I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder
I needed to add this song to my blog, for future reference ... to play easily. I'm liking this man's voice. Intensely.
Love this. A song by Eddie Vedder, Guaranteed.
I found the soundtrack for Into the Wild for sale in the city yesterday. It has been great company as I've worked my way through this sunny Sunday in Belgium.
Into the Wild is the first solo studio album by Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, and is based on his contributions to the soundtrack for the film Into the Wild. Source, Wikipedia.
Tickets have been booked and I'm off to Genova in February. I cannot begin to tell you how good it feels to have the promise of wandering back in my life. It's time ... more than time.
Miss 9 and I have begun reading a new book series together. It's delightfully creepy. And I have 'Italian for Dummies' here on my desk. Now to open it and begin serious work.
I have been struggling to fulfil my daily foto commitment. And I'm intrigued because I see it's so much about my inability to give myself too much time off. And the battle is there in the fact that I can't 'snapshot' this commitment. I climb into photography, working my way towards the right angle perhaps, seeking out the right light. I have to be prepared to do ... just do the photography for an hour each day. It's an interesting battle.
And emails ... I've been caught up in a few email exchanges that make me stop to take notes. And I'm printing out interesting blog posts and articles, sticking them into my journal.
My super-talented niece called Katie sent me an email containing the static digital image she made at school and it's stunning. I must ask permission to blog it. Katie's the one in the foreground.
So, I did a 'girl and her guitar' series for the foto-a-day shoot today. I was using my 17-40mm lens on the Canon EOS 5D MkII and I was all but climbing onto the couch as I took the image you find at the end here. I think, in future, I might just stick with my 70-200mm lens. I love that lens. It's my way of seeing ... and being. Potentially my photography subjects may appreciate a bit of distance too.
It just went crazy here at midnight, in that Belgian city where fireworks are illegal on New Year's Eve. Just before midnight it sounded like a warzone. 19 minutes later and there are still explosions but it's no longer the ENTIRE city anymore.
Kids on the streets, neighbours too, some rain, and cloud cover. Weather Underground tells me it's 7 celsius as I write this.
And so it is, 12 hours after New Zealand crossed over into 2014, we've arrived too. Happy new year to you. I'm posting a shot taken in New Zealand around this time last year. The tree with the red flowers ... the NZ Christmas tree. The Pohutakawa. Cooks Beach.
Note: In Belgium, in general, it's only illegal if you're caught ... or that's what the locals tell me.
