Organization

Today my husband was able to help me put together some of the items I purchased last week from Ikea. First was the under the table slide out keyboard for my computer. That was pretty easy. Requiring a little more exertion was the CD tower I bought to house all my CDs - Hah! that's a laugh - that we put together and then he secured it to my wall shelving units. It actually looks like it's part of the shelving, however, I definitely could have used another one.

I had also purchased some additional storage boxes and so I ended up putting the remaining 40 or so CDs in those two boxes for now. And then housed my art magazines in the two of the flat matching boxes. Makes it look tidy! I really need to get rid of the futon I have in here. I mean I love it and it was a present to myself purchased with a tax refund some years ago, but I really need more space.

Later this afternoon we went down to Barnes & Noble and I bought a book titled, "50 Photographers You Should Know". I just read thru half of it and it was extremely interesting. It's a good idea to read up on your passion every now and then to get yourself 'motivated' or more like 're-inspired'. Now I want to go out and take some pictures of new places I haven't been. I really enjoy taking photos of people in their own environment. Every now and then I'll think about how and where to arrive at that certain place in order to capture what I'm imagining. I read about Robert Doiseneau and how he took photos of street life - alot of the time he arranged his photos but also as he put it, '...left the door open for whatever comes along'. He photographed street life of Paris day and night. And Brassai who was a night owl also took photos of the night life in the streets of Paris! How lucky can you get. And how come I wasn't born Dorothea Lange? Even though times today are somewhat of another depression, people have changed and it would be harder now to take photographs of people in dire straights. It just wouldn't be easy.