Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Not sure of this stuff.......

OK, here goes, I guess I'll join the techno world of communicating, but I won't ever put on a George Jetson outfit, EVER!
I guess I'll start with a few pictures. Well, I guess I better tell you how I even got into photography first....is this how this blogo stuff works, kinda like writing in a dairy so everyone can read it?
My wife makes lampwork beads, and sells then on the INTERNET. I guess I'll need to leave a space here___________ so when I figger out how to insert a cyberlink into my text, the spot will already be there (well hey now....I think I'm already feeling more techno puter savvy).
OK, find my train of thought before it tool a different track.....er, oh yeah, my wife Denise, makes jewelry to sell and needed pictures taken in order to be able to show her work on the INTERNET. She bought me a digital camera, and said "HERE....your job big boy" Man-o....I love it when she talks dirty to me!
So, I done taught myself how to use it and post her pictures. No big deal. Then I thought, well, I had a SLR camera years ago, but the film, developing, etc,  was EXPENSIVE, and the hobby really took off. So, this digital stuff was cool, you could shoot, shoot, and shoot even more and never run out of film (just memory, but that takes like, 20 years or so). I started to take the camera outside and capture landscapes, sunsets, etc....couldn't wait to get back home and upload them to the computer so I could see what they looked like!
It was fun, they always looked good on the little LCD on the camera, but when you saw them on your computer monitor, it was a whole different story.
Of course I didn't let that stop me, heck no.....I just took 10 times more pictures of the same thing hoping one might turn out.
Well, when the computer my wife was using to sell her stuff on the Internet started running slow, slower, and smoking when you turn it on, she figured it might be time to delete some of these full size picture files, she said 50 exact same photos of the exact same object, was not necessary....especially when you have 10 or 20 thousand of them....
It took the better part of a week to remove these files.Do you have any idea what Sophia must have felt like when she was forced to choose?
Perhaps I'll stop here and insert a picture before I continue....my heart is heavy, for those lost pictures of that first bald eagle I ever took. I know, I know, it was a little out of range for my camera, but I think it gave it more reality, as it showed the habitat it lived in....OK, perhaps a 1/4 mile away is too far, but honest, it wasn't a seagull, of that I'm certain, sorta....

too be continued.....