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In all my talk about photography I forgot abut the virus. I'm sure some people would love to get away from it and delve into something else. But concerning the virus, if I had a kid, I would not want him to attend school this fall. I would rather him or her would go online. I know, no socialization but nature has built in socialization. You know when you like someone, they just are not being with all the others, which is probably just as important. They have got the computer and it's camera, but going somewhere where there is strict social distancing for conversation would be nice. Young kids need this far more than married adults. Everything is new. Love to compare notes with their frends and group. As for the virus. I don't know what route they are taking. Because without a vacine (which I am scared of) no matter how much you get the virus to go down, it is so infective, it will just spring back up. I heard another idea a few months ago talking about letting it come in waves, and then backing up, so the people who get sick on a succesive wave will have room in a hospital and equipment. This probably would work but sounds as it sounds - horrible way to kill this. I don't like vacines because this is all being done so fast. By my own age group. And everyone is going to get it. I'd almost prefer a dead version rather than a weakened strain. But today maybe it is genetically altered. And I'm sure the virus is natural from bats. I have to say it.
We can come together. What is everyone afraid of? Less money? Less job preference? Less credit for accomplishments? Life is built on everything, it is built on all types. Hopefully we stand together against this virus. Because that is the enemy. We are walled from much of life, but it bore us and you can't always be on top of life. Hopefully we get around it. So far that is what I feel. I wear a mask when I go out unless I forget to put it on, which is easy to do when you have been home and free from it. I keep it in my purse. It is hard to keep breathing through it though, for me. But I am sensitive to carbon. I guess the fall scare may not be as much because in the top heat of summer the virus shot up again when people started getting together again.
I think the butterflies need work but I just don't have the time yet. My back went out. See what it looks like in the morning.
Summer tilt time. Mirror reverse. So reflected in macros. Brown things. Fields reflect every ongoing change, every summer moment. You can pinpoint the month just by looking at them. Bees bad humor. Flowers not pristiene condition. Bugs back up and leave after one shot. But some insects have mated and have time to play. Dragons move their heads just as shutter trips or they get into the game and alight everywhere giving me more poses, and they wait there, letting me take pics!!!!
They know I think they are beautiful. So different than in early summer when only fatique or curosity let them stay for a minute or two. The dam deer have antlers. Thought of taking a temp photo setup in the field but my first attempt didn't work. Could not get bug in cup, but got head shot in grass. You have to start dealing with hunters too, depending on where you are. I don't go back and wear red.
I am so tired, I’m working more and more, filling in for other people. I don’t want it to make me more tired and more tired. My heart can not take much more.
I was sitting in the guardhouse Sunday (my job). No one was there and I saw a leaf fall - no big deal now, but it fluttered, so I kept watching. Was it a butterfly or a leaf? It spread and glided down and landed spread and did not move. So I went to see. The biggest moth I have ever seen!! Tan, with eyes! He was dying and did not move much, there on the hot sand, in the sun, he was by a tree - short of the shade but camouflaged. So I took him in, hoping to get a picture at home. He wasn’t going to move and I extended his life then. It was a moth, not a butterfly and the closest I could think was “Buckeye Moth.” Years ago I shot one Buckeye Butterfly. At home I looked under “Buckeye Moth,” (images) and found a Polyphemus Moth which matched the wing design. This is it, or the closest I can come. They do die at the end of summer, are gluttonous caterpillars (what caterpillar is not) and go on to several metamorphoses to become this huge moth which can fly miles and miles to find a mate. So he has had a good life and I hope made many babies! So he was a still subject and I could take indoors…which I have none studio set up for. I’m happy that 100% of my insect shots are in the wild, living, and go on living after I have taken the shot. I even thank some! :) But I do think studio set-up shots are the very best to display an insect in a photographic setting. Even if the insect looks less than living. I’d like to try some of these shots. I wish there was some way to quickly set up in the field, but perhaps the insect will not settle down and looks strained. I will not pinch. I don’t know about the extra equipment involved. There is not much on Internet about temporary set up for taking insect pictures in the field. Inside studios are a big jump to get started in (I guess) and I haven’t had the time for study. I like my field insect shots. Finding and figuring out how to shoot it and stalking, bowing, or what ever it takes to get in to the picture! Everything is brand new and anything can happen. But the inside shots stand up the best. The outside shots can be finer in composition and display, but mostly do not stand out as much. Not to mention the constant hang-ups of background, stance, scaring, wind, and lugging equipment that the field shooting always has…not to mention deer. A net, glass jars, labels, seem fetching, and you could always let it go after the home shot, in the place you found it.
A very beautiful huge moth! This summer I hung a sheet and light up one night and got 1 medium moth all night. I guess I live in the wrong place, time, etc. I tried after a rain. One guy on internet had his sheet covered with moths of all shapes, color patterns, and sizes. Probably well south of here. So I’m very happy to happen on this.
Here’s my photo… I used, I guess, a little known Photoshop tool called Depth Of Field Blending. It is the stacking and blending of same separate photos with the focus point at different depth of field points for each photo. Like foreground, mid ground, and background. It combines all the best focused areas into one picture, which has better focus all throughout it. It works better if you give it more photos with more depths in focus than I did. I just used three different focus distances in three photos. The wing span, for scale, was 5+” across! It was a big beautiful moth!
