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Joy Serves G*d in Joy as a passionate performing percussionist, poet, publisher, photographer, publicist, sound healer, spiritual guide, artist, gardener and Gemini. "Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" -Psalm 100:2 ....... Joy Krauthammer, active in the Jewish Renewal, Feminist, and neo-Chasidic worlds for over three decades, kabbalistically leads Jewish women's life-cycle rituals. ... Workshops, and Bands are available for all Shuls, Sisterhoods, Rosh Chodeshes, Retreats, Concerts, Conferences & Festivals. ... My kavanah/intention is that my creative expressive gifts are inspirational, uplifting and joyous. In gratitude, I love doing mitzvot/good deeds, and connecting people in joy. In the zechut/merit of Reb Shlomo Carlebach, zt'l, I mamash love to help make our universe a smaller world, one REVEALING more spiritual consciousness, connection, compassion, and chesed/lovingkindness; to make visible the Face of the Divine... VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE and enjoy all offerings.... For BOOKINGS write: joyofwisdom1 at gmail.com, leave a COMMENT below, or call me. ... "Don't Postpone Joy" bear photo montage by Joy. Click to enlarge. BlesSings, Joy

FUN FOTOS


Enjoy
 FUN FOTOS

All PHOTOS copyright by Joy Krauthammer © 
unless possibly Joy is in them.



Fun to find similar vanity auto license plates.


Thanks, Aviva, for shooting this plate for me
ALL4JOY


Fig
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 
Lots of little pieces of fig on leaves left from squirrel overhead.

Fotor: Effects/Classic/Lomo/Sunset. BorderGallery/Glassover, Tilt-Shift F 5.6, Adjust, WM/Photoshop


Lavender Lantana and 3 Friends
Garden of Joy
© Joy Krauthammer 


Painted Rose
Garden of Joy 
© Joy Krauthammer 


Palm Tree Dates
© Joy Krauthammer 
Fotor


Palm Tree 
© Joy Krauthammer 


Tunnel Slide
© Joy Krauthammer 


Takes a lot of Joy to get going in the 'Morning'. 
Photo for 52 Frames theme, "Morning".
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to ride carousels
especially with best people in your life & on their birthday!
Faye, Suzanne & Joy, Santa Monica Pier



Faye, life quard beach stand
on her birthday.
Quite a FUN feat to accomplish!
© Joy Krauthammer 


Faye and flaiming birthday candle in the wind. 
Celebrating Faye's birthday at LACMA.
Fun trying to light candle and keep it lit in the wind on carrot zucchini cake.
For decades we are museum members.
© Joy Krauthammer   2013




FUN celebrating Faye for her birthday at LACMA.
© Joy Krauthammer  2013


Joy Imitating ART
with no direction.
Aristide Maillol's "Air"
Getty Center grand staircase (roped off)


Faye, celebrating birthday at Getty Museum.
Art historian imitating ART.
I talked Faye into this pose. 2010
© Joy Krauthammer 


Artist imitating ART. 
I talked Aviva into imitating the sculpture
Getty Museum, Malibu. 2009
© Joy Krauthammer 


Young Artist. 
Fun to have daughter dress up and then
I put her photo in a paper bag, or er , was it at the zoo?
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to dress up with Aviva
Rennaisance Pleasure Faire, 1987
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun foto for me because
Aviva is wearing my dress that I'd worn 25 years earlier.
My dad, z'l, had manufactured this dress and it sold in Saks 5th Ave.

JOy 6.30.1972


Sarge the cat wears out daughter and husband.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Sarge the cat is friends with Goldie, the gold fish.
© Joy Krauthammer 

The cat grew up and moved. Now I visit by hot air balloon.
Fun challenge to create this landscape collage in PhotoShop.
The lizard lives in my garden.
Joy Krauthammer ©


Hawk sitting in my garden NOT fun.
Three hawks soar overhead
Joy Krauthammer ©


Fun to find clover growing in middle of couch in garden.
Couch became garden at home of poet, Jack Grapes.
© Joy Krauthammer 

One daisy
Henayni
© Joy Krauthammer 


Burning Bush, Sunrise
ala Moshe
© Joy Krauthammer 


Rainbow in Eastern Sunset Sky
Fun to see from my garden.
 © Joy Krauthammer 


Hands of drummer Joy remotely shot.
Hands modeled were shmeared with a secret potion to guide the way, change the world.
Which door to visionary journey and sacred sounds will these spirited hands open?

