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Lately I have been struggling to get useful photos through a combination of multiple images plus cropping. I had an instructor who believed that you should always strive to get the shot right inside the frame that you have and never crop...
...but as I entered the real world of photography, I learned that many professional photographers left plenty of space between the subject and the margins. They then cropped to the image that they had always wanted. Today's picture of Aphrodite...
...demanded cropping: otherwise I would have splashed the eye of my audience with lots of useless clutter from my house. We don't keep a clean house suitable for taking portraits at a moment's whim. I must confess that we still have...
...boxes which we have not opened since we underwent remodeling hell while Lynn had cancer back in 2012. When we came back, Lynn filled the bookcases with what she believed should be displayed, so my Day of the Dead collection remains unseen.
#photography #photograph #Hemingwaycat #cats #calicocat #RedDot #LaserPointer #jumping
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The day after I took this photo, I led a group of hikers at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Preserve. I usually carry at least three cameras on my person, a fact that my followers have heard so much that they feel nausea whenever...
...the subject of my kit comes up. One of these cameras contains a number of #SFX settings including neon edges. I find this works best for portraits, but on this occasion I used it to catch the Wetlands' irregular landscape of water, mud, and weeds.
#photography #photograph #wetlands #saltmarsh #landscape #SFX #neonedges
Joel Sax shared a #photo with you from the #Flickr app! Check it out:
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More Bolsa Chica pictures are coming. I count this as one of my favorite places to take photos in the #OC. Later today. I am visiting another wetland, the San Joaquin Marsh which is freshwater and forested.
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Led a hike in the San Joaquin Marsh this afternoon. Brought my usual number of cameras but took fewer pictures than I had last week at Bolsa Chica. The weather was hot. Cool breezes blew across the ponds. I drank...
...all of my ice water. There were plenty of birds. The green around the ponds was surprisingly vibrant making it easy to see birds such as egrets and an Ibis. My group noted that there were far too few benches...
...where we could rest from the heat at the north end of the sanctuary. I decided to cut the hike short, omitting a whole loop around several of the ponds. No one protested.
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A #Flickr friend of mine heard my cries of frustration and put me onto a means of "training" my followers by eliminating those who weren't commenting and rewarding those who did. My firewall...
...balked at installing the program that I needed to review my 1400 followers behavior, but I managed to find a way to install it nonetheless. When I am done, I will have less than 75 contacts which is a manageable level. If I...
...delete someone who reactivates themself later, I can add them back as they comment or fave my photos. The system is manageable and easy to monitor. All I will need to do is check who faves and comments each day and run the program once a month.
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I must say that the reason why I like cats is that they don't blame every quarrel in our relationship on my #mentalillness or at least I don't spend time worrying that they do. When I deal with people -- especially those who know -- this fear...
...dominates my thoughts. I know many people think I am not very smart. My wife debates the truth of this, but I feel better if I assume that other people are smarter even if the evidence is that they are not. The cats don't care of rather I can't...
...see evidence that they do. People give themselves away all the time. You can see it in subtle twitches of their face. They aren't that good at hiding their feelings. I had to learn to read faces. I had to know how to distinguish the sociopath from the narcissist....
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