Friday Fun: Children's Health

  

  

It's cold & flu season here in New York City and you can't go 10 feet without seeing another snotty baby. Or adult. But hey, let's look back at some old public health posters to make us feel a little better about our current ailments. Until the 4th of July anyway.

Hey, at least it isn't syphilis!

You can buy these or other health-related WPA posters at Vintograph. I have my eye on the tooth-brushing one for our bathroom. Because maybe we still need some of their advice today after all.

Olivia

Here's one baby I've been lucky enough to photograph recently in Sunnyside. Olivia and her mom were welcoming and warm on a cold winter morning. It's Olivia's favorite time of the day &we had so much fun getting down on the floor to play together.

In addition to the relaxed & natural infant portraits you can see here, we also had a chance to dress Olivia up in her Christmas dress and Christening gown. So now her family has professional photos to remember those days when I could not be there to document them.

Her gorgeous nursery deserves a post of its own too. Prepare yourself to see more photos from this session over the coming weeks!

Inspiration Wednesdays: The Sound of Music

 

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Every February, our friends run WALOMM (watch a lot of movies month) - a contest to see how many movies you can watch during the shortest/coldest/dreariest month. When we started it, let's just say the various streams of media saturation were a bit dryer and the bulk of movies were watching in theaters, on DVD or TV. Now we've got the internets and Netflix and all sorts of newfangled portable contraptions, plus more unemployment. Which translates into more competition.

So this month, I'd decided to use my weekly Inspiration Wednesday to highlight a movie either beloved by me in childhood or the child in me as an adult. In no way an exhaustive list, I think these are movies I'll enjoy watching with my kids too.

First up, The Sound of Music.

 

I took this tour in 1999 but Aissy55 took this photo. Highly recommend.

The story of a 'young girl who will never be a nun," the movie somehow features Nazis, motherless children, an only-slightly closeted Uncle Max and a saucy Baroness while still remaining one of the best love stories out there. It may be scary and sad at times but I'll take that over a sacharine cartoon any day. Plus Maria is a lovely role-model - honest, inventive (her curtain-clothes rival Scarlett O'Hara's), brave and independent.

Of course all my daughter noticed about it when I had it on in the background the other day were the songs - particularly rocking out to "My Favorite Things," "Do Re Mi," and "The Lonely Goatherd." She even sang along (in her way...) to "Edelweiss" - one of the lullabies I sang her as an infant.

What favorite childrens movies should I include this month?

February Goals - Getting down to *gulp* business

 Juliet - my fearless assistant & muse - Kristin Burns

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started 

is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable

tasks, and then starting on the first one." -- Mark Twain

 

A day late, sure, but I was busy pretending yesterday was the last day of January so I could cross off one big goal from last month's list. Every month, The Meetup members post our goals at Athena Dreams, look back at the previous month's list, and encourage each other to focus.

First a look back at my January goals :

1. Update photo galleries with new work - nope

2. Prepare for upcoming art fairs - nope

3. Reach out to people I admire for more support & ideas, including adding a blog-roll here - nope

4. Blog ahead more - nope

5. Schedule 3 in home shoots - nope

It looks like I got nothing done! But I actually just did a crappy job of writing goals. I actually accomplished quite a bit - got our taxes squared away, started working with another Meetup member photographing her work, photographed a baptism, sold 4 matted prints of my art photography, entered the Annual PDN competition & most importantly signed up for the 6-week business course at Bakery. I also embraced my time at home with my daughter by cooking, coloring and dancing with her in my downtime.

On to February :

1. Focus on Bakery's Half-Dozen business course

2. Take photos for our local wine bar's website

3. Reach out to people I admire for more support & ideas, including adding a blog-roll here

4. Blog ahead more

5. Schedule 3 in home shoots

If more gets done, so be it!