3-2-1: The power of limiting your options, the value of eagerness, and what we undervalue – James Clear

3-2-1: The power of limiting your options, the value of eagerness, and what we undervalue – James Clear
— Read on jamesclear.com/3-2-1/november-21-2024

What Can We Create Together? Experimenting with Textures

This weekend I wanted to create a composition the was inspired by cherubs in the sky with feathers, without it been as obvious as changing the background and using AI to sit my kids on a cloud.

So I decided to play around with textures, to change the background and whole feel of the portrait.

SOC shoot
Edited shot

I’m pleased with the result. I also used textures in the portraits below of my daughter, this again I wanted the effect to be subtle. It is inspired by branches of trees in the forest. I used textures from some woodland photographs I had taken when exploring with kids.

Edited shot

I’m really enjoying using the textures of nature to create interesting background to my portraits.

Wise words for the weekend – Audible

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B08S8SV7Q3?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow

I have been working through the lectures by Heidi Sormaz in her book ‘ How to live a Yogic Lifestyle’.

I have found her lectures thought provoking and all have resonated with me. Today I have been listen to the chapter on ‘How to Love like a Yogic’ and Heidi confirmed something I have been working on for a while, that to love others you need to love yourself and allow time for your own traumas to heal. Forgive, be compassionate and respond with consideration rather than merely reacting to a situation.

Happiness is an inside job and to love others is to first love one’s self. Take time for you and to really get to know yourself. This is a daily practice and an ever changing endeavour, but it is at the route of everything we are.

3-2-1: The importance of unlearning, 5 steps of the creative process, and deciding who you want to be – James Clear

3-2-1: The importance of unlearning, 5 steps of the creative process, and deciding who you want to be – James Clear
— Read on jamesclear.com/3-2-1/november-14-2024

Wise Words for the Weekend – Audible

There are so many wise words in Miranda Harts new book and I have only listened to the first chapter!

Check it out, to find so many insightful thought provoking phrases, antidotes and poems.

The idea of discovering your wild self, loving and allowing yourself to be loved for who you really are, unashamedly and with authenticity, has really resonated with me and my aim to find the joy in life!

www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D8R5WG6V

3-2-1: On growing fast vs. growing slow, the value of mastery, and climbing the right mountain – James Clear

3-2-1: On growing fast vs. growing slow, the value of mastery, and climbing the right mountain – James Clear
— Read on jamesclear.com/3-2-1/november-7-2024