i have to apologize deeply to all of you who got worried about the Bridge gone floating. i am so sorry i scared you, but nothing seemed to work as i wanted to and i just had to close it to be able to test different solutions. i am afraid i am a bit obsessed with detail (perfectionism is a curse!), i just can't be satisfied with 'oh, just leave like this, what does it matter anyway' (you will understand better if i tell you that one of my métiers of choice would have been that of decorating illuminated manuscripts).
i think i have found a solution which allows me to keep my old template as well, i just couldn't adjust to the new ones i had been trying in the meantime (oh les anciennes amours!).
language related pondering as interlude (oh les anciennes habitudes! :-): what can be more frivolous and at the same time more thought-provoking, than this habit of the French to switch between masculine and feminine gender when they talk about 'amour'!
i would like to thank all of you who are here for me and also those who have overwhelmed me with letters about the Bridge (reaching from friendly encouragements, polite demands of being included on an eventual list of 'invited readers' to sweet-sulking inquiries and even infuriated menaces :-). i can't tell you how deeply i am moved. please be assured, if i ever let the Bridge sink, i will let you know first and find a way to say good-bye, even if i am very bad at doing that.
and since i find no better way of expressing my gratitude: for all my readers (and especially for Atenea who, despite having an important paper to finish, spent her entire day with me trying to figure out a way out of this mess), my humble gift of friendship - a tulip's dream of frailty and veiled light.
i think i have found a solution which allows me to keep my old template as well, i just couldn't adjust to the new ones i had been trying in the meantime (oh les anciennes amours!).
language related pondering as interlude (oh les anciennes habitudes! :-): what can be more frivolous and at the same time more thought-provoking, than this habit of the French to switch between masculine and feminine gender when they talk about 'amour'!
i would like to thank all of you who are here for me and also those who have overwhelmed me with letters about the Bridge (reaching from friendly encouragements, polite demands of being included on an eventual list of 'invited readers' to sweet-sulking inquiries and even infuriated menaces :-). i can't tell you how deeply i am moved. please be assured, if i ever let the Bridge sink, i will let you know first and find a way to say good-bye, even if i am very bad at doing that.
and since i find no better way of expressing my gratitude: for all my readers (and especially for Atenea who, despite having an important paper to finish, spent her entire day with me trying to figure out a way out of this mess), my humble gift of friendship - a tulip's dream of frailty and veiled light.
please let me know if anything looks strange on your computers, i hope i have fixed everything, but who knows!
ReplyDeleteOh Roxana ce ma bucur tare mult ca totul s-a rezolvat, am incercat sa intru de cateva ori dar era inchis , prima oara m-am speriat, dar apoi m-am gandit eu ca incerci sa il refaci,intre timp m-am uitat peste celalalt blog -the beautiful foolishness of things-cere este la fel de minunat, arata la fel de bine fotografiile tale si pe fundal alb,si cea de aici ultima,cu laleaua imi place mult..
ReplyDeleteCat despre perfectionism... si eu am aceeasi obsesie:))
-Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.Michaelangelo-
ah, all is well again! you're back - and just in time to halt my potential slide from friendly to menacing :)
ReplyDeletesorry, I didn't know that you have problem.
ReplyDeleteFor me, all the posts are as good as before..
...the only thing which looks strange to me, it the world outside, missing more people like you...but wait, maybe it is just as much as needed, providing a unique bridge into our dreams.
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeletearen't we supposed to get some compensation for the distress? I suggest a video with your new cam (upload to vimeo) as the sweetener
ReplyDeleteah! the technical stuff being resolved, we can now not only enjoy your photos again, but also frivolously ponder the gender ambiguities of french (oddly enough i knew about the ambiguity of après-midi but not of amour!)
ReplyDelete....obsessed with detail..
ReplyDeleteyou don't say! ; )
Great photo! I thought this was more like a tulip remembering the life that has passed it by, rather than dreaming.
