Love this:
"Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say." ~Author Unknown
Practice, practice, practice. Am happy to report I haven't shot a single shot on "auto" in almost 2 weeks. And I am loving what I'm seeing. Loving that I am THINKING my way through each shot, learning, commiting to memory the process, so it will be second nature. This is what I want, my goal for 2006. (Well, that and to lose 50 lbs, LOL, but photography is SO much more fun than diet and exercise!)
Notice no pic of Carsey. That's because she was in quite the foul 13-year-old mood tonight and refused to let me practice on her. I will get her later :)
Two comments that coincidently both have to do with Memory Makers magazine. Good first. This quote from pg. 54, "Renowned portrait photographer Louis Fabian Bachrach said, 'I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face--I believe he wants to be idealized.'" I think this is true and what I was trying to say a few posts earlier, though his quote is much more eloquent, LOL.
Now the bad. MM appears to have decided to enforce (or change?) a rule in the MM Masters competition that means ANYONE on a manufacturer's DT who has signed a contract of ANY kind (even confidentialty-only and even if you do NOT get paid) can NOT enter the competition. This makes no sense to me. They are excluding what I am assuming is a huge number of entrants and thus a huge creative talent pool. The way I understand it, the rule has always existed, but only applied to actual (on the payroll) employees of F & W or the contest sponsors. To disclude the group of people who take this industry seriously enough to commit to a DT is unfair and negatively impacts the creativity of the industry AS A WHOLE. I look to the Masters (and HoFers) as inspiration and it would be ridiculous to eliminate one of the main sources of quality artists.
OK, off my soapbox. Anyone else have an opinion on this? Or anything else? LOL
t 
I accidently made my post to my other blog and I'm too lazy to change it (and I don't now how!) so you'll have to go HERE to see what I've been working on. Sorry!
Happy weekend!
t
edit: a couple people have asked what the difference in blogs is. Really only that this one is supposed to be more words (something to say) and the other more my photos (something to see). Sadly I "forget" about the other one and so it doesn't get updated often.
We've been having this nice, mild spring and then WHAM, 93 degrees today. A/C mandatory to sleep, house was 80 when I got home. Going to buy 2 more A/C units for the kids' rooms tomorrow night. Don't like being outside, too hot. I am used to this in August, not in May. Which means our "normal" 2 week span of 105'ish in late August might be a 2 MONTH span. UGH.
At right is Carsey, enjoying the first of what I'm sure will be many popsicles this summer. Been having a ball with my camera (and new-found confidence) and having a little time to play in Photoshop. Am discovering I am a big fan of this super-saturated color. Looks so much more like what my memory recalls when I think of the past. Do you recall the insiginificant stuff, or does your mind swell with colors and emotions? Me, 10 years from now, I will recall how bright green that popsicle seemed, how blue her eyes were (they really are blue), how perfect the moment. Lovin' that I can make pics that will recall the essence of this for me. photography is truly an art. SO inspired by all those I see around me, practicing everyday, that which they LOVE.