Digital alteration by © Joy Krauthammer 
posted on The Spirited Woman 


Self-Portrait of an artist
© Joy Krauthammer 


Self-Portrait of an artist
© Joy Krauthammer   10.2013


Self-Portrait of an artist
© Joy Krauthammer  11.11.2013


Artist Nancy Katz wrote on FB:
"Frost.  Not happy.  Too soon."

I respond:
My fondest fun, winter indoor memory as a child is putting my nose and mouth on my frosty upstairs bedroom window and feeling, watching as first my face stuck to the window, and then the warmth splintered and dissolved the frost leaving my facial imprint.  
Wish I'd photographed that scene through the window.

Never too 'old' to play!  
I still put my face (and hand) on a surface to see the fascinating imprint.  On a bed of nails.

Here's today's non-frosty face, and left hand on nails. No glue needed. :)
~ ~ ~


Fun to teach ceramics to young kids
Heschel Day School
© Joy Krauthammer


UNIVERSAL  PEACE  LOVE  JOY
APPROVED by Joy, Sidewalk Graffiti by Joy
MOCA - LATTE
Fun to use chopstix  in cement.
© Joy Krauthammer 


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Lisa & Joy, Lotus Festival
I'm so excited that I just rediscovered this photo. 
I drove my dear pal Lisa downtown to Echo park one Sunday about 5-7 years ago when she spontaneously said that she wanted to take a drive. I'd never been to Echo Park so we went. Lotus Festival was happening. (About 3 years ago I read that ALL the lotuses disappeared and no one knew how or why.) Lisa was amazed that I got a great parking space by driving down a 'closed' street. The same day we took a little bus tour of the neighborhood, up and down the hills. I managed to get Lisa onto the first bus, and there was a waiting list so we had a coup. We both loved the tour and had a great time, as always.
Lisa died 3 years ago, the week she turned 90. I cried like crazy. 
Together we spent most days of 25 years, walking, talking, swimming, learning.


Edith & Joy
Edith's iMac BIRTHday, 11-26-11
self portraits by hearts  :)
I like my new fun purple paper hat from Whole Foods.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun with Edith & Joy
photo booth self portraits 4X
Edith's iMac BIRTHday, 11-26-11
http://myfriendedith.blogspot.com/
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy, Shirley, tallit twins, VBS
Jan. 2011


Hot Air Elevator


Aviva, a lamp
Mass.

© Joy Krauthammer 

Aviva
Escalator, The Clink, Boston

© Joy Krauthammer 




Aviva, AHAVA sculpture by Robert Indiana,
Jerusalem, Israel 1989
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy Reflection
selfie © Joy Krauthammer 



Faye, Joy reflecting 
© Joy Krauthammer


Self-Portrait
Joy having a good time photographing herself 
at bus stop, COSTA RICA.
Reminds me of distortion mirrors at Coney Island, NY.
and MOMA sculpture exhibit.
March 2012
© Joy Krauthammer 


Self-Portrait
Joy having a good time photographing herself 
at MOMA, NY
Reminds me of distortion mirrors at Coney Island, NY.
Israeli sculptor  Aug, 2009
hot summer's day for inside a museum
See more MOMO in separate post below.
© Joy Krauthammer 


LACMA ELEVATOR
Anthropomorphic face
© Joy Krauthammer


Seashells I found on Atlantic Beach, LI
beach club and cabana time with Lilian Weissman 2009
No longer a kid, and I have great fun finding seashells.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Ceci n'est pas une cantaloupe
Is this really a fruit?
Artist Rene Magritte would say, NO.
Fun for me to carve a cantaloupe.
Got milk?
© Joy Krauthammer 


Ceci n'est pas une shin
Fun to find Hebrew letter Shin
 inside of Edith's unusual hachiya persimmon slice.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to watch friend, Edith, scroll across persimmons
peeling off entire skin in one felled curly swoop.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to find a funny tomato in Edith's garden. 
© Joy Krauthammer

