.457 the creativity project :: feet, hands, bodies, wrinkles, age::

i'm obsessed with human...touch.

self portrait taken from this tumblr post.

(this is toots' baby brother, tegan! how cute is he? his mother is now a sister to me)

please visit one of my favorite 'photography mothers', singwa lim, at buckeroomama to see her take on this month's theme. 

there is magic and wonder in the eyes of her children and she does a beautiful job at capturing it in their daily lives. 

afterwards, please join us and share your own 'body part' themed images on the the creativity project facebook page :)

.456 the creativity project :: home ::

home is where the heart is...

and mine has come back (for two weeks) on military leave from dubai.

twinkin. sibling. same b-day. three years younger is here and making my heart beats steady.

(bahrain money)

(pure frankincense)

"staycation"

he and toots have been "besties" since he's gotten here.

 her, following, foot to heel, every where that he goes. 

"uncle albie, do you want to color with me? uncle al, uncle al, uncle al..." 

a million requests at a time and he appeases, practically, every single one.

(she will be rotten by the time he leaves)

economically, the military has been good to him. 

but physically, it has been torturous. 

the eczema, on his hands especially, are taking a vicious turn in the climates and conditions they've forced him in.

military doctors are a joke and what it has done to his spirit is no laughing matter...

but home is also where the healing is. 

and we still have just a few more days of healing to do...

saying goodbye :(

 now that you've reached the end, 

please follow along in visiting the next photographer in our circle, my friend 

becky, over at lifewithkaishon.com and view her take on this month's theme.

i have followed the journey of their family's patriarch for some time, and this month she showcased his journey, beautifully.

afterwards, please join us and share your own 'home' themed images on the the creativity project facebook page!

.455 the creativity project :: behind or under glass

our dining room is full of glass.

tables...mirrors...display cases and shelving units holding even more pieces of glass:

 wine glasses, fruit bowls, glass trinkets shaped like flowers, a wall made of glass, even the dining room table is rod iron, and you guessed it...glass.

but

since all of it needed to be dusted (only realized when i peered through my lens)...i quickly cleaned the easiest pieces to clean, and shot those instead.

(i have a three year old. cleaning is my full-time job. no thank you to over-time)

also: 

i have no idea if it's the literary part of me that takes each theme so...literal, but as i was combing through images, instead of going with the theme as it was written...i was pulled to focus more on the subject matter as i never really shoot - glass. because of this month's challenge theme, i think i want to explore this arena a little more because it's just so darn pretty. 

i bet with the right lighting and different color glass...

(((beams)))

*my mind is twirling with possibility*

the next photographer in our circle is one of my personal favs and personal friends, as well. 

also, her post is almost the exact the post i was going to do (from behind my car window) so i was extremely excited when i saw it. it's the perfect blend of street photography and candid portraits, both of which she excels at. she is extremely gifted at capturing the human spirit (little people especially) and this post is just another example of why.

 please visit the effervescent becky adams at lifewithkaishon.com and welcome her into your he(art)s like i have done mines :)

afterwards, please join us and share your own 'storytelling' themed images on the the creativity project facebook page!

.454 the creativity project :: storytelling

i grew up in a household where words were worth more than gold (both parents were writers), thus reading became everyone's favorite past time by default. thus, for this month's theme, i chose to dig through my figurative photo crates and pull out pictures of everything surrounding my favorite art form (surprise: not photography) and search for all things book related...

i do the same thing (and told him so)...when something is so greatly written, i have to write it down.

it will either serve as inspiration...or a really great quote.

please visit one of my favorite 'photography mothers', singwa lim, at buckeroomama to see her take on this month's theme. 

there is magic and wonder in the eyes of her children and she does a beautiful job at capturing it in their daily lives. 

afterwards, please join us and share your own 'storytelling' themed images on the the creativity project facebook page :)

.453 the creativity project: treasure

almost three years since an aneurysm exploded in my brain.

since that time, life has shifted so dramatically from what it once was, i've hardly had time to process the change accordingly. toots was only two months when it happened, so i was novel to new motherhood and didn't put much effort towards my recovery when i came home. 

a year into said recovery, i lost my father, so needless to say, my quest to building back my health, once again, fell to the back of my mind (no pun intended) and my migraines returned. 

after a recent hospital stay, due to an infection in my brain, i am once again faced with taking my health, and overall survival with my condition, more seriously. so, this month's challenge of 'treasure' hit home for me in a different way, because my values have changed.

as the people who love me most surrounded me, i felt a new shift arrive in my world. a simpler shift. because frankly put: i simply treasure...life. i treasure love. i  treasure joy. i treasure my family and friends who have supported and loved me throughout this journey every step of the way, and continues to. i treasure noticing the simple things in life that brings me and everyone around me, happiness. 

there was this window in my hospital room that i noticed everyone kept stopping to stand by. and while i could easily chop it up to the view, i'd like to think it was something else, something deeper calling to them. because every time someone lingered there, i caught a glimpse of them disappearing into a world where this world didn't belong. a world where just their thoughts, their memories, their prayers existed and i treasured getting to secretly capture those moments, happily, and healthily, recovering from my hospital bed. 

*update: i have more angio coming up to see what's going on in this wonky brain of mine. 

afterwards, if all checks out, i will treasure taking the time to recover properly, this time around.

the view

please visit the next in our circle, erica freitas, a beautiful photographer, of family, of love and all things life at erica lee's photography blog.

afterwards, please join us and share your own 'treasure' themed images on the the creativity project facebook page :)