Pearls Lace & Leather: Empty Streets

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Empty Streets

It has been so long since I did a blog I am not even sure if I remember how to blog! So here we go. Taking pictures in SL has changed so much at first I was overwhelmed and thought I was insane to try again. However blogging is like a drug. The styling of the outfit, finding the pose, hunting the location, and then finally taking the photo is almost a compulsion. I sat for a moment and wondered why I had stopped blogging in the first place. I know a huge part was event and designer demands preventing me from blogging what I preferred and honestly allot of the items I blogged I did not even like. I think it showed sometimes. Anyways I realized what a creative outlet this was for me and suddenly I missed blogging. This need to blog started to grow in me slowly. Little comments here and there from my friends about how my outfit needed to be shared. Strangers suggesting I blog again. Finally it was the moment when I had styled this outfit that I took the step back into blogging. The photo is only cropped to size and untouched. That was something I hated from before, the time spent fixing designers little bloopers in my programs so that the items looked right. I did not enjoy it and a comment from my friend Mire was part of why I had stopped blogging, it made me sad and would not leave my mind. "You are as bad as those creators who present their items in a manner that is a lie and trick naive people like your sister Brie into buying crap." My sweet sister Brie is famous for this and she is such a kind soul it really cut me deep. Anyways time does heal and it made me realize that if I work on a photo in my programs I am going to say so. I felt this was a fitting photo as a blogger coming back. I feel that I was naïve before, now I am slightly jaded, a little bit cynical, and hopefully wiser. I also feel as if I am walking empty streets alone.