i hope the lovely @bugik approves. she is my partner for this week and 'high key' is her 'push' for me.
so, high key or not? i'll try another indoor shot tomorrow if it is not.
i lost my diamond tennis bracelet on my walkabout after taking this photo. i didn't notice it was missing until late in the afternoon. i was hoping it got dropped inside my camera bag, but no dice. i can assume i lost it after i took this by the lake. i heard someone yelling but i couldn't understand. there's always some unfortunate soul in the street who's always yelling so i ignored it. but no one really tried to catch up with me. oh, well, it's just a 14-carat tennis bracelet with chanel cut diamonds...waaaah!
i'm over it. (sniff! sniff!)
thank you, my friends, for your untiring visits and precious comments; they mean a lot to me, not to mention makes my album look good.
@pandorasecho - thank you, dixie. i was thinking about that as it is covered under my household insurance. but i would've needed a police report or some security report but the fact is i don't exactly know where i lost it. plus if i make a claim, my premium will skyrocket next year. it was an expensive bracelet, i bought it 11 years ago and been wearing it since. but i believe that things happen for a reason and when something's taken from us, something better is going to replace it. that or it was a 'payment' for averting whatever bad was to happen. but i'm thinking in terms of the money i paid for it 11 years ago could've bought me a nikon D7000 today and a cheap zoom lens. :-)
Gorgeous ...looks very "high key" to me! Love the dof and the textures. Lovely capture. So sorry about the bracelet. Why not try to retrace your steps ... you might see the sparkle of it in the grass. Is there a "lost and found" department for that area? Watch for ads in the paper or put one in yourself...there's always a chance of finding it! I lost my billfold once with EVERYTHING in it. Catastrophic for me, but three days later (after retracing my stops at stores, etc.) some kind soul had turned it in to one of the store. All intact. Credit cards, money, gift cards, identifications, etc. Never give up hope. All this happened just before Christmas ... the police told me flat out that it would never be returned. Yeah, right. There are honest people in the world. Sorry to ramble on, sweetie.
@karenann - thank you, KA. well, i plan to walk around there again tomorrow. it's just an open pavement, anyone could've seen it. then i walked down to the market and lingered there for a while, then i made the long walk back to the office. so i could've lost it anywhere. if i went back tomorrow and retrace my steps, it would be a miracle if find it. the city's rolling vacuum cleans out early in the morning. and maybe, the person who found it may have a use for it, as a gift, or sell it and use the money, who knows. it's gone, it's lost. the thing is i'm calm about it. partner is devastated. but it's not like i have no other bracelet. i'll have to dig for my ruby one. must check that the clasp isn't loose though. thanks again.
During the last year I taught the diamond fell out of my engagement ring and was never recovered. I was devastated. My poor students thought someone in my family had died. Kids were practically crawling all over the floors in the halls and classrooms that day in hopes to find it. But who knows where it could have fallen! I still miss it.
@olivetreeann - well, it had a sentimental value for you, natural that you would be devastated. the only sentimental value of that bracelet for me is that it was my first major jewelry purchase. everything i have were given to me by a boyfriend a long time ago. my apartment in manila was robbed and all my "big" jewelry were taken, the police said it might have been an inside job. luckily, i wasn't home and the robbers didn't hurt the two kids (my son and my nephew were toddlers at the time with the new maids). that's probably why i am cool about this loss today. i'm thinking we're going back to the doctor tomorrow for partner's lab test results. i know there's always a trade up for something much better.
you have such a good attitude about losing it; i share your belief that things happen for a reason and that is is a 'thing' - hope you and partner get good results tomorrow and that all is a-ok. your shot is so soft and beautiful. i, too, have no idea if this qualifies as high key but it is lovely.
ladies, you are all so sweet and kind. this morning when i went to work, i wore only my wrist watch on my left arm (i used to wear it on my right) and i didn't wear the other two chain bracelets i wore with the lost tennis bracelet. i didn't even notice the change. whenever i checked my 365 i smile at everyone's "sorry you lost your bracelet". even a friend at the office was saying "how could you be so cool about it?" well, if it must console you, i did file a query at the building's lost and found, just in case i lost it in the building. no one's gotten back to me. thank you, again, for your concern. we're moving on.
Oh, I'm so sad to hear that about your bracelet! How disapointing - I guess in the real sceme of things it's just a material object - could be worse. But there are several pieces of jewelry I am so disappointed to have lost. One was a ring my husband gave me as an engagement ring. My daughter thought it was cool and decided to borrow it without telling me one day - and they lost it!
@myautofocuslife - thank you, livia.
@catsmeowb - thank you, camille.
@henrir - thank you, henri.
@cscecil - thank you, CS.
@crickle1969 - thank you, chrystal.
ladies, you are all so sweet and kind. this morning when i went to work, i wore only my wrist watch on my left arm (i used to wear it on my right) and i didn't wear the other two chain bracelets i wore with the lost tennis bracelet. i didn't even notice the change. whenever i checked my 365 i smile at everyone's "sorry you lost your bracelet". even a friend at the office was saying "how could you be so cool about it?" well, if it must console you, i did file a query at the building's lost and found, just in case i lost it in the building. no one's gotten back to me. thank you, again, for your concern. we're moving on.