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The Road is Lonely: What’s The Story?
Introspection from the Songwriter By Jennifer Triplett As a survivor of loss, you may always carry a new perspective on life which can be a struggle or fight (“us against the world “). “Streets lights pass me by” is a metaphor for time passing by and souls leaving,...
Music: Making Happiness
Music Feeding Other's Soul Writing songs was really a default for the fact I couldn’t read music or didn’t have the patience to learn. It was a big challenge during my grade school piano lessons. So instead, I would just go over to the piano and doodle and sing, until...
The Road is Lonely: Media Selection
Cover Art Sketches for the Road Gets Lonely Alt Title the 'The Road is Lonely' Photography by Jennifer Triplett Cover art by Jennifer Triplett The primary message of this song is about loss as if no one else really gets it. The cover art for this song was inspired by...
Big Steps in My Music Journey: Join Me
There is nothing more challenging to me than writing about myself as I am getting ready to release my first single “The Road Gets Lonely’ this Fall. I can think up 100 different procrastinating tasks to perform rather than put into words what my narrative is. What...
Making Some Me Time
I started this blog about 14 years ago as an outlet to continue my creative passions after quitting my career to raise my two toddler sons. Now I am sitting back down after re-discovering my passion for songwriting since my adult sons have set sail into the word of...
Photography – Behind the Lens
Here’s to Seeing Flowers Again
Looking Forward to Seeing Flowers I am looking forward to seeing flowers like this rose again soon. I took this photo in the fall. When I notice the beautiful fall colors surrounding me, I overlooked this brilliant colored rose. I really loved the color of the orange...
Transforming Photography
Photography Beyond the Photograph Photography by Jennifer Triplett The beauty of photography is that it captures a moment in time and that you can use it to evoke feelings. With that said, there are allot of opinions as to at what point photography transforms itself...
Rescued Wolves in the Snow
Wolves that Were Rescued I recently visited the Wolf Sanctuary in Pennsylvania and was able to take loads of photos of them in the snow. Of course I would have preferred taking photos of them in the wild, but they were magnificent creatures. Unfortunately people...
Flowers and Focal Points
Enjoying my new camera, I experimented with the focal point feature. With multiple focal points I tried to get a middle focus or somewhere in-between. Notice one little bud off to the right is more in focus than the foreground and flowers behind. To me, the eye...
Weekly Late Challenge Geometry
Geometry Weekly Challenge (a little late) I don't know which is more of a challenge...taking the pictures or making the posts (with boys - who are currently expressing themselves musically). Anyway, I noticed last week's photo challenge was Geometry. Kind of late, but...
Flowers: Celebrating a New Camera
Flowers with a Touch of Imperfection After much waiting and researching and waiting and then researching again, I final replaced my good old Rebel xTi. I haven't looked back. My new camera is the Canon 7D. Here is one of my first shots outside. I chose an easy...
Canadian Reflections
While kayaking (thank you spell check!) in Canada, I was able capture this shot with my PowerShot. The water was so calm, that the slightest breeze made this delicate wave. The reflections look like beautiful strokes of paint. It was a remarkably calming experience....
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Sunrise: No 2
Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge at Sunrise The Chesapeake Bay is beautiful, especially at sunrise. This photo of the Bay Bridge, during the sunrise, was taken from the Carnival Pride Cruise. I was amazed at the lines and patterns of this bridge. It was an amazing...
The Dancing Rose
Rose Gray Scale Gives a Dancing Feel In this photograph I was looking to transform a rather dull colored photo of rose into something that conveys movement while setting a melancholy mood. This is a photograph of a red rose. Something so beautiful that requires so...