RED DRAGON RED LEAF
IT’S COOLER, NIGHTS ARE COOL - STILL SUNNY IN THE DAY. I WALKED MY OLD WALK AND THERE WERE NO BUGS. THE FLOWERS THIS YEAR JUST HAVE GONE CRAP. I TRY TO FIND SOMETHING IN WILT AND LOOK. LAST YEAR THERE WERE MORE, IN THE SAME PLACE. MAYBE THE WEATHER OR HAVE BEEN RIPPED OUT. MY RED DRAGON WAS NOT THERE. I KNOW HE IS THERE. I’D LIKE TO GATHER THEM UP IN MY ARMS TO GET THEM WARM, BUT THEY WOULD DIE ANYWAY. THEY HAVE SUCH AN HONOR TO LIFE, IT’S AN HONOR, THEY HONOR TO DIE. BUT SURPRISINGLY I FOUND ANOTHER PREYING MANTIS ! (I NEVER THINK I WILL BECAUSE CAN’T REALLY LOOK FOR THEM, ONLY WONDERFULLY SURPRISED WHEN YOU SEE ONE.) A BEAUTIFUL GREEN FEMALE ON PERFECT YELLOW GOLDENROD. SHE WAS COLD, COULDN’T MOVE, THE MORNING WAS STILL AND DEW COVERED HER BACK. THEN AT ANOTHER SPOT THERE WAS A TOAD WHICH LET ME GET CLOSE. BUT NOTHING ELSE. I’VE BEEN TURNING TO LANDSCAPES. I PARKED OFF THE ROAD AND THIS GIRL CAME UP ON BICYCLE SAYING “WHY ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES OF MY LAND?” WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? IF YOU ARE PHYSICALLY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY YOU CAN TAKE PICS OF ANYTHING (WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS), ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE AREAS. IF YOU ARE ON PRIVATE LAND YOU HAVE TO ASK. I WENT ON AND CAME CLOSE TO A BETTER LANDSCAPE. NO MATTER WHAT LANDSCAPE I TAKE IN FUTURE I WILL ALWAYS FOCUS STACK. I REALLY NEED TO SEE A BLOWUP OF THE PICTURE, NOT THE VIEW SCREEN, WITHOUT THE DAYLIGHT GLARE, WHILE TAKING PICTURES. TWO MATING PREYING MANTIS WERE IN SHALLOW DEPTH, BUT NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS SHOULD. I COULDN'T SEE. I’VE BEEN CHECKING EVERYTHING ELSE. I GUESS I’M TOO PRESSURED AT MY ONE CHANCE TO PHOTO A PREYING MANTIS! THIS SUMMER I’VE KEPT UP WITH FOLDERS PRETTY GOOD AND HAVE MADE BETTER PROGRESS ON INDEXING. I WATCHED THE 9/11 SHOWS. I WAS IN NEW YORK TWICE. I WISH I HAD GONE UP ONE OF THE TOWERS. I MISS THE PEOPLE, THEY TALK LIKE MY PARENTS. PART OF ME LIVES THERE.
WELL HAVEN’T BUMPED INTO ONE STAG YET. LANDSCAPES, SO FAR ARE SAFER. WANTED TO PUT MY RED DRAGON’S PIC ON HERE. THEY SPEAK, MOTHER, SMILE, PLAY, COMMUNICATE! AND THEN GO OFF. LOOKING FOR FROST, BUT I WILL PROBABLY MISS IT WORKING. WHY JUST LOOK FOR FLOWERS??? FALL FEELS GOOD. LOOKING FORWARD TO FALL LANDSCAPES. AND THEN IT IS A REST UNLESS SNOW PICS. FALL FEELS NICE:)
here's my red dragon...
Killed myself trying to get landscapes. And I did get some, kind of bushy but some were good. Got house problems, but I trying to take care of them, but not before I get my indexing done. That has been going. But I got the garage door fixed, the drip is fixed and the roof has been power washed. But now there is more. This afternoon I white washed portions of the house outside. I held off with stuff this year because I'm just getting sick of doing it and I want to photo. It's either extra work or yard work. I'm tired, why don't I have the money to pay for all of it? Others do. But the leaves have not started yet. It's kind of silvery out. Boy, nothing gets you to clean up the house than someone coming over. It's amazing how quick. My inside suffers from not having a good income. Things are around so they can be jury helped if needed, rather than pay for it. But in places just one layer, so I can clean it up quick. I wish I had an income I could lean on and not have to have these things all the time. I have always horded clothes because of income. What a luxrey to have a good income and be assured of being able to get good clothes when you needed them. There is a pile, and I mean a pile of spare clothes in my bedroom. I havent had an impulse to draw. Makes me sad, I hope it is not gone forever. I have not had time to get a drawing in here yet. Looking a bit blank.
TUNA FISH CASSEROLE
COOK GOOD NOODLES ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS
MIX IN A BAKING CASSEROLE DISH...
REGULAR CAN OR POUCH OF TUNA FISH - DRAIN FIRST - CRUMBLE
ADD CAN OF CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP
ADD CHOPPED ONION AND CHOPPED GREEN PEPPER
CAN ADD SMALL CAN OF MUSHROOM PIECES
SALT & PEPPER
MIX
POUR ENOUGH MILK OVER TO JUST COVER OR IF WANT A BIT LESS
DOT WITH BUTTER
BAKE 350 DEGREES F 1/2 HOUR OR IF WANT UNTILL TOP STARTS TO BROWN CRISP
This is the homemade version. Look on Internet for others. If you don't want to go into all that, just get this stuff and mix up. I make my own version according to my dietary restrictions. It's good! Real comfort food!
All I want is to be warm.
Wow what a WONDERFUL day of landscapes and then it dumped everything! I couldn't see anything!
Well I did get my landscapes and with the next day a laying deer...the morning after the big field party. Deer were in every field! Groups of them! I went the last landscape by my house and there were deer in that field too! I backed out and in rearview mirror deer were running across the road from the houses! Almost hit a jogger! Now that I may be safer from them I feel sorry that they have to share such tight spacing with us. Hope I catch a frost this year. There is a white moth or butterfly that hangs outside and gets frosted somewhere. It is unbelieveable - I saw on television but I didn't catch where, I was so busy looking at the photo. I want to get that shot - it is so beautiful! My frostings are mainly foliage and one grasshopper and flowers. Never tight enough frost for me.
Went down some trails I haven't been - mainly because deer were not there. This is a park so it's bigger. I got landscapes in parks and roadside. Trying to dodge hunters. I look weird. The only thing I have to wear is my dad's red checked wool hunting coat and a red and white spandex top for a hat. (Red is not me.) Does the trick. Red is not deer. This time I had to pee so bad I locked myself out of the car and had to call a locksmith. My camera was laying in the car and If I had not parked under a tree I would have been in trouble. But everything was okay and the sun was still not too hot before the car was unlocked and the front seat was in shade. I wish I had a combination lock on car, but mine is too old for that.
Beautiful out - kind of windy as time went on so I set my ISO & shutter higher and took advantage of the fact that farther subjectmatter does not pick up as much motion. Foreground elements had to be focus stacked and waited on for lulls. You should wait for lulls and I did mostly. If there are any, and there were this time. This dark moth picutre was just some days ago.
I have been enjoying this because I know it will get cold. I have been enjoying fall more this year! Also been keeping up with falling leaves and service appointments on the house. Probably the last picture of an insect I will get this year. I've been fooling around with my cell phone and taking movie clips.
Photoshop's new tool to make sure an image is genuine and not had any editing done to it. I hope this is seen as another tool to have in it's tool belt and not a trend. What would the average photographer do withont editing? It's great for someone who needs to have 100% non edited work - but even then a photo might need to be cropped or resized. Not to mention raw photos need sharpening. Not to mention Tif and Jpeg files are already edited a bit when they are formed in the camera and you can't change that.
