On Friday I went on a 'Photography Marathon' event. You sign up in advance, arrive at the starting point on the day of and get an Official Shirt & Kit (TM), and over the next four hours you are gradually texted 6 challenge prompts, which you're supposed to photograph anywhere you want across the city. At the end you submit four photos in different ( Read more... )

So all day long the country's been preparing for a storm that's supposed to hit, or maybe it already has, I'm not sure what's going on in the north right now. Now - pretty much all of you (unless you live in even more comfortable weather than we do) will laugh at this definition of a storm, but whatever, it's all relative, different infrastructure ( Read more... )

I am back in Tel Aviv ( Read more... )

Bunch of photos from February and March below the cuts ( Read more... )

Things are quiet now; it's amazing how quickly you can shift between modes, normal vs national emergency. This entire week feels like it took dragged on forever, yesterday morning feels like a year ago, and at the same time I feel like I barely blinked and now it's over ( Read more... )

I typed this post up last night and then didn't post! So pretend you are reading this yesterday. I will put in ETAs where necessary. Sorry for sucking at this journal thing, 9 years in. Ahem ( Read more... )

Soooo last week loneraven & partner were in Israel! Which was so delightful, and I'm so glad I got a chance to meet them. I enjoy traveling, and I enjoy showing people around and seeing places I know from a fresh point of view, and all of my experiences with meeting people from online have been so comfortable and I love it. And I've gotten to meet so many ( Read more... )

It has been a wonderfully calming weekend*, and so: photodump of stuff I've taken since May, in chronological order. Including: nature, mildly urban natury stuff, holidays and family, baby fruits growing on trees, and the Tel Aviv Pride Parade beach party.

*other than the news, but - there is only so much I can let get to me at a time :(

( Enter via click; nearly 100 photos of a large-ish nature )

--Why are jellyfish so EVIL UGH FIND YOURSELF ANOTHER OCEAN (did not get stung by anything other than floating particles, but the sea was fucking terrifying with all the ~potential.)
--There are so many Bandom Big Bang fics I want to read it's not even funny. Big Bangs are almost as evil as jellyfish.
--sabra_n is in Israel ahhh! ♥♥♥♥♥ :D :D :D.

So:

( Beach photos from friend's annual beach birthday bash )

Between reading Bandom Big Bang fics (um, mostly from last year :/ timing!fail) and minor studying, the past week has included some Very Nice Things:

1. Bath-Sheva Dance Company's Deca-Dance. I'm not a huge fan of modern dance, mostly because a lot of shows I've been to dance to various drum beats/electronica/industrial sound effects instead of ( Read more... )