the mayfly

Thank you old friends and new friends for a wonderful year. Let’s do it again. Here’s to 2010!

Yesterday evening I found the list of resolutions I had made last New Year. They were to stop biting my nails, to be more creative and to love. Aw, I’m so sweet. This year the list will be similar, with the addition of stop being so bloody lazy. But this year I am a university student, so I have an excuse, right? ;) I am resurrecting this blog in the hope of fulfilling the be more creative clause, because it might encourage me to take the camera out more often. We shall see. I’ve moved to the city and so much is new. It’s all very exciting, but it doesn’t give me much time and space to take photographs.

Ph. private.

“The first time he looked at her he felt: everything will burn!“

- A Spy In The House Of Love, Anaïs Nin.

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“She uses a variety of techniques to meet her purposes of inform and describe. For example, she uses superlatives such as ‘most’ and pre-modifiers such as ‘bold and emotional’ to convey her emotions and to show her explicit bias towards the situation. Proper nouns such as ‘Charles, Earl Spencer’, help to inform her audience, but she also uses third person pronouns such as ‘he’ and ‘his’ to avoid repetition. In one of the sentences she describes the day as ‘bright and sparkling’, this contrasts with the mood of the day and does not reflect pathetic fallacy…” – Thanks, Tom.

I’ve decided to return to blogging. I don’t know how well it’s going to go, but we’ll see. I’ve finished school, I have time, and I feel good. Maybe I’ll start taking pictures again. I do however leave for France on Monday, so there may be three weeks of silence. I’ll have plenty to share with you when I come home, I’m sure.

From The Photographic Dictionary.

Our dog died yesterday – sad. She’s been here my whole life.

I love morning-after photos. These days, no matter how much I drink, I just don’t get crazy-drunk anymore. Shit, could this be growing up?! Am I on the road to becoming a responsible adult?! Or perhaps I’ve just become alarmingly desensitised. Oh well. I’ve been drinking way too many nights this week, and eaten a ridiculous amount of chocolate – so it’s bicycle rides, enough sleep, and plenty of water from now on!      …Probably.

I LOVE SUPERBOMBA!

Reading On The Road has left me with a serious case of wanderlust. I wish summer would arrive sooner. It did feel very summery today, actually – I spent the morning reading in the garden sunshine, and the afternoon drinking wine in the middle of a field. I’ve got freckles!

(I lost the link to the second photo, but its from flickr somewhere)