hobbies

so work is not exactly a stress reliever. not a revelation, i know. but sometimes when i get tired i tend to get a little grumpy. and guess who i can take it out on at work? sometimes my workers & a lot of times other people who come into the office. so i started to look for something that would relax me while i'm at work and take the edge off. but i also wanted to find something that could make me productive too. playing computer/video games is not my idea of a productive hobby. so that was my loose guideline.

first up! i decided to give origami another attempt. i've always been intrigued by this art form that involves continuously folding pieces of papers to make simple or elaborate creations. how elaborate? well i've seen dragons & tyrannosaurus rexes. yeah! granted i have never been very good at oragami. why? the directions you find are almost impossible to decipher, at least for me anyways. well . . . learning is not a process that becomes easier with age. and after mastering the art of making a lily and a throwing star (which i did make as a kid), i found this hobby was making me lose more patience than relaxing me. and so origami was having the opposite desired effect.

so having felt frustrated. i returned to a familiar hobby that i have always enjoyed. post photographic composition. there is not much to say about pictures but to show them. they are not all complicated efforts, some are quite simple. i just enjoy producing an end product that can speak to me. and here are some examples.