Besides our mutual interests in kickboxing and MMA as well as eating out and playing in the great outdoors, a major common point between us was our love of photography. (We even have the same camera!) One day I asked Angela if she'd be interested in working together on a photography project. She said she would. Thus, the idea for this photoblog was born.
We're both busy people, so to make this work, the blog format is going to be loose. Each week, we'll choose a theme, and then we will take photos that represent that theme to us. We may each post only one photo per week, or we might post a dozen. We may feel like adding some words to the images...or not. We want to encourage each other, challenge ourselves, and we want this to be fun. It's likely that the blog will morph as we go along in order to allow us to meet those goals.
We'd like to encourage you, too. If you'd like to join us, feel free to post links in the comments to your own photos that go along with our weekly themes. We'd love to see them.
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It's a neat concept with virtually unlimited categories to choose from. I'll look forward to seeing more in the future. Here are some themes to consider: deep, rusty, chemistry, envy, poor, grace, mathematics, "what's inside?", lofty.
ReplyDeleteBTW Lisa, what is the history on the Ben Franklin signature?
It's the original deed to Murrysville, deeded to Jeremiah Murray by William Penn back in the 1700s. I have no idea really how my dad came to be in possession of it (the story I seem to remember is that his uncle gave it to him, but who knows how HE got it!), but it lived for years in an old manila envelope in my dad's fire safe box because he didn't trust anyone to handle it and frame it. After he died, my mom and I took it to an archivist who built a special frame for it -- it's written on both sides, so the frame is double-sided. I know it should probably be somewhere other than in my bedroom, where other people can see it, but the last time I looked into loaning it to the Municipality of Murrysville, they wanted to put it in the mayor's personal office, where very few people would see it anyway, so here it remains. Interestingly, the archivist told us that the document, though old, isn't worth all that much even though Benjamin Franklin signed it, since he only used his first initial. If he'd have signed his full name, it would be worth a lot more. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks for the additional theme ideas! :)
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