Update and Around the house photography

Look for some re-organizing on my blog!! A new camera <3 <3 has come into my life and with it there is much passion to do awesome things with it. I am still learning how to use it but these last two posts are some of the fruits of that effort.

Needless to say I am taking pictures of everything and anything. I plan on continuing this path of photography and I think I need to make some room on my blog to embrace this.

Don’t look for the changes tooooo soon though I am out having fun with the camera! I’ve also taken up a new passion of making images using photomanipulation techniques,  I’ll try to post some of those soon.

Thank you all for coming along this journey with me, here is a fun video for you to enjoy.

Forest Afternoon

Yesterday, I went for a walk in the woods. The forest is truly a magically place for me. I partially attribute that to the truly fresh air inside a forest. I adventured to a wood that I had never been to before, I had a map and I packed up and headed out.

During my childhood we had acres and acres of thick forest to explore all around us, and I had  many adventures. There is no place where I feel more at home than a place that has mountains, forest, and water.  Before I moved to where I am now, I was living in Eastern Washington, which is very beautiful but it’s a different beautiful than the beauty I yearn for, and I do appreciate, take in and otherwise totally enjoy the beauty of other places but out of all the traveling I have done in all of the world, there is nothing for me more beautiful than the Pacific Northwest.  I’m very happy to be again living in this area.

Going to a new forest can also kind of scary but I was assured there were no bears and I felt confident I could take on any other sort of attacker. There were a couple cars in the parking area, and I was not all together sure I was in the correct place but the sign was labeled correctly. I pulled into what looked like a parking lot on the edge of a meadow, which was exactly what I pulled into. hahahahaha It looked like it, and it was, go figure.

Then I thought to myself…

But..but where do I go to get in the forest?  I’ll just get my gear and start walking and see what I see.

There were some other people coming out of the side of the meadow, well wait, I get ahead of myself. A large dog came charging out of the edge of the meadow and ran excitedly up to me. I am sure glad he was friendly.  I figured I’ll just stroll on up in the direction they were coming out of. I felt like a new forest newbie, I took my time to check the information kiosk and try to not walk too hurriedly into the woods.

I just wanted to go in and breath the air and get on with it but I didn’t want to look too anxious, I had to be cool.  I get key anxiety, whether or not I’ve locked my keys in the car. One time about ten years now I was out camping when my keys were accidently locked into my car and it was an ordeal, so now I like to double and triple check.

phew my keys were indeed in my bag.

I saw this one cool building, it was about to fall down. I would think a good word to describe it would be dilapidated. I wanted to go in about five feet and take a picture of this cool….thing that was all rusted and oddly in the edge of the room, but I was kind of scared. There may have been a bat, or invisible spider webs, and you know what huge invisible spider webs have on them…that’s right I don’t even have to tell you, we all know about THOSE kind of spiders.

On my walk I ran across a handful of people, with a handful of dogs, a few people running around and a whole lot of wonderful everything else.

These are the pictures, this is the video.  Please watch this in HD and big screen if you can.

Thank you.

Here is in Top 5 Places to explore in Second Life

Koinup is a great place to find a list of destinations to explore.

I’m proud to say that Torley and I have made the top Ten list of places to explore for 2008 for our work on Here and currently are listed within the top 5 coolest places to explore of all time in Second Life.

We’ve just begun refreshing Here once again, this will be the 5th refresh since we opened the sim in July of 2008.

Some of the wonderful comments we’ve gotten about the sim is that it seems to have a soul and they enjoy seeing what will be next to discover there. I see a lot of people watching tutorials and picking up Torley texture packs.

You are also invited to come explore and see for yourself what all the excitement is about, although as I write this, the sim is upside down, torn apart, but there are still cool things to see. Take advantage of half the sim having nothing on it but some awesome terraforming.

The music stream is refreshed with Torley’s latest album of beautiful music.

Thank you for coming to visit again and again and adding your pictures to your favorite photo sharing place of choice and including SLURLS for others to easily find Here.

Thank you Koinup for keeping track of everything and sharing with us.

• Set of Here pictures from all residents on Koinup

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