Be nice to yourself

And when I mean be nice to yourself, I am talk about me. I need to be nice to myself. Sometimes I feel like I haven’t accomplished much but just recently I finished a book that I have been reading for over a year. Sure it took me a year but I actually finished the book and I am working on another. It feels good. I need to remind myself that I can feel accomplished by a lot of the things that I do and experience. I don’t have to own a house or own a restaurant or have anything of the sorts right now because I have accomplished a lot of travel and have had a lot of experiences along the way.

Be nice to yourself. Even if you put off something to the next day, don’t beat up yourself because you didn’t finish your schedule. Remind yourself that you have the capacity to do it the next day, or when you are ready. I just need to remind myself that I am better than how I feel at this moment. That there is always a chance to look back at great accomplishments regardless of how I feel at this very moment. Because just like the good time come and go, so do the bad things in life.

This is a rant to remind myself that I can be nice to myself. That I can be happy. That happiness will bring more happiness in my life.

What have I been up to?

Original post: 14AUG2016

Gosh, what have I been up to? Not updating this site I’ll tell you that. But I have been up to a lot.

I haven’t been editing shots the same day that I take them. To be honest today was the first day I did any sort of editing. I have just been shooting and keeping the pictures in the camera. The reason behind this is because the process of editing film you would have to wait for the film to get developed. So maybe seeing the picture though “different day” eyes would give me a different interpretation of what I meant when I took the picture.

I have been taking my camera out more to different places and going to more local events to check out the variety of people that are around. I was just at an art and music festival in the town of Anacortes, WA and photographed some people there. I tried different approaches to take pictures of people. The simple “shoot candidly” and give them a head nod. To the walk to up them say hi and something nice and ask for their permission. I received good responses from both of them. I still like the candid ones more because it keeps them in their natural light and they aren’t forced to pose for me in any sort of way, also I am terrible at directing them to pose for me. Also they smile a lot. Maybe because I am always smiling when I see them.

That is what I will do, I will create a smile project. Whenever I see someone with a great unique smile I will get them to smile again for me.

Gahh, I am forcing this. Also I am not even going to attach a picture to this one. I also need to make the file size smaller on most of my pictures I want them to load fast on this site. I want to get rid of the ones that I have in galleries like 500px and flickr.

Fare well, till next post.

-Franco

New Site, Old content deleted.

Update: 29JUN2019

I have access to my old site. I will be passing over some of the old posts over. I want to make sure that I have a nice full site as a starting point. I am going to come back to posting surely.

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Welcome to my new site. Unfortunately everything from my previous site is lost to me. I’m sure there are many ways that I could recover the information but maybe this gives me a chance to start over. Clean site.

There might be some of my old content back up but in the mean time I will post until my hearts content.

I have a lot of new found time so I will try to make this the site I wanted it to be 3 years ago.