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photo assignment #3: little wonders

Posted by Dwight-and-Aileen on Sep 23, '07 3:47 PM for everyone

So I scoured the 2-mile perimeter of our apartment in search for  flowers to shoot. If you've been to our place, you know quite well there's not much around here. Managed to snap a few blooms but still I wasn't happy. Then I remembered these tiny purple beauties I always pass by on my way to Hancock Park during my morning walks with my daughter. Always these call on me to stop and linger for a while. I don't know what they're called, and they're not the ones that catches your eyes at first sight. Heck, you'd barely even notice them for their size. But if you look closely, you'd be able to appreciate its beauty.

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
I wove my webs for you because I liked you.
After all, what's a life, anyway?
We're born, we live a little while, we die.
A spider's life can't help being something of a mess,
with all this trapping and eating flies.
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.
Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."

- from a little spider named Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"

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delete reply patsthemes wrote on Sep 23, '07 oh, but these are soooo pretty! and they look like the tiny purple flowers i found in our park downstairs pud. =) i like the quote too! i loved that book when i was a little girl.

delete reply asiroy wrote on Sep 23, '07 yen, it's so elegant and poetic. there's something about it that reminds me of childhood. nice kaau pagka-take ang picture. =)

delete reply janeandjosh wrote on Sep 23, '07 i agree with ai. elegant jud siya, yen. =)

delete reply wingzs wrote on Sep 23, '07 simple but beautiful..nice..

delete reply mvillaruel wrote on Sep 23, '07 nindot man sya yen. sometimes gyud we really have to look closely to appreciate people and things :)

delete reply uweliebtmarislie wrote on Sep 23, '07 the title speak for itself "little wonders". its beautiful! =)

delete reply patsthemes wrote on Sep 23, '07 mvillaruel said nindot man sya yen. sometimes gyud we really have to look closely to appreciate people and things :)  how true! wise kaayo ka mims. =)

delete reply tonyleen wrote on Sep 23, '07 this is nice yen...i like wild flowers too! and the poem(s)...my life can stand a lot of that.

delete reply elenaretuya wrote on Sep 24, '07 I love the color, very refreshing.

delete reply nickyblinky wrote on Sep 24, '07 I love the flower, Ate! It's cool to the eyes. :)

delete reply ragenstevart wrote on Sep 24, '07 its beautifully captured yen..i love it! you are a photographer na gyud..budding photographer=)

delete reply mvillaruel wrote on Sep 24, '07 patsthemes said how true! wise kaayo ka mims. =)  thanks pat =) that's what happened to us, nadisprove ang atong mga impression of each other when we met here and "looked closely".

delete reply nagpanaoan wrote on Sep 24, '07 Stop and smell the roses so they say but it doesn't have to be a rose. They look so dainty and I love the color. Among pinks and yellows, this color will definitely stand out.

delete reply lmariano wrote on Sep 25, '07 nindot Yen. my phone didn't do this picture any justice. ako gyud gipangita sa pc. hehehe!

edit delete reply dwightnyen wrote on Sep 25, '07 you guys all took amazing photos that mine pale in comparison. it was quite challenging for me to just even find flowers. imagine me going into pavilions' flower aisle (a grocery store) to snap photos ... good thing nobody shooed me away. hahaha! but still the results didn't feel right for me ... not till this one. guess you don't have to really look far and wide, it's just under our noses. =) Pat, thank you. i haven't read the book but i've seen the movie. =) some nice lessons there. when nikki grows up, i'd very much like her to read about it or see it =) Ai, coming from you, it's such an honor =) yey, i got a passing mark from my teacher! hehehe! bitaw Ai, looking at this, it reminded me so much of youth and innocence. Mi, i had to bow down to you ... you captured the message i was trying to share. the theme of my assignment. =) Leen, yes, our lives surely could stand a little of that ... and it would be such a blessing to have friends who'd be willing. =) Chelo, budding photographer? hehehe! i'll take that! *wink**wink* Tita, how true. Life's a constant rush ... to do this and that .. to be here and there ... we all need to slow down sometime and enjoy life's little simple pleasures. Jane, Noel, Maris, Elena, Nikcy, Nette ... thank you. =) It was quite hard coming up with a good one after all your creative and beautiful creations. It's such a pleasure to be among such talented people.

delete reply mvillaruel wrote on Oct 1, '07 dwightnyen said Mi, i had to bow down to you ... you captured the message i was trying to share. the theme of my assignment. =)  hi yen. thanks :) the message actually hit me 'cause i am sometimes too quick to "judge" other people, or even things =)

delete reply fazedanddazed wrote on Oct 17, '07 those purple flowers looks so lovely.