Oh My Getty

Today, I am doing a little happy dance in my head.  Atleast a year ago, I submitted some photos to Getty Images.  Didn't hear a peep out of them.  I just figured that I wasn't "there" yet.  But, still, it is a little goal I've set for myself.  Some of my favorite Flickr photogs have that cute little "g" down by their licensing info. 

Okay, so today I got a request from Getty.  They liked these images:

Yaaaayyy!!!  Happy dance, happy dance!

Things I Love Thursday

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Time to take a look at some amazing photographers on Flickr.  So much inspiration here.  I have SO MUCH to learn!

Goin' Junkin'

So this past Sunday was supposed to be one of the hottest days here, thus far (103!).  What do we decide to do? Go to the Flea Market at the Cattle Barn in Fort Worth, of course!  There's no air conditioning!  That's how much my husband, son and I LOVE goin' junkin', as my mother used to call it.

Still, we were not prepared for just how HOT it was inside - even though they did have giant fans blowing.  We only stayed 30 minutes and I didn't buy anything this time.  I just wondered around with my camera so I could share this with you.  I usually give my son $5 and he goes wild!  On this day he managed to buy two action figures.  He even haggled someone down from $3 to $2!!  That's my boy.

It was a little skimpy.  Who could blame anyone for not showing up. 

Vintage jars.

I just know there's something in here I need.  Oh Yeah!  Fake chicken leg!!

Vintage 1930's cast iron toy car.

Violin.

All original vintage 1930's car with matching trailer.  LOVE!!  If I had the $600.00 cash in my pocket, I would have walked out with this thing.  I really SHOULD carry more cash!

She's looking over at my favorite room.  The room with the only air conditioner FULL of vintage snapshots.  I've posted many of my finds here.

Flickr Inspiration

Some of my favorite Flickr photographs from this week.  Go here to explore all these amazing photographers.

This mosaic goes good with blackbird.

Things I Love Thursday - Strange Dreams

Things I Love Thursday
Originally uploaded by Anna Dykema


More fantastic photographers on Flickr. All but one of these is Polaroid, it IS Roid Week and I just can't get enough....

However, the portrait on the bottom right is a "wet-plate" process.  Go here to see more of this photographers amazing portraits.  They are all quite haunting.

Things I Love Thursday

Some fellow Flickrites that I absolutely adore. Click on the mosaic to see who they are.
Things I Love Thursday
Originally uploaded by Anna Dykema

Pacer Love

I don't care what anyone says, I love this little car. If I could go back in time, I'd make my parents buy one and hand it down to me. Just look at this cool commercial from the late seventies. Hey! I really dig that interior.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbpmCla0Uk&feature=player_embedded)

So what if Time Magazine AND a Pulitzer prize winner lists the AMC Pacer as one of the 50 Worst Cars of All Time. I love it.

And that's THAT.

Weekend All Stars

Go here to find out who all the wonderful photographers are.

Can't wait to see these guys tonight at The Granada Theater in Dallas!!!!



If you can't see the video, go here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQzq-LnlVE

Learn more about the amazing Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars here.

News about my new shop next week.

Happy Weekend!!!

Baring My Arse

So I was invited to join a Pool on Flickr to post 10 Things About Me and I chose the above self portrait to go with my list because, being an introvert, I'm really uncomfortable exposing myself to others and well, this picture just says a lot about that. Though I haven't yet written out my goals or words or whatever for this year, I know for a fact I'm flipping my fear the bird this year. So, here's my list for all to see.

Ten Things You May Not Know About Me

1~ i am married to a man 12 years younger than me and we have a son who's six. i am deeply in love with both of them.

2~ i have three dogs and two cats that are constantly shedding. i have the hairiest house in the universe. it's embarrassing.

3~ in 1995 i divorced my first husband, quit my job of 10 years, sold everything i owned (down to a backpack), and ran away to australia for a few months. it was the scariest thing i ever did and best decision i ever made. the universe gave me a do-over for which i am forever grateful. i just wish i had written a book about it before elizabeth gilbert wrote her book. :P

4~ music is my "go juice". i cannot live without my music.

