HeatherTelesca

A question you may be asking yourself is why I am posting photos of people all of a sudden. The answer of course is that I am working on a large group project I have dubbed "The Tarot Project" until someone corrects me. The idea was to take portraits of people that represented the major arcana of a tarot deck. Two weekends ago we took the first round of shots. It was a bit tough on everyone and I think we learned a little bit about what not to do. However, we also ended up with some pretty cool ideas.

We figure it will probably take 8-12 months to shoot everything we want to, and the cards many be shot multiple times depending on what the group creative process determines. Anyway, I think the goal at the end is to actually get these printed up in some form which is exciting.
           

I spent some time back in NY (before the major flood! O_o) and my Dad was doing quite well when I left. I hope he continues to get better!

As for cancer kitty, he has been a little tougher to take care of. We have to force feed him and give him fluids under the skin with an IV bag. It's a day to day thing. ><

In general though, life has gotten a bit better since the last time I posted, which is a good thing.
           

Well, it took years, but I finally read through all the comments back from when the photo got it's DD 2 years ago. I want to thank everyone for their love and support, and in some ways confirmation that posting that was the right thing to do. If you have PCOS, you are not alone, it is a very common thing, but it is hard for people that don't have it to realize what it is like. I see articles all the time on how "America is getting fat and lazy blah blah" and we could very easily get thrown in with those statistics.

As I grow older I really think that our body size has a lot to do with genetics. I also think in some cases there is a food problem going on, but not in the way you would expect. Not necessarily how much or little of something people eat, but the over all quality of what is being eaten. High Fructose Corn Syrup, something found in a lot of processed foods and cheap staples, is not something our bodies really process well imo. Poor quality fruits and vegetables not only taste bad, but offer very few of the benefits we should get from eating them. Unfortunately, as the economic situation gets worse, more and more people are being driven to cheap, inexpensive, poor quality food, and I think that is why our waistline is increasing as a whole.

I am fortunate to live in an area where organic and farm fresh food is at the same price or sometimes cheaper than normal food, and I have to say, I feel a lot better eating food that comes from higher quality sources than I did before. My blood work is a lot better, my cholesterol is low, and my A1C and fasting glucose levels are much lower than they used to be. So if you have PCOS, this might be something to try if you can afford to do it. It is ok to eat, which was something that was hard for me to come to terms with.

So thank you for all the kind comments and the inspiration to try to continue this like I wanted to.

A couple of months ago my Dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. He had is operation last week after undergoing chemo and radiation, and he went back home today with the news that the cancer had not spread. I want to wish my parents all the love and support that I possibly can, as this has been tough on both of them.

However, in the strangest turn of events ever, one of our cats was diagnosed with stomach cancer today. Goodbye to one cancer, hello to another apparently. I don't know any details yet, or even if it is even treatable, but the cat is very young for this sort of problem, and very special to me and my boyfriend. I'm not sure if there is much hope to hold our for here. I guess we'll see. It will be very hard on both of us to loose him in our lives.

It has been an incredibly rough couple of months for me, and I sincerely hope that life is going much better for my friends reading this post. I would not wish any of this on anyone, and I have been very close to breaking a number of times. I kind of feel like my batteries are running out. ^^

Alright guys, here's the deal. I know a lot of my watchers are into the cute reptile thing, but I just don't have a good place set up to take photos of them at the moment. I am however living in one of the most beautiful areas of the country if you enjoy things like mountains and water and plant life and oceans etc etc etc.

Now, I may not be the best nature photographer ever, but I am quite proud of these recent photos from a camping trip to Ross Lake. So if you have a minute or two, maybe you could give them a looksie. The series of mountain shots I took over several days is just cool, if not from a photography standpoint, from a passage of time and weather standpoint. I don't know that I've seen anything done like this even in a photography magazine. (As in it's probably been done all time time, but how often do you see all the shots like this?)

So please, I would love more feedback on my nature shots in general. I try not to over process, I don't have any fancy equipment other than photoshop and my camera, I'm not combining images or taking things out, and I try to limit my processing to darkroom work (per that traditional photojournalism education I have). As a result, I don't get that "surreal" look to a my photos a lot of other photographers get but I'm working on it.

As a side note, I am playing with journal CSS just because I can HA! Thanks for the premium membership Mom!