When I went to college, my grandma gave me my great grandma's sewing and button boxes. The scent of all of the wooden spools of thread still fills me with a feeling of peace and industry.
When my boys were small, I added to the button box by buying buttons from estate sales, but I can still recognize which were my great grandma's buttons. My boys used to dump the entire box out on the floor while I was sewing. They very happily would spend hours sorting them into colors and sizes; choosing their favorites and trading them back and forth. That button box helped me get lots of little boy clothes made.
I love that so many of the buttons still have thread in them from being removed before being repurposed for other things. It gives me a picture of the clothes she made for her family.
@cottiac Thank you for your sweet words! You should enter...my image is just an image. Your image may be THE image that captures the public's heart just like your boots image has mine!
@evalieutionspics I can't get any good ones at present...and am trying not to feel dispondent about entering Competitions - the last two I've been in I've made the finalists but not the final - but suppose I should at least be greatful to have made the finalists! Thought my Fear of Failure would be picked for the Fear Competition rather than my Fear of Call Calling but there we go! I was trying to tell myself this morning that just by entering I have pushed myself to do things I wouldn't have done otherwise, so should be pleased about that really.
@cottiac I've made the finalist in a few, and have always been amazed to have done so. Each one has stretched me, made me put on my thinking cap and step out of my box. If I feel myself starting to get stressed, I remind myself that it was a challenge...that's all...a personal challenge that I set for myself. I fulfilled my goal of entering a photo in the challenge; what happens next is not important. That doesn't mean that I won't try to improve in that type of photography, but those are personal challenges, not competitions.
Perhaps if you are struggling with getting good images, a return to basics is in order, for a few days, to have a baseline, if you will, from which to work. Then you can add on skill layer by layer.
I am so new to photography that I still have to go back to basics all the time. I often have to slap myself on the head and say, "You goofball! Why did you do that?!" If you knew how many gazillions of photos I took each day just to get the few I post, you would laugh...or cry. :)
The great thing is this wonderful community which is so helpful and supportive.
@evalieutionspics True! Very true. I guess the thing is I didn't learn too many basics or principles, I just hoped I could go Annie Oakley Style - point and shoot and get good results. Yep they call it 'too darn lazy' yet when I put the effort in (like Fear of Failure http://365project.org/cottiac/365/2016-10-06) I reap the rewards, so I need to remind myself that it's worth it.
As you say I've learnt soo much from this community - far more than any course at 100x the price would give.
I loved reading about your button box. Every house should have one! It looks to be very exotic too. I kind of want to have a good rummage in it now! Gloriously colourful and cheery image.
@helenhall Thank you once again for the kind and supporting words.I am surprised that it looks so exotic as my great-grandmother wore mostly dark colors with the occasional calico print. Her aprons were always embroidered with flowers, though.
October 15th, 2016
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Perhaps if you are struggling with getting good images, a return to basics is in order, for a few days, to have a baseline, if you will, from which to work. Then you can add on skill layer by layer.
I am so new to photography that I still have to go back to basics all the time. I often have to slap myself on the head and say, "You goofball! Why did you do that?!" If you knew how many gazillions of photos I took each day just to get the few I post, you would laugh...or cry. :)
The great thing is this wonderful community which is so helpful and supportive.
As you say I've learnt soo much from this community - far more than any course at 100x the price would give.
@darlenet Thank you very much! I agree!
@mona65 Thank you!
@helenhall Thank you once again for the kind and supporting words.I am surprised that it looks so exotic as my great-grandmother wore mostly dark colors with the occasional calico print. Her aprons were always embroidered with flowers, though.