In My Life
If there is one thing I wish for this Christmas, it’s not books but more time to read. Work demands a lot of my time, such that I hardly get to crack spines during the week. When I do read, I do so at the expense of sleep. Same goes for blogging. I should be scheduling posts over the weekends but then I’m so tired after training, I sleep away my Saturdays. Sundays I catch up on work I didn’t manage to finish.
On the bright side, I still get to soak in the sun and enjoy some fresh air every now and then. When that happens, I like to stop and admire flowers. It’s a very calming activity.
On the Blog
Abria from Bee Splendid pleasantly surprised me because she featured my Instagram account as one of her favourites. Of course it always makes me happy when my photos add a splash of colour to appreciative eyes and screens. Also, check out the other accounts she featured! They’re lovely.
Blog Posts
- [2 Dec] 9 Signs of a Hipster Library
- [4 Dec] Photography: Accent Colours
- [7 Dec] Retrospect #49: December 7th
Around the Blogosphere
Authors
- Nikki & Frances @ The Paper Sea discussed the impact controversial authors have on reading their books.
Bloggers & Blogging
- Chiara @ Delicate Eternity cast Georgie in the Artistry Spotlight. Georgie is one of my favourite bloggers and you should definitely visit her at What She Reads!
- Kat @ Cuddlebuggery shared tips on how to name your blog. I can’t stress the importance enough of googling potential names in singlular and plural and every other permutation! I paid a year for the domain bookrevel.com before realising that Book Revels already exists as a blog. The difference of that ‘s’ is not that insignificant! At least I love that I ended up with Word Revel.
- Crini @ All About Books explained how to code simple progress bars in HTML and CSS.
Books
- Megan @ Adrift on Vulcan made a plea for bromance.
- Shannelle @ The Art of Escapism pointed out that it’s hard being a new blogger.
- Jess @ My Reading Dress wondered, if everything is conventional, then what does it take to be avant-garde?
- Annie @ The Runaway Reader lamented the burden of borrowing books.
Games
- In the mood for games? Head on over to Oh, the Books! where Asti put together I Spy Sci-Fi: A Guessing Game.
Reading
- Amy @ Aya M. Productions talked about what compels her to reread books.
Quote of the Week
This idea that a photograph is a representation of your vision is fundamental to the craft of photography. It would be be a very boring world if none of us ever saw the world around us differently. The key factor is that you control your camera and use it to express your vision. You call the shots, quite literally.
— Haje Jan Kamps in Shooting Yourself
It’s precisely because I wanted to be able to represent things the way I see them that I was drawn to photography. I love being able to control the camera and instead of the other way around. Yes, auto photography has its time and place but manual photography is so much more liberating, even if it takes time to learn how to use it. Personally, I think it’s a worthy investment of time.
Thank you for linking up to me! And congratulations on that feature. :D
We’re wishing for the SAME THING, Joséphine! I need time and lots of it. Work is taking up most of the lead up to christmas for me as well and I’m so incredibly tired. I want to be interactive as well so I’m up until the early hours of the morning writing blog posts, commenting, etc. And then I get minimal sleep before hitting work again. It’s a cycle. The only time I get to read is on the train and I get terrible travel sickness as well (which I now just bite down otherwise I have no time to read at all). By the time I get home, I repeat the process all over again. I’ve just had three back to back days of three hours of sleep, working and blogging. I feel bleugh. I shut my eyes for what seemed like five minutes just before and I had a half an hour nap. I’m going to try for some decent sleep tonight.
And yes. I live for manual. I could never see myself using auto, just because I love being in control. I get to create images that I see for myself. And I want to translate that into these fixed moments in time!
I don’t know what I like about most about photography. I’ve never sat and thought about it; it’s always been something I’ve done, not something I’ve dissected. Am I allowed to say everything? I love the technical beauty of it: colors and shallow depths of field and perfect composition. I love the creativity of creating beautiful compositions. I love the rush of snapping a candid photo and holding my breath until it shows up on my preview screen. I love the therapeutic click of my shutter.
I totally empathize with you on wanting more time to read. My schedule has been packed with schoolwork and extracurricular activities. I try to get in some reading each day at the expense of sleep, but it’s hard. FInding time to blog has been even harder.