But what of the Photographer who wants to display images for their esthetic value? Editing is the mainstream reason for that. Editing can bring out the idea of the photograph! It is a far between photograph that does not need a touch up or two. Sometimes more. I hope Photoshop is not starting to say, camera pictures must stand alone without editing to be considered for anything. I'm sure they are not. This is why...
Sure there is photographic material around everywhere. Some subject matter, though, does not grow on trees most places. If you are into Landscapes, Cityscapes, Seascapes, Rivers, Farms, Barns etc... If you want to mostly take a photo of only the real subject matter before you, you need to travel to it. The rest of photography mostly contains more heavy editing or studio work (which probably has less editing.) But National Geographic or the main camera companies use and display flawless subject matter to advertize cameras and teach. They use photographic models, who fit perfectly displayed into a photograph. (They recede.) Not many people know photographic models or can afford to travel to these specific places or set up these specific photographic enviornements. Or even know about them. I think the "top" photographers have spotters all around the world and get sent all around the world to get these top photographs. (Meaning photos needing little, if no editing and are perfect compositions - just take the shot. These sites are not infinite.) Something the average person would have trouble paying for, let alone know where these specific places were.
In my experience, and probably yours too, there is the area around where you live. Maybe a 30 mile radius. And you know where there are a few sites that take a good picture. For better subject matter than that the incidence falls into the 100-200 mile radius. With this radius you may fine more good image subject matter and one or two excellent shots needing less editing. This goes on. If you want the perfectly top notch sites, you must go world wide and they do not grow on trees. And it costs money to get there. If you want fresh, better subject matter around you, you have to drive out further in your area. Running down your car, and even then you don't know where these better sites are and you have to keep driving and driving, hoping to come across something! Unless someone tips you off. (I'm now talking about taking a photo of real subject matter, not making it up.) These better images don't grow on trees. By driving further out you may run into more better pictures and one or two excellent ones. (All without any PS retouching...depending on the weather.) Nat Geo photographers probably get to the sites (at the best time of year) and then wait for perfect weather or light conditions!) If the search area expands to all around the world, then there are a few top notch sites that are creative, new and occur normally with little editing needed. None of these better photographic sites can be gotten to by you because of lack of money and not knowing where they are. So the National Geographic photographers get all the honors for the best photos?
So my jest of this is you want to take top notch photos also. You naturally take the pictures you can get around you and edit the kinks out to make the picture sing. You can get better professional pictures that way. Also on the plus side for you are conditions outside...weather, lighting, seasons are always in a state of flux. The images in front of you are always fresh. You can sometimes snag a great creative local shot just as it stands at the moment. But editing is key sometimes. That is why I think this new Photoshop tool is more for subject matter that needs to be untouched...crime scenes, medical photography, fossils. I think that is just what this is for. I'm very tired and this passage is probably loopy. I have no more time to write, I'm going to sleep. But outside photo opportunities of specific sites are a pain because you grow out of them, in time, taking so many pictures of them. That is part of the reason I got into macro photography. It has far more subjectmatter right under your feet.
But in some instances edited (fake) photos are just the thing! What if you want to darken a sky or take a foreground branch out of a landscape shot- it is just the right thing to make a composition whole! A photograph becomes a work of art! Just what you would choose if it was standing infront of you 100%! These perfect compositions live in your head-it reflects you. So what if some of your pictures need a bit of editing to bring them out. You can't always fly around the world to find a few flawless landscapes in perfect light, so that you have only that one picture accredited to you because it is not a "fake" with no after editing!
But again, I'm sure that this is just a well thought out new tool in Photoshop that will help some photographers very much with verifying unbelivable grab shots and others where genuine, non-edited photos are required. And I have left out people who heavly edit their photos or make up new images entirely from scratch, or use technique, movie stills, or studio to make photographs. I just used landscapes to get a point across. When I see all the new stuff in Photoshop now it blows my mind!
And another foot note. I have been driving or walking around for years looking for photos. It is not in my mind, I have seen too many instances of planted, parked or removed elements in landscapes. Something that would mar a perfect scene. Why do pepole do this? Because they hate art. Because they either hate the people doing it or want to get in it also but think it is not their place. I believe it is their place and we have many more artists in the generations alive now than we did. It is not a only one top person! We need you, who want to get in, but think it is not their place! I believe everyone who is sensibly serious is equal in fine art. History needs YOU! It really does! Have fun!
I woke up and couln't walk or barely walk for pain. My hip, the last thing I thought would go is a hip! I never fell. I could walk, but had to limp. I couldn't stay off it due to leaves and work! I made mental notes day by day and the pain did shift and make like it was trying to heal, but I was not letting it. So it began not being much better the next day. The pain left to other areas of the hip and back. It is really not my hip, but the leg socket. The pain was there for weeks. No kidding I did not fall, twist, misstep, bump, hit it or anything. The only thing I can think is it is winter, I'm getting any younger and I've had years of walking down trails looking for photos, lugging a camera, camera case, and tripod in steel toed boots. I also walk spradically at work and I'm always doing yard and house work. It's not just the lugging, it's the taking of pictures. The camera can't fall and the tripod has to be set up just right and fast if it's live creatures. It's even more taxing than carrying! And this is 100% of the time, no breaks. Yesterday I walked way better, even climbed stairs without anything! So I hope I keep improving, since there is nothing else to write about!
Dark brown cloud wheel
Falcon attacks hawk bunches sky
Sun peeks
Leaves Fall
...Sleep
Croucing Grey Gail stings
Winter has come
* BROWN SUGAR MEASURE
When you measure brown sugar for a recipie, don't just pile it in a measuring cup. You must take the back of a spoon and pack it down, and add more and pack that until the packed level is that measure. Brown sugar measure is different. And there is always dark brown sugar! BAKING TIP FOR TURKEY DAY!
Depressed. No one really cares if I know about medium format photography around here. You have to see it before you. They could care less. They could care less, I'm nobody, I need to talk to someone. And boy, pass the buck. My art came back. I'm drawing. That's good!