ReplyDeletedo not go for i will follow you into oblivion
ReplyDeletesentences are difficult enough to end with a period - can you imagine saying goodbye
Roxanna, you have a most beautiful blog ... in every way.. my expression of it can never do it justice.
ReplyDeletemissed you! And so glad to have you back!
ReplyDelete:-)
ReplyDeleteEdith, multumesc pentru tot, si sunt tare fericita ca-ti place si Foolishness - atmosfera e cu totul diferita de ce fac eu singura aici, si de fiecare data am o senzatie stranie cand imi descopar acolo imaginile, ca si cum ar fi si nu ar fi ale mele. asa a fost si la expozitii - o ciudata dedublare. mai putin pe Bridge, ca e mult mai intim spatiul asta.
nu-mi imaginez ca un pictor ar putea sa fie altfel decat perfectionist :-)))
ha, m., don't tell me i came back too early, i would have so liked to witness that, your menacing tone :-P
ReplyDeletePeter, thank you for letting me know, i am sooooo relieved everything seems back to normal now - even if i had to change my method of posting for that.
ReplyDeleteah, Robert! you took me by surprise, how could i answer...
ReplyDelete(grateful)
Emese, smiling back!
ReplyDeletepe maine!!!!!!!!!!!
all looking good to me, I knew you wouldn't abandon us like that :)
ReplyDeletehmmm, Eneles, you and distress :-)
ReplyDeletei don't remember any signs of distress from you, your offer of help only reminded me of how blogs could become useless... but! let's suppose i am willing to buy that, what kind of video would you like? :-) me fighting blogger?
but forgetting the teasing, the first contact with the camera was shocking, i knew there would be a great difference, but i didn't anticipate this shock, sooo disappointed, everything feels artificial and uniform about the image. the difference between film and digital, hmmm, let me think of a simple analogy, like that between dark bitter chocolate ice and fruit sorbet :-) now i understand your new images more, why you do certain things you do. if in film what i try in PH is to enhance the beauty of colours and texture inherent to that film, here i just try to bypass the digital colours, to find ways to avoid them :-) but it is just the first impression, let's wait and see. and with my usual bad luck when it comes to buying electronics, i think i got a camera with dead pixels - there is one red spot in every image i shoot, i imagine it is a dead pixel? and i am still studying the manual, fail to understand how i can make lightroom see those raw pics (nef), because nothing allows me to work on them except the Nikon software??? a thousand of questions and struggles to come frrrr. and i haven't even started to read the video section, you know how hopeless i am with these things...
fff, my dear, let me return the returned hug (this will never end! :-)
ReplyDeletei am happy i was the small cause of such a huge discovery, that of the frivolous amour :-)
ps. ah, and the most challenging user pic, ffflaneur, i forgot to mention! of course i wouldn't have expected anything else -
ReplyDeletewhat, swiss, don't i seem to be?
ReplyDelete:-)
being chaotical doesn't contradict perfectionism, you know :-)
ah, b, no, it can't be "really" you, you haven't offered any sweets, i am still waiting! :-) but no, the tulip is dreaming, the hand remembers the life passing by, also the life that has passed her by. or is it the other way round? or is it both?
ReplyDeleteProspero, no
ReplyDeleteno
i can't
i have struggled all my life refusing to accept this, the necessity of saying good-bye at some point, some say it is not a very wise battle to fight, and even if i agree
no
Gwen, thank you so much for your visit here and for your very kind words... i am glad my images speake to you...
ReplyDeletesz, thank you!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis blog is so very very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI do find it hard to read as you do not use white lettering. Believe me, I understand the aesthetics of your wonderful blog, just suggesting... -Jayne
Jayne, thank you so much for your kindness, i will try to make the letters a touch whiter :-)
ReplyDeletei am happy that you like the Bridge.
dear Sorlil, thanks for the feedback! and for trusting me! :-))))
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