iPhone photography: the last picnic for this year?

An Indian Summer and possibly the last picnic for this year. Migrating birds, flying over the lake. A gentle shift from summer into autumn. In the kitchen: days of apple. Root vegetables. Figs, satsumas, grapes and cheese. The basil on the balcony is still blooming and life drawing sessions have just got started. A glorious beginning to autumn.

I’ve been interviewed about my new Seasonal Shift Goal Kits and I’m already working on the Winter Shift Goal Kit. An exciting kit, shifting our focus from the active summer days and into the inner world of creativity, introspection and intuition!

Today, Apple introduced us to the iPhone 4S, but what I found really exciting and innovative is Siri, a voice control virtual personal assistant! “Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk.” Siri writes and sends email messages and texts — and reads them to you, too. It searches the web, takes dictation and plays the music you want to hear. It helps you find your way, checks the weather forecast and shows you around. It places calls, schedules meetings and helps you remember things. And it wakes you up. Impressive, eh!? I think we’re going to have to get used to people talking to their phones!

I’ve got some goodies lined up for you who visit Marmalade Moon. I’ll soon be releasing some new desktop art: Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper and Vintage Folder Icons: Purple Grapes, both share their palette of rich purple and orange with the Autumn Shift Goal Kit. But first check back in on Friday for a new interview, and prepare to be inspired!

iPhone photography: Migrating Birds

Tags: Apple, autumn, Goal Kits, iPhone, planning, Seasonal Shifts, seasons, technology

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Autumn is the time for harvest and thanksgiving. A time for balance, transformation, gratitude & forgiveness. Use the Autumn Shift to find your balance and gain clarity on your harvest. Reflecting on which aspects of your harvest you store for winter and which you leave behind. Get unstuck with ease by taking a holistic view on your life and tapping into the flow of the seasons.

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• 7 printable PDF pages (5 of which are worksheets with prompts).
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The change of season naturally allows and offers us valuable opportunities to refocus, reevaluate, reconsider, release and renew. When you align with the natural cycles, life can feel easier and you are able to live in the here and now more effortlessly. Seasonal Goal Kits help you align yourself with the transitions. Get the Autumn Goal Kit. 

Tags: autumn, ease, flow, Goal Kits, goals, growth, life balance, momentum, motivation, transformation

iPhone photography: birch tree and lights

First the squirrels chase each other across the oak tree and then the pigeons arrive. It’s the acorns. It’s the end of summer. The scent of apples. A kind of clarity in the air. The last night the party lights are strung up under the birch tree. Harvest time and a shift to a different pace. 

And I’m not painting, which is what I really should be doing in my spare time. Instead I busy myself with things that seem important, or that seem fulfilling but that leave that slight feeling of unease or dissatisfaction… You know that feeling one can get after having indulged in fast food? It kind of wasn’t worth it? Busy work. The kind of work that seems productive, but actually just keeps you occupied. (Is it just me or does this happen to you too?)

So I wrote a list of what I need to balance and prioritise in the area of art and design.

• paint
• redesign my website (like disappearing down the rabbit hole?)
• design skins for iPhones and put them up for sale in my shop
• make an illustrated recipe book or perhaps prints with recipes (“Studio Cooking” perhaps? Quick, fun and easy both for a budget with the odd party thrown in. What do you think?)
• prepare some new super inspiring interviews with creatives for your reading pleasure
• open life drawing programmes start soon. I’ll be going to draw dancers in motion at the Museum of Dance and perhaps try a new one for the regular life drawing.
• website maintenance (yawn, and also another rabbit hole)
• make pixel art mini posters with Hype Hair designs
• write a micro magazine for members of Club Marmalade Moon. (The next issue will come with a pre-release of a new collection of Vintage Folder Icons)
• did I mention painting?

Lets see if writing this list puts things into perspective for me and gives you an idea of some of the things you can expect here at Marmalade Moon this autumn. What’s your autumn looking like? Got that back to school feeling of energy and clarity? Fresh beginnings? New projects on the go? Or still muddled up like me, with more ideas than time?

Tags: autumn, creative cycle, focus, goals, growth, priorities, recharge, redefinition, summer, transformation

iPhone Photography: Before the storm, the yellow oak tree

Before and after the first autumn storm. iPhone photography experiments.

iPhone Photography: After the storm 1

iPhone Photography: After the storm 2

iPhone Photography: After the storm 3

Tags: autumn, iPhoneography, transformation

iPhone Photography: The first snow. Gold and white.

I’m feeling inspired by the first snow. Gold laced with white. Glowing yellow leaves. Then the rain came, and melted the snow. It was just for a day. This time. Glad to have more colourful days.

“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower” – Albert Camus

Tags: autumn, iPhoneography, snow, transformation, winter