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Second posting: Reaching out to you all seeing this!! I swim on april 12.

As a photojournalist, I cover issues and events that highlight others in their humanitarian efforts. But for the first time, I'm putting down the cameras and notebook, and jumping back into the water to swim laps in support of the humanitarian programs of SurfAid. This is my first time participating in a fundraiser and one that I am so excited to do! I was a competitive swimmer for nearly half my life so naturally I would splash at the chance to do something like this!

Worldwide, 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. I'm participating in Swim 4 Life to raise money and awareness for SurfAid International's life-saving programs.

Thank you, in advance for your support of me and my efforts to reduce death and suffering from preventable disease in isolated regions of the world.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Lianne

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support SurfAid International

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Travel Photographer

Here' a blog I recently discovered myself in...haaha funny. But its pretty neat to be recognized!! I was honored with a scholarship for the foundry photo workshop based on my portfolio. but alas, the small community newspaper once again has kept me from straying afar....

www.telsawy.com

ah next time. maybe this is a sign that i should become a freelance photographer once and for all!! dare, me.

5 years...

The Iraq War on its 5th anniversary and i for some reason had this song in my head. whether it holds much relevance or not. also, check out:
http://baghdadbureau.blogs.nytimes.com/
and
Bearing Witness: 5 Years of the Iraq War http://iraq.reuters.com/

david bowie. 5 years.
Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people

A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadnt a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, dont think
You knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, youre beautiful, I want you to walk

Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got

being 23

Here' a link to my second audio slideshow:
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/v2inc/mm/ss/0803at23/

hope to keep following this family but also do more audio slideshows.

sooo much to do! not enough time!

my tribute to into the wild

i just saw the movie. incredible! So i thought i post some pictures from my holga.

dunes -

seashells -

river -

accident! a photo of trees...dunno what's up with the color -

Donate!

As a photojournalist, I cover issues and events that highlight others in their humanitarian efforts. But for the first time, I'm putting down the cameras and notebook, and jumping back into the water to swim laps in support of the humanitarian programs of SurfAid. This is my first time participating in a fundraiser and one that I am so excited to do! I was a competitive swimmer for nearly half my life so naturally I would splash at the chance to do something like this!

Worldwide, 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. I'm participating in Swim 4 Life to raise money and awareness for SurfAid International's life-saving programs.

Thank you, in advance for your support of me and my efforts to reduce death and suffering from preventable disease in isolated regions of the world.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Lianne

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support SurfAid International

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The Gym

I recently began swimming again. Its been over a year since I've been surfing, and a good two yrs since i left an awesome yoga studio in Huntington Beach. I"m not trying to get fit for summer or loose weight. (I've been the same since high school some 14 years later and at the same weight that i can't break and yep i'm even confused of being a high school student at times. annoying).

i've been in the same dulldrums when i realized that i miss living at the beach very much and that my life has dramatically changed now that i live inland.

so i joined the gym to swim. its really stupid since its a crappy pool filled with old people by midday. and sometimes the locker room talk is even more stupid but luckily i'm there after the mad rush for a fitness. my incentive was swim for surf, a fundraiser for surfaid, international. i don't run, i don't do walks, or relays for life, etc. i'll contribute and support my friends, but for the first time there is something for me to help contribute. One of these days I'll make it my photographic mission to journalistically achieve a story about these islands.