i have to thank someone new, urbaniche, for stopping by, commenting and thereby leading me to her blog of the same name. she did a really enchanting this girl post that you should read to start with. but her most recent post was on objects of her affection and i felt really inspired by that. because, as we know, i'm pretty affectionate towards certain objects - stones, eyeballs, converse, my nikons. but ultimately, i think it's good for my currently restless soul to spend a bit of time pondering these things. (aside: the little search this blog button at the top of blogger blogs is really sucking today big time, it's not returning proper results, so it's definitely not an object of my affection at the moment.)
i've recently become quite addicted to snapfish, a photo service, which i signed up for through being gold on SAS (they're the ones running that contest where i entered the picture of sabin jumping on the wet trampoline (if you haven't voted, please do, only a few days left!)). they regularly send me good deals on developing my photos, which is something i don't do often enough now that i take mostly digital. the reason i like it, other than the fact that having photos physically in your hand is magical, is that it has caused me to go through my photos attentively, selecting the ones i'd like to have printed. (and yes, this IS about to have something to do with the object of my affection.)
when i'm going to upload, i create an album in iPhoto and i drag all of the pictures i want to develop into it, for easy upload once i go to the snapfish site. so it's making me put my best photos together in one place. which means i noticed something interesting. the light.
light is the object of my affection. spring light, summer light, autumn light, sunset, morning light, candlelight. i love them all. i'm not a huggy person, but if i were, i would give light a great big hug.
i wonder if i would have so much affection for light if i didn't live in these northern climes? it's dark so much of the year, perhaps i'm more appreciative of the light while it's here.
