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Today's theme, obviously, is orange.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/22345531/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/22345531/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:13:10 PST
I was lucky enough to get a very gracious gift this year, in the form of this:

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It is beautiful, and it is showing me that I have lots to learn! I'm newly inspired, though, and up for the challenge!

Watch out, guys. I'm posting again!

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/20843186/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/20843186/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:52:46 PDT
So, here's the deal:
The first 17 people to comment will get three thumbnails of my choice featured. The catch is that you must then post a journal and feature 17 more people as well as feature three thumbnails of my work (if you want).

Also, if you've already done this on your own journal, feel free to comment here, anyway. I'll still feature you.

Agreed? Agreed.

First, someone I've been watching for ages now. His style is always evolving, and that's one of the reasons I love watching him!






#2 is Mr. . The word "versatile" comes to mind when I think about his talent. Oddly, the reason I started watching him was because many of his photos made me wonder what the subject felt like (to the touch). This first thumb is an example of that.




The #3 spot belongs to . He's one of my oldest DeviantArt friends, and one of the quickest to offer valuable feedback (hint, hint, Mr. Diomedes... I've got newer pics up. /wink). He points his lense at a wide variety of things and just keeps surprising me. He's sharp as a tack, too. I had a really hard time deciding which three of his pieces to feature. I believe I originally selected about 14 and had to whittle it down from there. And now, I give you:




(I snuck a 4th one in there. I could help it.)

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/16595632/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/16595632/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:16:44 PST Hello, Nikon D80. I've longed for you and now you're mine!
After so long without a functional camera I enjoyed working with, I'm actually a little overwhelmed at the idea of getting started again.

Oh well. Here we go!!


While I'm at it... What do you guys think I should do with my prints? I'm starting to think that I don't like the borders and titles on them. Should I resubmit new versions without, or do you guys like all that stuff?

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This took me -way- too long to get around to. Please forgive me.

posted a chain gang thingy in his journal, as did , so now it's my turn. I have to say, by the way, how much of a fun idea this is!

The first ten people who comment on this journal get to be part of my very special, sparkly, and quite bubbly chain gang. I will go through your gallery and pick three of my favorite deviations to display here. I know how talented you guys all are, so this will not only be fun for me, but easy as pie!

Of course, you have to post the same offer for it to count.
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I've been watching this girlie for quite some time now. I actually already had stuff in mind for her when I posted this.
I present to you:
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Easily one of my favorite photographers here. He has a knack for making recognizing the beauty in what most perceive as ordinary. I had a hard time limiting myself to three.
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And, for good measure... a dose of cuteness: [link]



This fine gentleman is quite the conversationalist and, therefore, has a way with words. I've enjoyed reading his work over the years, especially as he's grown from a more structured format to a free-form and more expressive style.
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I'm not extremely familiar with this artist, as she only recently stumbled across my page, but, from what I can tell, she's extremely friendly and upbeat. Her art, therefore, has a cheerful quality to it, I think.
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=eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/11239110/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/11239110/ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:33:42 PST
Life in Phoenix is filled with beauty. Friends, sunsets, trips...
My job is wonderful, and the people I work with are amazing.
It's refreshing to be able to start over, to take that first breath again.
Wonderful new opportunities keep popping up.
Here's to serendipity!
/raises glass

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/6319212/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/6319212/ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:21:06 PDT
Some of you may remember when my friend Colin was sent to Iraq last year, as he's in the Marines. We put together a care package, which several people contributed to, and sent it over to him. Because there was so much, he decided to share with his unit.

Well, he's been sent back this year. I went about doing the same thing as soon as I had an address for him, and began asking people at the office if they wanted to contribute. I was also chatting with a friend of mine, who works in our corporate office in Phoenix, and mentioned it. He immediately piped up and said that he wanted to contribute, as well. Thrilled, I told him to go ahead and send whatever, and that I'd properly pack it and ship it out with our stuff when I got it. Well, he took it upon himself to spread the word all over the office there. Several people there decided they wanted to chip in, the chain making its way all the way up so that, from what I understand, my company donated on a corporate level.

I just received those packages this week, and it comes to seven boxes!! There is so much stuff there! They've even sent toys to be passed out to all the little children over there. I'm so overwhelmed by the generosity, by the sheer spirit of this all... I just can't put it into words. That there are so many people willing to put aside their feelings about the war itself and help out the poor guys and gals stuck over there... it warms my heart.

Which leads me to the reason I started this whole post. I'd like all of you guys to write a little note of encouragement, if you can. This isn't about whether or not you support the war, nor is it about whether or not you support the president. This is about our guys and girls over there, some of them on their 2nd and 3rd tours, missing the people that they love and the comforts of home. They all try to keep a positive outlook, but it's easy to get depressed over there when you're so far from everything you know. Not to mention that they have access to the same things online that we do... they read what people think of what's going on, and it can be disheartening.

