tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17493032082692406572024-02-19T06:37:17.930+01:00 Four Continents, My Lens A citizen of the world focusing on the positive through the layersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger253125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1749303208269240657.post-80168694602895384622016-10-15T21:55:00.000+01:002016-10-15T22:02:22.252+01:00Bia's second senior shoot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since moving back to the US in July I've slept in my little sister Maria's room, and we've been spending lots of time together. She's a senior in high school this year and I did a summertime <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2016/08/senior-photoshoot-maria.html" target="_blank">photoshoot with her</a> and some of <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2016/08/four-friends.html" target="_blank">her friends</a> in the summer. Last week we did a second senior photoshoot at a nature park just outside of town, capturing the chilly weather and fall colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She's a reader-writer-philosopher-thinker and she makes it look easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've loved that Maria and I have hung out so much since I've been back, she both keeps me sane and keeps me in my place! This picture makes me smile because it's her in a nutshell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plus she's adorable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She also recently <a href="http://earlgreysoliloquy.blogspot.com/2016/10/an-acceptance.html" target="_blank">got accepted</a> to her dream college! Big smiles ensued!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm so happy I get to enjoy this last year of your life at home before you move on to great things Bia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These two cuties came for a visit on the first of October, and we spent a morning in downtown Brookings taking some more engagement photos, as a continuation of our <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2016/07/engaged.html" target="_blank">quick shoot</a> back in July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I can't wait to photograph their wedding next July!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The past three weekends have involved three photoshoots with my three sisters! The first was on a Sunday, when Tessie said "I look good today, let's do pictures!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This weekend was South Dakota's "Festival of Books," and there were plenty of attractions in little Brookings! Bright and early Saturday morning, Maria, my dad and I went to a poetry reading by Ted Kooser, who is a Nebraskan former Poet Laureate. I saw a reading he did at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln when I was in high school, and I've loved him and his poetry ever since. I was so excited to find out he was coming to Brookings!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The three of us woke up early on Saturday morning, made and ate some pancakes, and walked over to the Brookings Arts Council building, which was a lovely, cozy venue for such an event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reading was wonderful, and he mostly read unaired, recent poetry of his from the past few months. He even read us a poem he had written since being in Brookings. Although none had yet been published, they were all so polished which is a testament to his experience and talent. The whole session was very intimate, and he shared a lot of personal details (including his habitual wake-up time 4:30am, a relic of his years as an insurance salesman to squeeze writing into his day), and detailed backstory on a few different poems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the end I was even brave enough to go up and speak to him! We chatted for a few minutes and I told him about how this wasn't the first time I had seen him read. He was very gracious and even let me get a picture with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the reading we headed to the farmers' market, which had a really great vibe that morning with story time, a small jazz band, the usual fare of fruits, veggies, flowers, bread and honey, and also some more unusual sights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Othman and I are through the first stage in the Green Card process!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It has been a long wait, and there are many hurdles yet to jump through, and two more stages in this long, tedious, and difficult process, but I'm celebrating this milestone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday Othman had to leave. We had such a wonderful time during his visit and it was hard to see him off, but I'm so thankful he was able to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whenever someone who is visiting leaves, my family always takes farewell group pictures in the yard. Of course we couldn't break with tradition and took some cute ones before Maria and I took Othman to the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During his visit Othman and I spent a lot of quality time together, bought a car, he met some of my colleagues and saw my workplace... all in all it was lovely, and a nice preview of what it'll be like when he comes for real! Fingers crossed that his green card processing goes quickly and well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the afternoon Labor Day we headed to the <a href="https://www.smm.org/" target="_blank">Science Museum of Minnesota</a> per the recommendation of Isabel and Matt who had been on a date there before. It was cute and educational too. We learned about weather, physics, dinos, and even past pseudo-science fads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Labor Day we decided to visit the Como Zoo in the morning, since it wasn't far and was a nice, small, and walkable. Plus neither of us had been to a zoo in years and years, so we thought it'd be fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks for a lovely day Brian and Catherine! I can't wait to visit again once Julian becomes a big brother in November!