Summer.

First off...that pic ^^ was taken by my three-year-old sister. She takes a pretty good photo!! I'm training her to be just like me. ;)

I bought Owl City's latest album today. And can I just say...how utterly and completely in love I am with it?

It is a total summer album. Over-flows with color! Greens, blues, and yellows! Gorgeousness!

I had coffee today. Raspberry and caramel iced coffee. Heavenly.

I got a surprise package in the mail. Squee.

I got to video chat with my bestie.

It's summer!!

Wishes...

"Used a wish yesterday, spending a wish today...I save wishes for my future." - Anonymous

Magic...

Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ by Anonymous ~

"The best kind of magic is in the little details of life."
~Anonymous~

"A fairytale...a bit of magic...is not just fairies, princesses...but it can be a kind of fairy dust."
~A.S.~

Cuppa Tea

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. ~A.A. Milne

Summer Luv

Driving down a road.

Blue skies.

Sunshine.

Car windows rolled down.

'50s music.

Iced coffee.

It makes me want to take a road trip.

My Freeze Ray

What is it I love about photography?

I love the:
Brightness!
Crisp, clean, bright colors!
Capturing the personality of people.

That funny scrunched up face my friend makes when I tell her to give me "some attitude".
The crinkles around the eyes when my friend laughs at what I say.
The funny, cheesy grin she makes when she gets tired of smiling nicely for an hour and a half.
The one eye screwed shut when she gets a face full of sunshine.
The hand that flies up to stop the hair from being blown into her face.
The head thrown back in laughter when the wind totally ruins the picture.
The silly things that I can get her to do just for the camera.

The very purpose of capturing a moment and being able to freeze it time. It's like my own personal Freeze Ray.

With MY freeze ray, I capture the beauty I see in this world. It's the way I get my artistic side out. I may not be painting the colors, or creating any of the beauty. I'm just freezing it so others can see and share "that" moment.


With my freeze ray I will stop. the. world.

A World of Color

When people begin to talk about their own quirks, they usually list things such as:

biting their fingernails
tapping their fingers
humming under their breath
needing to recount things
touching each pole as they walk along
straightening everything on their desk

All those annoying, little habits that make us who we are...I'm sure I have many of those odd quirks (okay, so I know I do...), but the one I'm going to talk about today, is something that most people never experience and can't even understand sometimes.

I was recently told that my "quirk" has a name:
synesthesia

And what is it exactly? Well. To put it simply, for me, everything is a color. Every single thing has a color or shade...books, music, movies, people, seasons, months, days, numbers, scents...everything!


For example: in my head, when I hear the name of one of my best friends, "HannahBeth", I immediately see a silvery-purplish color.
Or, when I hear the month, June, I think of a rosy, deep-pink color.
The movie, "Little Women" is a mixture of silvery-white and velvety-red.
The book, "Enemy Brothers" is a navy-blue and gray.
The song, "Tennessee" by Hans Zimmer is a deep, summer-green and golden color.


I think because I view the world in such a way explains why I just so happen to love bright and vivid colors. I love brightly-color and vivid pictures! To me, they just stick out, and the majority of the time, when something that I consider nice or pleasant enters my mind, the colors I view for it are bright and vivid.

Most people think I am odd for the way I think, and for some, they just can't wrap their head around how it works. To be honest, I don't even know how it works myself. It's just something that's there. And from my point of view, I don't know how people live without experiencing this! What is their world like??? What is a world like without viewing it through colors?? Where's the excitement of playing a new piece on the piano if you can't close your eyes and see the colors? Where's the true contentment of enjoying summer, if you can just lie on the grass and close eyes and see the colors that associated with the scents?? I think viewing the world this way is why I am so passionate about photography...I love capturing those colors.


This is my world...over-flowing with color.