Today is a super special day!
It's my First Instagram BIRTHDAY!!!!
On December 3rd of last year I posted my first picture on Instagram and little did I know it would really become so meaningful to me.
Where do I start? Where do I start? Where do I start?
I downloaded the app on Friday and on Monday my rare friend from the money maker place Suzy or as we know her @susq28 mentioned to me all exited that she downloaded this super great app. As we talked I realised we both were talking about Instagram and she became my first follower right there in the hallway. Love you Suz!!!! I'm sooooo thAnkful for this wonderful strengthen friendship.
The first picture and the following one were a tribute to my mother.
It was taken somewhere in the Caribbean on a cruise not long after my mother departed for her eternal voyage.
I needed a voyage myself to try to find some strength from this most difficult part of my life.
As I was laying down at night on the deck I looked up and noticed the full moon with a hallow. This was the second time in my life I observed this phenomenon.
The first time was many years back on the first Christmas Eve after my father past away.
It was a sign to me, a comfort that maman was watching over me..................................
After that the first pictures I posted I"ll be honest: they were trials for many many many posts.
Since I got a camera phone it was always my camera of choice, so convenient............ not necessarily the best quality at first but the technology got much better. But I kept posting and posting until I really found myself as a photographer............ I'm still searching but I think I'm getting closer,
Now this is the chapter when I talk about what is super important , super essential and super human.
I'm getting a bit emotional now....................................................................................
Give me a minute.......................................................................................................................
Alright I'm back.........................................................................................................................
Instagram became very important for me as an artist, it has been the best platform to show and share my work with the world which I never imagine would be possible in particular at this large scale.
Being able to show My creativity. My vision. Me.
And it became very important to me to see the work of others people. People like me.
I do believe that every photographer is showing a little bit of him/herself with each photograph. It can be very blunt or very subtle, it can be a puzzle.......... but it is there........... I know I'm doing it..........
Since a year I have chatted, encountered , crossed, met, liked, commented, been liked, been commented, been filmed, been documented, interviewed, by so many amazing people that I can not start a list.
We all have something in common: the love for photography.
I have never seen such a tight community. Everyone I have the pleasure to meet or dialogue one way or an other are such great individuals that I feel I found the best place on earth.
Every time there is an Instatmeet I want to go, and if I can't make it I kind of get mad. I love to be around all of you guys. It feels warm.
I got so many more friends and many many more great peeps I want and will meet.
Thank you Brian Difeo for what all that you do so well for this community in New York City. You are awesome.
Thank you for my Love one and my Loved ones that walk with me thru the city and think I'm crazy. Thank you for your Patience and understanding (or not) about me being a maniac and shooting everything all the time everywhere I go with my I-Phone.
THIS IS MY PASSION.......................... not obsession............ MY PASSION!!!!!
Well my friends I will leave you with some of my personal favorite shots in no particular order.
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| MY MUSE KATE |
PEACE LOVE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
