Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The (Papa)razzi Part

It's pretty ironic that The Yogarazzi blog has more words than pix. It's a real incentive for me to  work towards taking the training wheels off and moving to a more photo friendly place. I've found this joint very clunky overall and especially with images. I'm not actually a photographer; I only play one in yoga world, so there's that. I seriously started snapping iPhone yoga pix almost 5 years ago. Obviously, I'm a slow starter and a slow learner if I'm only now getting around this.

I broke my arm on the way to yoga. Don't freak out, yoga did not wreck my body, my clumsiness, a too heavy bag, and way high heeled boots wrecked my body. Anyway, I still went to yoga, but instead of practicing, I took a few pix. My iPhone 3 had a terrible camera. It was blurry and had no zoom.  I couldn't adjust for light, edit, or crop. Now my iPhone 5 allows me to do these things. I may not be good, but I'm so much better.

I  learned  it's usually best to practice on my mat and allow others to do the same in regular classes. Snapping yoga pix is better around yoga; before and after, when yogis are playing around, and at yoga events like yoga + something, fundraisers, and free classes where the vibe is light and fun and it's not so intrusive.  At serious workshops, it's a way to edify instruction.

Until I learn code and move up, I  have recent yoga pix on my Facebook  The Yogarazzi. I have 5ish years of yoga pix on my Facebook page, but they aren't that easily accessible. When I started, I herded the pix into albums so they could be viewed outside of grand kids, pets, vacations, Butler, and food porn. Somewhere along the way between Facebook  upgrades, I was unable to album. In typical procrastinating fashion, I have never gone back. My mobile upload album has 5000+ photos.

I hope to curate these photos and add them to the page so you can view a visual history of the Indy (as in Indianapolis) yoga scene. Over the years, I think my hair has mostly stayed the same color, but my weight has not.  Fortunately, The Yogarazzi is mostly not in the photos. For the ones where I might be, there's always photoshop once I learn it. For now, it's the mostly wordy Yogarazzi.

2010 photo

2015 photo








2 comments:

Unknown said...

"I broke my arm on the way to yoga ... I still went to yoga." Ellen, you are a hoot and I am so glad you are blogging now! What a great contribution to the Indy Yoga community. :) See you at the lemon soon! xoxox, Ashley T

The Yogarazzi said...

Thanks so much! Namaste.