best Christmas medley I've ever seen. ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. © Raffaella Loro I've really not got excited about Christmas at all. I've made the majority of my presents this year, and other than a few brief visits to the...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } escalate © Raffaella Loro one of those nights where I can't sleep. Perhaps I shouldn't have taken a nap this afternoon, but I was tired and my bed was so inviting.The weather has been depressing me lately, but I made the realization...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } a fine pair © Raffaella Loro I'm sure that if/when my mother reads this post I'm going to get an earful about this photo from my most recent photoshoot. Don't worry mama... it's in black and white so it's tasteful and artistic....
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } freestyle... © Raffaella Loro I've posted this photo before on my blog, but I like it so much that I figured it deserves another post. I went swimming last night... something which seems odd for me to do, since I spent much...
I survived my first day back at the gym in years. I have never gone regularly in my life, but I have made feeble attempts here and there. Always unsuccessful attempts mind you. I lacked the necessary motivation to make myself go alone, and I made bad choices to go to the gym with some people who only knew how to motivate through...
I dislike the gym.but I'm going...tonight. ...
A few years ago I bought a Wacom tablet... and it was one of my best purchases ever. I try to avoid using a mouse whenever I can. I don't know how any photographers or designers only use a mouse. Wacom also manufactures displays (the Cintiq line) that allow you to work directly on the surface, akin to working on paper. The cost...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } shedir © Raffaella Loro I've been told that it's going to be the coldest winter in fifteen years. When I look out the window and see the flurry of snowflakes swirling every which direction... and I think how my legs were chapped...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } twin lens reflex... © Raffaella Loro It's really started to get cold here, with temperatures getting close to minus 20 C. Basically it's cold enough that my glasses fog up when I walk into work after my short walk from home. My...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } shadow of the other © Raffaella Loro The arrival of the snow was unavoidable... but there is so little of it that I don't really care so much. Maybe because right now it makes the scene from my office window more picturesque....
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } form vs. function © Raffaella Loro I need to remind myself from time to time that most of my problems eventually work themselves out. Sometimes it may seem that things are spiralling out of control, but in a matter of weeks my...
I saw this blog readability test on Darcy Norman's blog this morning. I thought I'd give it a whirl. The results for my particular blog are very amusing.Darcy helpfully included this postscript...ps. if you take the test and post the results on your blog, bewarethe sneaky, sneaky person who runs the service. The HTML snippet they provideincludes a spam ad hyperlink. Not cool....
so much for my committment to this blog...My last post was sometime in late September, I went away on vacation - was too busy to post during that week - I returned to Edmonton to find that my contract position ended suddenly - I spent a few weeks in a rather depressing state of low self esteem, during which time I neglected my...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } river crossing... © Raffaella Loro (more relevant photos to be added later)Yesterday I attended Career Day at the University of Alberta. It was the third or fourth such career fair that I've attended recently... this time of year being especially popular for...
I'm feeling a bit nostalgic this morning, so I've decided to really dig through the archives and revisit some photos from my photostream and create an approximate yearly retrospective.This is the first photo I posted to flickr on September 20, 2004. I had my digital SLR for about six months by then and I had recently started up my blog. I was back...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the working man heads home... © Raffaella Loro ...
I really need to come up with an alternate solution for carrying my camera around with me on a daily basis. I would like to have one bag that has storage spots for all of my assorted camera bits so I don't end up forgetting things when I switch from purse to purse. This morning I pulled out my camera to take a...
I took this photo on my way home from the Winspear this afternoon, where I had the luxury of attending a performance of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. I really enjoyed the show today.As I wandered home I paused every few blocks to take a photograph of deserted downtown. The emptiness of the streets seemed to exaggerate the feeling that I was shooting alone....
Party photos after the jump. I've backdated this post for the day of the party.Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. ...
If I drank coffee, every morning I could take my cup to the window and watch the morning commuters thronging the intersection as they make their way to the downtown core. I don't drink coffee or much of anything in the morning and I don't really care to watch the vehicles and pedestrians battle it out on the crosswalks below. Instead I like...
Following a suggestion from one of the blogs I read, I listened to a couple interesting documentaries on BBC today about the school system in Finland as well as the quality of education at Westminster School and Harvard University.After listening to the programs I paused to contemplate one of the comments that stood out from the two short documentaries, that Finland's education system...
In a couple weeks I'll be visiting Toronto with Aryn. I'm very excited about my trip because other than a brief visit to Vancouver and a weekend trip to Calgary my summer was spent in central Alberta. In some ways I'm glad that I didn't have a real vacation during the summer though. Edmonton is quite pleasant during the summer months and I...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } yarning to see me... © Raffaella Loro There are times at work when I find myself completely underwhelmed by my conversational contributions. The small talk we generally make with our coworkers is often about safe and generally boring topics. It's a relief...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The corn is as high as an elephant's eye © Raffaella Loro I started to take photos with my digital SLR around the same time as I started this blog so I feel somewhat obligated to maintain some sort of balance between...
