So here's how it works:
- Publish a Capture the Colour post on your blog with images for all 5 colors if possible. Bloggers who don't have photos for all 5 colors will still be in with a chance of winning the iPad category prize but to be eligible to win the £2000 overall prize your blog post should feature photo's for all 5 categories.
- Nominate 5 fellow bloggers to take part in Capture the Colour at the end of your post and notify them via Twitter or Facebook
- You have until the 29th August 2012, to let them know you've entered by either:
Having called several cities home over the past ten years of my life, where I was chasing a dream or an idea of what my life should be, I have kept my selections focused less on exotic travel but more on where my heart has lived. Here are some places that I can still hear the pulse of my past lives.
Red - New York City.
My home. I grew up on these streets and this city never ceases to inspire me. Although it's constantly changing, and everytime I go back there's some new hotspot that I've never heard of, or some "new" chic neighborhood that used to be the home of hookers and homeless, but what is constant is my thriving memories as a little girl walking these downtown streets with my mother.
Here's a shot I took on a gloomy spring day after a funeral. That's a Morrissey lyric waiting to happen.
Yellow - Tokyo.
Aside from wearing kimono, sleeping on Tatami mats, and wandering the streets alone for a month à la ScarJo, a part of the culture that I got a kick out of during my two month stay in Japan was the vending machines. When I wasn't eating Udon, fresh fish or Onigiri, the next best thing was coffee, snacks and milk shakes from the vending machines that can be found on almost every street corner in this interactive city. Towards the end of the trip, my wallet thanked me.
White - Los Angeles.
A metaphor on how replaceable we all really are in Hollywood. The lyric wilted and faded somewhere in Hollywood comes to mind. This is where the old souls go: a flea market on La Brea. Having not lived in LA for almost six years, it's nice to revisit and see the city from an outsiders point of view. It's a little bit vintage, a little bit kooky, and one thing that this haunting place has that not many know, is a lot of soul.
Green - Palais de Tokyo.
I walked over to the Palais de Tokyo café, after working a gruesome Paris Fashion Week. Standing on your feet for 13 hours a day in 4 inch heels, dealing with snotty models, grouchy buyers, and being stuffed in a mini skirt too sizes too small calls for a cocktail...or three.
Blue - The Eiffel Tower.
...and finally, the cliche that my life has become at my new and hopefully final home. Loving Paris. Cliche. Traveling on a Vespa. Cliche. Eating French baguette. Cliche. Now do it all in front of the Eiffel Tower...are you rolling your eyes yet? I am.
I now nominate these fellow bloggers to join the party! Fabulous bloggers who take incredible pictures and who share my love for traveling...:::drumroll please:::
GrenobloiseLes mecs d'UrbamediaExpat EdnaMary Kay at Out and About in ParisBrett Sills
Good luck to us all!Oh, and one small request.. ....if any of you win, promise to take me out for a drink?
What was happening a year ago today?Gettin' Wild in the Marais!