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's so wonderful having my husband visit! Othman and I are having a really great time with my family, being silly and just hanging out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Part of why I was so happy we was coming was because he wanted to help me buy a car! I've needed one since I arrived in July, but I haven't found one in Brookings and haven't had time to go to Sioux Falls to look for one. So it ended up that the day after he got here, this happened!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At the end of the day the car we bought is one that he has dreamed about since he was a kid, so it's really a car for him, not me. But it's a Subaru which means it's reliable and has 4WD, so I'm happy to drive it around until he arrives this winter! At that point we'll see if we need to buy a little commuter car as well, but this baby will be our main transport. It's such a cute car and we love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we wait for Othman's green card, he has stayed in Morocco working while I'm living and working here. Being apart has been anything but fun, but luckily he was able to come to visit! The last leg of his flight was the same as Patrick's flight home for Labor Day, and they even got seats next to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend I took the senior pictures of Thomas, the big brother of Tessie's friend Hope. He plays football with his highschool team, so first we took some sports shots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As promised, here are the Maria & friends photos! These four have been friends since our family moved to South Dakota in 2005. Now the twins are off to college,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> so the girls came up to accompany Maria on her shoot and so they could get some photos together too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After that we moved onto some individual shots. I just did a 2 minute shoot with each girl while Bia took a posing break. I shot Nicole <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2015/08/sweet-sixteen-photos.html" target="_blank">last year</a> and it was fun to take a few pictures of her again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My lovely little sister Maria will be a senior in high school this year! She's 10 years younger than I am and it's crazy how much can change in a 10-year interim. She has friends who are off to college next week and she wanted to have them join in on her senior photoshoot, so last Sunday they came over and we headed downtown. I'll be doing another photoshoot with her later on in the fall outdoors, but this was a really fun start. In my next post I'll share the pictures I took of the four friends, but for now here are the first batch of Maria's senior pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's so fun shooting family members and close friends, because I'm in a unique position to really draw their unfiltered personality out of them, and I'm able to get such natural photos as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We got some really lovely shots, and her friends did a great job of making her laugh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Towards the end of the shoot, my camera was almost out of battery, so we decided to head to a local coffee shop for some post-shoot treats. But as we walked there I was happy I had the dredges of battery juice to get this very last photo, which I just love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last weekend I had a session with Sheila, who is the daughter of my dad's colleague and is half-Brazilian, just like me! I did a really quick photoshoot with her <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2015/08/two-photoshoots-on-campus.html" target="_blank">last year</a>, and this year she contacted me asking me to take her senior photos, which I was really excited about, especially with my new lens on order. Tessie and Maria came along as my assistants, which was fun, especially because they see her at school. We had a fun and successful photoshoot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We loved her map shirt from Brazil, which meant a lot to her, especially because she travels a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After that we went to the Nature Center close to town for some more outdoorsy pictures. Sheila swims competitively and she wanted a picture in her swimming jacket next to the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am very, very excited about my new Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens that arrived a couple days ago! I got it with a package that included a new camera bag, a lens hood, 3 filters in a storage case, a cleaning kit and more, so now I'm feeling pretty equipped for my next photoshoot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">so <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-latest-greatest-news.html" target="_blank">not long ago</a> this happened!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which, of course, meant that when they came for a 24-hour visit this weekend I took them to the park down the street for a quick engagement photoshoot! </span></div>
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The past few days have been filled with relaxing, shopping, getting errands done, and just enjoying time with family. It's been lovely!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> A lot has happened in the past month! So much that time to blog has been nonexistent. I finished my time at Casablanca American School and said some very bittersweet goodbyes, Ramadan has come and gone, and I've moved to the US! I start my new job tomorrow and am very nervous and excited. But leaving Morocco, and my life and friends wasn't easy, especially given that I had to leave Othman there too, until his Green Card gets approved. So in the days and weeks leading up to my recent departure I made lots of time for those I love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We hosted friends at our place for many Ramadan lftours (breaking of the fast for Muslims, when the sun goes down). It was lovely to spend calm evenings together talking about the past and future. Here's an example of one of our Ramadan spreads, complete with lentil salad, vegetable soup, chocolate cake, French pastries, and smoked salmon toast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two days before I left Othman and I gathered many friends at the newly installed Chili's in Casablanca for a farewell dinner/lftour. This picture didn't quite get everyone in it, as many people came and went throughout the many hours we spent there. It was such a wonderful night, filled with friendship and conversation and love and good food of course! It made me so grateful for the friends I've made in Morocco, and while it was hard to say goodbye I know I'll be back and will be seeing them soon enough!</span></div>
