I managed a solo row today and this was one of the last shots I made after getting off the water. I couldn't imagine these colors on my own, so no cropping, no adjusting, just resized and name added.
Learned later I got a shot of a bald eagle today. But this sunset is still too stunning to post anything else.
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@fungirl Thank you, Kristen! But these are practically “no-brainers”!
@digitalrn Thank you, Rick! It's been a crazy month and I went several days without posting. This week bodes to be similarly crazy, but I'll try to keep up!
@glendq Aww, thank you for the fav, Glenda. As I responded to Kristen, it's practically point-and-shoot when God shows us this!
Ah this is absolutely stunning. LOVE love love the colours, silhouettes, and everything about this. Also love your photo for this day from last year! :)
This is so pretty! I like how you post the past years pics! I scroll down, thinking..."Did I post on this?" and there is Joyce...always Joyce. She contacted me somewhere at the first of the year.... By posting a short "letter" on some pic I had just posted. I miss her! Anyway, I love the contrast in the waving water...and that color. Wow.
@espyetta Thanks, MaryBeth. This is one of my own favorite shots.
Indeed, it was always Joyce; she was such a good supporter and "encourager", from both her commenting and "by example"... I will have to look for her comment on one of your posts from near the first-of-the-year!
@rhoing Maybe I will start linking my past years shots to my current shot, like you do. That would make it easier. I would think that is a fun way to look back at your life. I may try it.
@espyetta [I meant to respond to this part of your first comment.] I will admit I initially did the linking back in part to get more views. But now I do it more for myself. It allows me to see how I've improved (I hope) and the compositional and editing choices I've made in the past. For example, when I first started this project, there was no way I was going to post the image of the textured cup that I posted last week ( http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-02-09). Shoot, the whole realm of B&W is something I rarely did until the flash-o-red challenge last year … for a whole month! (Thank you again.) Indeed, I used to give Wendy @exposure4u a hard time about living in such a picturesque part of the country and often posting B&Ws! Sorry, sorry, sorry, Wendy!
(I used to do web design and I always write the code directly; no WYSIWYG for me. So I learned that I could get bold and italics in the descriptions of my posts, but recently I realized that I could have the character formatting or the "live" links, but not both. So now a daily task is to remove the formatting from the old posts so the links work. Tradeoffs again!)
@rhoing You are firing me up to do another round of b and w. I will probably do it next month. After that, spring will be springing, full of green, pink, yellow, blue, purple..and I will have to put up color! But I think next month, I will do b and w. I have so much to learn about it. I will do one 'fresh shot" a day in b and w...to hone my ability to find things that will work. And maybe scour my old pics for ones that would be good in b and w....
The part at the bottom..are you saying that you learned to code so that you could have more than just plain text here, but that doesn't work and be able to post links to your old shots? I think that is what you are saying. And I would have chosen the links too. and yes, I can see the improvement in the years of pics...
@espyetta See image description above. I've bolded and underlined an entire sentence. But I've lost the live link to the year-ago post. I think I've tried to put formatting in comments, but these comment boxes are different creatures and formatting HTML gets stripped.
One of the projects I did way-back-when: http://www.dgorton.com/portfolio.html. He has his own in-house person now, but I got him on the web many, many years ago. It was fascinating going through the albums of a former White House photographer for the New York Times!
@rhoing I see. I never noticed that. You got game in the "Tech skills'" arena. I dabbled with how you write code for a website ...years ago, but never used it and forgot it all. And that photog's and his website! Wow. HE is amzing.
@espyetta It's my geeky brain. I learned HTML because I wanted to put resources online for my students and the University was not out in front of that wave. Here's a "marriage" of HTML and Excel: http://tmitch.siuc.edu/long_run/discrete/
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@espyetta Question: have you hung any of your photos in your house? We've hung a couple "sets" (flowers and butterflies), but Clare is repainting our bedroom this weekend and we're hanging a 3-canvas set of one photo from the Riverwalk in San Antonio: http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-05-23. The prints on canvas are amazing! In my home office I have a 16×20" canvas of our daughters, taken the day I took older daughter's engagement photos with my SIL-to-be! The canvas medium eliminates the choice of matte color and frame and it's lighter on the wall (which is a concern for us in the vicinity of the New Madrid Fault)...
Cool pic and memory for you guys. And I like the idea of the three canvas set. I have not yet pulled the trigger and ordered. I guess I keep thinking "oh, there will be one I like more," and they can be pricey, and I just get busy. I have a few I might print. I will post the links here in a moment..down below. One of of the lake, from our dock. I want to h and it in the lakehouse. It is already a diptych type photo..so might just print it on one canvas. Unless they could print one part on one skinny canvas and big part on the other... Another I wanted to print was my "Dutch Masters inspired still life" I did this summer after Katy from this site cam to visit and we went to see Dutch Masters paintings at the High Museum...
I am not sure about this one..I have better ones form the lake..but I like how I got what I was "after" or trying to do that day. I have never been able to capture how the water sparkles on a windy, sunny day. And I did with this bokeh and was excited: http://365project.org/espyetta/365/2014-01-19
Here is the still life. It took me forever to set that up. It was summer, I had no where to be, no work to do for school, and I nibbled at the Italian sausage and sipped the red wine as I worked. It was fun! I like how it hides a few little 'treasures" of mine like that blue lantern a friend gave me, a hollow pocketwatch housing and old ring I found in my father in law's stuff, and things I saw in paintings at the museum, like the peeled lemon...it was just fun. http://365project.org/espyetta/365/2013-07-08
February 16th, 2014
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just really enjoy seeing these colours on the water
@digitalrn Thank you, Rick! It's been a crazy month and I went several days without posting. This week bodes to be similarly crazy, but I'll try to keep up!
@glendq Aww, thank you for the fav, Glenda. As I responded to Kristen, it's practically point-and-shoot when God shows us this!
@kamb Thanks, Karen! I couldn't even have dreamed these colors!
@dishaparekh176 Thank you so mucy, Disha! I still like it; it's my desktop background image at the moment!
Indeed, it was always Joyce; she was such a good supporter and "encourager", from both her commenting and "by example"... I will have to look for her comment on one of your posts from near the first-of-the-year!
(I used to do web design and I always write the code directly; no WYSIWYG for me. So I learned that I could get bold and italics in the descriptions of my posts, but recently I realized that I could have the character formatting or the "live" links, but not both. So now a daily task is to remove the formatting from the old posts so the links work. Tradeoffs again!)
The part at the bottom..are you saying that you learned to code so that you could have more than just plain text here, but that doesn't work and be able to post links to your old shots? I think that is what you are saying. And I would have chosen the links too. and yes, I can see the improvement in the years of pics...
One of the projects I did way-back-when: http://www.dgorton.com/portfolio.html. He has his own in-house person now, but I got him on the web many, many years ago. It was fascinating going through the albums of a former White House photographer for the New York Times!
I know a bit about Excel…