Y2 Day 208... addicted

Fashion, flowers, nudes and portraits - they're all the same: light, form, color. And mystery. And mystery is very important. When I started photographing flowers, I thought, "My God, where have I been?" I'm totally addicted to this project. I'd never seen the mysteries of a flower. We walk by wonders every day and don't see them. We only stop at what shouts the loudest.
Barbara Bordnick

Y2 Day 207... desire

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Y2 Day 206... slice

Y2 Day 205... light

Y2 Day 204... gift

Y2 Day 203... raindrops

Y2 Day 202...

Y2 Day 201... clean desk

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Y2 Day 200... looking down

Yesterday I said... “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things”
Well I thought about it and I decided today I would look down and see what I would find

Y2 Day 199.. looking up

“When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things”
Ani Difranco

Y2 Day 198... seeing differently

Photograph what you see... it might be reality. Photograph what could be... that is creativity. Photograph automatically... is that what you really see?
Photograph manually... you may learn to see differently.
- Steve Coleman

Y2 Day 197... Bella

Y2 Day 196... teddy

"Anyone who has looked a teddy bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look."
-Harold Nadolny

Y2 Day 195... sunrise

There was never a night or a problem
that could defeat a sunrise or hope.
- B. Williams

Y2 Day 194... optical

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk

Y2 Day 193... uninteresting

Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.

- Alex Tehrani

Y2 Day 192...

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed. - Edward Weston

Y2 Day 191...

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

Y2 Day 190..

Y2 Day 189... beer

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Henry Lawson

Y2 Day 188... magic

I believe in the photographer's magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance. He respects classic disciplines, while at the same time insists on being fast, modern and wild.- Amyn Nasser

One day I hope I conquer that magic....

Y2 Day 187... pattern

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read

Y2 Day 186... hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

Y2 Day 185... me

There are good reasons for using oneself as a model of course:
your model is the most intriguing and puzzling person in the whole world;
you’re always available;
you’re cheap;
no explanations are needed;
you don’t have to keep the model happy;
and the model gets tired, and wants to stop, at exactly the same moment as you do.

Julian Flynn

Y2 Day 184... trouble

“One trouble with trouble is that is usually starts out like fun”

So very true, this little guy was a "surprise" from a Kinder Surprise and he lives on the desk at work... fine line between fun and trouble.

Y2 Day 176... puzzle

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra

I have struggled to take a photo a day since the accident...

July the 1st I plan to change that, no matter what I am going to take a photo a day for the month of July

Y2 Day 174... mini

Y2 Day 172... Monopoly Simpsons style

It's Monopoly with a "Simpsons" twist! Same as original Monopoly, with all of the board spaces, cards, tokens, etc. done over in a Simpsons theme

This token is Blinky...
Blinky is a three-eyed orange fish featured primarily in "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish". Likely mutated by toxic waste from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant pouring into the river, Blinky became a major news story when he was caught by Bart Simpson. Mr. Burns defends the fish, arguing that his extra eye is merely the next step in evolution. Mr. Burns later goes to the Simpsons' house for a meal to boost his race for governor. Marge, a supporter of Burns' opponent Mary Bailey, deliberately serves Blinky for dinner. Mr. Burns spits the fish out and subsequently loses the election. Blinky was briefly seen again in episodes "Homer's Odyssey" and "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"".

Y2 Day 171... toy soldiers

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
Eminem

Y2 Day 170... connected

“It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with” – James May

I have spent the afternoon going through Ryan's Lego boxes, I never knew he had so much...

Y2 Day 168... in memory

In memory of my baby boy...

Y2 Day 167... enjoy

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer

Y2 Day 166... details

Y2 Day 165...

I bought these massage health balls back from Hong Kong... the paperwork says...

These health balls originated in the chinese city of Baoding during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644 AD). According to traditional Chinese beliefs, the vital organs of the human body are all connected to the fingers. By manipulating these health balls, it circulation of blood and energy throughout the body

Y2 Day 164... classic

A thing of beauty, a masterpiece parked on the street outside my work...

Y2 Day 162... sunrise

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise
if we have waited in the darkness"

There has been a lot of darkness and I have decided it is time to watch the sunrise.

I have set myself a goal of photos on at least five of the next seven days...

Y2 Day 155... softness

Lacking motivation and inspiration but there were a few things that captured my attention this rose growing over a brick wall was one

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Y2 Day 147... screw it

It was getting late and I was lacking motivation and inspiration, I thought... screw it, no photo today and then I thought... no find something to shoot and I said screw it.

Y2 Day 146... Paradise and Advise

These two guys performed their first gig last night... they were amazing.

Just over a month a go, I had never heard their music before then they recorded a tribute song for my son and they blew me away.

Y2 Day 145... bark

Y2 Day 144... not as it seems

It looks like a pencil... but look again, it's a pen

Y2 Day 142... autumn

The leaves are on the ground, covering the footpath
Another iPhone shot, this one the colours were blown out but it works with B&W

Y2 Day 141... zits

I headed back to work this week so felt a little drained and lacking inspiration...
Today's photo was taken with the iPhone as I read the paper... often I read Zits and think of Ry, my son... seems teenage boys are all the same

Y2 Day 140... raindrops