Today....

My feelings for today: "I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone."

*mrt*

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward..."

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

So I know it's been a while; I've been focusing my efforts on the new blog :).

BUT, I took this image the weekend I was in Marshall for Juli & Brandon's wedding, and decided that it definitely needed to be posted somewhere :).

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91

Holy shit.... there are only 91 days until our wedding... damn.

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ps: as equally as I'm shocked there are only 91 days, I'm also thinking, 'seriously, 91 days left?... it needs to freaking get here already!' [smile].

“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?” Marcus Tullius Cicero

Maike Tillen. is. employed.

“From small beginnings come great things.” -Proverb

New blog!

http://mrinaye.wordpress.com/

But I need a better catchphrase.. right now I have:
m.rinaye
photographing your family heirlooms

It will work for now, but I need help! Any suggestions?

*mrt*

"Girls flirt with the dangerous types, they don't take them home. They marry a good guy!" --Jean Grey, X2

Sneak Peak of Lizzie & Doug's session yesterday... couldn't resist... more coming soon :).

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“Computers have enabled people...."

".... to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns" -Mitch Ratcliffe
*Click on image to view larger and get the full effect.

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis

"I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert." -Demetri Martin

“There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.”

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce

"My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen." ~Pamela Anderson

Megan: What are you doing Friday?

Maike: Umm... oh yeah, shooting firefighters.

Megan: Ooh, need help?

Maike: [laugh]... ha, yeah, you want to be my bag lady?

Megan: Sure, I could help carry things for you and then be like, 'Hey firefighter, need me to carry anything for you?'

Maike: [in a girly voice] 'like your hose?'

rofl.

[photo not my own: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f119/Dana_Roxxi/01bd6292.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gigagranadahills.com/2009/09/lafd-knocks-out-omelveny-park-fire.html&usg=__LPrgzriSSovdbeHwCqhG7wm4Cgs=&h=467&w=360&sz=31&hl=en&start=3&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=QSpnaxeRKo8aXM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhot%2Bfirefighter%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1]

"Whatever good things we build end up building us." -Jim Rohn

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” -Mother Teresa quotes

This past Wednesday, I photographed an event for Gleaners Food Bank here in Indianapolis.

They are awesome, and it has been a pleasure to be able to photograph events for them.

Here are my three favorites from the event.

This one is fabulous, because there are 4 people cutting a tiny ribbon with giant scissors :). What's not to love about it! And look at their faces, all so intent on this silly traditional task. love it.

And this one I LOVE!!! All four of them are all smiley and real. Genuine. Totally dig it :).


And then the cake, with awesome lighting from Conseco guy Jay Jones :). I'm partial to it, personally, great leading lines, great flare, cool composition. They will probably not use it for anything, but dang it, I WILL display it on the blog for others to enjoy as well.

love,
*mrt*

"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion". ~ Martha Graham

“When Ruth Handler introduced Barbie in 1959, she didn't want any story attached to the doll whatsoever..."

"...because she wanted the girls to create it all out of their imaginations. Today, girls interact with story in a different way. They're used to watching television shows, they're used to having characters brought to life for them in dramatic ways.”
~Chris Byrne




*click and enlarge the picture to see the full wonderfulness of this picture :)

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"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace." -Paul Theroux

So I'm a slacker [smile].... but here are a few from Hawaii that I think are enjoyable...

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"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." -Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world." Kary Mullis

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” -Mark Twain

I think I'm hilarious :)

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~Mignon McLaughlin

"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

"The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves." -W. C. Fields

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty." -Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos is my hero [smile].

This is old, but a favorite.

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ps: I might have already uploaded this image to this blog... sorry if it's a repeat :).

Bentley---ha ha.

So here is one, because it's just hilarious. For those of you that know my puppy, he hates hates HATES putting his sweater on... but additionally will start to shiver after being outside for 2 minutes.

Here is my vindication.

*mrt*

Winter Wonders

Slacking... clearly... so here's one. Another few to come soon :).

-mrt

"Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." -Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

A self portrait.

I promise... this is like, the last proposal picture you will see.... but I love them all! So I will post this one. A self portrait on my proposal date.

love,
*maike rinaye*

“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” Sir Philip Sidney

Hawaii-on a hike down to this kick ass beach [called "hideaway beach"]. I love love LOVE this picture.

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“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein

So today get's two [let's say we're making up for not posting an image on Sunday :].

They're not exquisite, but I love them.

The day after I told my work family that I got engaged, this is the desk I came to work at.

*maike rinaye*

“A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree..."

“A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air”
-Henry Ward Beecher (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)





*maike rinaye*

Canal Photo

So this is not MY photography [smile]. But it's to cool not to post on here.

ps: My fiance' is amazing at planning surprises.

photo from Perry Reichanadter, wayneimagesblog.blogspot.com [the great fake "student photographer" we met at the canal].

"Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light "– Grey Livingston

The boyfriend... oh wait... fiance' [smile]... doesn't think that I'll be able to keep this up, every day at least... so game on!

Additionally, he wants to know what's going to happen to this blog [smile]... So I think it's appropriate that I'm up going to try to post a new picture every day until the day we're married. It will be my last hurrah as an mtillen.

In any case, here is another image that Ashley assisted me in taking.

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He Put a Ring on It!

So, on Tuesday Whit said to me that one of her friends was posting a photograph-a-day for a year, and said I should do it as well. My response was: Sounds good and I've actually thought about it before, but it's already February. She said that I should start now anyway.

So, day three :).

Best Suprise EVER!

Check it:

A photograph

This is not my best work, but it turns out, that it is really freakin difficult to take photograph of your own left hand! Who knew?!

[helpful hint: click on the photograph to see a closer view]

*mrt*

ps: better image coming tomorrow :).

New Status....

Engaged [smile]... awesome [grin].

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*maike rinaye*