LunaJubilee.com celebrates 5 years

April 14, 2007 was my first blog post. Since starting my blog, I thought about this milestone for such a long time. I think I’ve written this post at least a dozen or more times in my mind over the years. Now that LunaJubilee.com is officially five years old, I have no words to express my excitement!

I planned to talk about so much like the Blog Boot Camp tutorials, my Windlight settings, the Happy Things section and my beloved 52 Weeks of Color Challenge that now is in its 2nd year. Oh wait I guess I just did talk about them, huh? And I’m sure I missed something.

Thank you so much for reading LunaJubilee.com for all these years. I can only hope you all come along for the next several years.

<3

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Marooned

Hope your weekend is a good one!

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Dreaming in Raw

I’m planning to show more raw photos on my blog. What made me think about skipping the heavy photo editing was a prior post where I used a pure raw shot from Secondlife. Creating raw photos a great challenge for me and helps me not be complacent with my photography skills.

I’ve created a new flickr set for these raw shots. Also, in the credits after the cut, I’ll denote the photoshop editing, if any, as well as the Windlight setting used.

<3

filed in Luna Jubilee’s Happy Things

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The Sound of the Trees

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?

We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.

The Sound of the Trees by Robert Frost

(question after the cut, be sure to click thru)

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Royal Living Magazine Honor

Flattered doesn’t even describe my feelings when I was asked to be the highlighted photographer in this issue of Royal Living Magazine. Its a true honor to see my photos in such a highly respected magazine.

You can check out the spotlight here or the entire February issue. I love paging through this publication each month. Its always filled with amazing home decor and various photographers from around the grid.

If you’d like to use my photography services, you can book your appointment with me today. I do all my own photography for my pose store, !bang poses, and randomly when the mood strikes I’ll snap my plurk friends.

A big thanks goes to Royal Living Magazine folks for inviting me. Its a real pleasure <3

Love Challenge

I’m tossing out a mini challenge. Lately there has been so much blah going on inworld and in general. So let’s add in some positive vibes and love! Yup, that’s right. I’m asking you to post or flickr about things you love. It can be of people to items to silly things. Whatever it is, make it positive and focused on your loves in Secondlife.

Here are just a few things (and people) I love:

• My family: Express Zenovka & Maddy Seetan
• Freckles: I can’t seem to wear enough freckle tattoos as of late
• My plurk: Not a day goes by that I’m not plurking about something
• Photos: Lately, I’ve been addicted to taking and working on snaps, tutorials and posting to flickr
• Pink: Pretty much all and any item in pink I want to own. Its so pretty!

Spread the Love – List a few things on a photo or in a blog post that make your feel loved or things you love. Be sure to leave your links here on this post. I hope you get to start your own Happy Things!

<3

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An Elikatira Honor

I’m so excited to have one of my photos showcased at the mainstore for Elikatira! I’m nestled between Seaya Nyanda and Parisa Galtier on the wall. What a great place to be between these two ladies. Check out the photo in the store or on my flickr. And oh hey, there’s new hair at Elikatira and its mesh!

Guess where I filed this post? Yup, that’s right. Its in my “Happy Things“.

For style credits: see the original blog post

Since 2009

Three years ago today was the day that I got to spend 14-hours with Express Zenovka. We talked about everything and anything that day (and still do!). Mostly our nervous chatter was me trying to impress him and him trying not to be so shy. After three years, he’s still just as shy … and I still try (in futility) to impress him.

We’re still as crazy and stoopid together as ever. I have a flickr set bursting at the seams dedicated to our three year history. I think we still “argue” over what day it was that marks the start of the “us” in SecondLife. I say its today and he thinks its, uhh, in two days. All I know, I’m thankful to have met him at that random September plurk party back all those years ago … and kept in touch until that following January day when we spent all that time together in my skybox.

Express, thank you for not only being the guy who has filled my partner box for all this time but being my SLeverything. Still more than ever and more importantly after logging out you’re my best friend. You are and always will be a “Happy Thing” for me.

<3

Happy Things: Having Fun

hey you! I know I’ve been AFK from my usual blogging routine the past few weeks. My time in SecondLife has been more for me. Sometimes I forget there is more to SL than plurk, my store and of course my blog.

Here are a few things to check out so your SL isn’t so srsbsns:
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Happy Things: Before & After Flickr Group

Not too long ago, I did a “before and after” layout of a photo I recently took of Express and I. I used the photo on my blog, LunaJubilee.com, and folks really seemed to like the before and after side-by-side look. I adore having my flickr page but sometimes miss cool photos from my contacts. This got me thinking; let’s start a flickr group dedicated to this sort of thing. I’d like to think this group would be a great way for many to share their talents if they’d like while showing their before and after side-by-side photos. See this photo’s before and after side-by-side here. Join the Flickr group here.

The hair showcased is part of Clawtooth‘s Hair Fair offering. I’ve been drooling over it since the plurk teasers late last week. All the randomly shown vendor ads leading up to Hair Fair builds the excitement … and of course gets my creativity going for doing more posts tagged with Hair Fair 2011. Check out my first post for details about this year’s fair.

I so rarely wear wings for anything let alone my blog. Just blame it on my True Blood bender. The wings do kinda go with my beloved sad elf ears, right? Anyway, have a terrific week and to all my American friends, Happy July Fourth!

Filed in Luna Jubilee’s Happy Things folder.

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