Time really flies; I am aware I have not posted since March 27.
We have had a multitude of disruptions in our ordinarily mundane lifestyle which is disoriented with a major improvement project. However, it is not like we are building a house! I keep thinking 'this should not be so time consuming and confusing.' It is nearly completed when some orders are finally received. I guess I'll blame it on old age but I resist that lament.
Everyday I make a list of 4-6 chores to accomplish which should not tax my somewhat low energy level. What is not completed is rolled froward to next day.
Yesterday (Monday) was no exception with 5 items: (1) clean utility room; (2) call Luckie's vet to order some meds; (3) clean ice out of so-called frost-free freezer; (4) collect household trash for Tuesday a.m. pickup; (5) continue outside annual planting hanging baskets and pots.
Summary #1, #2 forward to Tuesday. #3 husband completed. #4 I completed. #5 I watered all that were planted and those awaiting transplanting, and removed price stickers from some pots--no planting.
My excuse is one we always used when I was working-- "It's Monday." There was one disruption after another.
Our carpenter discovered one of our insulated windows was "clouded." This statement provoked my searching the unorganized home improvement box for the lifetime warranty and a phone call which resulted in a "wait until Friday for a return call." Scratch one hour. We had just completed a Saturday of ourselves and 2 helpers washing windows, inside and out, plus cleaning screens, trays, etc. [I don't remember cleaning them, inside & outside,since installation in 1999. Guess I can safely say, "I don't do windows!"]
Meanwhile I remembered my SUV was still stuffed with a Sunday afternoon WM visit. I was tired from a day of church, Life Group and then shopping, so I only unloaded perishable items Sunday. So scratch another two hours dedicated storing of accomplishing tasks like addressing a card to a brother/wife for 50th anniversary. Later in the evening I mounted purchased two wall clocks. My husband mounted a 3rd on our covered deck which also has a barometer and thermometer built-in, kinda neat.
There were in-coming phone calls, mostly short. I am the designated phone answerer as most calls are for me, but when they are not, I have to search the property for my husband. I am thankful Luckie receives no calls. She just is the "voice" on the recorder. HA HA.
Husband's days have mirrored mine, besides helping the carpenter, he is busy mowing three yards (ours, an absentee neighbor whose property we try to keep minimally neat, and church property). Yesterday he had a neighbor's son, helping him with our property. We used him last year, too.
Late in the afternoon I cleaned the price tags off 10 small flower pots, with charcoal lighter fluid, my favorite gummy, sticky stuff remover. And I lightly watered plants, as I knew rain was likely for the next several days.
In the evening hours I taught myself to use HP's LightScribe to burn a label on a music DVD I had made--not impressed with the results. I want the playlist on the label so I don't have to do an insert, etc. There was an add-on plug in do that chore, but somehow it did not PLUG IN and I did have latest revision.
Sure 'nuf, I awakened to the soft patter of rain today. I cleaned the utility room before writing this blog. And the Vet office is now open so I am off the finish yesterday's list. Maybe I can take photos of another room today.... I may have forgotten how to use the camera.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Monday, December 05, 2011
PROGRESSION OF THE SEASON
Just to emphasize and clarify we do not check out on Christmas, as some may have gathered from my recent post, I decided to add a postscript. You might call it that.
This week we completed our Christmas Wish selection and delivered it to the center for distribution. We were amazed at the wonderful and very busy volunteers who seemed very happy to be working so hard. At the center is a huge area of donations of items and new or old clothing, toys, and miscellaneous items which might be used for Christmas decorations. Each Wish recipient is allowed to chose items from the vast array of donations, according to certain Wish guidelines.
We also delivered a bounty of surplus men's clothing and miscellaneous other items to our favorite 4-legged charity so our beloved rescue, Luckie's friends may have the hope of a "forever home."
The next three weekends we are treating families in our various circle of friends to dinner at a nice restaurant for fellowship and good food (not exactly what I need) but it is Christmas....Tonight (Friday) is the first of the three evenings.
