Time to catch up...

ARGGGGGHHHHH

Well - that was a major fail. I hate it when things don't do what they say. This blog post, took me about 10 minutes to write - I clicked to publish it, and ERROR. BAH.

Not only that, but the draft didn't auto save. I expect more from Google. I do NOT expect more from Facebook. I have learned that it is pretty much required to copy whatever I've written before hitting post because more than half of the time, it disappears miraculously and I have to retype it ALLLLLL over again. This has a) a little to do with using opera as a web browser and b) more to do with the fact that the programming for facebook and the scripts they use just don't always work. It's a massive site, I give them credit - but cripes does it make me angry at times.

This post was originally about images and being picky enough to re-do two that are on my wordpress blog, which is specifically dedicated to the artistic endeavors I've been pursuing.  Also, it bothers me enough that google doesn't recognize Canadian/British spelling that I default to American just to get rid of the red lines. I really do prefer 'ou' to 'o' though. By American rules thogh would look really stupid in my opinion.

So, Image a) Eternal

It needs some work - and is literally rough around the edges. So, now that I have working software again, and a tablet that will give me more subtle control, I can fix it. I reluctantly put it up at the time because someone really wanted to see it.

Image b) cosmo-porn

It's fine as a stand alone piece - but I have this really great 'found' poetry audio that needs to go with it, and a pile of windmill  pictures that make some short times lapse. That's this week's project.

Now then, Google damned well better work this time.

Photography

I recently had Photos of Europe add me on Twitter...they can be found here if you're interested, and they tweet quite a few interesting story links like this one about "The Enigma of Capturing Light", which I found very interesting.

Reading that article immediately reminded me that I too have been known to photograph things. Specifically the outdoors. I'm not much for people, and tend to like to photography anything and everything but. For a while now, I've had a flickr page which is 'sort of' up to date, and most of the photos are labled, there's a lot of back log to go through though, and editing photos takes a lot of time.

That said, most of those photos aren't digitally altered. I tend to correct the light balance only slightly, and never over do anything. Sometimes I straighten pictures, but that's really about it. Unless I'm using a photo for a photo/poetry combination I do very little besides make the photo what the original intention of taking it was.

Like this one: Zero alterations. Captured the light and the prairies exactly like I wanted. :) Check out the rest of my photos with little to no alterations, or my poetry/photos for more!