This post probably would have been more useful about two weeks ago -- but it's better late than never, right? (Unless it's too late...) So there's this beautiful, relatively straightforward photography technique called bokeh. It requires a little trial-and-error, but you can end up with amazing photos like this one:
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I strongly believe that everything should be big, silly and over-the-top. Go big or go home, right? That's why I spent 10 days in Mexico for Thanksgiving and my birthday. Because what better way to usher in another year? (And also because I found a sweet deal on Virgin America -- $264 for a nonstop, roundtrip flight from San Francisco to Los Cabos.) Despite evidence to the contrary I am not a party person. Like, at all. So I almost decided Cabo wasn't the place for me -- it's got a reputation for party, party party.
But. When I found out about the tiburon ballenas (whale sharks) that I was almost guaranteed to see in La Paz, just two hours from Cabo San Lucas, there was no more question. I was going. So I was blogging at a lovely, quiet park the other day, when this mom showed up with a screaming, upset three-year-old. She was yelling and crying about something unintelligible, and she was not stopping. A few minutes later, another mom showed up with her three-year-old son. Apparently he knew the screaming child from preschool, because he immediately asked her, "Hey, Mandy! What's wrong?" And she told him what was wrong. If they were adults, Mandy probably would have seen her classmate/coworker/etc. coming, wiped her face and tried to act like everything was cool, and her friend would have pretended he totally didn't notice she'd been crying. Kids don't worry about appearing vulnerable. They feel things. They feel them hard. And they're not afraid to talk about it. Kids don't play games (well, not that kind). They don't pretend not to see things. They're direct. If they see you crying, they ask you why. If asked, they answer. And this is one of the major reasons kids make friends more easily than adults. My 5th grade classmates and me -- back when we were better at making friends. See, in psychology, we say there are three requirements to making new friends:
1. Proximity (due to factors like convenience, the mere exposure effect, the odds of ever actually meeting each other, etc.) 2. Repeated, unplanned interactions (like at school, day care, play dates, extracurricular activities, church, parents' friends' kids, etc.) 3. A setting that allows or encourages people to open up and confide in each other. Kids have wilder emotions than adults, and they're less able (or motivated) to control them. Which leads to screaming fits that can last for hours... but also friendships that can last for minutes, weeks or years. And guess what? Even though you're all old now, you can still do the exact same thing -- well, almost. |
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