Today I am setting up two Christmas tabletops which is the extent of our decorations. One is a small fiber optic tree and the other is a lighthouse with a beacon, both cheerful.
Luckie has a sock hanged but empty. I dare not put anything in it until Christmas morning or she will find a way to consume, or otherwise tear it up. If she steals any more of my graham crackers on Sunday she may find that big sock barren, or full or running vacuum cleaners, the sound of which she detests.
Three Christmas Cup floral arrangements designed by myself were placed on a china closet/buffet.
We still have 2 Life Group meetings to complete our providing Christmas for 3 families selected from 3 area schools. This Sunday we finalize what still is not done, and next Sunday we wrap and arrange delivery. I was in hospital the very first meeting so I haven't caught up on everything, except we are furnishing 3 boxes fully cooked Christmas turkey w/4 sides/2 pies dinners from a local grocery store and contributed to purchase of clothing and gifts.
The 3rd Sunday before Christmas we are caroling at area nursing homes, assisted living homes and any special requested visits. If this is at night we may be unable to attend. I cannot stand long periods of time so would have to take rollator which is somewhat a nuisance if we are riding with others.
But I have a personal observance of Christmas I've done for years, some of which began in childhood with the reading of the Holy Scripture of the birth of a Savior. I do it on line or on my Kindle these days. After all I live in a digital age with everything at my fingertips.
Other things I do is read Dickens's A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim) on my Kindle and anything else Dickens may have written. I have his complete works on my Kindle.
I will probably read The First Church's Christmas Barrel by Caroline Abbot Stanley (illustrated by Gayle Porter Hoskins-3), a simple story about giving with Mother's personal signature, I found among her belongings after her death. I loved its simplicity, probably written for children.
I loaned it to a friend who claim he lost it, which crushed me since she had a personal love of books so much she signed her name in every book she owned to proclaim possession.
After much searching I found an original copy at Alibris, a web site where rare, or out-of-print and used books may often be found. I bought the same edition, exactly as the previous book which was some solace, except it did not have her signature. It can be downloaded from Google Books to computers or some e-readers. I did not see Kindle or Nook among them.
I also have Handel's Messiah playing on my computer's DVD player. I believe it to be the highest classical piece of music ever composed by man, except, perhaps that of angels. I am not the only one who has an high opinion of this music; King George II stood for the entire performance of the the Hallelujah Chorus, setting a precedence which all knowledgeable classical music aficionados follow. Stand when the Hallelujah Chorus is performed.
A few years ago 3 friends and I attended a performance of mixed Christmas music in Branson. When the musicians began the Hallelujah Chorus we stood like lost soldiers for a few seconds, before the huge crowd got the point. I learned that fact in choir as a child. It seems my generation forward has little respect for any subject: our National Anthem, our Flag, our Pledge of Allegiance, much less some piece of music they may not appreciate.
I usually have other Christmas music playing on my laptop, too varying to Carols to tradional seasonal music. Two of my favorites are O Holy Night /JoanSutherland and The Holy City /Charlotte Church.
[Links are to YouTube renditions- if you don't like operatic voice, search YouTube and there are multiple fine selections; my husband literally turns off his hearing aids when I play this kind of music. I had my favorite opera singer Marilyn Horne singing Carmen/Bizet, particularly Habernera, which I played in car-actually attended a performance of Horne/Carmen in Dallas many years ago!]
To pacify the more perverse humor of Christmas, in my opinion, I have the DVD of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Despite unnecessary foul language and gestures, it typifies all that could possibly go wrong at any celebration.
I am hysterically laughing at the snow saucer ride headed downhill at exhilarating speed head-on to a WalMart store; the aunt (I think) singing the Pledge of Alligence for grace (prayer) at Christmas dinner and later The Star Spangled Banner, as a cigar ignites sewer gas and launches the smoker skyward. Although the electrified fried cat is funny, I am sure PETA does not. PETA must not have been around when that movie was made.
