tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682738581019360100.post-2294717913221109652008-06-22T08:57:00.007-04:002008-06-22T09:55:12.653-04:002008-06-22T09:55:12.653-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5NTanS_hI/AAAAAAAABGw/zpFIy0wsokA/s1600-h/POLA_10634_12059446192_l.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5NTanS_hI/AAAAAAAABGw/zpFIy0wsokA/s400/POLA_10634_12059446192_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214690414498610706" /></a><br />The day tumbles forward.  I lurch and bump my way through.  <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5OD9Xg2uI/AAAAAAAABHA/f0HKFTUEFKE/s1600-h/POLA_10634_12059449491_l.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5OD9Xg2uI/AAAAAAAABHA/f0HKFTUEFKE/s400/POLA_10634_12059449491_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214691248461372130" /></a>Rather than grouse and gripe, I offer up some visual poetry.  These are photos by a woman in Paris, Nathalie Roze.  <a href="http://www.liliroze.com/">Liliroze</a>.  Her work reminds me a bit of Sarah Moon's, her use of color and the slightly out of focus view.  <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5P58PATeI/AAAAAAAABHI/zopfBRlULEY/s1600-h/POLA_10634_12059446171_l.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5P58PATeI/AAAAAAAABHI/zopfBRlULEY/s400/POLA_10634_12059446171_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214693275381812706" /></a><br />After I saw her website, I wrote to her to tell her how much I enjoyed her photographs, and she very graciously wrote right back.  I am dying to ask her how she gets such saturated colors, but I will not.  <div><br /><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5Q6FutqFI/AAAAAAAABHQ/VvwyMtdqgWM/s1600-h/POLA_10634_12059618691_l.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5Q6FutqFI/AAAAAAAABHQ/VvwyMtdqgWM/s400/POLA_10634_12059618691_l.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214694377442355282" /></a>She makes one wish that Polaroiod was going to stick around.  I really like this work and want her to be very busy and to produce much, much more.  Go look around.<br /> </div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5RVx40jmI/AAAAAAAABHY/xwk-sKMgLiA/s1600-h/p02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GSS_fGKzVCk/SF5RVx40jmI/AAAAAAAABHY/xwk-sKMgLiA/s400/p02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214694853152378466" /></a>cafe selavyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326753057795689263noreply@blogger.com2