52 Frames Group Cover by Joy Krauthammer  
Pleased that theme Senses shot was chosen.
© Joy Krauthammer  2.4.2014


Fun to discover a magnolia pod filled with scarlet seeds
dangling from long thin silky thread
© Joy Krauthammer 











10-10-10
Fun to take photos on days with 
repetitive numbers.
Can't wait until 11-11-11.
© Joy Krauthammer 


10-10-10
© Joy Krauthammer 

111* 
All this week in Northridge,
 it is way too hot, even if cooler than last summer.
At least we don't have humidity.
Yes, I have a purple truck!
© Joy Krauthammer 


Spider Web at home of potter Susan Felix, SF
That was fun to see.
And I didn't walk into it. 2010
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to park with my pregnant daughter in car.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Having fun on front door
© Joy Krauthammer


Wearing Aviva's t-shirt from when Aviva was one.
(Yes, I saved it.)
© Joy Krauthammer 


Bubbie Joy and Maya
2nd birthday
Selfie © Joy Krauthammer 


Joy's Purple clothes hanging to dry
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to eat ice cream in Israel, 2000

Fun to eat ice cream in Westwood, CA 2012
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to eat ice cream in Westwood, CA with friends from Vancouver, Canada.
Friendship is 52 years young with Sheila.  Spouse treated us to the yummie dessert
 after we ate (I treated) at a Gypsy restaurant, and didn't smoke their hookahs.
Choose your chocolate chip cookies: macadamia nut, walnut, peanut butter, etc. 
and the ice cream for inside.
Yum, mine is Butter Pecan, an old favorite and 1/2 the $ of my neighborhood cookie.


Fun to go back to Cunningham Park, Queens, NY playground 2 summers ago,
and find the same swing I joyously swung on more than half a century ago.
2009

Hmm, must have a thing for swings.
This summer found a swing at Poplar Animal Sanctuary, Maryland.
Larry Hample  © 2011

L'DOR V'DOR ~ 3 GENERATIONS SWING
Must run in the family: My daughter and her husband in swing land.
Don't know who to credit for this great shot.
I love it so much, it is my screensaver!

Bubbie's Baby and the Mom
© Joy Krauthammer


Joy Blowing Bubbles
by Aaron Kirsch

Fun to play for Rosh Chodeshes
and be caught in the act of drumming.
Shomrei Torah Synagogue
© Rene Cohen


Fun to receive a photo from friend when he captured me
tinkling my chimes while I play my djembe.
People hear angels in those chimes. MOS
© Mark Reden

Fun cartoon by Steve Greenberg ©
Richard Hardy, Joy Krauthammer
Alula Tzadik, Mark Bachrach
B'nai Horin
Fun to meet a cute cowboy in Sante Fe.

MAZAL TOV New Rabbi Judi Ahavah!
American Jewish University.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to meet a Good Witch and with green hair
and she reads Tarot cards.

Fun Foto of Jerusalem's peace person, Eliyahu McLean, and me,
Portland, Oregon 1999.
After this shot with us both wearing hearts, we were both
on same train to Vancouver, Canada.
Honest to goodness, Customs tore apart my purple suitcase because
I was wearing this tie dye heart dress.
I told them they did this to me because of how I looked.



Joy Krauthammer & artist Andre' Mirapolsky
In Singapore, 1991, I found this JOY t-shirt signed by Mirapolsky, hanging high in a shop.
Upon my return home to LA, Mirapolsky had an art exhibition.
I brought t-shirt with me. Mirapolsky was happy to see t-shirt and wanted to purchase it from me.
He explained to me that the design for a Japanese singing star music album cover
 was used without his permission.
Mirapolsky gave me his famous logo button, "Fear No Art".


Reb David Zeller, z"l
Fun to find my rebbe in a Jerusalem park in tie dye t-shirt, and not a suit.
Fun to find old photo filled with memories from a decade ago.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to find favorite Apple trainer Stephi with new haircut
when I returned from being AWOL for 11 months.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Love Stephanie's hairdo
fun whatever color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Stephie's purple hole
© Joy Krauthammer 


Love Stephanie's Newest Du
fun whatever vibrant color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Love Stephanie's Newest Du
fun whatever vibrant color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer  Oct. 2014


Love Stephanie's Nu Du
fun whatever color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Love Stephanie's Nu Du
Stephi's green hole
fun whatever color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Love Stephanie's Nu Du
Stephi's green hole
fun whatever color she changes into.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Stephanie in Blue
© Joy Krauthammer  1.17.2016
Usually I do not shoot portraits, but I love my friend's blue hair that used to be purple and now looks like my favorite beautiful peacock. 


