Emotions
Categories: blogs
Tags: photos, honeymoon, Harris, emotions, writing workshop, the gallery
Date: 30 June 2010 09:00:49
Thanks to a post by World Without End the other week and a subsequent comment here by Pants with Names I discovered the wonderful world of The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers blog. Although I've had a couple of photo blogs and post plenty of photos here, I haven't ever really got into photo memes before, but there is something about this one (possibly the no pressure, do it if you want and it's fine to miss a week if the subject doesn't grab you vibe about it) which appealed. This is my first post contributing to the Gallery, and hopefully I've not done anything dim or broken it or anything. (that's not just me being falsely modest by the way - I don't entirely understand all the instructions and won't be able to add this post to the Sticky Fingers list until I get back from work later on, hopefully it will be more obvious then and the widget thingy that I don't really understand might make sense!). This week The Gallery is also complicated by being a joint meme with the Writing Workshop at Sleep is for the Weak which is a new blog for me. The writing thing is a bit scary (ironic as I am currently writing a 100,000 word thesis) but I will have a go anyway. The prompt for both the writing and picture is emotions, with the idea that you go away and post a picture/piece of writing inspired by the prompt.
Don't worry I won't always write such a long blurb if I participate again, it's just because it's new to me and so I thought I'd explain to my usual readers so it is a bit less random!
Anyway. Emotions. (Disclaimer: this is a bit, er, emotional).
The pictures I've chosen for this theme are not new, but I'm really happy to be revisiting them. They are both from our honeymoon on the beautiful island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides in early January 2008. They are also both of my lovely husband HD not facing the camera (sensible guy, he knows what I'm like when I'm behind the camera!). This first photo is taken on New Year's Day, 1st January 2008. We'd arrived at the cottage on the island the day before, so this was our first trip out exploring (regular readers may remember that at the end of this walk I had a comedy fall and ended up on crutches and bandaged from ankle to hip after tearing my knee ligament, so much of day 2 of our honeymoon was spent in A&E in Stornoway!). Here HD is looking over to the uninhabited island of Scarp, lost in thought.
This is from a few days later, this time he is looking over to the uninhabited island of Taransay (can you see a theme emerging here?!). The reason I chose these two photos for the theme of emotions is because with both of them, when I see him looking out across the sea, lost in thought and contemplation, emotional doesn't begin to describe how I feel. I feel quite overwhelmed at this deep thinking, funny, weird, gorgeous, sexy, complicated, introverted, geeky, different, strong, sensitive, lovely, generous, thoughtful, cute guy. He makes me feel secure, happy, goofy, hopeful, giggly, thoughtful, proud, sexy, nurturing, and gives me room to dream and space to be me.
The place too does something to me at the deepest emotional place. There's something about the Scottish islands, raw, beautiful, rugged, wild, that speak to my soul and help me to breathe.
HD and Scottish islands. No wonder I'm feeling so emotional.