COOK! COOK? Not me! Any of you who follow me know that is not a favorite thing. On Christmas Day I will warm up one of the same pre-cooked dinners mentioned above from the local grocery store. It serves 8-12 so I share with neighbors and friends.
As I think of childhood Christmas events, I may add a blog or two, but I am back to researching the BADLANDS of our vacation.
I also am having a very hard time with Blogger locking up on "error in saving." I tried immediately publish and then edit. But I lose a lot. I guess I am going to have to change to the newer composing window, which I tried and did not like.
Rewriting and rewriting is not at all pleasant.
This week we completed our Christmas Wish selection and delivered it to the center for distribution. We were amazed at the wonderful and very busy volunteers who seemed very happy to be working so hard. At the center is a huge area of donations of items and new or old clothing, toys, and miscellaneous items which might be used for Christmas decorations. Each Wish recipient is allowed to chose items from the vast array of donations, according to certain Wish guidelines.
We also delivered a bounty of surplus men's clothing and miscellaneous other items to our favorite 4-legged charity so our beloved rescue, Luckie's friends may have the hope of a "forever home."
The next three weekends we are treating families in our various circle of friends to dinner at a nice restaurant for fellowship and good food (not exactly what I need) but it is Christmas....Tonight (Friday) is the first of the three evenings.
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| Christmas Tabletop |
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| Luckie' Christmas Stocking |
Three Christmas Cup floral arrangements designed by myself were placed on a china closet/buffet.
We still have 2 Life Group meetings to complete our providing Christmas for 3 families selected from 3 area schools. This Sunday we finalize what still is not done, and next Sunday we wrap and arrange delivery. I was in hospital the very first meeting so I haven't caught up on everything, except we are furnishing 3 boxes fully cooked Christmas turkey w/4 sides/2 pies dinners from a local grocery store and contributed to purchase of clothing and gifts.
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| Three Floral Cups For the Season |
But I have a personal observance of Christmas I've done for years, some of which began in childhood with the reading of the Holy Scripture of the birth of a Savior. I do it on line or on my Kindle these days. After all I live in a digital age with everything at my fingertips.
Other things I do is read Dickens's A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim) on my Kindle and anything else Dickens may have written. I have his complete works on my Kindle.
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| Cover |
I loaned it to a friend who claim he lost it, which crushed me since she had a personal love of books so much she signed her name in every book she owned to proclaim possession.
After much searching I found an original copy at Alibris, a web site where rare, or out-of-print and used books may often be found. I bought the same edition, exactly as the previous book which was some solace, except it did not have her signature. It can be downloaded from Google Books to computers or some e-readers. I did not see Kindle or Nook among them.
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| This "illustration" is one of only three in The Furst Church's Christmas barrel All three are sepia toned but are some kind of paintings, from which plates were probably made for printing. In 1912 publishing and illustrating a book was much different than today. |
A few years ago 3 friends and I attended a performance of mixed Christmas music in Branson. When the musicians began the Hallelujah Chorus we stood like lost soldiers for a few seconds, before the huge crowd got the point. I learned that fact in choir as a child. It seems my generation forward has little respect for any subject: our National Anthem, our Flag, our Pledge of Allegiance, much less some piece of music they may not appreciate.
I usually have other Christmas music playing on my laptop, too varying to Carols to tradional seasonal music. Two of my favorites are O Holy Night /JoanSutherland and The Holy City /Charlotte Church.
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| 2nd Illustration - Barrel On Back of Horse (this did not make a good photo nor did Photoshop help. |
To pacify the more perverse humor of Christmas, in my opinion, I have the DVD of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Despite unnecessary foul language and gestures, it typifies all that could possibly go wrong at any celebration.