Stephanie in Blue
© Joy Krauthammer  1.17.2016
Usually I do not shoot portraits, but I love my friend's blue hair that used to be purple and now looks like my favorite beautiful peacock. Color coordinated.


Stephanie in Blue
© Joy Krauthammer  2016


Ms. Peacock and Ms. Purple
selfie by Stephanie with Joy 1.17.2016


Friend's Fancy Eye
No fun
© Joy Krauthammer


Selfie
© Joy Krauthammer


Self-Portrait, Joy, mirrors, Israel
© Joy Krauthammer 



Aviva in the mirror
© Joy Krauthammer 

Joy trying on store decor.

Dancing Ladies, Sante Fe, New Mexico

Fun to dress up with daughter, Aviva, and Joy
Rennaisance Pleasure Faire, 1987


Joy, Aviva, Shelley Freedman
Fun to try on hats
& Joy now owns the purple one!
photo by shopkeeper


Joy & timbrel, Zena, Arlene
Purim fun play, Jewish Home for the Aged.
I was strawberry blond Vashti!
It's fun to dress up.
© Shira Solomon


Purim fun with Ahavat Torah
Joy Krauthammer, R. Miriam Hamrell, Julie M.
  © Hal Jaffe

JOY
When young was innocence. 1969
CA friend, Michael Sacks made clay bead necklace for me in 1969 
and brought it to me in NY when my mother, z"l, died. Still treasured. 
© Michael D'Angelo


Fun dress I designed and sewed for my pregnancy decades ago.
I used to weave, design and sew...
I had even ironed.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Matisse views orange hat, LACMA
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to do mud baths
and sit in a cave
even if not in the Dead Sea.
dressing down

Fun to find sensual fountains in Sante Fe
as sensual as this woman.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to find a violin on the ground in a State Park
next to a red wagon and Barbies.
(I never left my (grandfather's) violin on the ground!)
© Joy Krauthammer 

Berimbau, Brazilian single stringed instrument
James Word, TaKeTiNa musician
Met James and Natalie, leaders 
of workshop held at REMO.
I was happy when they let me try the string, stick, stone & gourd.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to compare surgery knees
for not fun surgery.
Arthroscopy on one, replacement on others.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Sarah's Tent Feet
The Beggars

© Joy Krauthammer 

Rose Parade 2013, Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA
Tuvan wrestler in cold 40* with upturned Tuvan shoes.
(Guess this is warmer than Siberia.)
© Joy Krauthammer 


Karen's knitted sock
oops, wrong size
© Joy Krauthammer 


Karen spins yarn and weaves
Fun gorgeous colors
© Joy Krauthammer 


Yoga mats in happy colors
Wagner Women Weekend
© Joy Krauthammer 


Purple towels bring me joy at Shuli's home, SF.
© Joy Krauthammer


Bear and baby filled with focused attention on what is important
Where to Focus Love and Passion?
Sometimes (like Mama Bear) blinded by one's own life.
Sometimes need glasses to focus.
© Joy Krauthammer 
BABY BEAR is focusing on what’s important, holding a SHIN button that stands for G*D, and quiet, shh, 
Other visible buttons I've collected include:
FEAR NO ART © Andre Miropolsky--MAKE MY DAY--WOMAN OF POWER--LOVE CAREFULLY--I AM LOVED--THE ARTS IN LIFE--LA JEWISH ARTS FESTIVAL--LA WALK FESTIVAL--CAL ARTS, ETC. 

