@Stormwatch,
Afternoon Crew
I've been out in the garden this morning - picking up leaves! Now, if the sun would just pop oot for a little bit and the clouds move along a little - that would be poifect.
My black kitty brought in a robin last night... so sad, I didn’t think it would make it - placed it in a box in the garage so it could try and settle... but it flew to boid heaven. Kinda threw me a bit really. Yesterday my mojo musta run away with Missy's and I felt terribly overwhelmed. I'm hoping R boy is alright. S-boy was home for an hour before his Dad picked him up - he's GROWING - he does manboy hugs now, big squeeze the breath right outta ya hugs. Love that.
Glad to say... my mojo's back and we're up and running.
wandeljw wrote:
Here is a screenshot of my daughter's credit on the television show she works for.
jw - you should be so very proud of Katrina - that is a beautiful shot to see! Congratulations to your Big Girl. How fabulous to see her name credited against her work. Can see the smile on your face when you talk about her. Great achievements - she's doing so well, long may it be so. ((((((jw))))))
RH - thank you - wishing the same for you. Glad you were able to see the full moon, it was very cloudy here for the last 2 nights. Can always feel Noddy's spirit tho which is heart warming. Enjoy your weekend and hope the weather stays good for you. ((RH))
Dutchy wrote:...busy weekend downunder with my grandchildren terrorising my freedom.
Hey BEAgle - how are they all? I bet you're having to run around - but that's wonderful, I know how much Oma and Opa love having those kidlets and K around. Have a great time with them - don't forget to take some photos please, would love to see how they’ve grown.
((BEAgle))
Butrflynet wrote:
... I was embarrassed that I'd obsessed so much on that bridge.
thank you so much ((Butrfly)), it was so lovely to read your comments
Ha, I know about the obsessive side to it... I lose time... I mean I can tog for hours and it feels like a few minutes, I do lose myself completely with what’s in front of the lens, it's so different to what the eye sees, especially in macro and the definition/detail. It is a different world.
This is one of my fave photos...
it's not a brilliant photo but... BUT... there's a white boid flying around the eye... and the contrast of that freedom against the angst shown in the mask/face... that's what I see, not the picture, it's capturing that feeling.
I do know I'm a tad obsessive (ha, understatement there)
anything happens, pick up the camera, happy, sad, musing - pick up my eye to capture the detail, shut the rest of the noise off, there's no noise except for the shutter, no peripheral vision, no noise - and actually, it p!sses folk off <shame really - cough> which is why I keep myself to myself these days or just with those who get it; once, it was a comfort blanket and I still carry my camera as a comfort blanket - but now, when I shoot, it's more pleasurable than can be imagined and taking special shots - it's pure pleasure.
I can tog a leaf a couple hundred shots and see something different in each one - but it gives me such peace and no-one but me and mine see.
Photography, for me, is communication. It’s an expression of things that can’t be spoken or explained. In a virtual world – it iz the eyes to the window of my soul <very cliche, I know, bit of a gag there>, but it is very personal. Now tho, I limit myself of what I show, it’s measured here so it can’t be made ugly.
Quote:Your photos have inspired me to take up my old hobby again. Haven't done much for many years because all the film, developing, and prints were getting way too expensive
One of these days I hope to be able to afford a really good digital camera. Maybe I'll sell some of my gold jewelry and get one.
Ooh, do it do it do it
I can see you togging Butrfly - especially as you grow plants and veg and cook etc... creative.
Digital is the most amazing technology and it’s immediate... now, it's so easy to upload to a site and cheap as chips to have the photos stored or printed and sent to you within a couple days - just a click of the button. I very rarely ever print a photo - just click them and don't do anything with them 'outwardly' - (tho I do have thousands upon thousands of them
) - they're stored to remind me of the feeling, when I need to feel – I love to look back on captures, some I may never look at again. I have even learned in the last few months to delete many that had bad/sad feeling attachments - quite empowering actually.
I have to thank you too Butrfly - there was one shot I've been looking for, for ages, which you commented on. I needed that shot so badly. THANK YOU!
Also, the poppy you commented on was Bob’s poppy, I’m so glad you saw the beauty in that – I’d sent him some different poppy shots just before he died – the poppy is always his and he is now growing like the clappers in the garden. When I send a photo out – no other one person ever sees it – simply because it’s a personal feeling.
There are so many good cameras on the market at the mo. I use a Sony A33 which is considered the poor mans camera (we Sony users are the outcasts of the photography world, if you don’t have a Nikon or Canon you aren’t classed as a photographer - hahahahha, make me laugh and suits me fine because my Sony baby has a smile shutter on it – LOVE THAT
) - you know what tho... it's a great little camera! Some of my lenses cost more than my camera
(macro are hugely costly) and I'm not like most toggers that keep them all cleaned and bubble wrapped up and taken care of - I have equipment all over the house in various places, with smoodged fingerprints on the lenses, dust on the inside and lens covers everywhere except on the lens - my so bad! I even found an end cap in a saucepan t’other day.
It's there to be used at a moments notice - and each lens is, for which evermoment. Sony work for me – but their run-of-the-mill lenses are way more expensive than Nikon, for example – and more often than not, you can’t mix and match lens manufacturers – so if you do decide to go the DSLR route – and know you’ll wanting to use different lenses, you need to weigh up the options considering the price of any additional lenses.
Anyone who has a DSLR should be forced to get a 50mm prime... it's one of the cheapest lenses and beautifulllllllllllllllllllllll, love that lens 
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Sony – cheaper camera, more expensive lens.
Nikon – more expensive camera, cheaper lenses – and arguably, better quality.
Canon – expensiiiiiive – but in most circles – known to be top of the range and beautiful in the hand, little heavy tho, but top quality. Would love me a 7D – but ‘eh, so not ever gonna happen
Most non-DSLR’s are pretty brilliant too. I have a 5 year old Panasonic DMC-TZ3 which is a little hand held – I use it every.single.day. In the US, the little digitals are prolly below a $100 and are incredibly good little cameras which can give as good a shot as some DSLRs. Over here you can pick up a little digital for under £50 and… it does the job. I have to admit tho – my DSLR is a work of art – my macro and prime lenses are… outstanding, having a 10-20sigma wide angle for landscapes – sheer ecstasy! <ha, how sad am I, geek, strokes camera as it’s sitting beside me, reaches over and pats sigma!>
You can also take a snap, walk into a shop anywhere in the modern world, hand your card over and they’ll print the shots off for a few pennies in minutes – not that I’ve ever done it but I know folk who do. You take the card out of the camera, stick it in the computer… and off you go. Digital is DIVINE IMO. <I know somewhere in the world film photographers are now slapping me sideways, but I just love digital)!
OK, rambling now - obsessive side coming out - you can see why I keep myself to myself about togging now a? A few folk get me - so, that's coco.
Hey IzY – my little fella may make it onto the news down here in a few weeks so I shall let the crew know if it’s gonna be on.
<I shall be the one with the camera and bubbling with tears!>
You watching the footie this avo? Six Nations starts shortly – YAYAYAYAYAY! ((IzY))
((Stormy)) - hello gal
Hope all's good with you
((Missy)) - thinking of you - sending you the biggest hug from across the pond. x
(((((Blue))))) hugs you xox and yours x
Okeydokey, kettles going on, quick root around in the garden for half an hour and then….
C’MON WALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<apols for rambling – yesterday was bit of a weird one – today is YAYAYYAAYYAYYAY>
(((((((((((Crew)))))))))x