Well Santa froz his buns off this time. He does live at the North Pole. I'm sure Mrs Claus reminded him to wear double long johns. I has an okay Christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I've got something. Do you ever dream that you stole, missed the test, being chased by someone or something, lied, lost your job, or were going to jail because you had broke the law. You wake up and are So relieved that it was JUST A DREAM, and it takes you time to lose all the fear. And you got out of it! Then, in back you worry that you really are a criminal, because you dream this. You really want it. You don't like the law. I have an opinion. I think underlyingly that something else is going on. We live our whole lives to pre thought out rules and regulations. This is probably how we had to evolve. It's normal. It's healthy. That is not the problem. The problem is that it is 100% our whole lives. Before we evolved we were some sort of small mammal. An animal. Well they get on like nothing else. They don't hesitate or worry about when they have to steal, fight, decieve, or, if have to when it comes to it, kill. Nothing is wrong about that in their world. They flow through their lives. It's healthy. They don't worry much. This is healthy for them. I guess most life is like that. We make rules which get in the way of that flow. We get by with rules and live very well like this, but I believe sometimes our rule centered life gets in our way, our mammal root way. So ingeniously our body gives us dreams inwhich these rules go out the window and we can flow. We can run away from the monster. We can drop the test. We can steal, commit crimes and get away with it. This dream allows to get this flow side of things under your hood again. These dreams get your mammal root flow balanced inside you. You wake up and are so relieved that it was just a dream. But really your washed clean. Your distant behavior, that is also healthy is now free inside you and your can go on living in the human world of structure that we love. We are happy and healthy in this rule world. But we can't 100% turn our back on our distant past. So I don't worry about some of my dreams. I just thank my distant mammal relatives for coming up with a renewing health adjustment! Because I want to go on living like I do. Sometimes there can be too many rules, and we can fix that, but generaly basic rules are our human flow at this point. Around my generation.
Here is another version of poem above! I didn't go to sleep!
Dark brown clouds wheel fall / geese and muted color
Crow attack falcon
Rivits in my head
Sleep
Sun peeps and Bluebirds come
Crouch in blue gale
Sting
Winter comes
I've been out trying to take pictures, but I lost the virgin morning to work. So it was ice and ice with snow. I wished I could have gotten paid for these two days I was stomping, it was two eight hour days! And the landscape results were stretched. Cold but not as cold as it could have been. Don't forget mittens. I have these finger out ones. Now work is building up at home. I wish I didn't have to have a job sometimes. I hate ongoing work around this house. I have a small easel! I haven't used them much but I might in the future. There are so many. I got a kind of one that will fit many places. We still have ice here. I was freeking scared we would lose power. I put so much gas in my car. I've never had it so full and was scared there would be a leak in the tank I did not know about. So kept looking under the car. Everything was okay. No matter how much I go out food shopping I still can't have it or forgot to get it. Going now to try and do some of the many things I have to because I take out time for drawing and photos. :)
Sorry the smile could be more-eyes smaller? I'm so pressed for time. The upper right black spot is an eye and the left is an eye, the group below them is nose and the two pink amebas are the lips if you can't see this! It is a face! This is a big file and the entry preview displays big. But in the journal it is down to size. Still chasing my feeling to do art. These are done with filters on photos I have already taken. Love it and the filters. It is like another media to produce art! Still very busy but my order has come through and am I relieved this is all smoothed and I have the order in order! Now back to work. The first thing is to take a bath because I'm not fresh, pay bills, and on to the next on list. I hope my job holds and the food here may be off and what some bread tastes like I will not say. Hope you like the picture. I hope all artists become equal to one another. Any artist that is so pissed seeing pictures online, I believe, (is not like before) and has types of talent that artists online don't have and should also be displaying theirs. We all can do this! Because in history the main artist had all the talents rolled into one. Now I believe, not so much. I'm sure there are people who can do this way better. But I like putting mine up. Since I just got on to this!
2-11-2021 Hell bent on drawing. I got some out. Got part of carpet cleaned, and did all the stuff I had to do while being oh so tired. I went out to photo. There was medium snow stick on trees, I thought I should go out, but was ready to come back, and was scared because it was in the single digits. Well I'm glad I did...there was snow fog with the rising sun and I got some of the best shots I may have gotten at another place. I saw a Pileated Woodpecker, I've never seen one! The bird book said they were uncommon and that is right, I've never seen one all my life and the book says they have always been here. They are big! I'm going to try and put something in here, but that involves editing and I don't have a drawing yet. I really wish I had a studio where I could place all my materials. I know I have things, but they are so buried or I've kind of forgotten just where they are. I have a list and that helps. But, you know, I want just to grab for them.
Snow snow snow. I've been keeping up with my drive and I've had help. But gone are the virgin sweeps of inch snow. Now it is coming down and I have to keep up because more is comming. And the salt thrown up on the yard. It's cold too. I'm sitting here in layers and layers and I am not hot!
I thought I was going to draw. today was the only day. Weather conditions and snow shoveling. I had to go out and look for pictures. You should have seen the drive. I went out the night it was suppose to happen and it was already been snowing for hours. I did the end third and then shoveled wheel tracks down the rest. My back is so tired from keeping it up. I shouldn't be shoveling anyway. You should have seen it in the morning. The end was knee deep in frozen road pile and the rest was knee deep in snow. If I hadn't done what I had done the night before I wouldn't have gotten out. And I was up well before dawn. I got it just at dawn and could go out for pictures. What a lift because pictures are another lift. So yesterday morning I was all for rest and trying to draw...before I looked out the window and there was icy frost on the trees. I just about lost it. It was dawn and that is when I should have been already out. I should have been to my spot, but that is miles away so I opted for first light around here. Well the day was still and I had until about noon for snow fog shots with the sun orb just showing thru or not. So I have not drawn unless today and I wanted to get something in here. I feel good about the advancement of drawing in my body. Getting loose and not fearful. I was leeing my stuff and it worked. Now my body wants to go back to not leeing for a bit. I saw the pictures and I want to go back to leeing. So I had a happy day and last night, Drawing. My last was a pen drawing because that is what the other two were suppose to be but were not. The last drawing I forced. My pen lines are a a bit too varied for pen and ink, but not too bad. I learned tonight a trick. It you want to fill in a passage with pen and ink but can't quite do it without going over the outline (you want the outline edge even), trace the passage outline on copy paper and then cut the tracing out. Then you have a negative mask (outline without anything in it) that you can lay around the passage, then use your pen to fill in the hole by lining over the mask paper, your paper, then back onto the mask. Works good. I've never come across this tecnique, but it worked for me this afternoon. And I need to go back into charcoal.
Tired, don't want to stop, but I have to. I don't want to have to work, there is always something else to do around here. I like work to be part of something but don't like the time it takes up. Maybe next week I will get to this, but I don't think so, it's warming up. If it warms up too much I will need to build a snowman to take portraits from. I have a new coat I want to put him in. Ha! But I still hope for time to get something in here and draw. And I sorely need to make new folders. My card is running out. I have more, but this card is 64GB. Now I need to relax, put things straight around the house and sip on pop. Dream of how cool it would be if I had a studio and could get my paper and materials ordered so I could just grab and go, not unpack to find something and then repack:)
Been editing photos for 2nd day. Some are a breeze, others never end. More than half done. Two Cranes Horizon of fog , grown of clutch, the sky is light, the sign of spring, signs of wing
Two and a half of editing straight. I'd edit all day and then go on to one more picture at night,even though I should have stopped. It's like there should be a faster way of doing things. I bet there is faster smarter ways of editing things. Pointing out stuff and having it all done in a zip. Not like global color shifting that we have already, but things more involved, like reflection removal. I just bet there is. We have quick selection. Makes me think that is the tip of the iceburg. Anyway it was the longest I have edited photos and I have more pictures to go and I wish they were done. Not many more. I wish it was done so I could get it up. All I've been thinking about today.
