Cold outside, but warm inside with fire roaring in the wood burning stove, dry split maple from the trees we watched grow but which towered over the house and had to come down. Tea steeping in the kitchen in a big mug. I’ll add honey and cream. Tomorrow, filming parades inside with Boomtown Hoops, whom I met first at the Maryland Faerie Festival in May - such good people and wonderful hoopers.
I have not even been on Twitter much, only Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yenra
Yet I still plan to come back and fill in the gaps in my journal - so many notebooks to transcribe.
My daughter is a finalist in the 2010 Art of Dairy contest. Attached is the press release for a meet-the-artist event.
PDF: Art of Dairy Cow Announcement
I’m glad that I have been shooting in RAW + JPG mode. Doing so let me go back to photos like this, which were shot with too much exposure, and restore the details of the face. With Lightroom 3’s camera calibration panel, I can start with my preferred Nikon setting of vivid and then go from there to restore details.
Home Office Workspace, originally uploaded by Yenra.
My new home office workspace is set with everything in reach. All that I need to create is here. The rest is up to me: the inspiration and perspiration to get things done. Not pictures is my futon couch. Yes, it is easy to take naps, but I wake refreshed.
Today was a wonderful day at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I got to spend the time with one of my sisters and one of my nieces. Lots of photos to process and post.
Good-looking Renaissance family, originally uploaded by Yenra.
I took over three thousand photos at the Maryland Renaissance Festival on the first Sunday in October, a record for me. I’m learning my camera (a Nikon D300) better each time I go out on a shoot. This time I learned better how to keep focus with moving subjects; how to reestablish focus when shooting many photos in quick succession, how to rapidly spot meter, where best to stand when taking long shots, and how to keep myself fed and hydrated during a long shoot. Perfect weather, cool and sunny. It will take months to process the pictures the way they deserve.
Preparing my next Bookshare scan: Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell - an impressionistic study of the moods and atmospheres of Cyprus from 1953 to 1954. Durrell is a residence writer who paints intense word portraits and landscapes. First words of this book: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will–whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures–and the best of them will lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. These thoughts belong to Venice at dawn, seen from the deck of the ship which is to carry me down through the islands to Cyprus.”
WOW-c_HSL-Only_Brown, originally uploaded by Yenra.
Experimenting with the many photo presets designed by Jack Davis for Adobe Lightroom that are available for free.
Trying the ones that deal with the suppression of all but one color range. Applying them to photos taken at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Finding out what the world looks like one color at a time.
Fascinating Bubble, originally uploaded by Yenra.
Third visit to Maryland Renaissance Festival is now a memory - but a rich one with many sights and sounds added to my mind. Photos from Saturday, September 12, 2009
Sunrays through Smoke, originally uploaded by Yenra.
I’m going to try to go every Saturday this season to the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I made it to the first and am on schedule to go to the second. I’ve taken some good HD video in the past. This year, I’m concentrating on photos at first. Maybe I’ll switch back to video.
Swan Flight 1/5, originally uploaded by Yenra.
I’m starting to post photos from our vacation in Rhode Island. This picture of a swan in flight was taken early in the morning from a rowboat on the Kickemuit River.
22 Bowens Wine Bar and Grille in Newport, Rhode Island is a restaurant we’ve visited often over they past twenty years, never having a full meal, but only clam chowder and dessert. That and fresh bread - so delicious. Then walking around Newport. This weekend, cool breezes, the sun setting, wonderful light for photos, good memories piled together.
While I was taking pictures at the last lacrosse game of the season, I snapped some shots of a jet going overhead. Only after it was passed did I see that the moon was out.
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- a series of challenges - things breaking (water, air, electricity) - but solving them 1 by 1 & feeling good.
but I heard we’ll see them on Runway where it has moved.
I want to intensify my perception this weekend by reading plenty of Hopkins, Whitman, & Blake.