Purple Hippie Angel Bear
I bought bear in bear store and bought tie dye angel outfit for bear!
Example of 'panning' motion that I'd never before tried.
spinning bear and spinning Joy in unison
© Joy Krauthammer 


Purple Hippie Angel Joy Bear
As the Bear Spins
© Joy Krauthammer 


Stage Debut of Purple Hippie Angel Bear
example of 'panning' motion
© Joy Krauthammer 


Always fun to find JOY.
This poster was in Harvard Yard, Cambridge.
I visited daughter Aviva.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Remember: DON'T POSTPONE JOY
This is title of series of classes that I offer.
Montage by Joy
Sits in my family room.
A teenage friend had given this bear to me when my husband, z'l was ill.
Friend, Caroline Epstein Blatman gave me the t-shirt. I keep shirt on my rocking chair.
I introduced Caroline to husband Dick.  Caroline, z"l, died Nov. 2012.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Double Joy not postponed.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Don't Postpone Joy
timbrel needlepoint by Caroline Epstein Blatman
(Caroline's first needlework & gift to Joy in favorite color!)
© Joy Krauthammer 


"JOY DIVISION    UNKNOWN PLEASURES"
Fun with friends in Pho and fest in Pomona, AMOCA museum, & trolley, Aug 10, 2013
© Joy Krauthammer 


BIG - JOY store
Venice Beach
© Joy Krauthammer 

JOY store, Israel
by Aviva Bell

fun to see JOY stores
JOY'S store, San Francisco

CAR JOY
Carolyn's car.
Shot this plate at the AMOCA museum ceramics opening around midnight
with Charles, Lisa, Susan, Carolyn... Patrick Crabb and lots of great potters


Fun at Lois & Bob's purple anniversary gathering, Malibu
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy =  purple balloons, Ziona's simcha, Maryland


Joy self-portrait with Suzanne = 
Pink soled sneakers & Pink shoe laces
Fun to see a friend also with similar pink soles
visiting Pink cherry blossoms, Lake Balboa
© Joy Krauthammer 
(Sad that Suzanne died 2016. I miss her at all the places where together we played.)


Fun to wear purple sneakers in sukkah and play percussion
Joy self-portrait
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy self-portrait = Purple sneakers & Red shoe laces
Fun to wear purple sneakers to LACMA
© Joy Krauthammer 


Purple Birkenstocks
Fun to wear purple Birks and socks to LACMA
Chinese Tzao collection
Selfie © Joy Krauthammer  12.4.2016


Joy self-portrait = Purple sneakers & Red shoe laces
Fun to wear purple sneakers to LACMA
Samurai and Archibald Motley exhibits
What is strange about this scene?
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy Self-portrait = Purple Designer Socks & Purple Pants
sun shining on N. bench turns purple socks PINK.
Fun to wear new purple socks (from sister) to LACMA
Alexander Calder and James Turrell exhibits
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy Self-portrait = Purple Birks & Purple Designer Socks & Purple Pants

Fun to wear new purple socks (from sister) to LACMA
Alexander Calder and James Turrell exhibits
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy self-portrait = Purple sneakers & Red shoe laces
Fun to wear new purple sneaker shoes to LACMA
Surrealist Women's exhibit
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy self-portrait = Pink soled sneakers & Pink shoe laces
Fun to wear new pink soled sneakers to LACMA
Luba exhibit and Metropolis trains
sometimes it's more fun outside the exhibit, than in.
© Joy Krauthammer 



Joy Self-portrait = Purple sneakers & Red shoe laces & Purple Capris
Fun to wear new pink soled sneakers to LACMA
Carravaggio exhibit & Ken Price
sometimes it's more fun outside the exhibit than in.
© Joy Krauthammer 



Joy self-portrait = Purple Birkenstocks and Capris
LACMA, Mattise with Faye
© Joy Krauthammer 


Faye, LACMA Escalator
© Joy Krauthammer 

Most FUN for me to DRUM



Really fun for me to play drums
at MOCA's Art In The Streets exhibit.
Stephanie Buffington ©


Really fun for me to play drums
at MOCA's Art In The Streets exhibit. 2
Stephanie Buffington ©


Fun on a bucket drum
& in a star lit studio 
Reisa Hannig ©


Fun to play outside on the grass.
The Goddess tent I was scheduled to play Sounds of Joy 
was too close to another stage at the Women's Music Fest
so I moved outside to the grass for sound healing
on my Tibetan singing bowls.