We can come together. What is everyone afraid of? Less money? Less job preference? Less credit for accomplishments? Life is built on everything, it is built on all types. Hopefully we stand together against this virus. Because that is the enemy. We are walled from much of life, but it bore us and you can't always be on top of life. Hopefully we get around it. So far that is what I feel. I wear a mask when I go out unless I forget to put it on, which is easy to do when you have been home and free from it. I keep it in my purse. It is hard to keep breathing through it though, for me. But I am sensitive to carbon. I guess the fall scare may not be as much because in the top heat of summer the virus shot up again when people started getting together again.
I think the butterflies need work but I just don't have the time yet. My back went out. See what it looks like in the morning.
Summer tilt time. Mirror reverse. So reflected in macros. Brown things. Fields reflect every ongoing change, every summer moment. You can pinpoint the month just by looking at them. Bees bad humor. Flowers not pristiene condition. Bugs back up and leave after one shot. But some insects have mated and have time to play. Dragons move their heads just as shutter trips or they get into the game and alight everywhere giving me more poses, and they wait there, letting me take pics!!!!
They know I think they are beautiful. So different than in early summer when only fatique or curosity let them stay for a minute or two. The dam deer have antlers. Thought of taking a temp photo setup in the field but my first attempt didn't work. Could not get bug in cup, but got head shot in grass. You have to start dealing with hunters too, depending on where you are. I don't go back and wear red.
I am so tired, I’m working more and more, filling in for other people. I don’t want it to make me more tired and more tired. My heart can not take much more.
I was sitting in the guardhouse Sunday (my job). No one was there and I saw a leaf fall - no big deal now, but it fluttered, so I kept watching. Was it a butterfly or a leaf? It spread and glided down and landed spread and did not move. So I went to see. The biggest moth I have ever seen!! Tan, with eyes! He was dying and did not move much, there on the hot sand, in the sun, he was by a tree - short of the shade but camouflaged. So I took him in, hoping to get a picture at home. He wasn’t going to move and I extended his life then. It was a moth, not a butterfly and the closest I could think was “Buckeye Moth.” Years ago I shot one Buckeye Butterfly. At home I looked under “Buckeye Moth,” (images) and found a Polyphemus Moth which matched the wing design. This is it, or the closest I can come. They do die at the end of summer, are gluttonous caterpillars (what caterpillar is not) and go on to several metamorphoses to become this huge moth which can fly miles and miles to find a mate. So he has had a good life and I hope made many babies! So he was a still subject and I could take indoors…which I have none studio set up for. I’m happy that 100% of my insect shots are in the wild, living, and go on living after I have taken the shot. I even thank some! :) But I do think studio set-up shots are the very best to display an insect in a photographic setting. Even if the insect looks less than living. I’d like to try some of these shots. I wish there was some way to quickly set up in the field, but perhaps the insect will not settle down and looks strained. I will not pinch. I don’t know about the extra equipment involved. There is not much on Internet about temporary set up for taking insect pictures in the field. Inside studios are a big jump to get started in (I guess) and I haven’t had the time for study. I like my field insect shots. Finding and figuring out how to shoot it and stalking, bowing, or what ever it takes to get in to the picture! Everything is brand new and anything can happen. But the inside shots stand up the best. The outside shots can be finer in composition and display, but mostly do not stand out as much. Not to mention the constant hang-ups of background, stance, scaring, wind, and lugging equipment that the field shooting always has…not to mention deer. A net, glass jars, labels, seem fetching, and you could always let it go after the home shot, in the place you found it.
A very beautiful huge moth! This summer I hung a sheet and light up one night and got 1 medium moth all night. I guess I live in the wrong place, time, etc. I tried after a rain. One guy on internet had his sheet covered with moths of all shapes, color patterns, and sizes. Probably well south of here. So I’m very happy to happen on this.
Here’s my photo… I used, I guess, a little known Photoshop tool called Depth Of Field Blending. It is the stacking and blending of same separate photos with the focus point at different depth of field points for each photo. Like foreground, mid ground, and background. It combines all the best focused areas into one picture, which has better focus all throughout it. It works better if you give it more photos with more depths in focus than I did. I just used three different focus distances in three photos. The wing span, for scale, was 5+” across! It was a big beautiful moth!
RED DRAGON RED LEAF
IT’S COOLER, NIGHTS ARE COOL - STILL SUNNY IN THE DAY. I WALKED MY OLD WALK AND THERE WERE NO BUGS. THE FLOWERS THIS YEAR JUST HAVE GONE CRAP. I TRY TO FIND SOMETHING IN WILT AND LOOK. LAST YEAR THERE WERE MORE, IN THE SAME PLACE. MAYBE THE WEATHER OR HAVE BEEN RIPPED OUT. MY RED DRAGON WAS NOT THERE. I KNOW HE IS THERE. I’D LIKE TO GATHER THEM UP IN MY ARMS TO GET THEM WARM, BUT THEY WOULD DIE ANYWAY. THEY HAVE SUCH AN HONOR TO LIFE, IT’S AN HONOR, THEY HONOR TO DIE. BUT SURPRISINGLY I FOUND ANOTHER PREYING MANTIS ! (I NEVER THINK I WILL BECAUSE CAN’T REALLY LOOK FOR THEM, ONLY WONDERFULLY SURPRISED WHEN YOU SEE ONE.) A BEAUTIFUL GREEN FEMALE ON PERFECT YELLOW GOLDENROD. SHE WAS COLD, COULDN’T MOVE, THE MORNING WAS STILL AND DEW COVERED HER BACK. THEN AT ANOTHER SPOT THERE WAS A TOAD WHICH LET ME GET CLOSE. BUT NOTHING ELSE. I’VE BEEN TURNING TO LANDSCAPES. I PARKED OFF THE ROAD AND THIS GIRL CAME UP ON BICYCLE SAYING “WHY ARE YOU TAKING PICTURES OF MY LAND?” WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? IF YOU ARE PHYSICALLY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY YOU CAN TAKE PICS OF ANYTHING (WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS), ON PUBLIC OR PRIVATE AREAS. IF YOU ARE ON PRIVATE LAND YOU HAVE TO ASK. I WENT ON AND CAME CLOSE TO A BETTER LANDSCAPE. NO MATTER WHAT LANDSCAPE I TAKE IN FUTURE I WILL ALWAYS FOCUS STACK. I REALLY NEED TO SEE A BLOWUP OF THE PICTURE, NOT THE VIEW SCREEN, WITHOUT THE DAYLIGHT GLARE, WHILE TAKING PICTURES. TWO MATING PREYING MANTIS WERE IN SHALLOW DEPTH, BUT NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS SHOULD. I COULDN'T SEE. I’VE BEEN CHECKING EVERYTHING ELSE. I GUESS I’M TOO PRESSURED AT MY ONE CHANCE TO PHOTO A PREYING MANTIS! THIS SUMMER I’VE KEPT UP WITH FOLDERS PRETTY GOOD AND HAVE MADE BETTER PROGRESS ON INDEXING. I WATCHED THE 9/11 SHOWS. I WAS IN NEW YORK TWICE. I WISH I HAD GONE UP ONE OF THE TOWERS. I MISS THE PEOPLE, THEY TALK LIKE MY PARENTS. PART OF ME LIVES THERE.
