iPhone photography: Christmas Rose

2011

As the old year fades out and the champagne is on the cooler getting ready to welcome the new year, I find myself looking back and looking forward. Here are my favourite highlights from 2011:

In 2011 my digital life was simplified and made easier through the use of Buffer (a tool that helps you optimize your social media updates by cutting down the noise and sharing more consistently), Evernote (a digital scrapbook) and Dropbox (a storage utility that allows you to access your files from anywhere).

Creatively, this was the year that I resumed my life drawing and figure studies while my iPhone photography took took a bit of a dip, but gained momentum towards the second half of the year.

2011 was the year of the Life Compass. A tool to help people easily make a deep change to their lives by going with the flow of the seasons.

I would like to acknowledge two amazing and talented women, who were very helpful and supportive. My brilliant mother, who brought me up to seize the day, to live with the seasons, to find joy in the small things and beauty everywhere. The Life Compass is inspired by her! I’m also deeply grateful to my wonderful friend Wini who was an excellent help throughout the whole process, with her great expertise and kindness. Thank you, ladies!

2012

In 2012, you’ll find more tips and apps for iPhone photography at Marmalade Moon. Ideas for how you can simplify your digital life and how to get going with life drawing if you don’t have access to models. I’m going to develop a daily propellor, to accompany the Life Compass series and help you gain momentum on a daily basis. And of course there will be more free desktop goodies, both wallpapers and more folder icons. But first I’m going to take my own advice and burrow into my inner landscape with the Winter Shift, to find illuminating light in the darkness of long winter’s nights.

Many thanks to you who visit Marmalade Moon! Thank you for your continued support of Marmalade Moon and everything I do. Happy New Year! 

Tags: celebration, creative business, goals, gratitude, momentum, productivity

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iPhone photography: snow and star

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iPhone photography: Cherry Blossom

iPhone photography: mixed media portrait

iPhone photography: Summer Night Sky

iPhone photography: President and Park

iPhone photography: Cherry Trees in the Autumn

iPhone photography: self-portrait with iPhone

iPhone photography: November Roses

iPhone photography: Christmas Lights

iPhone photography: KGB restaurant & bar

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iPhoneography: Christmas in Stockholm

Tags: celebration, Christmas, holiday, winter

iPhone photography: hyacinths

In the December Issue of the Micro Magazine for members of Club Marmalade Moon:

• how to kickstart your New Year on your computer creating an attractive desktop with built-in organization
• “Espresso” pre-release of an abstract, geometric desktop wallpaper
• finding a sustainable approach to new year’s resolutions
• thoughts on the ebb and flow of creativity: “there’s nothing routine about passion”
• free, printable holiday tags
• pre-release of a collection of colourful folder icons

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Tags: Club Marmalade Moon, desktop art

iPhoneography: The Moon

Emerging from the deep waters of illumination and creativity to trip head over heels into a heap of laundry, a pile of receipts that need to be filed and a dozen and one other day-to-day tasks that I need to catch up with.

It’s the ebb and flow of creativity. It’s creating from the heart. It’s passion. It’s believing in what you do. Because there’s nothing routine about passion. There are no limits to illumination. There is nothing calculated about intuition. There’s nothing moderate about zeal, and desire is not halfhearted.

If you want passion in your life, you have to let the idea of balance take on a different, more long term role. It’s not the same sort of balance as the kind you can get in times when your days can be measured and divided up into sensible amounts of time spent in a variety reasonable areas. In times of passion, it’s ebb and flow. It’s a leap of faith. A deep sense of purpose.

Tags: celebration, completion, creative process, flow, joy, life balance