20 FAVS

These are the photos that I am going with for my favorites.  What can I say.  I am a Libra.  It is pretty clear that I favor a primary color palette, or at least a strong palette, except when I don"t.  I like a close range, except when I want a vista.  If you are in my class, tell me what else you see.

This is one thing I would like to discuss with me and with others.  I feel that my photos are rather simplistic.  On the one hand I like that.  On the other hand I feel like maybe it is not ART. I will say that I like shooting that way,   but to be honest I feel like maybe my pictures are too babyish.  I like this photo, but similar photos make me go to crazy processing.   One thing I will say about myself, not others, I say dear God, just let me see what it is.

This an example of playing around.  On the left was a photo I was committed to.  Mr. Radish and I were staying at the Lake Quinalt National Park Lodge.  It was a very romantic setting and I was taken with the beautiful lake and the delightful colored retro chairs.  I could not leave the washed out original alone.  I fussed and played.   This is my problem, I say that I do not like processed photos, but then I go and do them.  I say I like clean, unfussy photos and then I turn the water yellow.

This is something I put on my real blog.  I was just messing around.  It was fun to try to get a collage together. I am never sure if that is just wasting time.  But it was fun.  I am never sure if anyone else thinks it is fun.  I love to photography clouds.  I love to photograph houses.  The house in fact is not romantic and the clouds are.   This is a little heaven and hell .  

Sometimes I like to photograph something other than fluff

Sometime I like to photograph something other than pretty.  I like architectural  stuff.  I like lines.  I really like stripes.  Sometimes I see beauty in more masculine ideas.  I liked the light here.

My need for creativity

I do have a need for creativity.  I need to do something everyday.  For many years I put that into cooking, and it has been a life long devotion.  However now at 72 , I have reduced my standards quite a bit.  I have done knitting, gardening and painting, and writing.  I still write a blog.

 I have had health issues for much of my life and two years ago I decided that I needed to change things.  One thing I decided to do was honor my creativity and make it more of a priority.  For what ever reason, my health has improved unimaginably for the good.  I am loving what I am doing.  If I could make a little money at it, it would be heaven.   I am not counting on the money part.

I need to be using my mind.  That is one reason that I take classes.  I love to manipulate the photos, although I am not into processing heavily myself.  It is fun to do, but it is in the end not the way that I want all my pictures to look.  Now everywhere I look I am thinking, how can I make a shot out of this.  This is good!  It needs a photo.  My husband drives me around while I shoot.  

And to be honest, I love that some people like my photos.  That feeds me.  But I think I might still do the photography if no one ever saw my photos.

Why Do I take Photos

I really fell into photography.  Years ago my husband had the film camera and he took all the pictures.  He was great technically, but he did not have the artistic sense that I wanted.  I bought a camera to take pictures of my daughters faces and not the vistas that he liked.  Later I bought a new camera to take pictures so that I could paint  as paintings.  Then I wanted to improve my blog.  For my 70 th birthday I bought myself an SLR.  Then I finally learned to use it on manual a year later and I was hooked.  I started taking classes on line and learning a little more, and I realized that I was getting better.