WELL HAVEN’T BUMPED INTO ONE STAG YET. LANDSCAPES, SO FAR ARE SAFER. WANTED TO PUT MY RED DRAGON’S PIC ON HERE. THEY SPEAK, MOTHER, SMILE, PLAY, COMMUNICATE! AND THEN GO OFF. LOOKING FOR FROST, BUT I WILL PROBABLY MISS IT WORKING. WHY JUST LOOK FOR FLOWERS??? FALL FEELS GOOD. LOOKING FORWARD TO FALL LANDSCAPES. AND THEN IT IS A REST UNLESS SNOW PICS. FALL FEELS NICE:)
here's my red dragon...
Killed myself trying to get landscapes. And I did get some, kind of bushy but some were good. Got house problems, but I trying to take care of them, but not before I get my indexing done. That has been going. But I got the garage door fixed, the drip is fixed and the roof has been power washed. But now there is more. This afternoon I white washed portions of the house outside. I held off with stuff this year because I'm just getting sick of doing it and I want to photo. It's either extra work or yard work. I'm tired, why don't I have the money to pay for all of it? Others do. But the leaves have not started yet. It's kind of silvery out. Boy, nothing gets you to clean up the house than someone coming over. It's amazing how quick. My inside suffers from not having a good income. Things are around so they can be jury helped if needed, rather than pay for it. But in places just one layer, so I can clean it up quick. I wish I had an income I could lean on and not have to have these things all the time. I have always horded clothes because of income. What a luxrey to have a good income and be assured of being able to get good clothes when you needed them. There is a pile, and I mean a pile of spare clothes in my bedroom. I havent had an impulse to draw. Makes me sad, I hope it is not gone forever. I have not had time to get a drawing in here yet. Looking a bit blank.
TUNA FISH CASSEROLE
COOK GOOD NOODLES ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS
MIX IN A BAKING CASSEROLE DISH...
REGULAR CAN OR POUCH OF TUNA FISH - DRAIN FIRST - CRUMBLE
ADD CAN OF CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP
ADD CHOPPED ONION AND CHOPPED GREEN PEPPER
CAN ADD SMALL CAN OF MUSHROOM PIECES
SALT & PEPPER
MIX
POUR ENOUGH MILK OVER TO JUST COVER OR IF WANT A BIT LESS
DOT WITH BUTTER
BAKE 350 DEGREES F 1/2 HOUR OR IF WANT UNTILL TOP STARTS TO BROWN CRISP
This is the homemade version. Look on Internet for others. If you don't want to go into all that, just get this stuff and mix up. I make my own version according to my dietary restrictions. It's good! Real comfort food!
All I want is to be warm.
Wow what a WONDERFUL day of landscapes and then it dumped everything! I couldn't see anything!
Well I did get my landscapes and with the next day a laying deer...the morning after the big field party. Deer were in every field! Groups of them! I went the last landscape by my house and there were deer in that field too! I backed out and in rearview mirror deer were running across the road from the houses! Almost hit a jogger! Now that I may be safer from them I feel sorry that they have to share such tight spacing with us. Hope I catch a frost this year. There is a white moth or butterfly that hangs outside and gets frosted somewhere. It is unbelieveable - I saw on television but I didn't catch where, I was so busy looking at the photo. I want to get that shot - it is so beautiful! My frostings are mainly foliage and one grasshopper and flowers. Never tight enough frost for me.
Went down some trails I haven't been - mainly because deer were not there. This is a park so it's bigger. I got landscapes in parks and roadside. Trying to dodge hunters. I look weird. The only thing I have to wear is my dad's red checked wool hunting coat and a red and white spandex top for a hat. (Red is not me.) Does the trick. Red is not deer. This time I had to pee so bad I locked myself out of the car and had to call a locksmith. My camera was laying in the car and If I had not parked under a tree I would have been in trouble. But everything was okay and the sun was still not too hot before the car was unlocked and the front seat was in shade. I wish I had a combination lock on car, but mine is too old for that.
Beautiful out - kind of windy as time went on so I set my ISO & shutter higher and took advantage of the fact that farther subjectmatter does not pick up as much motion. Foreground elements had to be focus stacked and waited on for lulls. You should wait for lulls and I did mostly. If there are any, and there were this time. This dark moth picutre was just some days ago.
I have been enjoying this because I know it will get cold. I have been enjoying fall more this year! Also been keeping up with falling leaves and service appointments on the house. Probably the last picture of an insect I will get this year. I've been fooling around with my cell phone and taking movie clips.
Photoshop's new tool to make sure an image is genuine and not had any editing done to it. I hope this is seen as another tool to have in it's tool belt and not a trend. What would the average photographer do withont editing? It's great for someone who needs to have 100% non edited work - but even then a photo might need to be cropped or resized. Not to mention raw photos need sharpening. Not to mention Tif and Jpeg files are already edited a bit when they are formed in the camera and you can't change that.
But what of the Photographer who wants to display images for their esthetic value? Editing is the mainstream reason for that. Editing can bring out the idea of the photograph! It is a far between photograph that does not need a touch up or two. Sometimes more. I hope Photoshop is not starting to say, camera pictures must stand alone without editing to be considered for anything. I'm sure they are not. This is why...
