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color therapy

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“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”  -A. Camus

February is here,  the light is returning to the days ever so slowly. This is when winter seems to begin to drag a bit for me.  Others in warmer climates are already digging in the earth, planning gardens, seeing signs of spring bursting out around them while here I shovel inches upon inches of fresh fallen snow.  It is true that has a beauty all its own of course, but some days I need a distraction from the cold and white, so when my grocery store gets the first deliveries of lovely yellow daffodils I am powerless to resist.  I scoop them up in my basket almost giddy with glee.  I bring them home and lovingly arrange them on our dining table.  The rebel in me is saying,  ‘there winter, take that!’  Then I proceed to photograph them endlessly it seems.  The color almost takes on a life of its own.  I call it my winter therapy.  A girl has to have her coping skills, yes?!? 

So today, show me your therapy when winter has gotten the better of you.  Find some happy color or warm light and lets melt away those winter blues.

 

Comments

  10. I have a forest outside my house that I call the "Magic Forest" for photo shoots.It's bleak and has depressing trees in the winter…so I drag my models (many times my own kids) and put them in ultra bright colors and cowboy boots and shoot away. Always makes me feel better. I'm so excited when the green returns out there..it's a welcome homecoming, for sure.

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  23. i love the photo. its totally therapeutic! so beautiful so warm so spring
    but honestly i can't actually post anything…because it is 26C at 11.30pm and we are in the middle of summer. and wenn winter does come along in cape town (those rainy 3months), i run away to europe…sorry? i guess