I admit, I have a love affair with my camera. It goes with me almost everywhere, which is usually no where, but it is always stuffed in a pocket so that when something strikes my fancy I can capture it in a photograph.
Taking photos has been a hobby of mine for as long as I can remember. I remember as a little bit taking my mother's camera and taking pictures of everything that I could and using up all her film. Boy she hated getting a roll of film back from processing that was nothing but things I deemed picture worthy at 4 or 5. My first camera was a Kodak polaroid and while it was fun in 1975(boy I am dating myself ) to have developed film in an instant, I much prefer the camera of today. I absolutely love the fact that I can take and screw up as many pictures as my lil heart desires and it does not cost a buck a pop to do so.
I, to this day,use a cheap camera and still have no idea how to edit them . I know how to lighten or darken them and I know how to put a spotlight around them. That is the extent of my photo editing abilities. Some days, I think that I would like to learn how to edit and skew pictures into works of art and beauty, but then I think that true beauty is created and not built, bought or edited in. Altering them in ways that we are capable of today, in my eyes, would take away from that beauty.
One of my favorite photography subjects is the sky and I am lucky enough to have a beautiful place that is always offering up beautiful moments to capture in pictures. Here are a few of my favorite subject that have all been taken over the last two weeks. All have been taken right out my front door and the only alterations are adjusting the light in in some of them to bring out the highlights of them. While I can't speak for anyone other than myself, I think they are simply beautiful.
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
around the homestead-braiding onions-sorta, kinda
No I have not disappeared, just been busy, and had a computer meltdown last week. Once I got that replaced on Saturday I had to play catch up with school work and deal with all the hassle of setting up a new computer. Now I just need to get my pictures off the old computer so that I can do a garden update. I could just take more pictures now, but things are starting to really get sorry looking after over a month of next to no rain.
Anywho...
Wow, I had no clue how difficult it was to braid onions until today and after the mess I made , I doubt I will ever attempt to braid them again! I have never actually seen anyone braid them in person and was going by a couple of tutorials that I had run across online , needless to say I did not do a very good job of it and after a while just started tying them on. I think I would have done a better job had I had a human here to show me the basics of it.
I think I will just put the rest of them in some spare mesh bags that I have around. It made my hands hurts and the semi dry stalks tore my cuticles all up. Me complaining about something tearing my hands up is BAD, as I have some of the ugliest fingers I have ever seen a female have. They also make a really BIG mess while you are braiding them up. Anyone that has a real house would be better off doing them outside if you try this. I did it on the floor inside and this is the mess I had when i was done .
The tutorials I used to guide me in my epic failure are here and here.
Anywho...
Wow, I had no clue how difficult it was to braid onions until today and after the mess I made , I doubt I will ever attempt to braid them again! I have never actually seen anyone braid them in person and was going by a couple of tutorials that I had run across online , needless to say I did not do a very good job of it and after a while just started tying them on. I think I would have done a better job had I had a human here to show me the basics of it.
I think I will just put the rest of them in some spare mesh bags that I have around. It made my hands hurts and the semi dry stalks tore my cuticles all up. Me complaining about something tearing my hands up is BAD, as I have some of the ugliest fingers I have ever seen a female have. They also make a really BIG mess while you are braiding them up. Anyone that has a real house would be better off doing them outside if you try this. I did it on the floor inside and this is the mess I had when i was done .
The tutorials I used to guide me in my epic failure are here and here.
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