What symbolizes me

This is a photo of my necklace I wear almost daily 3crucifixes a turquiose bead a small silver engraved square & a circle on a leather cord. After I discovered my purpose, my bliss, my joy, my lifes calling, whatever you want to call it. I wanted something that symbolized that
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I get a lot of questions about it mostly is it Lucky Brand or where did I get it. Its not Lucky Brand & it comes from @ this point 6 places. I'll start w/the the turquiose bead as that was the 1st thing I bought with this idea of a symbol in mind. Turquiose is supposed to have healing powers but for me it represents the southwest which is a place truly love & feel most @ home. I found the bead on a day trip to Palomar w/my husband. I know not the southwest but it's symbolic. I bought 3 beads but only stuck w/this one. The next item is a silver engraving its 2sided made by Cecil Henry he sells @ Canyon de Chelly in AZ it is probably the most beautiful piece I own my opinion it represents my love of nature and outdoors i.e. landscape photography especially the southwest. My fancy cross was given to me by Jason La Pierre nicest guy but the timing was off. To me it represents my heritage & freedom he took me too Chicano Park in San Diego & I met a real muralist & where I rediscovered my heritage & realizedthat I am also an artist. It also represents ornate beauty and that you can love someone and not have to be with that person. So the fancy silver cross is my Mexican self regiven to me by Jason. The circle says Dream I found it @ a Hallmark store & bought it nothing more to it just Dream is perfect because I want to live my dreams. The turquiose cross represents love & relationships I bought it on my 1yr anniversary while @ the gem show w/my husband @ the hotel we had our reception at. It's symbolic of being Catholic, the southwest, love & relationships not exclusive to your spouse. Mostly symbolic because I bought it for me for an anniversary it spoke volumes of the future of our marriage. My last cross was from Monument Valley bought in the park from a Navajo. My dream trip of a life time "ahe'hee" for Monument Valley. It to me is the most beautiful place on earth. I've never been more home then I was there. It represents me as a whole filled w/joy & passion. Again "Ahe'hee" thank you in Navajo. This writing just brought me back to that place that wonderful moment in time. It was my Paris. I'm love my necklace and only add to it when the feeling is right. I'm glad that only one piece was a gift and that gift is so big he will probably never know.

Thoughts & Journaling

I took this photo of the backside of my journal . It is filled w/quotes that I printed & using address labels stuck to the back of my journal. Many are faded but I can still read them I have a few layers now but that is okay. I write or journal a lot I still try to do my 3morning pages a la "the artist way" but that doesn't always happen and that is okay to. Many things in my life are about to change within the next month journaling has helped me keep perspective on this. Its also helped me deal w/my home life which has been very stressful as of late w/my teenage son & my mom. My journaling reminds me to get quiet, get back to nature, get focused, breathe, take a moment and pause. Right now I am pausing because my heart rate went up & I felt stressed & ready to cry. I will take a breath & write it out and know that this too shall pass. A quote I have on the backside of my journal.

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I'm with the Band

I'm w/the band

  Okay Friday Mar.5th, I attended the Skinnie Magazines top 100 bands event at the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. 4 floors 10 stages tons of bands and tons of people also tons of vendors. I went to watch and photograph my ex-roommates band (Bernie Rodriguez & Jesus Nunez) the Inkblots. (Inkblots members Sam Munoz, Bernie Rodriguez, Irving Nunez, Jesus Nunez) They were very good and now I finally have a t-shirt. I took about 100 photos of them. 

So here's the deal I love photographing bands especially when they have good lighting which most of the time they don't not the bands fault usually the venue. Bad lighting small stage seems to be the norm, just makes it a better photographic challenge. But this venue had a big stage and decent lighting. I think next time though I want to bring a ladder crazy huh! I'm already having visions of falling off. 

I shot these w/my canon rebel XS and I used 3 different lenses kind of a lot of changing around but I am trying to see which works the best. I used my canon 50mm f1.8 most of the time it and then my kit lens but its not the usual kit lens its the canon 18mm-55mm f3.5.-5.6 that was 2nd most and the 3rd was my Sigma 70mm-200mm f4-5.6 was used the least. I was close enough to the stage were the zoom just was not necessary. So below are some of my photos and the links to the band and the event. Enjoy and leave comments. 

http://inkblotsmusic.com/

 http://www.myspace.com/skinniemagtop100

 

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