Continuing with Creative January...

It's cold and it's snowy in Canada in January but vow to be happy, despite the cold!  Wear your favourite winter woollies and get out there!  Happiness doesn't just happen so plan for it to happen; in fact, don't accept anything less!  LIFE is a special occasion.  And each individual moment that make life are special, too. Of course, a good life needs good health, so DANCE with the spirits - Zumba, perhaps! - Stay ACTIVE (& stay hydrated) to stay HEALTHY.  GROW a PASSION - a passion for creating. Get your ZZZs and LET's GET HAPPY... get ready!, already! You got this. Make life a meaningful journey... be tasty.  Normal?  Really?  Normal is clearly over-rated. Normal is boring!  Never settle FOR GOOD ENOUGH.  Imagine the world... it is often irresistibly surprising!  Unleash the PASSION.  Make a splash!  BE STRONG!

Lab 1 -->> Smartphone 30/30...

​This project emerged as a result of Lab 1 in Steve Sonheim's Creative Photography Lab - 52 Fun Exercises for Developing Self-Expression With Your Camera. 

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It's time to go beyond the single snapshot.  The objective is to capture an experience by shooting a series of images.  Tell a story by taking thirty shots in thirty minutes with your Smartphone.  Take a shot of whatever grabs your attention at one-minute intervals.  Don't think - just shoot!

Okay, here's what happened...

My ride didn't show up one day last week so I hustled to the bus stop to get the right bus; the one that drops me off right at my door!  But, alas, the wrong bus showed up first.  (Everybody knows that bus schedules, much like the Pirate Code, are more like guidelines, really.)

When I got off the bus, I faced a thirty minute JOURNEY HOME...

The song, entitled "La Doodle Song" by Nicola Schneider (MissNikkiRocks of Team Schnadams, Inc.)  accompanies my video, JOURNEY HOME, depicting an unexpected surprise of an adventure.

​Mellow and mournful piano gives way to a more frantic frenzy, mirroring the actual situation I found myself to be in.... at first, annoyed that I had a longer than necessary trip home after work.  But, I also, to  put it bluntly, really had to pee! But, woe was me for I was yet 30 minutes from home.  So, I took pictures to distract my self.   And, the whole situation was made infinitely worse by the frenzied, flowing Spencer Creek that I was walking alongside!  
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Splashes of colour command a second glance.
Here's to Happy Trails and Happenstance!

... I learned that sometimes wrong is only frame of mind;
Wrong is right if you make it so!