Life is what we make it

Life is what we make it
Originally uploaded by aknacer

I have subscribed to Flickr's Top 5 photos of the day on My Yahoo! for the past year or so, and I quickly noticed that almost every day, 1 of the top 5 are by this guy, aknacer, or his girlfriend, Rosie. So I read into some of their comments, and discovered that these two lovely creative people and talented, creative photographers actually met on flickr. It's one of the greatest modern-day love stories I've ever heard. He's from NC, she's from London, they met because of their photographs and fell in love. Now they're engaged and have a whole flickr world of people, including me, rooting them on and helping them out. Their story is beautiful and inspiring to me, and I always love seeing their photos. They both seem to have really positive and optimistic outlooks on life, too, which I also find very inspiring. Their story gives me hope, and I know the same is true for many, many people, which you will be able to see if you read even one comment string for one of their photos. They have a blog together, which aknacer links to under this photo. Also check out one of my favorite projects they've put together, this video made by putting together still images from the first time Rosie visited Aaron here in the states. Aww!! The video is here, under "NYC Roadtrip" : http://nacedesign.com/blog/archives/category/the-life-and-times-of-arf


Separately, both Aaron (aknacer) and Rosie (rosiehardy) take really awesome photos, and they each have their own very unique style and are both super creative, and insanely busy. They both seem to live and breathe photography. And together, they take beautiful photos like this.

And here is one of my favorite pictures Rosie has done. (Sue, this is the crane picture.) Rosie posted this when I was in my major origami crane phase, and then when my Nona died, this photo was a big inspiration for me to make cranes for her funeral. I make 36 of them, for "double chai" which in the Jewish tradition means double life. I strung them together and they went into the casket with her. I will forever be thankful that I did this and had the courage to speak at her funeral. It wasn't easy.