pretty in pink

Happy Leap Day!!!! Enjoy it, you won't see it again for four years.

playtime

I took this picture in Golden Gate Park. It just reminds me of how much fun it was to be a child. A few minutes later, there were also children rolling down the hill...an activity that I remember used to be super fun, though the thought of it now makes me slightly nauseous.

A bit dreary

It's actually feeling a bit wintry here on the central coast of California...not something we've been able to say much this year. Perhaps spring is the new winter?

Eugène Atget

Again, the Getty Museum website is going to give you a bit of a background today as I'm plum tuckered out from work:




"Eugène Atget never called himself a photographer; instead he preferred 'author-producer.' A private, almost reclusive man, Atget first tried his hand at painting and acting, then began to photograph vieux Paris (Old Paris) in 1898. He photographed in part to create 'documents,' as he called his photographs, of architecture and urban views, but he supported himself by selling these photographs to painters as studies. Atget carried a large-format view camera, an outdated, cumbersome outfit, through the streets and gardens of Paris, usually photographing around dawn; many of these areas--storefronts and public spaces in nineteenth-century Paris and Versailles--were demolished soon afterward to make way for rapid urbanization.

Though Atget was not well known during his lifetime, his visual record of a vanishing world has become an inspiration for twentieth-century photographers. American expatriate photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott rescued his work from obscurity just before his death. Abbott preserved his prints and negatives, and was the first person to publish and exhibit Atget's work outside of France. Many existing prints of Atget's images were, in fact, made by Abbott in the 1930s from his negatives."

It's Caturday!

I didn't actually take this picture. It was taken by a friend named Destiny (who also has an awesome blog, you should check it out!) at the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond.

orchid day 3

Last day of orchids. Tomorrow's Caturday....definitely don't have any pictures of Loki with an orchid.

orchid day 2

I warned you!