The first Picture(s) of the New Year

Most people will look at my flickr and see two pictures that look almost exactly the same.  What they don't realize is that those two pictures mean something more to me and the other person in the photo. If you remember my last blog I spoke about a "promise made". To be honest, if things had just been left alone, these pictures wouldn't exist. 

These pictures, weren't supposed to happen the way things were going. This might sound weird. But if we didn't annoy each other, or push, pick, pull, grab, rip and more at each other I never would've spent about 3 hours on a picture that maybe it's not the best, but when it was done I looked at it and couldn't stop smiling. It was something I was proud of. Not because it was a picture done and over with. But because it was something that my sister and I did together for the first time in 2011. This is a whole new start for me and her. Why? Because to me, and her. The picture says so.

Happy New Year 2011

There are three types of people on new years. 1) The one that doesn't even know it's new years. 2) The one that is just so excited for new years to see what more great things are to come. 3) The one that is just glad that the year is over. Me? I am the one that is glad it's over but I am not too sure how I feel about it to be honest. I know that I'm not a Second Life Model Blogger, but I've always wanted to do one of these, and some people don't actually know all the reasons why I do some pictures, or why I do them the way I do.

Please bear with me. It's 1:30pm.

2010 ended horribly and 2011 started in with a promise.

I got into a fight with someone that is very close to my heart. She IS a model. I am the photographer.  I realized that I wouldn't be seen as much without her. I started a new years special and new that I had to really do a lot better because without her... my job was about to be 10X's harder. What came of it was this:
                                        

This is one of my best pictures. I love it. This is actually another model that I met through my sister. The last thing she tells me is "Give your sister a hug for me and tell her happy new year!" I didn't have the heart to tell her that I wasn't sure that I even still had a sister.

Now 2011
My sister and I IM'd a bit, and it turned bad, then really good. Our relationship is very bi-polar at times. We love each other, but we are very much a like. Most people would say that's a great thing! But really, it's a pleasurable pain. We ended up making a promise to each other. Her that should we see that her anger with me is like looking in a mirror at my weakest days. Me, that i would show my emotions more. I have a hard time doing that and my lack of expression is what really started our nightmare. Our main promise was to work on the relationship. Together.

I am glad about that. I think of her as a sister in second life and real life.