[ Wednesday April 8th, 2015 at 18:39 ] This journal is mostly friends-only, but I do like interesting new friends. Edit, January 3 2008: I've taken a few of you off my list. It's because you don't read and you don't write, and you haven't in a long time, and dead journals drive me up the wall. If you do re-enter the LJ world, let me know and I'll re-add you. So long had life together been that once the snow began to fall, it seemed unending; that, lest the flakes should make her eyelids wince, I'd shield them with my hand, and they, pretending not to believe that cherishing of eyes, would beat against my palm like butterflies. (Joseph Brodsky, Six Years Later) 46 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday June 30th, 2008 at 19:13 ] music I'm | waves I'm dedicating this entry to autumnknees because the water and waves make me think of her journal. ( pictures and audio: dawn on the water at Point Pelee ) I've really been enjoying recording as a supplement for pictures. I have an excellent little recorder that I've started carrying about with me, along with my camera (my bag is always growing fuller and heavier). 15 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 19:05 ] I've been watching Geraldine McEwan's Miss Marple, and I totally just figured out an episode half-way through. The body isn't hers! The detectives think everyone's alibi is rock solid, but not if the body they found wasn't actually her body, but the other missing girl's body, and the real girl was killed later, which means the woman who ID'd the body was lying. um, I'm awesome. 6 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 20:56 ] I haven't been working on any pictures the last couple weeks (although I've still been taking loads, so I'm getting even more backlogged), because I've been a bit frustrated and uninspired. But this evening I went back to work on them, and I scanned this picture (taken at dawn at Point Pelee): ( just one, and much larger than usual, because it begs to be big ) I'm so in love with it I hate that I wasted a few weeks not working on pictures. I will post a set and audio soon. 7 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Saturday June 7th, 2008 at 10:50 ] If you were going faery hunting, where would you go? (types of places, specific places). What would you do? (and by hunting I mean looking to discover, not trying to shoot with an arrow). 12 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 17:53 ] I am becoming very irate lately about the amount of picture thieving that happens on LJ, especially through Flickr. It's why I don't have a Flickr account -- people seem to think Flickr = public domain. It's especially bad among the young women in the girly-appreciate-pretty-things communities, like laceandflora, revoltingly, and pearlsandtea. I love those communities, but seeing friends' pictures reposted in them without any credit or even acknowledgment by the poster that these photos are not their own is just getting too frustrating. How can people think that's okay? (not to mention the people who blatently and unapologetically steal photographs, like what happened to me recently through the naturesbeauty community, where the moderator couldn't be bothered to get off his ass and do anything about it. Incidentally, LJ has become very difficult to deal with for things like this. If you want to report copyright infringement -- and make no mistake, stealing copyrighted images, even if they're put online, is copyright infringement -- you actually have to swear on legal statements.) I mean, I'm sure we all do illegal things on the internet and manage to justify it to ourselves fairly easily, because it's obvious that the laws relating to things like music sharing are silly and capitalistic in a bad way. But when it comes to stealing the pictures of photographers trying to make a name for themselves (that the stealer claims to like!), how can we justify that? It seems like pure lazyness, really. I suspect most budding photographers would be more than happy to give you permission to repost their pictures (free marketing!), if you just ask. And of course sometimes asking permission seems absurd; am I really going to email Disney and ask if it's okay to use a picture of Tinkerbelle in an icon, or email Brian Froud to ask if I can use an icon from his book? Nope, and I doubt anyone else will, either. But why not message other LJ users, who are right there at the click of a button? And if that's too much, the point is, you give credit. CREDIT! Just say, 'these aren't my pictures, they're taken by PHOTOGRAPHER'. Why does it suck to have your pictures reposted elsewhere without credit or your knowledge? Several reasons: If I want to enter my pictures in competitions, or send them off to magazines, or sell them, or give them as a special gift, I have to know where they are on the internet. Can you imagine if I try to submit a picture that's already been posted 200 times on various websites all over the internet to a magazine competition? Or if I try to sell that picture later? When I choose to post them online, I choose to post them online, and I choose where they get posted. I'm also discovering that all it takes is one credit-less reposting of a photograph, for people to assume that picture is public domain. It gets posted say in the laceandflora community without credit, three people see it and save it, two of them repost it later in other places, someone pops up and says, 'where's this picture from?' and no one can answer and it's so far down the chain that no one has any idea that it was taken by an amateur artist trying to make a name for themselves. If you like someone's work, GIVE CREDIT if you repost it! 24 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday May 19th, 2008 at 14:51 ] I woke up very early back in April when I was visiting my mom to record the chickadees singing and take pictures of the sunrise. It was lovely. ( the sun rises and the chickadees serenade each other ) At the beginning of the recording, you can hear the wings of a chickadee who flew up to inspect my recorder as soon as I set it down. Any rustlings and crunchings in general are the chickadees, checking me out. The dee-dee song are the male chickadees singing to their girlfriends. And maybe for me. There are also crows, robins, nuthatches, geese, gulls, cardinals, a very angry red squirrel (they're always angry) and what I think is a green-winged teal, which aren't common around here (he is the one making the sort of beeping watery noise). 6 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday April 28th, 2008 at 14:27 ] music I'm | Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions I've been playing around with pictures I took in Montreal back in February, using them as sort of 'colour studies'. bind the hair in ropes?

[ Sunday April 27th, 2008 at 15:07 ] ( a few mixed photos ) What podcasts do you listen to? 7 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 11:48 ] music I'm | Mediaeval Baebes - The Rose ( a handful of flowers ) bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday March 24th, 2008 at 20:35 ] 3 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Friday March 14th, 2008 at 15:31 ] music I'm | Joni Mitchell I'm absolutely in love with this photograph. Taken in Montreal with archdiva a few weeks ago. bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday February 11th, 2008 at 17:19 ] ( some Ireland pictures, taken during a grey afternoon and a sunset ) 9 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Friday February 1st, 2008 at 10:14 ] ( summery ) 8 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Saturday December 29th, 2007 at 07:11 ] ( mixed photos ) 15 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Saturday December 22nd, 2007 at 15:25 ] ( +++ ) 2 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Saturday December 1st, 2007 at 19:25 ] So few of you want Christmas cards? 7 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Sunday November 11th, 2007 at 19:49 ] music I'm | Hope Sandoval - Butterfly Mornings If I owned this dress, I would wear it every day and night until it disintegrated off of me. I would be the crazy lady who always wears the butterfly dress. ( dress ) ( snippets of life ) 5 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Tuesday August 28th, 2007 at 14:55 ] music I'm | anxious music I'm | Jen Gloeckner ( deer, birds and a few others ) 9 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

[ Monday July 30th, 2007 at 14:53 ] music I'm | Massive Attack - Mezzanine The model is robotics_girl. I am featured here on DeviantArt (the first time I am noticed, and it's one of my most boring pictures). 2 wound up in ropes| bind the hair in ropes?

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