I Failed :(

My dear friend Tylar recently updated her look. She asked me to redo her photos, telling me her new look was “harder and bitchier.” So, I went into this photo shoot trying to reflect that change.

Sighs. I couldn’t do it. What I see in Tylar is her caring heart, her ability to always make me smile or laugh and her amazing generosity. I’ve said before I consider myself to be a “mood” photographer. I try to portray what I see in the person I am photographing. And no matter what I did, I couldn’t see past her beauty – inside and out.

I’m going to do a gallery so that I can put up a few photos of her new look without clogging the page. Please feel free to click on the thumbnails to see a larger version.

And She Whinges

Yep, I’m gonna whinge (whine) a bit today.

I haven’t been feeling too well and I should be working on photos I shot for a friend on the weekend, but I just don’t seem to have the energy or concentration to give them the attention they deserve. But I wanted to post something today, so I clicked through a folder of older shots I took for an image I could work with.

I recently changed to a lovely, pale skin by Tuli, Helena. And I love it. But I also love the Meg skin I previously wore by Akeruka. This was a shot I took when I wore that skin daily. It was originally a much darker photo I had bypassed, but I’ve been playing around with tinting and curves and decided it would be a good practice shot before I go back to working on what I should be doing instead.

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I always feel a bit pouty when I wear this skin. Kinda like I do today – just sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

A Gift To My Heart

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It’s not often that I have a lot of free time when I’m in Second Life. Aside from my business, I also work at a club. So most of my time is spent either working or doing something to do with work, in one way or another (ok, I guess I qualify shopping as part of work – I need new clothes and poses and props for work..right?). But today my photo shoot was postponed until tomorrow, I’d done my photos for today’s blog – and completed it, and still had time to kill before I had to be at the club to host. My sister, Butter (Abbie to the rest of the world) IM’d me and told me she was house hunting. We chatted in IM for a while, then she invited me over.

We ended up putting up a house I had in my inventory for her. It’s “girlier” than her previous homes, but she liked it. And she blamed me for turning her into more of a girl – achievement! \o/ And then we just hung out. Talking and giggling, like sisters do.

It was a great day. I didn’t realise how much I missed just playing in SL. There’s more to it than work, for sure. And thank you, Butter, for reminding me ♥

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A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ~Isadora James