5~ i listen to public radio almost every day on my transistor radio. i carry it around the house with me. it just sounds better.

6~ i am seriously afraid of cockroaches - like, run-into-oncoming-traffic-afraid.

7~ i need sunshine. i think i'd go into depression if i lived in a place that didn't have lots of sunshine. i can't even stand my windows being covered in the daytime.

8~ my favorite movie is still 'out of africa'.

9~ i have too many books for my bookshelves.

10~ i lost my younger sister to crystal meth a year and a half ago. after over 20 years of using, she shot herself. yeah, it still hurts.

The funny part of this whole thing is that only a few hours after I posted the photo and the list, I get a phone call from my father-in-law.

"I saw your shower picture on the internet."

WHAAAAAAT?????

I KNEW I should have posted this one instead.

Treasure

Feeling so grateful for my husband, holding our newborn son 6 years ago, who has a gentle heart, an old soul and the most beautiful hands I've ever seen.

When we recognize the divine presence everywhere,

then we know that It responds to us and that there is

a law of good, a law of love, forever giving itself to us.
- Earnest Holmes

**This isn't the best photo in the world, but I just couldn't resist sharing it.

Abandon

Feeling grateful today for art and freedom.

There is no must in art. Art is free.

- Wassily Kandinsky

Visitor

Today I am grateful for all those who have come to visit.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand;

the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Elliot

Tiny Bits of Silence

Today I am grateful for those tiny bits of silence that occur in my day - a time to take a deep breath and remember that all is as it should be.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Play

Today I am grateful that I was reminded to play.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.
George Dorsey

Birth

The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft

All this month I am participating in a Flickr pool named 30 Days of Gratitude. Hop on over to see some beautiful photographs that just may give you inspiration to list all you are grateful for. FYI, the Shutter Sisters One Word Project's word for the month of November is Gratitude. Check out their pool here.

Emanation

Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning,

our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.

Rumi

All this month I am participating in a Flickr pool named 30 Days of Gratitude. Hop on over to see some beautiful photographs that just may give you inspiration to list all you are grateful for. FYI, the Shutter Sisters One Word Project's word for the month of November is Gratitude. Check out their pool here.

Reverence

...my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5

All this month I am participating in a Flickr pool named 30 Days of Gratitude. Hop on over to see some beautiful photographs that just may give you inspiration to list all you are grateful for. FYI, the Shutter Sisters One Word Project's word for the month of November is Gratitude. Check out their pool here.

Grace

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Saint Ambrose

All this month I am participating in a Flickr pool named 30 Days of Gratitude. Hop on over to see some beautiful photographs that just may give you inspiration to list all you are grateful for.

Kandinsky at the Guggenheim NYC

Have you ever been driven to tears by art? That moment came for me while viewing the Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum last week. The show runs through January 13, 2010 and is a MUST SEE.

Sketch for "Composition II" 1909-10

I studied this painting ages ago in an Art History class at community college. Seeing this painting reminded me of how deeply I was affected by Kandinsky's ideas about apocalypse, renewal, and utopia and how he believed in the transformational powers of art. The retrospective begins with paintings from his horse and rider themes and continues through to his last paintings, most of which I've never seen.

Now seeing this show at a "regular museum" would be one thing, but making my way up the spiral of the Guggenheim (during its 50th anniversary) was almost too much. I can't express how beautiful the Guggenheim is. Every spot a person could stand holds a beautiful view of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece.

Go here to see my pathetic attempt to shoot pictures of this wonderful building (without a flash) and other photos I took while in New York City. An architectural photographer, I am not. But I did enjoy every second of this show.

Beauty and Frailty

Every year we make the drive from Arlington to New Mexico along US 287 for our family holiday in the mountains. Each year, I long to stop and take a closer look at the old cotton field farm houses in Memphis, TX. Well, recently, I finally had the opportunity to stop at a few of them.

Some would say they look sad, but I believe that houses, like people, have a lifespan. These houses remind me of elderly women - frail, full of memories of a life only she will know, resigned and breathtakingly beautiful.

This particular house is located at approximately 2769 US 287 in Memphis, Texas. I have a couple more of this homestead in my Flickr.

More on these houses in future posts.