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Saturday 9 July 2011
The Love of My Life - Kelso Reese - Part 3 with Lady Diana - 26 June 2011
It goes without saying that Kelso is always blog worthy. He has the ability to drive me more crazy than anyone else can, but he also has the ability to make me the proudest mother on this earth. He is such an amazing little boy and so unique in his own right. On a drive down to KZN to drop him off with his Gogo, he decided that he was to be the roadtrip photographer. He fell in love with Diana. It didn't matter to him that he couldn't see the pictures he had taken, he got us all to say cheese, he took photo's of everything.
It was quite a proud moment for me because for that short while, he shared my passion, we shared a love and us enjoying it together rocked my world big time. He has since found a new interest, but I am sure he and Lady Di will cross paths in the near future.
It was quite a proud moment for me because for that short while, he shared my passion, we shared a love and us enjoying it together rocked my world big time. He has since found a new interest, but I am sure he and Lady Di will cross paths in the near future.
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| Meet Lady Di |
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| This look suits him |
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| Photographing Jethro |
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| Our Mission to photograph what is below |
Retro Treasures
I honestly believe I was born in the wrong era. I enjoy things that are from a time that I know very little about, things that went out of fashion before I was even thought of.
Things are not made they way they used to be. I would like to see a piece of furniture made 3 years ago last another 20 years. I have a Radiogram that is around 50 years old. I bet it has been passed through different hands and it is now mine. I have tea cups and wine glasses that I am sure are just as old.
I sit here and wonder if this doesn't apply to people as well. We are just not made the way we used to be!
These all belonged to other people. Someone's junk became my treasures.
Love Life Live!
Things are not made they way they used to be. I would like to see a piece of furniture made 3 years ago last another 20 years. I have a Radiogram that is around 50 years old. I bet it has been passed through different hands and it is now mine. I have tea cups and wine glasses that I am sure are just as old.
I sit here and wonder if this doesn't apply to people as well. We are just not made the way we used to be!
These all belonged to other people. Someone's junk became my treasures.
Love Life Live!
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| Baby-Brownie - Kodak Brownie 8 - introduced 1951 |
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| Image Capturers |
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| Pentax Spotmatic - Brought out around 1964 - This was a very special Gift. |
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| This brings back memories |
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| 1960 Ecko Radiogram |
Soulful Splendor - 19 June 2011
I write this in July. It is about 9 days short of a month later. Not sure where all the time has been. But this was a day that was all about me. It was father's day and I got to spend it treating myself to a day of good food, a good movie and some real random 2nd hand buys.
It has been so crazy busy at work that I jumped at the opportunity to just be. To be Candice and do what pleases me the most, mission around and spend money! The greatest highlight of my day was finding an old radio that reminded me of visits to the farm with my father. when I saw the radio, It was like looking back in time. Except this one in much better condition. It was day that reminded me why this place is so awesome. All the drama aside, we live in a crazy country, so diverse and interesting and do easy to pick up a bargain.
I could go on in detail, but I will let the images tell the story of the day!
I wish everyone a wonderful week end further. Love to everyone.
It has been so crazy busy at work that I jumped at the opportunity to just be. To be Candice and do what pleases me the most, mission around and spend money! The greatest highlight of my day was finding an old radio that reminded me of visits to the farm with my father. when I saw the radio, It was like looking back in time. Except this one in much better condition. It was day that reminded me why this place is so awesome. All the drama aside, we live in a crazy country, so diverse and interesting and do easy to pick up a bargain.
I could go on in detail, but I will let the images tell the story of the day!
I wish everyone a wonderful week end further. Love to everyone.
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| Breakfast at Doppio Zero - Rosebank |
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| Rosebank Rooftop Market |
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| Its amazing what you can pick up - check the cat |
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| They are everywhere |
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| Cheese Machine - huh? |
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| Lunch at Vida - e Cafe |
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| Love has no face |
Saturday 18 June 2011
My First, rather dismal attempt at Lomography - 18 June 2011
Around October last year I attended a photo and film expo and I was drawn to this stand that had all this awesome looking plastic retro looking stuff. The list and possibilities seemed endless. The very clever guy working there saw me coming and had me believe that if I didn't make that purchase then, I would miss out on the biggest thing to hit this earth. HAHA. yes, you can buy a lomography camera quite easily without waiting years. Now I know better.
So what is lomography anyway? And I quote from Wikipedia - Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, "happy accidents," and alternative film processing are often considered part of the "Lomographic Technique."[citation needed] Users are encouraged to take a lighthearted approach to their photography, and use these techniques to document everyday life, as the Lomo LC-A's small size, simple controls, and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage, and photo vérité through the "10 Golden Rules" to maximize their chances to capture strange photos and to embody a Lomographers' statement of life being unpredictable curious adventure of "having fun while taking good pictures":
So what is lomography anyway? And I quote from Wikipedia - Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, "happy accidents," and alternative film processing are often considered part of the "Lomographic Technique."[citation needed] Users are encouraged to take a lighthearted approach to their photography, and use these techniques to document everyday life, as the Lomo LC-A's small size, simple controls, and ability to shoot in low light encourages candid photography, photo reportage, and photo vérité through the "10 Golden Rules" to maximize their chances to capture strange photos and to embody a Lomographers' statement of life being unpredictable curious adventure of "having fun while taking good pictures":
- Take your camera everywhere you go.
