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~Plants~ If nature study be your goal, Take note: a single part reflects the whole. Nought is within and nought without, For what is in is also out. So grasp without delay this prize: That here a holy public secret lies. Rejoice in true illusion’s fame, Rejoice in Nature’s serious game. No living thing alone can be- It only exists in company. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All images shot in camera using a Microcord Medium Format Camera and Ilford XP2 super 400 film.Read More →

Week 21 A week of Water.  Water wheels in 4h, rain water, two rivers and a waterfall Flowers, cut or in the rain or as a double exposure… If you would like to read along with all of the daily journaling, please go to the official Wonder and Joy 365 2014 page on Facebook, you do not need an account to read along!  Please do, I love to know people are reading along with me! https://www.facebook.com/phyllismeredithphotography365?ref=hlRead More →

Week 20 Back at the 365 Catch-up Game! These weeks are just flying by… Week 20 includes the heartbreak of learning that the chicken girls, Cloud and Clover must move away… Through the new kitten arrival, Freckles Hemingway… Sunny country days at 4H and soap making at home…. Right on to the beginning of the official “Chicken Petition”! Please do read along with all of the daily journaling on the official Wonder and Joy 365 2014 page on Facebook, you do not need an account to read along! https://www.facebook.com/phyllismeredithphotography365?ref=hlRead More →

I got a beautiful Microcord Camera for my birthday this year. I love it so much. I have had a bit of an adjustment getting used to using a waist level camera. A Microcord, like the Roliflex is a twin lens waist level medium format camera. I have mostly been shooting Ilford XP2 super 400 film. This film is new to me, but I really love how the softness and the grain work on the double exposures I have made so far for this project. These images are part of a personal project named, ~HumanNature~ HumanNature is a project that I have been working onRead More →

I am very excited to be involved in another group project. This one is 12 portraits, each month has a theme or suggestion, May theme is blur/soft focus/ shallow depth of field. I am starting in May, so though it will not be a full 12 months for me, I am still very excited to be included in this project! This photograph is one that I took on our recent trip into Boston. I took this image at the Harvard Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain MA. I shot three rolls of film in my Microcord Camera that day. For some reason this whole roll isRead More →

I love summer! I love it when it is HOT HOT HOT outside and everyone else is wilting. I love to go out at 10pm and still have it so hot and humid out. It makes me want to skip and clap! That is how happy summer makes me. It is not summer yet. It is hardly even spring, temperature wise… But it has been getting nicer. So on a cool (or should I say coldish) Easter Day we headed to the beach. I love the beach. And I love shooting rolls of film with my Nikonos Underwater Camera. I can not wait to getRead More →

Gosh! When I just went to do the 365 blog catch up, I thought I had only week 17 and 18, but I guess I also have week 19 to post. Time has just gone into a crazy vacuum these last few weeks! So here is also week 19! If you would like to read along with all of the daily journaling, please go to the official Wonder and Joy 365 2014 page on Facebook, you do not need an account to read along! https://www.facebook.com/phyllismeredithphotography365?ref=hlRead More →

I have to say that these last two weeks have not been fun.  I am lacking motivation to continue on with this project.  I am not really a quitter, and I don’t know if I actually maybe should just stop with this, or push on through.  On one hand it is taking all of my photography time.  I have done nothing other than this project really for the last 133 days.  I have other things I would like to give my attention to.  I really am enjoying getting back into film and LOVE shooting the Microcord I got for my birthday as well as myRead More →

I am way behind on posting my 365 weeks on my blog. The last day of week 17 was a tough day, that was the day that our “beloved double pawed Amber Kitten” (as Meadow wrote on one of his headstones) was hit by a car that left him in the road. We have just now, two weeks to the day later started to get ourselves back together. It is, of course, always hard to loose a beloved pet, but to see your 11 month old kitten suffering and covered in blood in the street is quite a trauma, especially for a child. Time hasRead More →

Week Sixteen! I keep a file of photographs for this 365, and already I love looking at the tiny thumbnails all next to each other. It is amazing to see the year changing day by day this way! Week 16 was a week of hikes, and Easter on the beach, and tiny friend’s birthdays and film double exposures, and somewhere in there I also broke my toe. I believe this is the week where the trees decided that it was indeed spring and have started to show a bit of green around the edges. Hope you enjoy! If you would like to read My burningRead More →