I am hysterically laughing at the snow saucer ride headed downhill at exhilarating speed head-on to a WalMart store; the aunt (I think) singing the Pledge of Alligence for grace (prayer) at Christmas dinner and later The Star Spangled Banner, as a cigar ignites sewer gas and launches the smoker skyward. Although the electrified fried cat is funny, I am sure PETA does not. PETA must not have been around when that movie was made.
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| 3rd Illustration - The First Church's Christmas Barrel |
As I think of childhood Christmas events, I may add a blog or two, but I am back to researching the BADLANDS of our vacation.
I also am having a very hard time with Blogger locking up on "error in saving." I tried immediately publish and then edit. But I lose a lot. I guess I am going to have to change to the newer composing window, which I tried and did not like.
Rewriting and rewriting is not at all pleasant.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
DONKEY WINE - A TAIL OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Has this ever happened to you?
A vacation, tour, wedding, party, or some very big event is planned for weeks and weeks. Certain facets of that event are expected to be the highlight of the event: something occurs, or an event intervenes, or a subject jumps in, which never would have occurred in the planning; it becomes the memorable event, instead.
After months of high expectation our great road trip to a Moroccan Reunion finally got underway. We drove a pickup because I had to carry a oxygenator about medium luggage size with me for night-time use. I could have had it sent to our end destination except I had to have it for six nights' lodging (round trip) on the road. We might could have traveled by air, but we had too much to carry. We could have shipped our luggage by UPS, but overall, we wanted to see the countryside, as the states through which we traveled were a 'first' for one or the other.
Husband (H) did the driving so I enjoyed the scenery. We split mileage into three days driving an average of 350 miles per day. I know this seems minuscule, but we are in our mid-70s; our attention span, reaction time, etc. are not what it used to be.
We traveled I-35, I-135, US 81, and I-90 en route to Rapid City. We spent nights in OK City, York NE, and Mardu, SD en route. I have already regaled one near disaster in Kansas. [See PORTA-POT SAGA CONTINUES - AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT] In upper Kansas; in Nebraska and South Dakota I was impressed with plentiful amounts of bales of hay and grain already harvested, lying in the fields and the highway right-of-ways. I wondered who got the right-of-way bales?
My sister in Texas knows a man who drives to SD for those huge round bales; he sells them and turns right around and goes back for more. Not all livestock has been sold off, but what is left will be expensive when sold.
As designated navigator in charge of GPS, I, of course, checked surroundings to be sure the GPS and our route were coinciding. One way was to read billboards about various subjects ahead.
Naturally, there were hundreds of Wall Drug Store signs, a place in Wall SD we would later visit. These signs reminded me of the Burma Shave rhyme signs throughout the South and Southwest during the '40s--'50s.
But there was one sign that really caught my eye which said something to this effect: 'Visit Prairie Berry Winery, Hill City, SD, home of award winning Red Ass Rhubarb Wine.'
I leaned over so H could hear me. "Who on earth would name a wine RED ASS?" I said. There were several such signs driving into Rapid City.
The first touring day, we traveled through Hill City en route to Mount Rushmore. As our female tour guide mentioned the multiple award winning Prairie Berry Winery as we passed by, the whole bus hooted "Red Ass Rhubarb Wine" so we weren't alone in our interest of the name. Poor tour guide--this was her first bus tour, a military group at that. I bet she reverts to smaller groups after this 4 day ordeal.
The third day lunch was at a lovely German restaurant in Hill City. By now the poor woman tour guide was tired of hearing about the RED ASS RHUBARB Wine every other breath, I guess. When we again boarded our bus she announced we were going to stop at a convenience store nearby and paused. I thought, 'why are we stopping at a convenience store, we just ate?'
She then announced, this store had 21 bottles of Red Ass Rhubarb Wine. We had 30 minutes to make purchases. Nearly half of the 42 tourists exited the bus including H who bought 2 bottles. After the group returned to the bus, they were giddy and raucous as if they had consumed their purchases. They half-listened to the tour guide the rest of the day, and we had an evening at a chuck wagon style restaurant with a western band that night yet to attend with same tour guide.