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A few months ago I sat down for a Saturday of painting and this came out (but I only decided on the layout and finished it last week). The peacock and flower designs came from an art book Othman gave me a while back, and I had fun playing with acrylic paint, paint markers, permanent markers, and watercolors to make it (as well as extra paper and scissors!). Most of it is metallic and shiny so it doesn't show well in photos, but it's a fun piece! </div>
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This one I painted for the lovely <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2016/06/hey-jude.html" target="_blank">Brooke</a>, and gave it to her as gift before she left for the US last week. I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it to her, and when I asked her to send me one I got this perfect photo. The dark background makes it look really nice!</div>
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Then last Friday my friend Ingrid invited me over for a painting afternoon at her photography studio with a couple friends of hers. I had these four little canvases that I didn't know what to do with, and had fun making this simple design on them. The colors don't show very accurately here (again the silver is shiny), but I had fun playing with the colors she had at her place<span style="background-color: #e0e9eb; color: #267272; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">—</span>much brighter than the ones I own!</div>
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Ingrid is in fact the one that started this all, back in <a href="http://fourcontinentsmylens.blogspot.com/2013/12/filling-canvas.html" target="_blank">December 2013</a>. Thank you dear friend for helping me fall in love with painting!</div>
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"Bassidi", as Othman and his siblings call him, was one of the first people I felt comfortable around here in Morocco. He was a kind and supremely gentle man, whose eyes and whole being emanated wisdom and love. As the oldest of 14, he was in large part the glue that held the numerous and sprawling Berrada clan together. He is already greatly missed and will be for a long time to come.</div>
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As I looked through the pictures on my computer to illustrate this post I felt a deep sense of sadness as I realized I don't have any pictures of he, Othman, and I. I know some have been taken over the years but don't know where to find any. However, I do love these sweet moments that I captured last fall of him with his granddaughter (Othman's cousin) and great-grandson.</div>
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Today I feel torn; heartbroken for Othman and his family who are grieving deeply today at the loss of the family's beloved patriarch, grateful that Bassidi passed in his sleep and is free from the pain he had been in for the past few days, and thankful that I was given the chance to know and love such a beautiful soul.</div>
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It's club filled with people who decided that their love outweighed the challenges they'd face: differing expectations, ever-present communication problems, hard decisions about places (where to live? who to visit?), names (change it or not? baby names that everyone is happy with?), and so much more. You've met with some of those challenges already, but trust me, more are on their way. Mixed couples have it hard, and many things that wouldn't be a struggle if you married the boy down the street will crop up as major speed bumps to get over. </div>
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So why do we do it? Why are there ever more people joining this club full of arguments and tears and misunderstandings? Why are you doing so today?</div>
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Because the love that drew you to this man, so different from you in so many ways (yet so alike in others), feels stronger than any you could have for anyone else.</div>
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Because the struggles that we face as mixed couples truly only <i>do</i> make us stronger, and solidify the bonds that we started forging years ago.</div>
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Because mixed couples go into marriage with their eyes wide open, knowing they'll have to fight for their love. And sometimes that makes all the difference.</div>
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Because the richness that your partner will bring to your life (yes it will increase!) will come in many forms: new places and foods, new languages to conquer, new points of view to understand, new realizations and greater empathy. He will be by your side through those experiences and help you make sense of them and see the beauty in them. </div>
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Because your table will be filled with foods from differing corners of the earth (and I know you like to eat).</div>
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Because like attracts like, and the other mixed couples you'll meet in upcoming years will be among the most interesting and compassionate people you'll ever know. And you'll immediately be drawn to them, and they to you, and you'll be able to discuss all those struggles and hardships with your new friends, and they will understand like no one else can. They are the rocks you'll learn to lean on. Because couples need couple friends. And again, the richness of your life will multiply.</div>
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Because mixed couples make beautiful babies, who grow up with empathy and a unique perspective, who grow up multilingual, multicultural, and as true citizens of the world.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and this picture is my absolute favorite of the day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thanks Brooke for letting me try to capture in photographs the love between you and your son! Have safe travels and a wonderful time in California!</span></div>
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