I'm in the process of trying to reinvent my blog... So far I've stripped my sidebar and limited the additional widgets I have to my RSS feed and archives. Ultimately I think I'll end up linking my blog to my photography website, but I can't quite decide if I need to associate all of my personal garbage from the last few years with...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } song of the open road... © Raffaella Loro I've been self censoring my blog for months now and I don't know how to overcome it. I'm all too aware of my public presence (not that anyone really reads this blog) and I've...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 1+1=3 © Raffaella Loro I realize that I love photography most of all when I'm taking pictures for myself... So I'm going to sell off some of my camera equipment and invest in a little camera that I can carry around with...
a little diversion this Tuesday morning...Which famous photographer are you?Helmut Newton: Known for fashion and nudes illustrating themes of mass media, glamour, sex, and theater "I get inspired, in America, by a certain kind of sleaziness."Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests. ...
I finally uploaded some photos from the various networking events that I attended as both the official (also click here) and unofficial photographer.If you're viewing in this in your feed reader, make sure to click through to view the embedded slideshow from the most recent events.Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR. ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } pull up a chair... © Raffaella Loro I'm trying not to censor myself... as I've started several posts in the past few months that have gone nowhere. I got caught up in trying to make sure that I was writing interesting things,...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } these hands... © Raffaella Loro No excuses, no complaints...Aryn and I attended a friend's wedding on the weekend where I got to play dual role as guest and photographer. It was a lot of fun, despite the intense heat (which ended up...
My birthday is fast approaching...Those of you that are searching for a present idea... I would like this book. Find it and other books on my assorted amazon wish lists. ...
From Apartment Therapy...The future of outdoor living here in NYC belongs in part to The High Line. The elevated railway has been in disuse for decades and is now being given new life by the initiatives of Friends of the Highline.This looks like a fascinating project. I'd like to visit New York to see it once it has been completed (or once some...
My sister is staying with me for a month until she gets occupancy of her new apartment. It's been nice having her around because I've been able to borrow from her wardrobe. Unlike one of my other sisters, despite my being the most sturdy and rubenesque of all the Loro girls, she doesn't complain that my curvaceous figure will stretch out her clothes....
It was looking to be a productive night. We cooked our first meal in the condo/apartment/house/loft (haven't decided what to call it yet), a simple meal of spaghettini and bolognese sauce (my own special concoction) and some kind of caesar salad that my sister had picked up from the grocery store the other day.Still without a fully plumbed kitchen sink or stone countertops...
After spending the day feeling less than terrific (Aryn and I were up until two in the morning finishing moving from our apartment, many hours behind schedule) I am finally allowing myself to be really excited about our new space. We've owned the loft for almost five months but the prospect of living here has always seemed more dream than reality. I had...
I'm sitting on the one remaining cushioned chair left in our apartment after a full day of moving. Despite having moved most of the large items into a storage room in the new building, our apartment still appears to be rather full. Nearly fifty boxes sit full of books in the other bedroom and our closet is still jam packed with clothes. It...
Somehow, without my knowing it, I must have pleased the gods of the housing industry (only my sister and my cousin would understand that reference) enough for them to grant me a loft as my first owned property. I don't know how it happened... slowly but surely I have transitioned into a young urban professional. All I need now is a small Pomeranian...
Back when I was an insomniac/night owl and I couldn't sleep, I used to edit photos or compose emails late in the evening. These activities allowed me to utilize my restless brain and eventually lull me to sleep. However, as I currently share space with another individual I can't really keep my laptop by my bed and pull it out whenever I can't...
I looked on my photostream today and was slightly shamed to see that I hadn't posted anything since March 24th. I can make hundreds of excuses, like I've been busy with preparing for my renovations and upcoming move to the new place, but really when I've picked up a camera lately I haven't done anything with it. I seem to be experiencing a...
Every so often I reach a state of tiredness where one of my eyelids start to twitch. I am at that point and it is only the beginning of the week. Thanks to the help of my wonderful Papa, Aryn and I are well into the renovations of our condomaximus. My father arrived to help on Wednesday evening and what was meant to...
Waiting for breakfast... learning new things about myself.You are The EmpressBeauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at homedecorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While...
I was just looking at photographer Bill Wadman's site 365 Portraits... and then suddently I started to miss my camera.I took some photos for a friend of a friend's Doctoral Concert on Wednesday night but I haven't had the chance to process the photos yet. The conditions were less than optimal, it was a church with challenging lighting conditions. As the focus was...
ode to pontius pilate © Raffaella LoroThe weather puzzles me. One moment there's snow and then overnight it disappears. I'm absolutely estatic about the change. It has been a long and dreary winter and I have been anxious to throw off the shackles of sock season.Today is officially the day. My decision to go sockless was in part prompted by my inability to...
The long weekend is over and the snow is back. It doesn't seem possible that July is only three months away. How does the weather change so much in such a short time?The return on the snow left me in such a foul mood this morning. In an effort to prevent a bout of bad weather induced depression I decided to focus on...
It's Day Two of my visit to Fort St. John. Yesterday I was feeling a bit sick (*kaff, kaff) so I hung around the house and did a whole lot of nothing. I finished reading JPod by Douglas Coupland and watched a series of boring home movies from the family archives. My family likes to do this when our significant others are around,...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } TV is chewing gum for the eyes. © Raffaella Loro I was meaning to post something tonight, but poor Aryn is sick and I've been busy tending to him with water and other such essential get-well remedies all the while entertaining him...
I read a thought provoking piece in the paper today about the filthy landscape of garbage and gravel that emerges in Edmonton every spring once the snow thaws. When the seasons are in transition, I often get caught up in the excitement that warmer weather is around the corner and happily join in with coworkers or fellow pedestrians on the street proclaiming how...
