messing around w/ my camera

I spent some time reflecting (ha ha) with my camera today.  Gee, this is just like the post I made 6 months ago!  I hate to say I am no farther along.  I haven't put in the time, honestly, and I'm still intimidated and I have this mental block.  It's like me + math I guess...I feel like I just can't 'get it.'  Luckily I have a couple of photographer friends that have offered me some tutorials.  So...I hope to make some major progress in the coming year.

Night Air

I was introduced to an amazing song this week:  Night Air by Jamie Woon.  I was so captivated by it that of COURSE I had to hoop to it.  A lyric search turned up these lyrics (posted on someone's blog, the song is pretty new).

Night Air

Night air has the strangest flavor

Space to breathe and time to savor

All that night air has to lend me

Till the morning makes me angry

In the night air

The night air

I've acquired a kind of madness

Daylight fills my heart with sadness

Only silent skies can soothe me

Feel that night air flowing through me

In the night air

The night air

I don't need those car crash colors

I control the skies above us

Close my eyes to make the night fall

Comfort of a world revolving

I can hear the earth in orbit

In the night air

The night air

I've acquired a taste for silence

Darkness fills my heart with calmness

And each thought like a thief is driven

To steal the night air from the heavens

In the night air

The night air

Here is the hooping video I made to this song

the yellow leaves stretch out like a canopy.

I love this tree.  These leaves.  This time of year.  Gorgeous.

This is my song obsession du jour:  Dog Days Are Over, Florence + the Machines