Raised from the dead I guess

For months I couldn't access this blog. It was deleted. Now it's back. Well I'm here. But I'm not really there anymore.

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I have had a very hard week which brought on an anxiety attack during which I picked off each post and saved it as a draft. The posts are still there but I don't have the heart to repost them all right now. The blog will be back. Bad week.

Okay.

Tell me that you don't see a dragon in this cloud, that is wasn't there the whole time. Go ahead, deny it.

Well

it's time to get serious about this hobby. I'm good at a great many creative things. May I say talented? But I excel at none of those things.

If you're here on this blog looking at these images, and your first response is to say oooo, nice photo - please remember that a comment like this is usually not helpful to most of us - for those of us who have invested in our camera's it's helpful and most wanted to read a thoughtful explanation on why your oooo is important. We need frank - we need blunt to balance out the ego trips one tiny success can send us on. Most of all we need constructive criticism, thoughtful support, and explanation of opinion. The oooo without the why doesn't help us grow past our laurels - [and possibly those that exist in our own imaginations.] More often than not - fluffy encouragement isn't what we need from each other as artists. Artists tend to be lazy, depressed, self-centered and hard on themselves - comments appreciated with these things in mind - sometimes what might seem harsh is really the kindest comment you can make, particularly said with the interests of the artist in mind. Most fellow artists realize this - and being a photoblog connoisseur, it's sometimes painful to see so much praise on the blogs I visit. I don't mean to seem harsh nor exclude commentary but we're all really here doing this to be better than we were when we started out. So why not help each other out?

Shed

Shed in my backyard.

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Again - For some reason the vibrance washes out on color images. This is a real problem.

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Sweet roughneck.

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I wanted to title this image 'the lighting touches of inner souls' but I think I saw that title on a rebirthing blog. So I titled the image 'schnitzel'.

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Nothing terribly interesting about this photo or the man who chewed me out for 'stepping on his property line'.

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Same piece of cloud, different shot, black and white.

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Somehow, I don't know how, when this image was uploaded, it washed the vibrance of the image out. If anyone knows why this happens and has a solution, could you let me know?

Joey @ Work

No photoshop. So now to figure out what I did to get this effect. It was humid out; could that have been it?

LAX

I decided to actually read 6 sentences from my Canon owner's manual this past weekend. Ew. Reading. You might learn something. So I was at LAX today just doing what people do there and this very handsome guy asked my friend for a light. I asked him if his girlfriend would like a copy of the photos and he said 'girls don't like me'. Pulease - how sneaky and charming is he? Anyway, if they like the camera, I'm on them. Most people say yes to me, for some reason.