A Peek Into My Mind

Love in the Workplace

That ribbon thingy is outside of my friend, Vijay’s cubicle. It’s funny (or ironic??) because Vijay actually met his wife at his old job!

I love hearts and keep my peepers peeped out for them. I had been staring and walking by his cubicle’s heart for a long time now, wanting to take a photograph of it. So, there it is!
Honestly, the angle of the photo could be better. Too bad I couldn’t find the angle.

…sigh

“A single rose can be my garden…
a single friend, my world.” -Leo F. Buscaglia

I walked to my friend, Kim’s cubicle to talk to her about tomorrow’s lunch when I saw a beautiful bouquet of roses sitting on her desk. Someone gave her roses in celebration of her birthday!
Kim is a cheerful, lovely lady.
And here’s one more photo & quote:

“Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside…
but there is always pain hidden somewhere.” -Unknown

The first photo makes me pensive… thoughtful. I like the focus and the water drop.
The second photo, for some weird reason makes me sad. Yellow’s supposed to be cheerful and happy, but I feel like the rose is crying. I’m weird, I know.
Is it the water droplet that’s about to fall that makes me think of tears?
Originally, i put “The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.” But the more I read the quote, the more wrong it felt. So I replaced it.

This is a redo from yesterday. I changed the photos cuz I thought they were weird. After posting the “original” photos, I drove home unhappy… just not satisfied with it. I put a lot of time into thinking how I wanted the photos to appear and what type of story I wanted to tell, but i guess the execution just wasn’t there. O well… Here are the photos without anything extra added (other than a change in color).

72 mm… Like Father, Like Daughter

So, you know how i’m always going on and on about my dad’s old SLR camera? Well, I know everyone has been super curious to see what that camera looks like, so FINALLY! FINALLY you can all see!! Oh, you didn’t really care? My bad…
When Photography 100 started, it was the first time I actually examined my dad’s camera. It was over dinner when I my interest in trying to take the scratches off my dad’s 72mm filter flared. A light bulb then lit in my head and I exclaimed, “I ALREADY HAVE A 72 mm!! That’s the filter that was needed for my lens!” So, I swapped the filters out when I used my dad’s camera to shoot around!

I’ve always had a curiosity when it came to photography. When I was still a small gal, I would always see my dad with his camera. My dad thought I would just break his camera, so he always stashed it on the very top, top, top shelf of his closet. Maybe that just fueled my curiosity even further? X-number of years later, I have the same interest as my dad.

Like father, like daughter, indeed, except for the fact that his is Minolta and I’m a Canon gal!

I’m cheating right now. It’s not Day 051, but I’m going to post something for this day. I actually took these photos over the weekend, but at the time didn’t feel like anything good resulted from it. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I do… it puts me in a melancholy mood, but not too melancholy because melancholy means: a gloomy state of mind, depression. Or if you’re using it during archaic times, it means: black bile.
Okay, so anyways… LOL.

T-Minus 28 Days and Counting

In only a few more weeks our family will have another wedding!!

Under Her Umbrella

I took my parents to the Grove in LA a few days ago. None of us have ever been there our entire lives and I wanted to buy some vegetables from the Farmers Market. Ummm… The market was definitely not what I expected. I thought there would be rows and rows of vendors selling fresh fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, etc. Instead I found 3 spots that sold fresh food and then a huge Barnes & Nobles, Forever21 and Nordstroms. L.A.! Go figure!

Anyways,
The lady with the umbrella is my mom. The weather was great the day we went. My mother is deathly afraid of getting too much UV exposure, so she always carries an umbrella to shade her. Sometimes when we go out, I get embarrassed of the umbrella and run far away from her… just to go under her umbrella later on in our outing. haha!

That’s my dad walking ahead of us.
Thanks, KB for helping me choose the effect for this photo! Woot!

Hi Guys,
A few weeks ago, I supported Kris at one of this Crossfit competitions. He’d always talk about how crazy his workouts were, so here was my chance to see if it was the real deal! And trust me, it really DID live up to the hype!!

I found two photos that I really liked, but couldn’t figure out when I was going to post them. Originally, I had thought that my “365 Days…” would involve me only posting ONE photo a day. But how silly would it look if I posted one photo one day, and then on some other, random day, I’d post another one?

So, it was unanimously decided that Tuesdays would be dubbed “Two-fer Tuesdays”.
Who unanimously decided? Well… me!

“There’s a fine line between the Taste of Victory and Vomit” – Crossfit

This is one of Kris’ friends from his gym, and that’s their gym motto.
I don’t know why they decided to capitalize “Taste”, “Victory” and “Vomit”.
I like that sweat bead running off this guy’s chin… or is it saliva from working out too much? I don’t know…

in⋅ten⋅si⋅ty: great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc.
ve⋅he⋅mence synonym: passion.

When I reviewed my photos and saw this one, the one word that came to my mind was “intensity”. I knew in my mind how I wanted to show this photo- with the definition. But I had no clue what “vehemence” meant (sounding out the word was even difficult for me), but when I looked at the synonym, I thought “PERFECT!”

According to Kris, this guy was doing a “burpee”. This is where you do a push-up, then you stand up and jump. All I know is that this guy looked like he was in pain…

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