Photography

This is a picture I took of the Portland waterfront at night. I love the stretchy reflections of the night. Really this setting should be done on a tripod, then it would have been a little crisper, but next time.

I've always been interested in photography. And I've never been happy with my photographs. In the past, I was easily discouraged. Very easily. Not so much now. I take hundreds of photos a week, and digital cameras have helped with that!!

Some of the photos I take are pure crap. But a lot are very good. I am not willing to delete all the bad ones, because I could use them to practice photoshop on. But life for me these days is about trying things. Photoshop, as far as I'm concerned, may as well be in Hindu. I can't get it. But I am looking for tutorials, and someone said you can find how-to's for it on youtube... In the meantime, I'm figuring out a really awesome program called Irfanview. It's free, and it can do a lot of things photoshop can do, in a way easier format.

I had no clue even a year ago that I would now be taking picture after picture of trees. And moss, leaves, mushrooms. I'm a frugal person, and in the film realm (where you actually had to take the roll to get developed), you didn't play with a camera. You captured family. Necessary pictures to mark the passing of time. But again... the digital world is different. I am so thankful for technology!