Our two bottles were for my best friend (food editor for local newspaper) and a couple who were her close friends. But by the time we e-mailed around, everybody wanted to try the strange named wine, so I called liquor stores in Rapid City and found a case which we brought back to Arkansas.
The 4th tour day several mentioned tasting the wine, but one guy said he drank the entire bottle the night before and it was "pretty damn good!"
The biggest paradox was two teetotalers buying 14 bottles of wine with a less than proper name back for souvenirs. We laughed about it all the way home.
Two bottles went to my half brother and half sister in Texas; two bottles went to our neighbor (helped water or new landscaping) and his sister who recently moved to Arkansas: two bottles went to two long time female friends the 31 years we've lived here; one bottle went to a couple who helped water our new landscaping. Of course, best friend got her two bottles, too.
Then at church Life Group, the house vacated of men after our communal meal and before our lesson; we women looked outside. H was dispensing 4 bottles of wine, and another man was displaying some beautiful hand-made knives. I think we have one bottle left which H says he is keeping for now.
So much for uplifting fellowship.......
The Red Ass Rhubarb Wine is only 10% alcohol and made from raspberries and rhubarb. I have dispensed cough syrups with alcohol content as high as 47% in my early years as a pharmacist. There is very little alcohol in cough syrups these days. Elixirs were known for alcohol but that has been reduced, too.
Another winery in Hill City is named Naked Winery. I wonder if we have to strip naked to tour or buy their wine? Can't be too careful with these winemakers! I believe I will stick with the donkey wine.
I hope our female tour guide and coordinator did not resign after this ruckus bunch of retired military persons. She was used to guiding smaller tours. We were her first bus tour. Her knowledge of the history and the area was outstanding. I learned a great deal; she was open to questions, too.
Whatever gave me the idea Mount Rushmore would be the highlight of our tour?
A vacation, tour, wedding, party, or some very big event is planned for weeks and weeks. Certain facets of that event are expected to be the highlight of the event: something occurs, or an event intervenes, or a subject jumps in, which never would have occurred in the planning; it becomes the memorable event, instead.
After months of high expectation our great road trip to a Moroccan Reunion finally got underway. We drove a pickup because I had to carry a oxygenator about medium luggage size with me for night-time use. I could have had it sent to our end destination except I had to have it for six nights' lodging (round trip) on the road. We might could have traveled by air, but we had too much to carry. We could have shipped our luggage by UPS, but overall, we wanted to see the countryside, as the states through which we traveled were a 'first' for one or the other.
Husband (H) did the driving so I enjoyed the scenery. We split mileage into three days driving an average of 350 miles per day. I know this seems minuscule, but we are in our mid-70s; our attention span, reaction time, etc. are not what it used to be.
We traveled I-35, I-135, US 81, and I-90 en route to Rapid City. We spent nights in OK City, York NE, and Mardu, SD en route. I have already regaled one near disaster in Kansas. [See PORTA-POT SAGA CONTINUES - AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT] In upper Kansas; in Nebraska and South Dakota I was impressed with plentiful amounts of bales of hay and grain already harvested, lying in the fields and the highway right-of-ways. I wondered who got the right-of-way bales?
My sister in Texas knows a man who drives to SD for those huge round bales; he sells them and turns right around and goes back for more. Not all livestock has been sold off, but what is left will be expensive when sold.
As designated navigator in charge of GPS, I, of course, checked surroundings to be sure the GPS and our route were coinciding. One way was to read billboards about various subjects ahead.
But there was one sign that really caught my eye which said something to this effect: 'Visit Prairie Berry Winery, Hill City, SD, home of award winning Red Ass Rhubarb Wine.'
I leaned over so H could hear me. "Who on earth would name a wine RED ASS?" I said. There were several such signs driving into Rapid City.
