My exhibited photo, a copy of which in big size, I sold a few years ago.
See also my collections at www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/collections/
Before digital and flickr - taken 12 years ago, it shows then already then I have begun
This breakfast has a long story behind it, and is an "as is" of one of my morning breakfasts taken with Olympus, a camera I started with, borrowed from my son. .
I begun, again to try to loose weight. Was it Scarsdale ? I lost it - alas, as usual, gained back.
I remember that morning, putting down my plate in the kitchen near the fridge. Discovering a reflection, a good angle. Taking the camera. At that time, I did not take so many pictures as each had to be given to shop for developing, printing, costing money.
I remembered, then:
When I was young, I wanted to have a breakfast in bed, like my grand-father. My grand-mother always brought it for him. Sometimes in my life, a lot later, someone did it to me, but last years I do it to myself.
My grand-mother continued to bring breakfast in bed also in the Bergen Belsen camp where they were imprisoned as jews, for more then six month and not knowing if ever they come out alive. She stayed in line twice, for the black liquid and almost nothing, and eat hers whith him in the hospital barack where he stayed, then, went back to hers where her grand children were.
She tells it all (wrote it there and later in Switzerland) in her journal that I published on web in a blog,
journaldesidonie.blogspot.com/
I try not to gain weight and have only a toast in the morning, but nowdays, I often take my breakfast while I blog in the morning, and often the cafee is cold before I remember to drink it, but blogs and flickr are so great!
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As taken by my iPod - just darkened a bit
I see in it my worries exaggerated...
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Stumbled on it by chance again, today
Photos like this make me happy with the world
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From the set Hallowen Kids, 2005
www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/sets/1246279/
there is a story behind this picture that I found again after almost a year,
I was feeling quite alone that day. Going to buy bread, I met these small boys trying to do trick and treat the hallowing day, not yet a tradition in France, and wanted to take their photos. I found some bonbons (that I have genearlly for my grand children) and they were happy to come in. Made some pics outside the fence and some inside.
They never came back to pick up their images, but looking at the set and this image in particularly, my heart is still feeling warmer in this sunday and also lonely day, he still smiles warmly at me suddenly.
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Je me sentais seule ce jour-là, ne sachant même pas que c'était Halowwen, pas spécialement fêté en France. En allant acheter du pain au coin de ma rue, je les ai vu. J'avais des bonbons à offrir et des photos à faire et j'ai passé (peut être eux aussi) du bon temps ensemble avec eux, tant dehors, que juste à l'intérieur du jardin, près de la porte d'entré de la cour.
aujourd'hui encore, ce petit minois me souriant me rechauffe le coeur
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There is life after 90 ! Sylvie proved me when we visited her in a small village in France.
Merci, Sylvie, une modèle si belle et chaleureuse de la Loue.
90+ pleine de vie / lot l'Oder then me and so full of life
(Photo souvenir 2006)
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Portrait on London streets, a street worker looks back to me with understanding. This looks of human understanding remain so important for me.
I asked him, almost as I arrived in London, they were having a pause, "may I take a photo of you?" and he answered "Why? I am old" then I pointed to myself and said "And me? I am not still interesting, because of my age? I am older then you."
That is the look, telling me, "yes, take a photo"!
We were not so different after all and he felt also interesting.
I do remember, looking at these photos again, when Judy Carter told us "SEE the others" around you, tell them you see them.
Photo taken less then a month after my arrival in UK.
During my first photo stroll in London centre.
My set "no more a stranger" of photos of people I did not know
No more stranger set
Old Vieux Öreg set
OLD Vieux Öreg set
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