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LinkedIn doesn’t like flakey

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Photo 1: #YourTurnChallenge #Day2

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The conversation with my relocation adviser was about fifteen minutes in when we started talking about my LinkedIn profile summary. She took one look at it and said “You will have to remove the bit about the floral photography, recruiters don’t like flakey”.

Floral photography is my passion. Nothing ignites my soul like capturing the essence of a bloom in all it’s splendour. To have my art judged and demoted at a glance hurt.

Understandably the conversation rapidly deteriorated after that. If being passionate about floral photography made me flakey then so be it!

I would be a flakey artsy generalist instead of a boxed in, easily defined, scientific writer. If a recruiter didn’t like that I was flakey then they didn’t have work that would fuel my creative fire so that was no loss anyway.

I maintain that the world needs flakey! The world needs our authentic creative selves connecting with our passions to drive us into new realms of accomplishment.

You define who you are and you set the boundaries. Not conforming to expectations is not a bad thing. Sterilising the flakey is not a solution.

So be brave and be flakey! Live your passion and leave a legacy. I know I will.

So here’s another piece of my art (you fan find more on FineArtAmerica):

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Flares adding fantasy to florals

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When post processing my pics I try to add something that will make the image unique and remarkable. Often my attempts don’t yield the results I want so it usually feels like every one is an experiment. Each bloom has a different energy when you see it up close and the detail in each image focuses attention on different aspects. These are some of my experiments with adding lens flares in Photoshop.

Photo 1: Enchanting

Rose soft pink flare

Photo 2: Blooming

Rose and buds 3

Photo 3: Pink Rose

Rose pink flare

Photo 4: Wishful Anemones

Anemones stalks wishful

Photo 5: Singular Simplicity

Anemone stalks

Like what you see? These images are available for purchase on my artist website.

Raining on the Roses

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Some much needed rain finally arrived in drought-stricken California this week. I took the opportunity to feed the roses and admire some late bloomers in the nearby park.

Photo 1: Raindrops on a variegated Rose

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Photo 2: Wet yellow Rose

Rose yellow buds

Photo 3: Orange miniature Rose cluster

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Photo 4: Single wet white Rose

Rose white dewdrops

Photo 5: Rose romance

Rose white pink dewdrops

Some of these images are available for purchase on my fineartamerica artist page.

Caught in the Rose Garden

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Getting together with a portrait photographer on my usual walk about the local park was lots of fun. Specimen spotting and talking to the sun to get the right light was also rather entertaining for her 2 year old charge who happened to be carrying a lovely sprig of lavender given to him by a passerby. When I got entranced by the blooms in the rose garden I also got caught on camera…

Photo 1: Caught in the Rose Garden

Me in the rose garden

Photo 2: Fresh Yellow Rose

Rose yellow droplets

Photo 3: Rosey blues

Rose white blue tone

Photo 4: After the rain

Rose raindrops

Photo 5: Rose refreshed

Rose yellow orange

Sweet Gardenia for my Mum

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The Gardenia plant at our back door is steadily producing more blooms. I often take a look at them or just get a whiff of their sweet fragrance. I wanted to take a pic of one as tomorrow is my Mum’s first birthday since her death and they remind me of her and my grandfather. I think this is the best pic I’ve taken of one so far. Seems apt.

Photo 1: Sweet Gardenia for my Mum

Gardenia sweet

Photo 2: Gardenia at the door

Gardenia single

Photo 3: Gardenia bud in the rain

Gardenia bud wet

Photo 4: Gardenia downward

Gardenia rainsdrops

Photo 5: Gardenia upward

Gardenia morning

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