The first touring day, we traveled through Hill City en route to Mount Rushmore. As our female tour guide mentioned the multiple award winning Prairie Berry Winery as we passed by, the whole bus hooted "Red Ass Rhubarb Wine" so we weren't alone in our interest of the name. Poor tour guide--this was her first bus tour, a military group at that. I bet she reverts to smaller groups after this 4 day ordeal.
The third day lunch was at a lovely German restaurant in Hill City. By now the poor woman tour guide was tired of hearing about the RED ASS RHUBARB Wine every other breath, I guess. When we again boarded our bus she announced we were going to stop at a convenience store nearby and paused. I thought, 'why are we stopping at a convenience store, we just ate?'
She then announced, this store had 21 bottles of Red Ass Rhubarb Wine. We had 30 minutes to make purchases. Nearly half of the 42 tourists exited the bus including H who bought 2 bottles. After the group returned to the bus, they were giddy and raucous as if they had consumed their purchases. They half-listened to the tour guide the rest of the day, and we had an evening at a chuck wagon style restaurant with a western band that night yet to attend with same tour guide.
Our two bottles were for my best friend (food editor for local newspaper) and a couple who were her close friends. But by the time we e-mailed around, everybody wanted to try the strange named wine, so I called liquor stores in Rapid City and found a case which we brought back to Arkansas.
The 4th tour day several mentioned tasting the wine, but one guy said he drank the entire bottle the night before and it was "pretty damn good!"
The biggest paradox was two teetotalers buying 14 bottles of wine with a less than proper name back for souvenirs. We laughed about it all the way home.
Two bottles went to my half brother and half sister in Texas; two bottles went to our neighbor (helped water or new landscaping) and his sister who recently moved to Arkansas: two bottles went to two long time female friends the 31 years we've lived here; one bottle went to a couple who helped water our new landscaping. Of course, best friend got her two bottles, too.
Then at church Life Group, the house vacated of men after our communal meal and before our lesson; we women looked outside. H was dispensing 4 bottles of wine, and another man was displaying some beautiful hand-made knives. I think we have one bottle left which H says he is keeping for now.
So much for uplifting fellowship.......
The Red Ass Rhubarb Wine is only 10% alcohol and made from raspberries and rhubarb. I have dispensed cough syrups with alcohol content as high as 47% in my early years as a pharmacist. There is very little alcohol in cough syrups these days. Elixirs were known for alcohol but that has been reduced, too.
Another winery in Hill City is named Naked Winery. I wonder if we have to strip naked to tour or buy their wine? Can't be too careful with these winemakers! I believe I will stick with the donkey wine.
I hope our female tour guide and coordinator did not resign after this ruckus bunch of retired military persons. She was used to guiding smaller tours. We were her first bus tour. Her knowledge of the history and the area was outstanding. I learned a great deal; she was open to questions, too.
Whatever gave me the idea Mount Rushmore would be the highlight of our tour?
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Time-out to Play!
After a hectic schedule today, where we left home at 9:30 a.m. and were essentially gone until nearly 5 p.m. with a brief stop by the house to change clothes, I needed some down time.
Our schedule today included (1) church services, (2) Life Group fellowship, (3) delivery of items to help my house cleaner with her Volunteer Spay and Neuter Clinic scheduled for May 25-27 in Yellville at the Marion Co. Fairgrounds. We also had to return (4) a long-distance phone message of my half-brother who just had heart surgery and finally (5) we finished a business transaction with my best friend around 4:30 p.m. Too much retired life for me!
For some relaxation in the midst of stress (see previous post), I decided to play around with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.
But today I play: [Hope Jinksy at napples notes, sees I can create rhyme on occasion, albeit almost too short to read!]
In order above of insertion are a number of creations from a single photo: The first shot is straight out of the camera [SOOC]: no corrections like crop, contrast, white light, color, noise, etc. Crop would have been minimumly~probably the tip of white at the bottom of the SOOC photo. This is backlit photo which I love with flowers and other semi-transparent subjects. Although not a MACRO, the Zoom lens helped give that appearance. I suppose Close-up is a better adjective.