Fun and joy ("not postponed")
for me to get dressed for Purim and perform for seniors.
I am Queen Esther with my gong getting the attention of the king.

Purim fun?  Not quite Miriyahm HaNeviah
and famous drummer aka Steve Hirsh.
I sewed those belly dance pants.


Fun to rent a camel for a few days in the blistering hot Sahara dessert, Morocco 
on my 50th birthday.
Camels and I all carry water.


Camel in Israel 1989
© Joy Krauthammer 


Goat Greeting Me
Brandeis-Bardin
Joyous Nature Photo Walk
© Joy Krauthammer  1.25.2015  


Sweet face at the Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary, Maryland
© Joy Krauthammer 
"JOY DIVISION    UNKNOWN PLEASURES"
Fun with friends in Pomona, Amoca, trolley, Pho & fest Aug 10, 2013

Sweet face
 at Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary, Maryland 2011
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to see
Wild Baby Bunny in my CA back yard, 2012
(twice the size in 2013 @ 6am)
and bigger yet in 2014 in my front yard at 7am and 5pm.
© Joy Krauthammer 


3 Dogs & Cat travel in Stroller
Lincoln Center N.Y. concert outdoors
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to travel in trolley and no know where you are going.
Pomona Art District
© Joy Krauthammer


Not something specifically 'fun' about the Passion Fruit flower.
But it is shockingly fascinating in its intricate beingness.
Joy's Garden
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun to see the buzzing bee caught in the foto.
Early morning red poppies in Edith's glorious garden.
© Joy Krauthammer  


Faye's Phaelenopsis
She's such a good plant mama.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy's purple bearded iris in garden
fun looking like tongue and tonsils
© Joy Krauthammer 


Joy at "Urban Light" installation by Chris Burden
Fun to ask a stranger to take your photo at a fun spot, LACMA,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard,
and it turns out he is a fantastic famous photographer, William Storage.
Fun to find lamp posts at LACMA
and alter the color to favorite purple.
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer 
Fun to watch others photograph tall lamp posts
and to see the shadows on ground.
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer. 
Fun to watch others photograph themselves 
at tall lamp posts at night.
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to see others at tall lampposts at night. 
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to see others in bridal clothes 
at tall lampposts at night.
"Urban Light" by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to see the LACMA lampposts rising high up on Wilshire Boulevard. 
"Urban Light" installation by Chris Burden
© Joy Krauthammer


LACMA lampposts rising high up on Wilshire Boulevard. 
"Urban Light" installation by Chris Burden
Purple night
© Joy Krauthammer


Lamps of Fashion
Alternative 52 Frames - Fashion
 © Joy Krauthammer 



Selfie Shadow © Joy Krauthammer 


Selfie Shadow © Joy Krauthammer 
Paolo Solari bell on far left, Wind chimes, Joy's macrame.


Selfie Shadow © Joy Krauthammer 


Selfie Shadow © Joy Krauthammer 

Fun to see Carole Foley in purple.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Rina Daly revealed behind Joy's lulav palm tree frond
© Joy Krauthammer



Edith's 90th Birthday
© Joy Krauthammer 


Floral Creation by Ashley
© Joy Krauthammer 


Rebbetzin Tzippy Rivkin and Mendel's upshernish
Northridge Chabad

Fun to take a snip from 3 years of growing boy hair.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Fun for me to shoot the 3rd birthday simcha of Toba R,
my Northridge Chabad rabbi and rebbetzin's daughter,
with some of her siblings and her maternal grandma.
Mazal Tov
Simcha was prior to Erev Shabbat, and Toba lit candles
and we gave tzedakah.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Chabad Porter Ranch new Torah Simcha
Fun to dance at Rinaldi and Wilbur streets

© Joy Krauthammer 


Chabad Northridge new Torah Dedication Simcha
Fun to dance on Devonshire Street

composite © Joy Krauthammer 


Sarah's Tent friends eating in elevator. We always eat! Laugh & Cry.
L>R Savina Teubal, Rabbi Judith HaLevy, 
Jane Goldberg, Fay Levoy, Judith Sommerstein
© Joy Krauthammer 


