a goodbye and a surprise

Friends...my camera is back in the hospital. I am so sad. I really hope this is the final time, or someone in Canonville needs to issue me a new camera for all of the heartbreak I have had to suffer in the fifteen months I have owned it.

I completed my Picture Inspiration assignment for the week and then packed it up and drove it to UPS and said goodbye.

I am grieving, but moving on.

So this week I had to capture a reflection, without the context of the real thing that was being reflected. I had to "pay attention to the shape, color, and light of reflection itself." (Yeah, I needed a translation too.)

Anyway, I translated it to mean: capture not the real thing, but a reflection of it as if you were walking by and happened to see the shape of it, the color of it. Like a little surprise or something...like...that...

Here is an example.  Let's say I am brushing my teeth at the bathroom sink, I look up from spitting and rinsing, and I happen to notice in the mirror, Bean's pink, cupcake-looking shower cap, with a Bean underneath it. And she is eating an apple, while soaking in the tub. Would you not be surprised to find such a thing?

Or, I happened to be on my way to plop some of the Kid's socks on the stairs, to remind him that he needs to put them in the hamper (like I do almost every hour of the day), and I just happened to catch a reflection of him in the mirror, sitting in my favorite red chair, looking at me with a look that says...of course my mom will pick up my socks because if I just sit here and reflect on how she always picks up my socks without doing it myself, even though she nags me to do it and threatens that she will throw them away if she has to be the one to do it, she will eventually tire and pick them up herself. 
(I really was not "surprised" by this reflection. Were you? I get this look all the time.)

So do those two examples make sense according to my translation of the assignment? I really hope they do because I no longer have a camera to attempt this assignment again. 

It's an odd thing to send your camera off. I love my camera tremendously, but it is nice to have a forced separation from it. It creates a good vacation. The reunion is always so sweet. You know what I mean? (Wow, this sounds like I could be talking about my kids, or husband. Hmmmm....)

I will still do a few posts while my camera is gone, share some yet-to-be-shared photos. But it will be nice to clean out my files and get some other stuff done that has been waiting patiently for my attention. 

And lastly, here is a non PI assignment photo. While I was snapping the photo above I kept looking at my little vintage cameras on the table there. I have a handful of vintage cameras that I bought from an antiques dealer in town. She gave me a box of twelve or so, for $50. Was a total deal and such a fun find. I have thought for sometime now that I need to take some pictures of them. 

So here is the first...

Aren't they so cool? I love my little camera family. Please pray for a safe return of my other child. There will be an empty hole in my heart until it does.