White...

White...

I'm playing along with Shutter Sisters during the month of December on Instagram.

Each day has a new prompt and yesterday was white.

My cat Tucker is such a snuggle muffin. 

What I love about this photo is that he looks so small and adorable. (and he really isn't...small at all)

By the way, you can find me on instagram as lorimoonstudio in case you want to follow along.

Photo-Heart Connection - July

I snapped this picture recently on a weekend in Central Park. 

The bride and groom were walking around the park with the wedding party, parents, and the photographers capturing moments and posing for pictures.

I'm the type of person that prefers to capture the unexpected rather than the posed image.

 I love to capture photos of brides in Central Park.

I captured this moment as they walked past me and were laughing about something and grinning ear to ear.

 I was honestly more captivated by the way she held her dress up and the fact that she was wearing her heels. (I would have been wearing converse sneakers or cowboy boots.)

There are a million stories that I could make up about the couple but they are mystery to me as I only saw them for a moment. May they have a lifetime of happiness.

This photo makes me smile as I imagine their joyous life together.

I am linking up with Kat at Kat Eye Studio and her Photo Heart Connection today. Each month she asks us to review the photos that we have taken during the past month and select the photo that speaks to our heart. Please visit her blog and stalk the other participants posts - the photos are amazing and the stories that have been written about them are touching.

Photo-Heart Connection - June

This still brings a smile to my face and my heart.

I stumbled upon this hopscotch grid while walking home through Central Park one day last week.

I can imagine the giggles, the excitement of running back to the beginning to do it again, the pure joy the at the children felt while they were playing this before I discovered it.

And, the energy that they left when they were done lingered all around me as I stood in this spot.

For a moment, all my concerns were washed away. 

Honestly, I felt like I was 8 again. 

I tossed a stone and hopped

and

I did it again.

As I walked away, I saw 2 other adults stop and play and I giggled out loud.

Ahh, the joy that those children shared with a little sidewalk chalk.

I smiled from deep within and I continued my walk home with that smile in my heart.

I am linking up with Kat at Kat Eye Studio and her Photo Heart Connection today. Each month she asks us to review the photos that we have taken during the past month and select the photo that speaks to our heart. Please visit her blog and stalk the other participants posts - the photos are amazing and the stories that have been written about them are touching.

Photo-Heart Connection

I am connected to this bridge, forever in my heart...

I visited my home town this past month and spent time with my parents, brother, niece, many of my extended family and then my not-related family. Yes, those that are close enough to know us but not related by blood. I, honestly, have many people like this in my life. I cherish all of them.

Growing up in a small town of 5,000 people means that often everyone knows what everyone else is doing. This is true especially when your parents are involved in the community and when you live a block away from the town center like I did.

I look back whenever I visit home and sometimes still pinch myself because I now live in NYC where I am pretty much anonymous. Oh, don't get me wrong I have great friends and the people who work on my block wave and say hello, the regular places that I shop they say hello, my coworkers are great, etc. but it isn't anything like back home.

While I was home I took a little me time and visited my all time favorite place - The Footbridge. The footbridge is a bridge that spans a creek (it used to be a river prior to upstream damming) and is as long as a football field, at least.

This bridge is forever a part of me - it is where I would escape to when I was growing up. There is a peace at the bridge; nature surrounds you, it is beautiful, and it still embraces me.

I chose to take my shoes off and walk the bridge back-and-forth from one to end and back again. I then chose to take a ton of self portraits on the bridge. Me jumping, me sitting, me walking, - me just being at one of my favorite places.

This particular picture just sings to my heart and soul.

Do you have a favorite place?

I am linking up with Kat at Kat Eye Studio and her Photo Heart Connection today. Each month she asks us to review the photos that we have taken during the past month and select the photo that speaks to our heart. Please visit her blog and stalk the other participants posts - the photos are amazing and the stories that have been written about them are touching.

