Weekend Update

I've been meaning to post more of these, so I might as well start even if the weekend was mostly boring. :)

Saturday, Brenda went over a friends to do scribal stuff. So I spent the day mostly running errands and doing some stuff around the house. Also got a photography project started, started planning another, and spent a couple of hours diving in my archives. The project I started is taking a photograph of the same area of the sky using the same camera settings at the same time (noon) each day. Mostly clouds so far...

Sunday, another scribal day for Brenda, a class down at Dame Tammlyn's that she came back quite enthused from.

I started poking around in my shop... It's amazing how cluttered it has got, despite not spending much time out there last year. But, with June Fair projects in the offing I need to get it cleaned and organized so I can get a head start if the weather permits. (The shop is insulated now, but most of the projects are finishing and refinishing and I need to be able to open the windows for those.) I didn't get as much done because on my first break, I came back in the house and MIB II was on and I got caught up in it. It seems my subconscious decided that even a crappy movie was a better idea than cleaning the shop.

Soaring in blue

I'm trying to get into the habit of choosing/editing/posting on a regular basis... so when I have nothing in the queue I dive into the archives. This picture was actually taken last Sept along with these images.

I tried to crop it more conventionally, with more space for the bird to fly into, but it never seemed to work. It just seemed to me that it want to be framed just as it (accidentally) came out of the camera. Among other things, it seems to represent how I'm still feeling and losses I'm still wresting with. I also like how the full (original) frame emphasizes how the color of the sky is *not* uniform. That can be to the photographer's advantage even at times that aren't sunrise or sunset.

I edited this in DPP, straight from the RAW. While DPP only allows a few basic whole-image tools, sometimes it's the best tool for the job. (And I'm slowly getting more comfortable editing from RAW and relying less on in-camera processing and complex edits in Elements.)

Also, this is the third minimalist seagull shot I've posted in a fairly short time span... (Others here and here.) I don't know what that says, other than they just keep catching my eye.