1. Thought some of you might be interested in Format 126, a pretty cool, free, iPhone app. Here are some photos I’ve processed with it.
2. i’ve heard that there will probably be a new iPhone this summer, hopefully with a 5 megapixel camera. at first i was really excited about this. easier to get clear photos! especially of moving children! but then i started thinking about how part of the charm of iPhone photography is the imperfections. would i start looking for apps to add in imperfections?? maybe i’ll just stick with the 3G when we move to colorado. thoughts?
3. Screamlet. it’s my new favorite word. love it! it’s so completely perfect, and should definitely be in the dictionary.
4. i never, ever, ever, want to do an international move again.
5. eve has got me thinking about baby-names-that-never-were, and i’m getting sadder and sadder about philippa.
4. there is a photo of mine up at Pixels at an Exhibition. i don’t know if this is an honor or not. their submission guidelines don’t seem to mention any hows or whys regarding acceptance. i submitted five photos, and only one is up, and i’ve noticed that other photographers have more than one photo up….so i’m leaning towards honor. i hope! we’ll just go with that. so…yay, me!
5. i am thinking of getting Photoshop and taking Photoshop classes in the fall. but i’m a little unsure about my ability to fully and effectively utilize the program. i get worried about overediting photos. i feel like i have an okay eye (with tons of room for improvement) for taking photos, but the art of enhancing??? it could very well be like painting, or interior design, or fashion. i know what i like, but have no ability to do anything with the aforementioned arts myself. and Photoshop + classes is a fairly large investment for something i’m not sure about.
6. speaking of fashion i’ve been trying to incorporate scarves into my wardrobe. something i was staunchly against for myself until about a year ago. how do you feel about scarves? yay or nay? i’m still not sure if i’m able to pull this off without it looking all contrived, but am forging ahead anyway.
7. business trips suck.
8. miss you guys a ton and wish we weren’t moving to colorado.
9. the morges book club is reading Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father. it was my choice, and started out a bit slow, but after that really picked up. i loved it. i’m hoping that it will be a good book club book, with a lot to talk about. i had no idea that bronson alcott was anybody of any importance. it was fascinating to read about him, louisa, and their relationship with other transcendentalists like thoreau and emerson. did you know that ralph waldo emerson was a unitarian pastor?
10. seriously. no more international moves. none.
I got a pingback at Pixels At An Exhibition to your article here. Are our submission/acceptance guidelines vague? Sorry!
Please keep sending them in. Thank you! -Knox
But, to clarify, yes we are VERY picky, and get pickier as the bar gets raised by artists such as yourself, who keep submitting better and better images every day. It has been wonderful to observe the rapid evolution and maturation of this new art form.
So … yes … your picture gets the Pixels stamp of approval, whatever that it worth.
Good to know! Thanks so much, Knox!
1. love that! i’ll have to check out that app! i’m loving messing with my phone but none of my pictures really turn out nearly as well as this!
2. it’s hard. i mean it’s soo soo nice to have an all in one device, right? i don’t know much about what’s coming out but yeah, part of the artistic value in the photo taking now is that you are making something from your limited tools.
3. i know ekbo loves this book but i remember very little of it.
4. enough said on that! recognize talent where you see it and revel in the group you’re in!
5. i think you can totally do it. photoshop, like all adobe programs isn’t the easiest to learn but it’s so handy. most photographers spend a lot of time in post production, it’s just a fact of life. and just because you can post produce doesn’t take away your initial eye. you have to have that to be good at photography.
when you get back i think you should seriously think about developing an actual portfolio. i have done a ton of research on photographers here and i’m telling you most of what’s out there is crap.
6. i love scarves. and hats. i wear neither but i would love to start.
7. i feel for you. i can’t imagine what my own state of mind would be.
8. colorado is closer than switzerland so i’ll take it. i wish you were moving here too.
9. these words coming out of your mouth, i’m having trouble understanding them.. what’s the most high lit book i’ve read lately? hmm, i’d have to think about that very hard.
10. check. if you ever start talking about greener grasses somewhere i’ll remind you of this time.
ah, jody, you’re so sweet!
10. okay, so Eden’s Outcasts is probably the ONLY high lit book i’ve read in the past two years. at least. it was definitely a deviation from the norm.
5. there is definitely a lot of crap out there, but there is also a lot of really amazing stuff too…though i do remember being frustrated by my search for a portrait photographer when we were still in seattle. i wonder if finding a photographer is easier by word of mouth than by google…
3. i am actually kind of having a hard time with this book (almost done), which frustrates me because it is definitely right up my alley in a lot of respects.
10. i’m totally done with greener grasses. totally. well, realistically…probably done. maybe? okay, okay, i’m always going to be a greener grasses person. so remind away!
I fully support your learning adobe photoshop. I really think you’ve found an art that suits you. You like to research and tinker. Photography really seems to benefit from both. With writing you always seemed to be more into the process than the product. Always editing and scrapping. I still cring when I think about how you deleted an enitre story so that you could approach it differently. You have a great, natural eye for composition and editing and this process allows you to explore many different ways of seeing something. You are a greener pastures gal and photography get along great with that sort of personality. I seriously think you should put together a portfolio. This talent skill could be an income earner.
that’s very sweet, melissa, thank you! we’ll see what comes of it all. probably nothing, but it would be fun nonetheless to learn photoshop!!
Oh Em, miss you much. I hate to move myself and I’m sorry that you have to go via the process of moving but I can’t lie…..I’m totally happy that you’ll be back in the states. I’m already buggin Jeremy to go to Colorado. He has a friend there too.