Photo Heart Connection

Kat Eye Studio is hosting the photo-heart connection project. On the first of each month we share the photo, that we took during the previous month, that speaks the loudest and the strongest to our heart and soul.

I love this monthly photo heart connection. . . What I am learning is that each photo speaks to my heart for a multitude of reasons. I am also learning that 90% of the time I am taking a picture because it does speak to me and not for any other reason. I love that. To do something that I am passionate about, that feeds my soul, that touches my heart and to share it with you - is ever so rewarding to me.

So, this month I choose this photo of street art because every time I look at it, it makes me smile and I picture myself jumping up for joy or dancing like the little character is doing (at least that is what I see). It makes me smile.

I always feel a little lucky to capture things like this when I am walking in the city. I know that they won't last long when they are drawn directly on a building. Sooner or later a building maintenance person will have to clean it, repaint it or sand it off. A little momentary piece of art in my opinion.

 

Please enjoy stalking the Photo-Heart Connection blog post and visiting the other participant's links by clicking on the logo below. Enjoy having your heart warmed with the beauty of their photos.

 

 

Photo-Heart Connection

Kat Eye Studio is hosting the photo-heart connection project. On the first of each month we share the photo, that we took during the previous month, that speaks the loudest and the strongest to our heart and soul.

Of all the pictures that I captured during February, this one is the one that I keep going back to...it makes me smile.

I love the white painted bricks the contrast of the two windows, for some reason, just touches me.

You see, in NYC you need to capture a little of the outside natural world any way that you can and the person who lives in the apartment with that cute little window on the bottom has made a lot of effort to make that happen. Not only did they have to pay for the window (there is no way a landlord paid for that cute window) but they also needed to have it installed. Now they have a beautiful source of light and an indoor garden - so fun.

You see, I have already in my mind and heart imagined a story about the person who lives there. I imagine they have a cat who also likes the window, tons of books, and that the window is in their kitchen above the sink. I imagine that they dream as they wash their dishes enjoying the view of the High Line and surrounding buildings.

I have nothing to base my story on but that window and that makes me giggle - but creating a story, imaging what and who lives inside, even simply enjoying the contrast in the photo takes me back to that sunny afternoon walk with my BF and I smile.

Please enjoy stalking the Photo-Heart Connection blog post and visiting the other participant's links by clicking on the logo below. Enjoy having your heart warmed with the beauty of their photos.

Photo-Heart Connection

 Kat Eye Studio is hosting the photo-heart connection project. On the first of each month we will share the photo, that we took during the previous month, that speaks the loudest and the strongest to our heart and soul.

This photo, of all the photos that I have taken this past month, touched me the most.  

As I walk the city, I notice and photograph so many things that speak to me and/or make me think of things that are going on within my heart and head at any given time.  I notice letters where letters do not exist, messages from the universe within advertising and signage, shapes, colors and patterns. It really is how I see the world.

This photo, however, was taken while on a walk after a lovely lunch with my BF. He is always so patient with my fascination with whatever it is that has tickled me that day. He knows that if and when I reach into my purse It is for my camera and he will walk slower or watch me as I focus and shoot my subject of the moment. I was obsessed with shadows on this walk back home through the park. I was distracted by their length, their shape, and how the sun and clouds changed the intensity of the shadow.

This photo makes me smile deep within myself, you know, the kind of smile that makes your heart grin. 

See, I met my Superman 25 years ago, and I have known that he was/is the love of my life. We dated back when I was in college but it took us many years and separate lives filled with lessons to reconnect. Now, we spend our lives together through the good and the bad, the joyous and the difficult.

In this photo, I love the length of the light post due to the position of the sun - how straight it is. And, especially, I love the way that our bodies lean into one another and touch in the shadow. I am smiling as I type this because it just brings such deep comfort and happiness. This is the message for me - a sense of home. 

Please enjoy stalking the Photo-Heart Connection blog post and visiting the other participant's links by clicking on the logo below. Enjoy having your heart warmed with the beauty of their photos.