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Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background – Cheating With Flowers & Ivy

Image May 25, 2013PeepSideshow Darkward14 Comments

I admit, I kinda cheated for the Weekly Photo Challenge today. But I’m going to blame it on fighting a bad back and not feel guilty.

The prompt this week:

In a new post created for this challenge, share a picture that says In the Background.

This is a picture I took earlier this week and I was playing around with using blur to create depth of field. I was actually looking through my poses at the time when I saw my avatar in this stance from this location and just snapped off a few shots. This photo was destined for the recycle bin, but then when I really didn’t feel like setting up a new shoot today, it came to mind.

I’m not sure if I succeeded, but I do like the way the flowers and the ivy frame the shot.

Please check out the comments of this post to see some much better examples of In the Background.

Shooting Daddy

Image May 24, 2013PeepSideshow Darkward3 Comments

Someday I will find my prince but my daddy will always be my King.
~ Unknown Author

I am not ashamed to say that I was a Daddy’s girl. I loved my Mom, but my Daddy was my rock, my protector, my hero. The biggest blow of my teenage years was when he died, suddenly, of a heart attack when I was 18. No, I wasn’t a child, but I was still Daddy’s little princess.

I never really had another father figure in my life until I was adopted in Second Life. Echo and Ryker Darkward can never take the place of the parents I still love and are now watching over me from heaven. But they are the nearest I could ever hope to find.

My two sets of parents couldn’t be more different; my real parents were very conservative. I don’t believe Echo and Ryker even know the meaning of the word. My adoptive parents, though, share the most important traits of my natural parents: they are loving, supportive, and always looking out for their family. I couldn’t ask for better.

This morning, my Dad, Ryker, asked me to take photos of him. He’s started DJing in SL and needed a “really bad-ass picture.” I had to go out, but we made time to do his shoot today.

Daddy, I hope these are bad-ass enough. You rock and I love you ♥