Lazy, Grazy, Hazy Daze – Day 12

Work has been so crazy and on Thursday, it wasn’t any different. The quarterly magazine goes to press next week so there are a crap load of ads to shoot, write and design. Also another one of the writers is out on her honeymoon, at the busiest time of the month, making each day something like living in a swell of vampires ready to charm you so they can easily suck the life out of you to meet their job requests. I wish I had a knob of garlic.

Gray and hazy outside, it was a day for sleeping or pluking or both. Around 3p.m. I had a sudden feeling of ho-hum that drove into my conscience making me wish I was at home in bed. Thankfully the Universe noticed my despair and offered me something a bit better than sitting at my desk trying to come up with another marketing stream of consciousness. A photo shoot.

One of the teams here is doing an ad for the magazine using a SmartCar. I loved the car, though I have yet to reach a hippy-enough mode to purchase one – I want instead the sports car. It was fun working with the photographer who was giving me some tips about cameras and shooting. He’s really good and always likes to share his expertise. The designer was there, as well and he imparted on me Photoshop techniques that he uses to work smarter, not harder. I need to get Photoshop on my laptop so I can play more instead of being tied to my den.

The World in My I's - Day 7

Yippee I have been playing with my new camera and I love it. Yesterday I wandered around the house after work just shooting things, and seeing what could come out of this tiny hole.

I needed some creativity since yesterday at work was one of those organizational days that uses the other side of my brain limiting the creative embers from flashing to light. Usually I have a 50/50 or 60/40 week with a lot of brainstorming for ads, writing magazine articles or drawing in some marketing material for other little trinkets. Yesterday was all Web stuff and boring. But I love organization too. I'm an arty geek.

That's a picture of my kitchen, as seen from the POV of an ice bucket.


Note on B&W photography that I learned from a professional photog that I went scouting with for an ad ... never use the black and white feature on your camera - always adjust the color once it is in the computer. A color picture has something like 20-thousand colors in it. When one uses the B&W feature it is narrowed down to shades of gray in about 300 colors. So there is no true black nor white, just shades of gray. Priceless info.
This is a palm in my front yard about to explode. I loved the tendrilly look and appreciate the way the sunset-inspired varigated shading.


Flowers are my passion. My new macro feature allows me to get really close and forecast a great picture every time. I just love how rich the colors are and how much detail is reflected back.
My other digital, a point-and-shoot, couldn't do this and it drove me crazy since my old Minolta could. But alas we must step into the digital age.

My neighbor's dog sings to me every morning as I water the plants and feed the outdoor kitties. She just loves playing with the kitties. Though she is as big as a pony, she is one of the most gentle and loving dogs I have ever known.

Sometimes even her songs drown out the crazy lady next door yelling at her husband. Dale, my neighbor, and I just crack up when she gets going. We are waiting for the sound of a gunshot. But what would we do then?