Sure there is photographic material around everywhere. Some subject matter, though, does not grow on trees most places. If you are into Landscapes, Cityscapes, Seascapes, Rivers, Farms, Barns etc... If you want to mostly take a photo of only the real subject matter before you, you need to travel to it. The rest of photography mostly contains more heavy editing or studio work (which probably has less editing.) But National Geographic or the main camera companies use and display flawless subject matter to advertize cameras and teach. They use photographic models, who fit perfectly displayed into a photograph. (They recede.) Not many people know photographic models or can afford to travel to these specific places or set up these specific photographic enviornements. Or even know about them. I think the "top" photographers have spotters all around the world and get sent all around the world to get these top photographs. (Meaning photos needing little, if no editing and are perfect compositions - just take the shot. These sites are not infinite.) Something the average person would have trouble paying for, let alone know where these specific places were.
In my experience, and probably yours too, there is the area around where you live. Maybe a 30 mile radius. And you know where there are a few sites that take a good picture. For better subject matter than that the incidence falls into the 100-200 mile radius. With this radius you may fine more good image subject matter and one or two excellent shots needing less editing. This goes on. If you want the perfectly top notch sites, you must go world wide and they do not grow on trees. And it costs money to get there. If you want fresh, better subject matter around you, you have to drive out further in your area. Running down your car, and even then you don't know where these better sites are and you have to keep driving and driving, hoping to come across something! Unless someone tips you off. (I'm now talking about taking a photo of real subject matter, not making it up.) These better images don't grow on trees. By driving further out you may run into more better pictures and one or two excellent ones. (All without any PS retouching...depending on the weather.) Nat Geo photographers probably get to the sites (at the best time of year) and then wait for perfect weather or light conditions!) If the search area expands to all around the world, then there are a few top notch sites that are creative, new and occur normally with little editing needed. None of these better photographic sites can be gotten to by you because of lack of money and not knowing where they are. So the National Geographic photographers get all the honors for the best photos?
So my jest of this is you want to take top notch photos also. You naturally take the pictures you can get around you and edit the kinks out to make the picture sing. You can get better professional pictures that way. Also on the plus side for you are conditions outside...weather, lighting, seasons are always in a state of flux. The images in front of you are always fresh. You can sometimes snag a great creative local shot just as it stands at the moment. But editing is key sometimes. That is why I think this new Photoshop tool is more for subject matter that needs to be untouched...crime scenes, medical photography, fossils. I think that is just what this is for. I'm very tired and this passage is probably loopy. I have no more time to write, I'm going to sleep. But outside photo opportunities of specific sites are a pain because you grow out of them, in time, taking so many pictures of them. That is part of the reason I got into macro photography. It has far more subjectmatter right under your feet.
But in some instances edited (fake) photos are just the thing! What if you want to darken a sky or take a foreground branch out of a landscape shot- it is just the right thing to make a composition whole! A photograph becomes a work of art! Just what you would choose if it was standing infront of you 100%! These perfect compositions live in your head-it reflects you. So what if some of your pictures need a bit of editing to bring them out. You can't always fly around the world to find a few flawless landscapes in perfect light, so that you have only that one picture accredited to you because it is not a "fake" with no after editing!
But again, I'm sure that this is just a well thought out new tool in Photoshop that will help some photographers very much with verifying unbelivable grab shots and others where genuine, non-edited photos are required. And I have left out people who heavly edit their photos or make up new images entirely from scratch, or use technique, movie stills, or studio to make photographs. I just used landscapes to get a point across. When I see all the new stuff in Photoshop now it blows my mind!
And another foot note. I have been driving or walking around for years looking for photos. It is not in my mind, I have seen too many instances of planted, parked or removed elements in landscapes. Something that would mar a perfect scene. Why do pepole do this? Because they hate art. Because they either hate the people doing it or want to get in it also but think it is not their place. I believe it is their place and we have many more artists in the generations alive now than we did. It is not a only one top person! We need you, who want to get in, but think it is not their place! I believe everyone who is sensibly serious is equal in fine art. History needs YOU! It really does! Have fun!
I woke up and couln't walk or barely walk for pain. My hip, the last thing I thought would go is a hip! I never fell. I could walk, but had to limp. I couldn't stay off it due to leaves and work! I made mental notes day by day and the pain did shift and make like it was trying to heal, but I was not letting it. So it began not being much better the next day. The pain left to other areas of the hip and back. It is really not my hip, but the leg socket. The pain was there for weeks. No kidding I did not fall, twist, misstep, bump, hit it or anything. The only thing I can think is it is winter, I'm getting any younger and I've had years of walking down trails looking for photos, lugging a camera, camera case, and tripod in steel toed boots. I also walk spradically at work and I'm always doing yard and house work. It's not just the lugging, it's the taking of pictures. The camera can't fall and the tripod has to be set up just right and fast if it's live creatures. It's even more taxing than carrying! And this is 100% of the time, no breaks. Yesterday I walked way better, even climbed stairs without anything! So I hope I keep improving, since there is nothing else to write about!
Dark brown cloud wheel
Falcon attacks hawk bunches sky
Sun peeks
Leaves Fall
...Sleep
Croucing Grey Gail stings
Winter has come
* BROWN SUGAR MEASURE
When you measure brown sugar for a recipie, don't just pile it in a measuring cup. You must take the back of a spoon and pack it down, and add more and pack that until the packed level is that measure. Brown sugar measure is different. And there is always dark brown sugar! BAKING TIP FOR TURKEY DAY!
Depressed. No one really cares if I know about medium format photography around here. You have to see it before you. They could care less. They could care less, I'm nobody, I need to talk to someone. And boy, pass the buck. My art came back. I'm drawing. That's good!
Well Santa froz his buns off this time. He does live at the North Pole. I'm sure Mrs Claus reminded him to wear double long johns. I has an okay Christmas. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I've got something. Do you ever dream that you stole, missed the test, being chased by someone or something, lied, lost your job, or were going to jail because you had broke the law. You wake up and are So relieved that it was JUST A DREAM, and it takes you time to lose all the fear. And you got out of it! Then, in back you worry that you really are a criminal, because you dream this. You really want it. You don't like the law. I have an opinion. I think underlyingly that something else is going on. We live our whole lives to pre thought out rules and regulations. This is probably how we had to evolve. It's normal. It's healthy. That is not the problem. The problem is that it is 100% our whole lives. Before we evolved we were some sort of small mammal. An animal. Well they get on like nothing else. They don't hesitate or worry about when they have to steal, fight, decieve, or, if have to when it comes to it, kill. Nothing is wrong about that in their world. They flow through their lives. It's healthy. They don't worry much. This is healthy for them. I guess most life is like that. We make rules which get in the way of that flow. We get by with rules and live very well like this, but I believe sometimes our rule centered life gets in our way, our mammal root way. So ingeniously our body gives us dreams inwhich these rules go out the window and we can flow. We can run away from the monster. We can drop the test. We can steal, commit crimes and get away with it. This dream allows to get this flow side of things under your hood again. These dreams get your mammal root flow balanced inside you. You wake up and are so relieved that it was just a dream. But really your washed clean. Your distant behavior, that is also healthy is now free inside you and your can go on living in the human world of structure that we love. We are happy and healthy in this rule world. But we can't 100% turn our back on our distant past. So I don't worry about some of my dreams. I just thank my distant mammal relatives for coming up with a renewing health adjustment! Because I want to go on living like I do. Sometimes there can be too many rules, and we can fix that, but generaly basic rules are our human flow at this point. Around my generation.