So I'm asking you to write something kind, something supportive and encouraging, that I can print out and pass on to those guys over there. There are about 900 of them where Colin is at, and they could use a few kind words.

So please, just comment here with anything you'd like me to print out for them. It can be as long or short as you like. A simple, two words long note is enough to be a bit of a morale boost. If you can only say, "We care," well then, that's enough.

And please, pass this on. Link to it in your own journal, if you'd like. I'd hate for my letter to be the only one I was sending.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/5622609/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/5622609/ Sat, 11 Jun 2005 22:13:54 PDT

How true, eh?
My comment on it:


"Well, the statement is entirely true. It is the worst of our kind that generally have the passion towards their "crimes" to carry them out, while the best of us often abandon our passions in a bout of apathy, at least temporarily. It's so often that you read or hear about horrible things happening, though it's rare that you hear about someone accomplishing anything great. While it's true that this can be partly attributed to the media's bias towards the shocking, I see too many great people with too many great ideas let them fall by the wayside and go about an uneventful life.
The same can be said for art these days. It seems that there are a plethora of, well, lacking artists who are passionate about their work and willing to keep on trudging until they get it right, whether or not it ever happens. In contrast, many of the great artists soon lose their passion for various reasons and move on to something else."

What are you guy's thoughts?

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]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3334361/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3334361/ Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:31:52 PDT This place was created to be a creative outlet, motivational tool, discussion group, and to have something nice to look at on your friends page without having to worry about hundreds of pictures posted from an open community.
The photographers here have each been assigned a day of the week. On that day, they will post one picture of their work. Comments, questions, and criticism are welcome.

A small note.
Since the community operates on only 7 members at a time, you dont need to apply for membership.
To watch or comment all you have to do is add it to your friends list.

I hope you all decide to watch.

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]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3175273/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3175273/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:42:00 PDT
So I come inside and flip directly to page 134 to check out the pictures and read the interview. You people know me, right? You know that my all time favorite, kick ass woman in the whole world is She-ra, right? Good. Now, imagine the look on my face when I read, "I'm from the She-Ra, Princess of Power school, man! The completely hot girl with the sword!" This woman wants me to love her, I'm sure of it.

In other news, I have aquired the theme songs to almost every 80's cartoon/kids show that I ever loved. I've also aquired the video for most of the opening credits.
Right now? I'm listening to the techno remix of the Rainbow Brite theme song.

Today has been a good day.

Now I've just got to figure out how to edit sound clips. ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3142836/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/3142836/ Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:34:11 PDT Any suggestions? Reasons why?

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]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2964499/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2964499/ Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:25:35 PDT According to the weather channel it's 93 degrees, feels like 102 degrees and the humidity is at 52%.
Excuse me while I make plans -not- to leave the house anytime soon.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2922114/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2922114/ Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:08:05 PDT
Today I spent the better part of an hour rolling around in the grass, taking pictures of the new flowers I bought at Lowes and of the daisies I bought the other day. Sad thing that I didn't get any shots I really liked, but instead got tons of bug bites. Ick.
It's quite an ordeal to try to take pictures lying down while a very large dog and very hyper puppy both bound around you and try to eat your hair and the flowers you're taking pictures of.
"Sadie! Don't eat that!" apparently translates to, "Sadie! Your teeth would look lovely in this shot!" in puppy speak.
Add to that the ever curious mammoth that is Dreyfus sticking his nose in every other shot and you've got quite a job cut out for you.
It gets even more interesting when one of your cats thinks your large tripod is a ladder and the kitten thinks the mini tripod hanging from your wrist is a toy. >_<
When did I open up a friggin' zoo?
Still, no good shots to report on. At least, nothing good enough to end up here. Ah well, maybe another day.
In the meantime, I've got to come up with something for the assignments I was given.
I have a couple of photoshoots that I'm supposed to do with my amazingly gorgeous friend, Jamie. She's agreed to be my modeling clay for a day. Fortunately for me, she looks just as good in front of the camera as she operates behind it. Maybe I'll have her take a few shots of me while I'm at it. I could do with some new pictures. We shall see. Though I doubt I can get her here before Thursday, and that's when my assignment for the new photo community I'm a member of is due.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2903791/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2903791/ Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:52:01 PDT A picture taken with a disposable camera, with no thought put into composition, of your friends hanging out of your car, drunk, is a snapshot. I promise you. Likewise, a picture of your mice/rats/cats/dogs laying on a blanket on your couch that you snapped off because it was "OMG SO CYOOT" is a snapshot. Did you put any thought into -how- you took the picture? Did you put any thought into what the final product will look like? Did it take you more than 5 seconds to point the camera at the subject and shoot? No? Okay then. Snapshot. Really.
I know this subject has been beaten to death recently, but as I'm surfing around, looking for a nice piece of art because I enjoy looking at -art-, I keep seeing all these snapshots. It's annoying that for every piece of work I find, I searched through 10 or 12 snapshots.
I mean, come on, I know that you know that the picture you took of your prom or your family cookout is not art. I know you know this, yet I cringe as you click the "art photography" button and submit.
Really, I think that you should find yourselves lucky that a site called "deviantART" (notice how the "ART" part is capitalized) even -allows- snapshots to be submitted so that you can have your own little online photo album.
So, please, play nice. If you do, I just might start commenting on how "OMG CYOOT" your cat is.

