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Published: 2011-05-05 03:49:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 19918; Favourites: 164; Downloads: 663
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My violin and I. Loved the lighting and couldn't resist a few pics. Gotta love the self-timer setting and using a music stand as a tripodRelated content
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One of the best photos I've seen in quite some time.
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Aww a beautiful picture, everything about it - beautiful.
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Very pretty. There is something endearingly gentle here.
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love your improvisation 
beautiful photo, great lighting
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Yeah, that would definitely be a cause for alarm! Thankfully I had a series of shots setting, so I could set it, let it take a picture of the couch, and then go without rushing. There was one time though in another set where I was shooting outside and got something inside my violin. The pictures my photographer got were hilarious because I was shaking my violin upside down with the strangest look on my face.
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yeah on my D7000 I can tell the camera to take a shot every 30 seconds or so - not that I would take pics of me like that as I ain't photogenic - but it does leave your hanbds free or without the worry of having to keep returning to the camera to set it up again. Or I have an infra red remote which I can operate from a distance.
have you been playing for a while then?
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Most definitely, yes. Both to the ease of a remote and the playing violin for a long time. I've been playing since I was 8 years old and this coming weekend I'm graduating from Stetson University with a Bachelor of Music Performance of Orchestral Instrument degree. Basically a long, fancy way of saying that I can play violin really well haha. I teach privately already and I plan to take the next year to really work on my repertoire and technique and then audition for grad schools. If I get in one with a full ride, I'll go on to grad school. If not, I'll keep teaching and audition for some orchestras.
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wow! go girl
I guess you've heard of Vanessa mae then? I had an album of hers many years ago and I really liked it. I started off on drums when I was about 10 or 11, then later progressed to keyboards, then bass, then guitar. I was pretty much self-taught as I was never a socialiser and I always felt more comfy learning new songs than being out on the town getting trashed and wasting money - I know, terribly boring!!
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I love Vanessa Mae's music. I've learned at least 3 pieces of hers by ear off the CD's I have. Violin is pretty much all I play, though I sing fairly well, was forced to learn "elementary piano" to graduate, and can play a scale on trumpet. I'm not horribly social myself, I tend to avoid fraternities, sororities and music school parties. Too much drama and idiocy. I don't mind small parties with close friends though. Those are always fun
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yeah I can relate to that! You'll usually find me living with my iphone headphones permanently stuck in my ears! I am known to listen to songs over a hundred times, learning each musical part in my head, then when you come to play them you can hum the parts in your head. But I don't sing! I used to at school as I was press ganged into being a tenor in the choir, but we always had a girl singing in the band, I was happy to hide behind the drums!
I love all genres except rap music, which does nothing for me at all! So I can listen to anything from abba to zz top, genesis to sheryl crow, rush to tori amos, jean michel jarre to vangelis, muse to simon and garfunkel... I was taught that a writer is only as good as the writing styles and words that he knows, so I had to listen to every kind of music. To this day I still can't get on with some forms of jazz, and as I say rap is just.. not good!
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I have quite an interesting range of music on my hard drive. Anything from gregorian chants to metal to classical guitar to techno, celtic music and everything in between, excluding rap. I'm just not a fan. As for singing, I wanted to double major or add it as a minor, but my violin professor is super intense (went to Moscow conservatory for violin etc etc etc) and told me it would take away from my violin practice haha. I have (or had) around a 3 octave range and could sing anywhere between alto and Soprano 1, but I'm most comfortable as Soprano 2
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ah now that must be something worldwide in these teachers! I wanted to do music at school but i couldn't choose between music or art (wasn't allowed to do both!) so I was forced to do the latter. So I guess I became a closet musician, I just loved it and still can't live without it: it takes me away somewhere. yes greg chant, I have loved Enigma from the start, back in 1991, a romanian chap I think, who combines world music samples with more western influences
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I have also always been drawn to musicians who tend to do it all themselves, as well as bands.. like this chap..
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I think my fave singers are Sharon den Adel from dutch band within Temptation, and for the guys people like Morten harket (who has - or had - about a 5 octave range!), Tom Chaplin (from keane), Jon Anderson... if the mood is right even the likes of Johnny cash and Matt Munroe!
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Haha I'm familiar with and a fan of most of those people you just named. I will admit, especially in a rigorous art or music school/program, it is hard to do both. Stetson has the 2nd best undergrad music school in the nation, but I think keeping it in the same genre with the same general studies for the major wouldn't have really thrown me off too much. Oh well, it's likely for the better seeing that in the past 4 years I've gotten sick with Tonsillitis, Laryngitis, Pharyngitis and Strep. :/
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I guess that's a subtle way of saying "stick with the violin"
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and I expect to see you doing this very soon..
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you look beautiful, as in all your pictures. great eyes and legs.
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I think the light is better (warmer) in the other picture, but I prefere this intimate pose
in every case a great serie
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You did a great job here considering especially the perfect aiming of the camera when doing self photo shoots... unless... you cropped it in a 2D program? 
...wolfie
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I did crop these photos in gimp, but not by much. You ever try to balance a camera on an uneven surface? It's exciting.
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Yep, done that, got a T-shirt, even almost dropped my camera a few times lol. That was years ago though, don't have one anymore. Very risky when you go to push the timer button and rush to position... hoping it doesn't fall from the place it's diligently balanced on LOL
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