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I'm afraid to say that if you add my photos as favorites but don't have anything available on flickr, never feed your photostream or are into porn, or even use one or several of my photos on your site without sourcing, YOU WILL BE BLOCKED. sorry it's not personal.
If you blog/tumblr... my photos, it is fair to give me CREDIT with a link, isn't it ?
And although I appreciate your interest in my photography, I believe that "serial favoriting" without ever posting a single comment is kinda rude...



*** The Invitation (by Oriah) ***

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.


** My name is Valerie.

I'm a free-spirit & I'm busy with a real social life : jealous / shallow / two-face people make me run away. Queens of wannabes, audience seekers, pretenders, immature & needy people... please go for an analysis instead of trying to befriend me, I'm no therapist & don't want to hold the mirror for you to watch. Been there, done that !

** I enjoy simple/country life, meeting new people but also solitude at times, nature, flowers, logfires & campfires, candlelight, lattes, driving with some good C&W music playing on, deserted beaches in winter, summer evenings on the porch watching a sunset & sipping a cold one, laps at the pool, traveling everytime I can afford it...
I can't resist a white vase
I'm a keen (needle) crafter

** I live somewhere on the French Atlantic coast with my family & I enjoy it

** I don't use photoshop/lightroom = I don't know how to use them... wish I knew though -- so, for now I just enjoy playing with the natural light + white balance and learning from all of you on flickr & the blogland...
I've been using a Nikon D80 since Christmas 2008, mainly with a 50mm f/1.4 (sigma) & sometimes with a 17-70mm f/2.8 (sigma again)




-----///\\------Please
----///--\\\----put this
---|||----|||---on your
---|||-- -|||---profile if
---|||-- -|||---you know
----\\\--///----someone
-----\\\///-----who is living with, survived
------///\-----or has passed away from
-----///\\\----cancer.
----///--\\\---Thank you