So the 30 Days of Photo are over. My last picture is belated because my PC broke down only hours after I had submitted it to the final contest.
Thanks to everyone for playing, it was a great experience.
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The triptych is dedicated to
- Meerkat, The Smile (to the left)
- Kookaburra, Reading To The Crocodile (to the right)
- The whole bunch of you guys: It Was So Much Fun (middle)
- And Eurydice: It is a triptych!
Yay! The first photo is in (see below).
This is how it works: Each of us participants chose a theme for the 30 days. My theme is, as you may recall, books.
Here is the Worth thread, in which you will find each participant’s latest picture.
Here are all the players:
And here are the Worthkids:
OK, as you already know, my little meerkitten brother came visiting for the holidays. And as you already heard (or read, if your read attentively) he had the most awesome present for hubby and me.
t was so incredibly awesome on so many levels that I spontaneously broke into tears when I unwrapped and saw the gift. Even my dirty-harry-hardfaced hubbylove teared up a bit (but don’t tell him I told you). And despite being still a little sick and exhausted from Christmas joy, I was too hyper to sleep until 5 AM because I was working on realizing the awesomeness of our present and the incredible generosity and kindness behind it.
I have wanted a “real” camera forever and ever. I more and more felt that my crappy point-and-shoot was not up to what I wanted to do, and I really wished for a DSLR.
Before we bought the house, my and hubby’s plans regarding this were more or less like “OK, if we save money, in one or two years, we’ll buy one”.
But then along came the house. As some of you might have followed a year ago, we were in a really stressful situation at home and had to move out. We jumped into the adventure of buying a house rather quickly, and all our monies went into it, and will go into the mortgage for, well… centuries.
So the plans of getting a DSLR went down the drain. Apart from the mortgage, this is an old house that needs repairs. Sudden surprises like mold in unexpected places eat up resources like nothing else, believe me.
Do you know when you wish for something really badly, but you know it’s just not possible, not ever will be possible? You push it so far away that it is almost nonexistant anymore.
But still, being a true friend, and doing quite our share of photography talk amongst us, the meerkitten knew all of this.
So Christmas Eve. The candles on the tree are burning, we have sung sufficiently many Christmas carols, read the Christmas Story, and now it’s time to unwrap the presents. We all are quite happy with everything: Books, some games, some trinkets, some more books. Then, my son brings to me a cute, unobtrusive box…
Each year, the photographers of Worth share their “12 Hours of Christmas”. Each of them chooses one of the Christmas days and posts an assembly of pictures: One for each hour, 12 hours altogether.
This year, we had my little meerkitten brother over from Stockholm for the holidays. So that made, together with my husband and me, three Worthians! Of course, we had to do the challenge.
Here is the thumbnail. To view all pictures, click “more”:
12 Pictures of Christmas
Meerkitten
Do I have to add that I shot this one for my fabulous li’ll meerkitten brother Adrian?
No, I don’t. 
Eagle Owl
I shot him (with the camera, I mean) during the show of a falconer on one of our ren fests. The background was distracting (audience, things, shat), but I loved his expression. So I decided to put him against a studio background to bring out his amazing eyes. Beautiful creature.
My extremely talented friend meerkat helped me with it and suggested the square crop – he’s the best cropper in the whole wide world!
