I’m finally back with one of these. The past few have been a bit not my cup of tea or I’ve been too busy with other posts to do it. However, this one involves pictures and I fully intend on checking out the March Phoneography but since I only have a dumbphone still. I will be using this to learn a bit more about my tablet.
For this week’s Weekly Writing Challenge, they kick off this March Phoneography with a picture…
For this challenge, we want to see a photo of someone looking truly happy. Not “I’m-smiling-for-this-photo” happy, but really, deeply, twinkle-in-the-eyes happy. When we’re smiling a genuine smile, our whole faces get involved — our whole bodies, for that matter. There’s a light in our eyes. We look relaxed; there’s a forced tension in a fake smile. Then we want to know why: what’s going on in the photo? What are you (or they) thinking about at the exact moment? (And if you really want to get into it: what happens next?)
I hunt through my old pictures as they requested to look for one of me. I also had to put in my loved one, my boyfriend, because I captured that shot. Its really hard to capture myself truly happy although most of the pictures I take, I am genuinely happy but to catch myself giggling to myself spontaneously is hard. The most genuine is when we don’t realize..like when I’m baking…but then my hands are kind of full with hand mixers, spatulas, flour, butter, etc…Enough rambling on my part and let’s go!
My absolutely favorite and natural picture of my boyfriend giving off all kinds of natural happiness in his expression:
This was in the summer of 2011 when we went on our Niagara Falls trip at Bird Kingdom. That place is super beautiful and we went into this area with these little birds flying and chirping away in their mocked natural habitat. They were all so adorable. I don’t exactly remember what my boyfriend was looking at. My guess is probably some kids or some conversation going on while he was patiently waiting for me to chase or sneak up on birds and take millions of pictures before I got it right. That is a natural smile right there. He had no idea I was taking pictures of him until we got back to the hotel and I was checking out the pictures.
The other picture is full credits to my friend, if they see this post via Facebook, they will know who they are so thank you to my awesome friend or else I wouldn’t have these memories:
It was hard to choose which one for this but the one before is of me holding the actual gift I got. Why not? I was asked to put one and then here’s two, why not three, right?
Wait wait, back track…
Last year, I held a huge duo birthday party for two friends and also it was a huge party in general to gather everyone together. What I didn’t know was that they had planned out a surprise for me. Making me get a lot of attention that night. One of my friends somehow snuck in two shots of me. I think this is me really happy from actually holding a guitar that they all chipped in for me and then (they don’t know this) tearing up…I was really touched. I don’t like attention but I do like feeling appreciated and loved by my friends. Surprise, right? And that card made me laugh a lot too, because its pretty much cats meowing to the tune of Happy Birthday. Whenever my cat hears it, she just starts sniffing the card, biting and meowing at the card to get those cats to reveal themselves. Its pretty hilarious 🙂
Sometimes, its really these moments that you look back and you really smile. I look back and I had a hard time choosing the moment to use. A lot had to do with the one party that I have a year for my birthday which I stopped doing huge. This one was in April, well past my birthday but they all remembered, so that was really sweet. Point being, I’ve been very fortunate to feel genuinely happy throughout the years and I have tons of pictures to show for it. That thought makes me even happier.
Whats a moment that comes to your mind that makes you smile right away?
Tranquil Dreams 