Oh, and P.S. Please stop posting photographs that you didn't take. Scanning in that picture that your mother has on her wall of the kitten holding onto a branch that says "Hang In There!" is just dumb. I mean, what's the point really? Have you done anything to it to make it, even somewhat, your own? I didn't think so.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2898839/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2898839/ Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:40:00 PDT
Sunday is my birthday. I somehow feel like it's not at all special. Then again, I'm turning 23 and that's not any sort of real milestone. Oh well.

Did I mention I have prints for sale?

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]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2849584/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2849584/ Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:40:57 PDT I'm kinda excited. Yes, yes I am.

]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2797810/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2797810/ Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:49:48 PDT ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2774362/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2774362/ Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:08:21 PDT =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2774032/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2774032/ Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:21:42 PDT this journal entry. So very true. ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2616203/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2616203/ Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:30:04 PDT Hmmm..... ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2591491/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2591491/ Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:14:04 PDT I found my pastels buried in all the mess and found a fresh page to start on. As soon as I picked up one of the pastels I remembered why I hated them so much. The texture kills me. I tried to work with them, but after seeing what I'd done I figured that maybe it's a good thing I stopped using them. Maybe I should go dig out my oil pastels again and see if I can't get the feel back.
As is it, I'm pretty disappointed with myself. The shapes are all there, but it looks like I was trying too hard. The familiar lines and curves came out well enough, but there was none of the old flow that I used to have.
I'm all for getting back in the saddle, but I have a feeling it's going to be a very long and frustrating climb. >_< ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2501729/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2501729/ Mon, 24 May 2004 21:22:49 PDT I got my pen and sketchpad out. I touched the pen to the paper and drew a straight line. I never draw straight lines. But that's all I could draw. A straight line. I wonder where it goes.
I opened photoshop and was determined to finally bring to life some of the images in my head. I opened all the appropriate files and sat there staring at them, trying to figure how they fit. Nothing came to me.
I opened up my wordpad and prepared to write something therapeutic. Maybe write myself a letter. I wrote a few things I wasn't comfortable having written, and closed the file, without saving.
So then I came here. I opened this window and put the cursor in the little box. And there I watched it blink. And blink. And I let it blink for about a half hour before I even started writing this. I just have so much to say, but no way to say it. I have no outlet with which to express all of this.
I don't know how to capture it, paint it, draw it, piece it together, write it, or even say it.
I have this tremendous creative urge and absolutely no creativity to fuel it.
Meh.
Maybe I should pick up my saxophone again, or maybe learn piano or guitar.
Maybe that won't even help.
Maybe I'm not who I thought I was. But I know that I am.
I'd run away if I didn't have a story to finish.
Better get to writing.

Oh.
Shit. ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2440212/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2440212/ Sun, 16 May 2004 10:37:05 PDT But the thing about sleep....
I'm a hell of a lot more creative when I'm like the only person in this town awake and I'm tired beyond words, but not sleepy. Or, it may not be that I'm so much more creative, but that I'm more accepting of some of the crap that I come up with. I'm sure that, were I to have come upon some of these ideas when my brain was functioning properly, I would have chucked them right out the window without giving them another thought.
But maybe I shouldn't ever just throw things out like that without exploring them. That's the thing about being here, in this place, with the boy. I've been so afraid of his disapproval for so long, so afraid to express myself, that I lost nearly every trace of creative urge I had. And now that I'm opening that side of me back up, letting myself write and draw and paint and photograph, I've become overly critical.
I remember how, before I met him, I would at least jot every idea, every urge down. I'd keep a scrap of paper in a box somewhere, or a few lines hidden in the back of one of my sketchpads, and I'd go back to it a few weeks or months later and look over it. Very often I was able to turn it into something worthwhile.
I guess I'm just afraid for anything I create to be anything less than what I imagined it would be. I guess I'm still trying to impress myself, still trying to prove to myself that I am a creative person, that I do have some sort of talent. I remember I used to be so proud of myself, and that even if something I created wasn't great, and I knew it, I was still proud of it for the sheer creative effort I put into it. I only shunned the things I knew I tried too hard on, eventually distorting the intended meaning.
I've got to get back to that, to being proud of myself (but not wallowing in pride), and realizing that every creative impulse, at the very least, is worth exploring. ]]> =eNola-Rayne http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2237777/ http://eNola-Rayne.deviantart.com/journal/2237777/ Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:49:28 PDT Babies tire you out.
Took a nap.
And I.... photoshopped in my sleep. >_<
Yes, I said it. I dreamed in photoshop. Can we say addict?? ]]> =eNola-Rayne