- Use it any time – day and night.
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it.
- Try the shot from the hip
- Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible.
- Don't think! Just Shoot (also the credo of Lomography).
- Be fast
- You don't have to know beforehand what you captured on film.
- Afterwards either.
- Don't worry about any rules.
I feel that there should be a number 11: Kindly remember to wind the film after each shot taken. I forgot and have some serious multiple exposures going on in them. And only 12 came out, seems I also just would up the un-used film and then that was it. It has taken close to 8 months to get the film on disk and today was the day. R75 later and a CD with some of the worst photo's ever taken. But for some reason, are special in their own right! And on any normal occasion, we will use very expensive software to make our images look like they were taken with a really cheap camera. This camera is not cheap and it's not fancy (it does look helish funky though), but I do think I am going to try this out some more and look forward to wasting another roll of film on random things.
So here I share the photography bloopers!
ps - to find out more on this Fad that is Lomography, check out: http://www.lomography.com/
ps - to find out more on this Fad that is Lomography, check out: http://www.lomography.com/
Angelic Stones - Through My Looking Glass - 16 June 2011
Same day as Thursday, writing today. I feel like I am on the ball, another episode of 'Through My Looking Glass" so soon after that last one. Time seems to pass by without me noticing and I would love to have a few more hours to just do these kinds of things. This is not to say that I am always so busy, I am often so busy doing nothing to do anything.
After I found my car still intact on Thursday after our trip to soweto, I drove home with such an amazingly warm and fuzzy feeling. I felt connected to something special. I decided to go back the way I went in the morning and when I drove past the West Park Cemetary and the light from the setting sun seemed to make the stones sparkle and I thought that I just had to go in there.
My intention was not to stay very long, but once in, I couldn't help reading what was written on many of those stones, there are the most beautiful messages. The little angel statues caught my eyes and I found that many of those graves belonged to babies and children. I chose those to photograph because I almost wanted the parents to know that someone acknowledged their babies. Although, those graves were so unkept, I am sure that the parents are long gone and buried somewhere near by.
There have been many deaths of late, close members of family of those that I know. And it is amazing how different we all are and how we deal with it. I see death as a part of life, my life goes on, even if someone's has ended. Mourning death is sad, celebrating the life seems to be more appropriate for me. But with that said, when I saw how young those little children were, there was no life to celebrate and my perception has changed a little. Perhaps because I couldn't imagine how those parents must have felt to bury their babies, to not have been given the opportunities to see their little lives flourish. Kelso completes me in many ways and I think this is why my perception is different when it is little children.
What I did realize that one day we will all be forgotten. We will not live the hearts of others forever, they too will pass on and one day no one will know who Candice Peetz was, not even possible great great great generations to follow. Perhaps I should bury some things?
While alive, we all want fame and fortune, we want to be somebody great. There are many who will do anything to satisfy this desire without a thought of who may be affected... and in the end, it doesn't matter, because they too, will be forgotten (Unless you are Daisy De Melker - and even her crimes seem soft by today's standards).
I choose life, I choose happiness and I choose wonderful things filled with the Juju of goodness.
This is Candice Peetz signing off on this pretty Nippy winter evening!
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After I found my car still intact on Thursday after our trip to soweto, I drove home with such an amazingly warm and fuzzy feeling. I felt connected to something special. I decided to go back the way I went in the morning and when I drove past the West Park Cemetary and the light from the setting sun seemed to make the stones sparkle and I thought that I just had to go in there.
My intention was not to stay very long, but once in, I couldn't help reading what was written on many of those stones, there are the most beautiful messages. The little angel statues caught my eyes and I found that many of those graves belonged to babies and children. I chose those to photograph because I almost wanted the parents to know that someone acknowledged their babies. Although, those graves were so unkept, I am sure that the parents are long gone and buried somewhere near by.
There have been many deaths of late, close members of family of those that I know. And it is amazing how different we all are and how we deal with it. I see death as a part of life, my life goes on, even if someone's has ended. Mourning death is sad, celebrating the life seems to be more appropriate for me. But with that said, when I saw how young those little children were, there was no life to celebrate and my perception has changed a little. Perhaps because I couldn't imagine how those parents must have felt to bury their babies, to not have been given the opportunities to see their little lives flourish. Kelso completes me in many ways and I think this is why my perception is different when it is little children.
What I did realize that one day we will all be forgotten. We will not live the hearts of others forever, they too will pass on and one day no one will know who Candice Peetz was, not even possible great great great generations to follow. Perhaps I should bury some things?
While alive, we all want fame and fortune, we want to be somebody great. There are many who will do anything to satisfy this desire without a thought of who may be affected... and in the end, it doesn't matter, because they too, will be forgotten (Unless you are Daisy De Melker - and even her crimes seem soft by today's standards).
I choose life, I choose happiness and I choose wonderful things filled with the Juju of goodness.
This is Candice Peetz signing off on this pretty Nippy winter evening!
xxx
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| A little Unnerving |
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