friday
Yesterday Nancy justapostcard took me out to breakfast at Amazing and I got my favorite meal there - quiche, fruit and a blueberry scone. Afterwards we walked/rolled a distance on the bike trail. The last thing we saw before we turned around was a meadow vole hiding in the grass beside the trail. Not sure it really was a meadow vole but it seemed to be. I always enjoy seeing them - they are very common but rare to see. In the afternoon Dave, Johnny and I drove to Clarion to drop off Johnny's car so it could get inspected and undercoated. We stopped by to visit Rainy and find out exactly when we could bring her home. July 6th is The Day.
I'm wearing my new shirt that I got with Jan when our clothes were so wet on Wednesday. I really like it a lot - I should shop at the Dollar Store more often.
I'm doing research on an instant camera that I want to get. I take so many photos with my digital cameras but they all end up staying on the SD cards except for the few I post here on my LJ. I have tried to get myself to make the effort to print them but then I don't. I am imagining myself moving into a whole new mode of photography with an instant camera. Last week while I was looking through the old photos that my dad took I was thinking about the value of those old photos. He took so many photos in his back yard and of landscapes. He loved each tree and plant and the views and there were many, many photos of that - most all of them of no interest to me or to anyone else now. The only photos I was interested in were the photos he took of people. I see I am the same way. I take many photos of things that future people will not be interested in. Since I am the one with a camera around my neck most the time it would be nice if I took some photos that people in the family would actually want to look at and save. I do take photos of people with the digital camera but usually on the fly and not posed and usually not very good. I take 10 photos and get one good one if I'm lucky. Nancy was telling me how her brother Steve has a photo project where he takes portraits of people with his instant camera, gives them one photo, keeps one for himself and asks them a few questions about their hopes and dreams and then posts that on instagram. I think that is wonderful. I like that he has an end project for his photos. I am imagining a project for my photos that I want to take of family and friends. I might scan and post them them here on LJ but then I will start an album of them. Something physical and real, instead of having everything be digital all the time. And not just for people in the future but for me - I want something physical too. I haven't ordered the camera I want yet - it is kind of expensive which always makes me hesitate even though I know this is truly what I want to do.
I'm wearing my new shirt that I got with Jan when our clothes were so wet on Wednesday. I really like it a lot - I should shop at the Dollar Store more often.
I'm doing research on an instant camera that I want to get. I take so many photos with my digital cameras but they all end up staying on the SD cards except for the few I post here on my LJ. I have tried to get myself to make the effort to print them but then I don't. I am imagining myself moving into a whole new mode of photography with an instant camera. Last week while I was looking through the old photos that my dad took I was thinking about the value of those old photos. He took so many photos in his back yard and of landscapes. He loved each tree and plant and the views and there were many, many photos of that - most all of them of no interest to me or to anyone else now. The only photos I was interested in were the photos he took of people. I see I am the same way. I take many photos of things that future people will not be interested in. Since I am the one with a camera around my neck most the time it would be nice if I took some photos that people in the family would actually want to look at and save. I do take photos of people with the digital camera but usually on the fly and not posed and usually not very good. I take 10 photos and get one good one if I'm lucky. Nancy was telling me how her brother Steve has a photo project where he takes portraits of people with his instant camera, gives them one photo, keeps one for himself and asks them a few questions about their hopes and dreams and then posts that on instagram. I think that is wonderful. I like that he has an end project for his photos. I am imagining a project for my photos that I want to take of family and friends. I might scan and post them them here on LJ but then I will start an album of them. Something physical and real, instead of having everything be digital all the time. And not just for people in the future but for me - I want something physical too. I haven't ordered the camera I want yet - it is kind of expensive which always makes me hesitate even though I know this is truly what I want to do.