Sarah's Tents friends at Kallah
before we were 'grey'.
Fun to see foto 15 years later at our Reunion Retreat.
L>R Joy, Fay, AriellaShira & Lois


Hospital Elevator door
© Joy Krauthammer 


Red Door and Knob
© Joy Krauthammer 


Fun palm-sized strawberries, both gifts to me. 
Thanks Edith.    Thanks Aviva & Brett for the chocolate nuts berries.
I shared them!
You all know what I love!
© Joy Krauthammer 


Heart-Shaped Cherimoyah
© Joy Krauthammer


Fun to Float Flowers

Floating Flowers

© Joy Krauthammer
Flower Floating

© Joy Krauthammer

 More: http://joys-fun-fotos.blogspot.com/2012/05/water-ripples.html

Fun to see Hibiscus and Cosmos flowers floating in friend Edith's pool.
A surprise also to find my water photos in a book by friend's granddaughter.
© Joy Krauthammer 

It was so inspiring to watch floating flowers that I made a movie and a Trailer with them:

ENJOY
RIPPLE REFLECTIONS #2 TRAILER  1 minute

RIPPLE REFLECTIONS #2 With Joy  9 minutes
(and on VIMEO)



Stairs, Down
Fun to look down from top of staircase
while doing a mitzvah for someone, and see this angular view,
and then to get photo published on cover of poetry journal.
© Joy Krauthammer 

Stairs, Up
Fun to look up Getty stairs.
I love repeat patterns.
© Joy Krauthammer 


Stairs, LAMCA
Looking back on way to "Urban Light"
© Joy Krauthammer 


Stairs, Smoke
Looking back on way to "Urban Light" and Caravaggio
Tony Smith's, "Smoke", painted aluminum installation 2005
Ahmanson Building, Atrium, LACMA, L.A County Museum of Art, CA
© Joy Krauthammer




Stairs, Smoke & Suzanne 
Suzanne on way to "Urban Light" and Caravaggio
Tony Smith's, "Smoke", painted aluminum installation 2005
Ahmanson Building, Atrium, LACMA, LA County Museum of Art, CA
© Joy Krauthammer



Stairs, Up
Smithsonian Museum, DC



So much fun to create 150 Finger Puppets Flames
and share with Lev Eisha congregation on my birthday,
as they wave them while I chant Torah Parsha BaHa'alotecha for my
Simchat Chochmah celebration.I offered sparkle lotion to friends to also put on face to be a
sparkly flame as part of the Temple Menorah.

Not really fun, but outrageous to see this watch reduced for sale
during closing of a store in Cambridge, MA.

Joy Krauthammer's Jewish-Themed License Plates Pictured in LA Press
Truly fun for me to be creating this License plate series for many years/decades. 
Stories were published about my passion for recording Jewish culture
in shooting these Jewish themed personalized vanity auto plates.
I have hundreds of similar photos. Anyone want a Jewish museum show?


FEEL THE LOVE
Maryland at night 2011
© Joy Krauthammer 


LOVE
New York in day 2009
© Joy Krauthammer 
AHAVA / LOVE
Jerusalem, 2000
© Joy Krauthammer 

ALL WE NEED IS LOVE, LOVE
Costa Rica airport
LOVE Collage 2012 

© Joy Krauthammer 

AHAVAH / LOVE
California
© Joy Krauthammer 


© Joy Krauthammer 


All PHOTOS by Joy Krauthammer © unless Joy is in them.
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5 comments:

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  2. PURPLE SNEAKERS
    Heckuva color, Joy. Luv it.
    Joyous Purim, Cuz.
    Love
    Bruce

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  3. PURPLE SNEAKERS

    Dear Joy,
    You take the cake!!!
    Love, Gloria

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  4. Joy
    you are soooo talented...
    it is a joy to view your photos & delight in many shared moments...here, there & in Israel...
    XO
    Lois

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  5. Had fun with fun photos....loved them all...loved the plant growing out of the couch....loved your amazing spirit shining through.
    You are really beautiful....(also recognized the playground swing in Queens.) Thanks for including me.
    Love,
    Suzanne

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Hi,
Welcome to my FUN PHOTOS.
There is so much humor in life and if possible, I love to capture and share it.
BlesSings for beauty, humor and joy,
Joy