Sight and Sounds

Do you ever just stand in the woods/forest and listen? The crackling of the branches, birds chirping or flying overhead and soft winds flowing past your ears. I love these sounds when I am sitting close to a cabin, but once I’m out in the middle of the forest the sounds scare me because I don’t know what nature holds beyond where I can see.  I’m scared that a random bear or deer will come out of the woods and try to eat me. It’s an odd fear that I can’t seem to get over, but I’m working on it.

Every time I go up to Ukiah with my boyfriend to visit his dad I fall in love with the sights of the property, but I’m scared to walk though the trails. Now that I started watching “Lost” I feel like a polar bear or mystic black smoke cloud will attack me, maybe ever a wild boar, but I have to remember that I’m not on an island. I’m in the mountains. At the end of the day, I need to get over it.

Action!

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. What better way to start off the work week then with an inspiring photograph!

These two photos say a lot to me. First off, they both have the same prop, a director’s chair. Sitting in this type of chair always makes me feel like I’m in charge, in the movies or directing a movie. It feels like the movie that I’m directing is the movie of my life. What to do, who to talk to, how to act. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have someone narrate your life. Kind of like the movie “Stranger the Fiction,” except I’m not suddenly getting killed by a bus and trying to stop it from happening, but the suspense of what is going to happen next would be a lot more thrilling with a narrator… I’m just saying.

Shades of Brown

Since yesterday I showed you all my favorite portraits I thought I’d show you my favorite photos from my last photo adventure. I was wondering around my boyfriend’s father’s property last weekend, camera in hand, and was looking for something to catch my eye. It had rained the previous day and I really wanted to find rain drops on leaves but didn’t really find anything. Instead, I found these. I loved the contrast of the shades of brown and the options of background choices. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.