The rest of the photos are effects applied to the SOOC photo. Since there are probably 100s of variations, I did not bother to remember which I used. Remember I am playing! I did take note these same effects can be applied to text, clip art, and projects, not just photos.
I only applied one effect to each photo. Imagine the fun of mix-and-match, as well as the degree to which each is applied. WOW!
Having always been a realist insofar as photography is concerned, I can see I may find an artistic leaning with this program, as well as FUN~ FUN~FUN!
Nothing could be better for a NitWit......
Oh yes! I have an inexpensive light box with LED daylight balanced lights ordered. Imagine the fun I anticipate with this, especially in the winter.
I could have built a light box. At this point in my life I don't need to be worried with details. Building is easy to do insofar as the box is concerned. Building a lightbox in a la DIY mode allows for sizes not found in commercial offerings: usually 1"x1", 16"x16" (most common), 24"x24", i.e., basically square. The larger the box, the more it costs.
Buying daylight balanced lights is tad harder and the expense part of a project. But it is possible and the newer energy saving (curly cue ones) are even available balanced for daylight.
Back to my Play Today~~~Which photo effects do you like best?
[Besides SOOC, I like #4. The texture reminds of palette knife oil painting. If I had applied a slight blur to it, I would really have a piece of amateur art.]
Our schedule today included (1) church services, (2) Life Group fellowship, (3) delivery of items to help my house cleaner with her Volunteer Spay and Neuter Clinic scheduled for May 25-27 in Yellville at the Marion Co. Fairgrounds. We also had to return (4) a long-distance phone message of my half-brother who just had heart surgery and finally (5) we finished a business transaction with my best friend around 4:30 p.m. Too much retired life for me!
For some relaxation in the midst of stress (see previous post), I decided to play around with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.
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| SOOC |
I have only completed 1.5 lessons in a textbook for this software. I am a tad impatient it doesn't dive right into the creative processes I know this program has.
Instead it has 135+ pages of nearly 500 pages on the ORGANIZER feature of the program. I prefer to do my own organizing, which is nil or none. However, I can see some advantages to the organizer, especially tags. It's just that I want to choose what to organize in true NitWit wisdom and not necessarily the way dimwit ORGANIZER decides. So I'll plow through the chapters but may take a peek ahead now and then.
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| Effect 1 |
In order above of insertion are a number of creations from a single photo: The first shot is straight out of the camera [SOOC]: no corrections like crop, contrast, white light, color, noise, etc. Crop would have been minimumly~probably the tip of white at the bottom of the SOOC photo. This is backlit photo which I love with flowers and other semi-transparent subjects. Although not a MACRO, the Zoom lens helped give that appearance. I suppose Close-up is a better adjective.
[All photos should be clickable to enlarge.
This post is created in Blogger In Draft,
so don't guarantee!]
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| Effect 2- Lens FLare (I think) |
I only applied one effect to each photo. Imagine the fun of mix-and-match, as well as the degree to which each is applied. WOW!
Having always been a realist insofar as photography is concerned, I can see I may find an artistic leaning with this program, as well as FUN~ FUN~FUN!
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| Effect 3- subcategory of some effect called zoom |
Oh yes! I have an inexpensive light box with LED daylight balanced lights ordered. Imagine the fun I anticipate with this, especially in the winter.
I could have built a light box. At this point in my life I don't need to be worried with details. Building is easy to do insofar as the box is concerned. Building a lightbox in a la DIY mode allows for sizes not found in commercial offerings: usually 1"x1", 16"x16" (most common), 24"x24", i.e., basically square. The larger the box, the more it costs.
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| Effect 4 |
Back to my Play Today~~~Which photo effects do you like best?
[Besides SOOC, I like #4. The texture reminds of palette knife oil painting. If I had applied a slight blur to it, I would really have a piece of amateur art.]
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