Looking for a Little Peace
ginger_55
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While crossing the street to the theater where they were doing the dress rehearsal for the Angel Tree, a "mountainous bump" in the road tripped me.
My glasses are only scratched and crooked, but my camera, strap around my neck, held in my right hand, it came out unscratched along with the 70-200 lens that was on it.
We are hoping I will be able to put my teeth together and eat again once the swelling goes down.
I am not sure about this peace thing. Bill took this photo of me while we were waiting for me to get checked out at the hospital. The dance master, or whatever he is called, he got a camera handed to him by Bill, and we are hoping that the necessary photos to sell to parents came out OK.
Oh, I picked myself up from my sprawl on the street with the heavy backpack still on my back. Plenty of people observed.
ginger
Forgot essentials
ISO 3200
clean hair, no makeup at all,
used that tool to remove some very unpleasant lines.
Also used it to remove eye circles as much as possible.
A bit of saturation to get the skin color to show.
USM and that is all. This is what 66 yrs of living can do!
Now, where does one find a little peace at my age,
except for the cemetery.
My glasses are only scratched and crooked, but my camera, strap around my neck, held in my right hand, it came out unscratched along with the 70-200 lens that was on it.
We are hoping I will be able to put my teeth together and eat again once the swelling goes down.
I am not sure about this peace thing. Bill took this photo of me while we were waiting for me to get checked out at the hospital. The dance master, or whatever he is called, he got a camera handed to him by Bill, and we are hoping that the necessary photos to sell to parents came out OK.
Oh, I picked myself up from my sprawl on the street with the heavy backpack still on my back. Plenty of people observed.
ginger
Forgot essentials
ISO 3200
clean hair, no makeup at all,
used that tool to remove some very unpleasant lines.
Also used it to remove eye circles as much as possible.
A bit of saturation to get the skin color to show.
USM and that is all. This is what 66 yrs of living can do!
Now, where does one find a little peace at my age,
except for the cemetery.
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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Very sorry to hear of your fall! I really hope your back to yourself quickly!
... in photography, of course!
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Darn I hated missing that ballet tonight!
Thanks,
ginger
Best wishes of a speedy healing. Your birds will be waiting
says something about your priorities! save the valuable hardware at all costs:):
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Oh my goodness! Please be careful. Sorry about your meeting with the street. Get some high quality vitamin E oil and use it on your abraisions for clean healing!
I wanted to add that Rutt, were you not looking for a photo of an older lady/woman. Well, as they say, that ain't no lady, but the woman.............
And no makeup either. A few scabs and stuff, just another of life's challenges.
I told Bill that as a member of dGrin, he is, he should enter this as his photo of the year. Problem being I don't want to stare at it. However, I do think it is one of his better photographs. It is Honest.
Thanks, all. Gosh I DO hurt today. Wish I hadn't said, "oh no, I don't need anything for pain".
Smile, (ouch)
ginger
glad the camera survived. you will be out with it again soon. just take care of yourself for a few days. we always think we are ok, but then find out our bodies are saying to rest for a while......and if you are like me, you don't want to, you want to get right back at it. hang in there, girl
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I wish I was close enough to send you some of my Chicken Soup. You could sip that and the warmth would be good to promote healing.
I'm glad you will be ok in time. Good thing you didn't ruin your camera in the fall - the ER might have had to sedate you!
I would call your Dr and have him phone in an RX for some pain pills. Nothing too strong, but something that will lessen the pain in the next few days. And it will hurt for a few days as the bruising subsides. Take them so you can sleep peacefully, because that is when you body heals the most.
Rest well and take care.
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I may have a little bit of good news for you: when I was busy getting my face stitched a few months ago, the young surgeon said through an adorable smile that reminded me of my daughter's smile, "You're in luck. The face is so vascular that it heals much faster than the rest of the body."
And fortunately for you, it doesn't look like you'll retain any souvenirs except for that priceless photo.
On the other hand, my souvenirs are quite handy... I'm meaner and uglier, all the better to scare Andy with.
Get well fast.
Baldy
As others have said please be careful.
My hats off to you though for protecting your gear
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Yes, I hope and pray I continue to hold my camera, keep the strap around my neck and protect it at all times.
Have a doctor, here, reg doctor, for an appt tomorrow. Am sure he can give me something for the pain. If it still hurts. It sure hurt when I woke up from a nap. (It is my head, neck that hurt, sure it was whiplash from trying whatever was on my mind at the time.)
Don't think I will be doing photography til next week, but Bill's vacation starts then, and I WILL be doing something.
Thanks all, and Baldy that is encouraging re face and healing.
Andy, your experiences with your father? Well, I am old enough to be your mother, I guess............crazy thought. Maybe I am still asleep.
thanks,
ginger (need to get my glasses fixed. My daughter says I air brused my photo.
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make hubby do everything around the house.:D
We could make this a mini challenge. Make ginger look like her normal self.
Well see how good everyone does.
But really, I hope you feel better soon.
Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
Sometimes a tiny crack (quarter of an inch) can snag a toe and down you go. I find myself walking with my eyes to the ground to avoid tripping on rocks and I miss all the good sights. Not a good thing for a photographer.
Glad you saved your camera. It would be a shame to suffer all that pain and lose your equipment too.
Hope you're feeling better soon.
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Cheers!
~Nee
ps. You know, I'll bet we could get a really long thead going if we started one about the injuries us Dgrinner's have gotten while out taking photos,
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I especially appreciate knowing that someone else has walked the same "road" so to speak.
I thought it was my age!
I would like a thread of experiences. I was out on the only dock where I am not told to leave now. That was yesterday. There are ropes, hoses, all sorts of hazzards. I went on it last year and was careful.
Yesterday, I was genuinely scared. That made it less safe rather than more. "Aware" is one thing, but paralyizing fear is dangerous, IMO.
I do feel better, for the most part, and of course I shoot. I do think I broke a piece of cartilege in my knee as something is floating, and it wasn't before.
Merry Christmas all. I am going to be with most of my family.
ginger
It just goes to show who the hard-core dgrinners are....the ones that continue to post immediately after being injured like that.
Again, I wish you the best.
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