By the sea

I would love to be.

Have a great day.

Setting Sail to leave the save Harbor

Oohoohohohh. I'm soooooo darned excited about the developments in my life. I will reveal them soon, just need to edit and prepare some stuff for this blog and then ...

This is the reason for todays picture, the harbor of Wustrow on the Darss peninsula. Looking at this picture I want to go there right away, I love the Darss.

Wave patterns

As I've said, I've got a ton of great pictures waiting to be published. Another picture from last years Darss vacation.

The Empty Shell

When I went through the pictures on my cameras memory card, searching for some specific food pics, I found tons of beautiful pictures that I had forgotten about. This is one of those forgotten treasures. I took it last March during my Darss trip. I would love to go there today. The seaside is fantastic, as is the Kooks song "seaside".

I had a pretty awesome day yesterday and I hope for an awesome weekend too. The weather is certainly wonderful.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

A sunset at the Baltic Sea

By the sea I feel free

My mood is improving daily. Probably because it gets warmer and today it is almost sunny. Sophie Ellis-Bextor provides currently my kind of music. I've found a solution to my picture presentation problem, the solution was literally hanging on my wall.

And I've decided to attend a watercolor painting class at Leipzig's Adult Education Center, because there is a lot more that I want to learn about watercolor and I need some intellectual input and people to talk about watercolor painting. I just hope the class that I want to take will run, because I have an uncanny knack of always picking the classes which are cancelled. The topic of my chosen class isn't landscape, which could be a problem, since this seems to be what you usually paint in watercolors: land- and cityscapes. How uninspired....

Any classes you want to take in the near future?

Have a great weekend everyone.

Spring is coming, but no new music

When I walked to my dentists appointment at dusk yesterday evening the Spring birds were singing and the air felt like velvet. I love this kind of air, when everything becomes soft and the light brush of wind feels like a loving caress and as if someone is ruffling lovingly your hair. *sigh*

These days I feel like I'm becoming more and more myself. Something is definitely shifting. On Tuesday as rotten as it was, something big shifted. It felt like years passed in hours. I had the exact same feeling on the Tuesday before Christmas.

What is also changing are my expenses. For almost 20 years I spent quite a lot of my income on music. But I haven't bought one single song since November. I also don't lend CDs from the public library anymore. In fact I'm starting to listen to my vast collection of music. Currently I listen a lot to Matchbox Twenty, Hootie & the Blowfish, The Goo Goo Dolls and Tom Jones. I'm obviously not running from myself anymore, I'm starting to truly accept myself on a very basic level.
However my mind hasn't caught up with this development. It's funny (and annoying) how often during the last weeks and months I wanted to go music shopping (online and second-hand music stores or library) and whenever I did, I found that I'm not interested in anything. Nevertheless there is not a day passing by when I'm not thinking of buying some new music. I'm sure I will buy the new John Mayer LP whenever that comes out, but until then ...
But beware of me going to my local artists supply, then I really get into shopping mood. Good thing I'm now making it a point to pay cash, this way I'm abled to reign in my spending. Anyway, I've decided to gift myself a starters box of water-colours at Easter.

So what kind of music do you like lately? Any new artists?

Footsteps and Creative Commons License

This picture was inspired by many other pictures of many other people. I'm against piracy, but I'm for a culture of sharing. This is why I switched my copyright to a Creative Commons License.

Some companies are currently trying to strangle the freedom of speech and creativity that the internet enabled. They want to go back to the dark ages when they controlled the news and the media with SOPA and PIPA and whatever they call it in your country. But you know what: I like my voice and I like to use it.

So there you have it, Creative Commons for my creations.

My father at the beach of the Baltic Sea

I have my first wedding photography assignment, the wedding party of friends in June. Which provides me with several challenges. First camera wise, I'll have to buy my Canon 600D on 30th April latest, to have a full month to test and get used to it. Photography with sun and artificial light, how long does the battery last, how many memory cards will I need, etc And secondly it is a challenge dresswise. I want to wear a really beautiful dress, the challenge is to get one with enough freedom to move to do my photography.

Thank you for all your nice comments to my last post

Can I go to the sea please? Please? Pretty Please?

I think this speaks volumes.

A calming walk on the beach

would be nice right now.

Darssian "livingwood"

In case you didn't know, this is how driftwood might've looked before it became driftwood. Now this I call "livingwood". *
Just another lovely Darss-view. *sigh*

*Surprised at this? You really should know by now that I am slightly crazy. ;-)

The beauty of groynes at the western beach

Groyne at the west beach Darss, March 2011, Digital Ixus 75

West beach Darss, June 2010, Nikon F90

Groyne at the west beach Darss, March 2011, Digital Ixus 75

Friday is here, the WEEKEND IS NEAR

Normally I'm not that excited about the weekend, but it so happens that this weekend is Pentecost. And Pentecost in Leipzig means: Wave-Gothic-Meeting. It's the biggest Wave-Gothic-Festival on the earth and I LOVE IT. The positively weird thing is, there is always good weather that weekend. And I love the imaginative clothes and the atmosphere is grand.

Pic above it from the beach of Prerow on the Darss.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Can you see the sea?

Groynes in the sunset

surrounded by the sea

Il mare

Shell at the Baltic Sea

Baltic church

The church in Wustrow.