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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

03 Dec 2012 Leave a comment

by jadebellydance in Photo Challenge Tags: Bellingen, Belly Dance, Jade Belly Dance, postaday

The picture for today is not awesome in its quality (wish it were a bit better focussed!) but what I find interesting is that the reflection does not quite look like the subject and furthermore the shadow appears to be different again! It’s like a portrait of me, myself and I and we are all just slightly out of sync. It is not photo-shopped except that I took the window out of the reflection – the rest is as it was taken.

Me, Myself and I

I am fascinated by reflections and have posted several of my favourite pics on that topic in previous posts like

https://jadebellydance.com/2012/11/22/conquering-fears-what-inspires-me-to-blog/

https://jadebellydance.com/2012/03/29/weekly-photo-challenge-through/

This is a straight up photo post not my usual more informative post style because…..

Jade Belly Dance is all gearing up for the end of year concert on December 8th in Dorrigo NSW. It is sure to be a blast!

Organising the event has been taking up most of my time so posting will be a little less until next week. I just couldn’t miss this weeks photo challenge however.

Anyone else have mirror oriented belly dance photos? I would love to see them.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

20 Nov 2012 4 Comments

by jadebellydance in Belly Dance, Photo Challenge Tags: Bellingen, Belly Dance, bellydancing, green, photo challenge, photographs, pictures, postaday

Had to participate in this word press photo challenge! Jade is a shade of green after all.

So may I present my belly dance snap shots in green (+ a couple of photos of me by the talented Leigh Jensen and Bruce Thomas).

I love silk skirts

Look at that green view! Dancing in a rural area has to have some perks!

The jade shirts look a bit more blue than they are in reality.

This skirt is actually more of a teal but it looks green in the photo so I thought I would include it.

Photo by Leigh Jensen

Ok so maybe I am naturally bias about the colour green …

Green bra in the process of being altered.

Think I may have made the choreography a bit too tricky!

One of my medieval type outfits

Dendera Temple Egypt 2010

Home made costume but still pretty great – I have now made a new bra for this costume that matches the skirt and belt even better.

This costume arrived in a much brighter green than I wanted. As a result this is one of the few pictures of me wearing it.

Photo by Bruce Thomas, Photo Art by Tahnee

There were definitely fairies in this garden!

Green is also a notoriously difficult colour to get in belly dance costumes and is really hard to accessorise.

Blue seems to be a lot more forgiving when it comes to mixing different shades but I love green so much I just keep trying to find a great green outfit. I am pretty happy with my mostly home-made olive green bellynesian outfit and my new green and black custom made outfit from Egypt that I have yet to wear (the bra getting altered below is part of that ensemble) but my favourite green costume in terms of versatility, comfort, shade of green and price is the beaded green costume that I am wearing in the fairy garden below.

I hadn’t intended on most of the pictures being of me – but I don’t know many other people that wear green as much as I do!!

What’s your favourite coloured (colored) costume? Have you had trouble finding a look that is just right? Comment below.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy …. Belly Dancers

10 Oct 2012 1 Comment

by jadebellydance in Belly Dance, Photo Challenge Tags: Belly Dance, bellydancing, happy, photos, postaday

Oooh! What makes a belly dancer happy? The images I have included exclude the obvious answer of new, custom made, gorgeous costumes 😉

I even included a picture of my sister and she will never know because she doesn’t read my blog! (laughing with delight)

For those new to this gallery format (e.g. people like me!!). Just put your mouse over the images to read the captions or click on them to view ‘the bigger picture’.