I keep a running list of plants, animals, & locations around the world I one day want to shoot. It’s a practice I really enjoy for a few reasons – there’s no way I can remember everything I see that I eventually want to shoot, but what I feel is even more important is that it keeps me motivated. I fully intend to follow through with this list over the course of my life, & looking through it every now & then reminds me of all the beautiful places & …
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So I was playing around & experimenting just now with an 8-minute star trail shot I took the other night (playing around/experimenting = something didn’t work the way I wanted, in this case, it was so dark I couldn’t find anything on which to focus, & the entire scene is horrendously blurry), & while adding some color overlays I needed to know what color was opposite blue (turns out it’s yellow). Naturally, I sauntered on over to Google’s Image Search (which suddenly has a totally new functionality) & looked for …
That’s today’s project. I’ve never tried it before, but I’ve completed the first step – constructing a paper-making screen – so I’d be remiss if I didn’t continue on to the actual making of paper, the process for which I found over at the eternally fun to browse wikiHow.com. I want to play around with fun & interesting ways of mounting photos using handmade paper; I think it could turn out nicely! Aside from that though, the options seem practically limitless: greeting cards, thank-you cards, get-well cards, thinking of you …