Yesterday, I whined about how I have too much green in my calendar thumbnails. And @summerfield promptly challenged me to do "nothing green" until the end of July. So let's see if I can. XD
This is a tiny lock-and-key charm. A favorite in my collection of charms. There's just something about the lock-and-key motif that I like very much. Maybe it's the possibility of being able to lock away something very precious... or very dangerous. If you had a magical lock and key, what would you lock away that you ordinarily can't? A recurring nightmare? A devious need? An irresistible temptation? A painful memory? An excessive wish? An irrational fear? An unconscionable desire?
Me? I'll lock my conscience away. It's too loud. It cramps my lifestyle. I believe with all my heart that I'll be a much, much happier person if I could lock my conscience away. 8D
Very lovely. I would like to UNLOCK all those memories that have gotten lost in my old brain ; ) Good luck with your "nothing green" until the end of July challenge.
Love the narrative again. Now I need my conscience out in front of me, to keep me normal and sane!! The days that it slips away a black cloud takes possession and boy can I be a grumpy, nasty, horrible man. No, Donkey/carrot/stick style, it needs to be out front!! Cool shot BTW!
It's a beautiful little charm, Livia! Wonderful focus and details! LOL! I look at my calendar view all the time and try to balance colors. Hah! Hard to do sometimes. =)
Great capture. Awesome lighting, composition, and dof. Good luck with the non-green. What would I lock away? Easy. Any evidence that I ever existed. Sounds a bit strange I guess. Most people wanna be remembered in some way. Heroically. Famously. Legendary. People even imagine who would be at their funeral, things that would be said. Me...just the opposite. Turn me to dust, toss me in the garbage. Or flush down the toilet. World moves on.
If you locked your conscience away you would be a very dangerous person Livia and you should be locked away! Lovely photo though, but do I detect a hint of green?
@losthorizon Oooh! I mean, I think I know what you mean! I don't have to worry about traces of my existence getting erased though, not so much that I need a magical lock for. Because I'll leave very little behind. Getting flushed down the toilet? I actually told The Husband to do that! (I said I wouldn't mind my ashes getting mixed into a large glass of coffee first, though. I love coffee so much. 8D ) Don't even bother with a funeral. Just take a few hours off work, get me straight from the mortuary to the crematorium, no wake required. Collect me later and flush me (mixed with coffee if he feels inclined to do so) down the toilet. As for photographs. In the past 20 years, I've probably had 10 photos of me taken. Yeah. 15 at most. They will fade away soon enough. 8D
@myautofocuslife Love coffee too. Sounds like a great idea. That way, maybe when we get to that great gig in the sky, we'll already have a cup of coffee in hand.
Lovely little trinkets. Well, I think the basic conscience which tells us right from wrong is a good thing- it's legalism that tends to tie things up in knots. If there was only one person in the world, then a conscience wouldn't be necessary. But because we live in a community- local or global- the conscience helps us to live well with one another (that's if we follow it over and above our selfishness). Well, enough philosophy, I'm looking forward to your adventures without green. Leave it to @summerfield to come up with a great challenge like that. So Vikki (@summerfield), how about you design a challenge for August for us!!?? Alia (@alia_801) and I have been at for a while and our imaginations need a break!
Look at it this way Livia, there are only a few more days left in July...
I really do like how you used your challenge though, this idea played out very nicely. Love the soft focus on the heart, with the emphasis on the key...as for what I'd lock away...well that's a conversation for another day... ;-)
What will I lock away ? Some memories , I think , some very special memories . (not the bad ones ) Lovely subject. and lovely captured.
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Great shot and interesting narrative. A sound amount of conscience is good, but might have a bit to much, you might sell some of it on eBay. There's a lots of people in the world needing some.
A week with no green? That's gonna be a big ask Livia! :)
This is fab though, a great start. I think that I probably have something in each of your categories that I would want to lock away.......life's complicated eh?
I don't think that I'd lock anything away ... my life is imperfect and always will be. Which means that I'm just a struggling human ... for better or worse. Love your little beauty here. Especially the patina on it and your great dof. Beautiful lighting and shadow on something so very tiny. Wow.
You are so creative and I really like looking at your shots! Nice non-green shot without the insect & bugs too. You have a talent for those so don't misinterpret what I'm saying.
there was one time i locked myself out of the house. i had a duplicate key but it was in my purse. inside the house. so partner had to open the back window of our second floor flat by taking the sliding screen and glass. then the owner came and said, i think your niece is home, why didn't you just ring her, she could've opened it for you. and of course we forgot that there is a third key underneath the mat in the common hallway, inside the vent. duh! nice key, i like it.
Great capture but what morose tones in the comments !! Being flushed down the toilet ?? Anyway, funerals are for those left behind, the corpse is of little consequence after any useful tissues have been harvested.
Haha, no Green???? that'll be challenging for your bug shots :)
I'm not sure what I'd lock away, perhaps, opposite to you you, my sense of entitlement. ;)
Challenges are great aren't they, to take us out of our comfort zone! I take nothing (hardly) but flowers, but am doing an August challenge (FB fatmumslim) and am going to stick with it to the letter... hardly a flower opportunity there!
I have always liked the lock & key charms a lot too.. I guess because they tend to represent something that is precious to me.. Great focus and good luck with no green for the rest of the month, lol.. Almost there!
great shot! i would lock away my kids. lol :) but just for a little while, like a couple of days, so i could get some peace and quiet :) then i would probably start to miss them :)
The charm is beautiful and I would be tempted to buy it if I saw it :-). Locking things away, unlocking things - very strong symbols in this image, love it.
Love the locket and your focus on it, Livia! As to the "What would you lock away?" - I just today started vacation (finished summer school yesterday!), and my brain is in summertime mode - which means I don't do any heavy thinking early in the morning. It's something I will definitely think about!
A great, big, charming and charmed, maybe magical "THANK YOU!" to everyone for taking the time out of your busy schedule to stop by! I had a lot of fun reading your thoughts and opinions and comments. Thank you so much for sharing them! It's always so interesting to see things from someone else's perspective. 8)
Ps... checked the thumbnails.. it is a lot of green, but I still really like it! How about a challenge next month to do a different colour for each row? Rainbow month ;)
@ozziehoffy Rainbow Month? That would mean a different color of the rainbow each day and to do it for 4 weeks to get 4 bands of 7 rainbow colors? The calendar view would look fantastic! But I know I can't do it. I would feel suffocated. I need to live recklessly. XD
@myautofocuslife Oh that would look great... I was thinking colours horizontally, not vertically... but yes *forehead slap*.. that would work better!! lol I know what you mean... I just can't shoot "forced" things? I am really an opportunist... today, I did go in search of something and eventually found it, but boy did that cause me a headache lol.
I love this shot, I like the way you have positioned it. Your statements and comments with your photos certainly gives us food for thought. It's quite intriguing.
I'll miss Livia Green but glad to see you picking up the gauntlet. :D
I really do like how you used your challenge though, this idea played out very nicely. Love the soft focus on the heart, with the emphasis on the key...as for what I'd lock away...well that's a conversation for another day... ;-)
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This is fab though, a great start. I think that I probably have something in each of your categories that I would want to lock away.......life's complicated eh?
I'm not sure what I'd lock away, perhaps, opposite to you you, my sense of entitlement. ;)