird!

Just playing with a picture…

No words…

…at the moment!

Love!

Too sweet? Naah!
Pure truth!

All the Sunday spent to talk with friends and to “work” on the site, I built a couple of galleries (“Sunflowers” in Flowers and “Sea” in Panoramas) added the 6th picture the People gallery, “created” the play button and wrote the sentence to write in the main page and at the end of the intro.

My boyfriend had built the intro some days ago, he completed it today and put what I told him to put before and after it…but I didn’t tell him how to do it.
Few minutes later I found the site completed. COOL! He has been able to choose where to write and to put things better than I ever could!
Today he has also changed the site structure in general… but there are too technical notes for my “little poor simple” mind

He is a genius, terrible at times but what I would do without him?! ;D
And… he can give unexpected amazing present, alike this one…

that is his present for my 21st birthday.

So, it’s official, everything is done, I have just to complete galleries.

GREAT!

One wonderful week of work.

I have never felt this way (so well) since… I cannot remember when.
It doesn’t matter! What matter is that my boyfriend is still beside me (despite I am really terrible at times) and we can do a lot of nice (imho) things together!

Have a wonderful Monday!