photoreflection

I was thinking of uploading some photos to the National Geographic photo contest, but after several error messages I decided that maybe I would just put a few of my favorites on my blog...

Inle Lake, Myanmar

I've been thinking about my time in Burma, you know, Myanmar. I feel like that move stretched my comfort zone so far that I've been living in the middle surrounded by the wrinkled, stretched out skin of my zone. The weight of the sac are starting to get to me and I feel like I've got to get out to the limits of my zone, or I'll suffocate. 

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania 

Patterns in nature, connectivity, expression, purity. I want more of those things in my life.

Sucre, Bolivia

Love, companionship, commitment. I don't know a single gringa that is in a happy, healthy relationship with a local...

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

The best way to bring magic into your life is to be the one creating it.

Lago Verde, Bolivia

Those obstacles, which seem insurmountable, will become your vantage points.

Managed to get my painting home... I had to take it off the wooden frame, roll it up and, well, the packing part is kind of a long story. I spent a few days worrying about how I was going to get a tube to carry on the plane, so a friend and I went down to the place I got the picture and there was no one around, so I just grabbed a tube out of the back room. It was a nice rigged piece of PVC that was taped up. When I got it home I realized it was too long, so I cut it and well because I'm so handy, I cut it too short... So the painting ended up getting rolled and crammed into my checked luggage. It made it home with only a few injuries. I laid it flat on the table until I took it to the frame place. Well I go in and just want a wooden frame for the painting to be wrapped around, no actual frame. Ok, guess how much. $140. Yup, that is freaking crazy. None-the-less I still love it. Now I just have to convince my parents to store it for me until I decide when and where to "settle down". So here it is again. The painting that made it half way around the world.