Friday 7 January, 2005
Seeing things
It's still snowing today although tempterature is very close to zero. You know, those big wet flakes that are so pretty. I cleaned away the Christmas tree and all the decorations and vacuumed the dining room and the living room... looks a bit empty now, and I especially miss the Christmas lights when it gets dark.
When the snowfall was at it's heviest, I went out for a walk. I love walking in the snow and it wasn't cold at all - but I was wearing my Finland-proof winter clothes. I went to our local framimg shop on Denman to get the three photos we got from Jaana-Mari as a going away present, something I've been meaning to do for a while. Chose a black inset and black frames for Dragon's photo, dual gray and white inset and silver frames for my photo and red inset and gold frames for the maple leaf photo. We have quite a few other pieces of original art too that we need to put up - need to probably decide soon what goes where and go and buy picture hooks.
I wish Jaana-Mari was here to photograph the scenery here - she's got that fantastic eye for detail to capture essence of things that I just don't have. I look at the beach and the trees and the snow and see how beautiful it is - but when I try to capture it I get photos that make Vancouver look like Matinkylä (and don't worry hun, I didn't take it personally - it was a good comparison!). Oh well... my photos are not art - they are more like holiday snaps, wanting to show you what it's like here, all I can hope that they succeed at that.
Posted by kolibri at 7 January 17:52, 2005My dear, I didn't so much mean that you make the scenery look like Matinkylä, as to remark the scenery reminds me of the area - which I suppose ultimately says more about me than you or your photographer skills :P. Eye of the beholder and all that, eh?
I know you know what I mean - and vice versa :).
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