Here is another version of poem above! I didn't go to sleep!
Dark brown clouds wheel fall / geese and muted color
Crow attack falcon
Rivits in my head
Sleep
Sun peeps and Bluebirds come
Crouch in blue gale
Sting
Winter comes
I've been out trying to take pictures, but I lost the virgin morning to work. So it was ice and ice with snow. I wished I could have gotten paid for these two days I was stomping, it was two eight hour days! And the landscape results were stretched. Cold but not as cold as it could have been. Don't forget mittens. I have these finger out ones. Now work is building up at home. I wish I didn't have to have a job sometimes. I hate ongoing work around this house. I have a small easel! I haven't used them much but I might in the future. There are so many. I got a kind of one that will fit many places. We still have ice here. I was freeking scared we would lose power. I put so much gas in my car. I've never had it so full and was scared there would be a leak in the tank I did not know about. So kept looking under the car. Everything was okay. No matter how much I go out food shopping I still can't have it or forgot to get it. Going now to try and do some of the many things I have to because I take out time for drawing and photos. :)
Sorry the smile could be more-eyes smaller? I'm so pressed for time. The upper right black spot is an eye and the left is an eye, the group below them is nose and the two pink amebas are the lips if you can't see this! It is a face! This is a big file and the entry preview displays big. But in the journal it is down to size. Still chasing my feeling to do art. These are done with filters on photos I have already taken. Love it and the filters. It is like another media to produce art! Still very busy but my order has come through and am I relieved this is all smoothed and I have the order in order! Now back to work. The first thing is to take a bath because I'm not fresh, pay bills, and on to the next on list. I hope my job holds and the food here may be off and what some bread tastes like I will not say. Hope you like the picture. I hope all artists become equal to one another. Any artist that is so pissed seeing pictures online, I believe, (is not like before) and has types of talent that artists online don't have and should also be displaying theirs. We all can do this! Because in history the main artist had all the talents rolled into one. Now I believe, not so much. I'm sure there are people who can do this way better. But I like putting mine up. Since I just got on to this!
2-11-2021 Hell bent on drawing. I got some out. Got part of carpet cleaned, and did all the stuff I had to do while being oh so tired. I went out to photo. There was medium snow stick on trees, I thought I should go out, but was ready to come back, and was scared because it was in the single digits. Well I'm glad I did...there was snow fog with the rising sun and I got some of the best shots I may have gotten at another place. I saw a Pileated Woodpecker, I've never seen one! The bird book said they were uncommon and that is right, I've never seen one all my life and the book says they have always been here. They are big! I'm going to try and put something in here, but that involves editing and I don't have a drawing yet. I really wish I had a studio where I could place all my materials. I know I have things, but they are so buried or I've kind of forgotten just where they are. I have a list and that helps. But, you know, I want just to grab for them.
Snow snow snow. I've been keeping up with my drive and I've had help. But gone are the virgin sweeps of inch snow. Now it is coming down and I have to keep up because more is comming. And the salt thrown up on the yard. It's cold too. I'm sitting here in layers and layers and I am not hot!
I thought I was going to draw. today was the only day. Weather conditions and snow shoveling. I had to go out and look for pictures. You should have seen the drive. I went out the night it was suppose to happen and it was already been snowing for hours. I did the end third and then shoveled wheel tracks down the rest. My back is so tired from keeping it up. I shouldn't be shoveling anyway. You should have seen it in the morning. The end was knee deep in frozen road pile and the rest was knee deep in snow. If I hadn't done what I had done the night before I wouldn't have gotten out. And I was up well before dawn. I got it just at dawn and could go out for pictures. What a lift because pictures are another lift. So yesterday morning I was all for rest and trying to draw...before I looked out the window and there was icy frost on the trees. I just about lost it. It was dawn and that is when I should have been already out. I should have been to my spot, but that is miles away so I opted for first light around here. Well the day was still and I had until about noon for snow fog shots with the sun orb just showing thru or not. So I have not drawn unless today and I wanted to get something in here. I feel good about the advancement of drawing in my body. Getting loose and not fearful. I was leeing my stuff and it worked. Now my body wants to go back to not leeing for a bit. I saw the pictures and I want to go back to leeing. So I had a happy day and last night, Drawing. My last was a pen drawing because that is what the other two were suppose to be but were not. The last drawing I forced. My pen lines are a a bit too varied for pen and ink, but not too bad. I learned tonight a trick. It you want to fill in a passage with pen and ink but can't quite do it without going over the outline (you want the outline edge even), trace the passage outline on copy paper and then cut the tracing out. Then you have a negative mask (outline without anything in it) that you can lay around the passage, then use your pen to fill in the hole by lining over the mask paper, your paper, then back onto the mask. Works good. I've never come across this tecnique, but it worked for me this afternoon. And I need to go back into charcoal.
Tired, don't want to stop, but I have to. I don't want to have to work, there is always something else to do around here. I like work to be part of something but don't like the time it takes up. Maybe next week I will get to this, but I don't think so, it's warming up. If it warms up too much I will need to build a snowman to take portraits from. I have a new coat I want to put him in. Ha! But I still hope for time to get something in here and draw. And I sorely need to make new folders. My card is running out. I have more, but this card is 64GB. Now I need to relax, put things straight around the house and sip on pop. Dream of how cool it would be if I had a studio and could get my paper and materials ordered so I could just grab and go, not unpack to find something and then repack:)
Been editing photos for 2nd day. Some are a breeze, others never end. More than half done. Two Cranes Horizon of fog , grown of clutch, the sky is light, the sign of spring, signs of wing
Two and a half of editing straight. I'd edit all day and then go on to one more picture at night,even though I should have stopped. It's like there should be a faster way of doing things. I bet there is faster smarter ways of editing things. Pointing out stuff and having it all done in a zip. Not like global color shifting that we have already, but things more involved, like reflection removal. I just bet there is. We have quick selection. Makes me think that is the tip of the iceburg. Anyway it was the longest I have edited photos and I have more pictures to go and I wish they were done. Not many more. I wish it was done so I could get it up. All I've been thinking about today.