A day, a day, and photos.

I uploaded six more photos to Flickr - these are from Friday evening's trip to the Japanese Gardens. The top two are more art than photo; the third one down is my favorite of the batch. [Edit: I uploaded another photo, an old one from Multnomah Falls. So 'the top two' are now numbers 2 and 3, and the 'third' is the fourth now.]

Work today went decently; when I got home, the power tools won. So, off to Home Depot tomorrow on the way home, I guess. Joy. I didn't get my allergy shots today; the skin rash was still acting up. I will go tomorrow if I feel up to it, Wednesday otherwise; either way, two times this week is possible and three is not.

My desktop background has inexplicably morphed. I didn't choose to change it deliberately, but I must have hit something I did not mean to. It's now a photo of my parents from Sunday; it's not a horrid photo, but I'm getting the 'why is this camera aimed at me' look from both sides on this one. At some point, I will have to dig up my actual wallpapers and reinstate one of them. Not that I don't love you, Mom and Dad, but - it's distinctly odd. Especially since the thing wasn't straight and the stereo cabinet is leaning off the side of my monitor as though it will soon fall.

Photography musings....

I have picked up my camera again. I suppose that this is stating the obvious. It's good to be taking photos once more. I am good about taking many pictures, many different ways, of the things I truly want - so that some of them will work and I will learn from the ones that didn't. But I am only good about it in some senses; other times, I take several but they follow all my usual patterns. Tick-tick-tick. Good for good photos, not so good for learning or experimentation.

Then again, the fundamental aspect of photography is not so much the picture - technical skill is important but one can turn out image after image that is technically perfect and meaningless - but the eye. It has to be informed, of course, by what the camera can do and what will look good in a photograph (the spread of stars in a country sky is a glorious sight, but it is not one that my present camera will ever convey properly, I don't believe - certainly not in my hands and at my skill).

At the moment, I am mostly taking photos because there are photos to take. I found 26 things and hoped to use it for inspiration but, after some attempts, I must say I find their list not so inspirational - I tend to forget what is on it and that is not very helpful. Neither am I fired by or interested in most of the topics. I may try one of the older lists, since there's nothing to stop me from doing so. I like some of those better.

Or perhaps I'll simply go on trying to take photos in new and interesting ways, asking myself how I could look at things differently.

Speaking of looking at things differently, I think I need to find my bizarre-perspective shot of the lower falls at Multnomah Falls and add it to the Flickr photos.