Pictures pictures pictures pictures!!

[dragonlady7]

So I finally got my pictures back, of Katy's wedding.

No, not the digital ones. No. Those are still on a laptop in Georgia. She hasn't made copies of those for anyone yet, as far as I can tell. Certainly not me.

But, the single roll I took of film photos, I got developed. I scanned the 8 of them that were actually visible. (My light meter is on the fritz. Poor old camera. Probably needs a new battery. It's had the same battery since 1996. I've taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pictures with it. And I've left it sitting unused for over a year. i can't blame it for fritzing.)

I then cleaned them up-- most of them weren't great. I am regaining photoshop wizardry. It seems to be sort of ingrained now. Guess I've done a bit of it in my time. Wish I were better at it, but I just don't have a good eye for what other people are going to like.

Then I got a mad glint in my eye, and went out into the garage and dug up my box of photos. Most people have a shoebox. I have one of those big rubbermaid tubs.
I scanned a couple hundred photos, all told-- photos of Europe, photos of home, photos of Rochester, photos of pets long-departed, photos of old friends, photos of strange art experiments, and some notable reasonably two-dimensional objects from the old Wall of Shame.

I am involved in the slow process now of cleaning all of those up (man, Photoshop 7's "healing brush" is freaking AWESOME for specks on dark digital photographs) and importing them into iPhoto, from whence I am exporting them to webpages.
I know, autogenerated is kinda lame, but it's so damn fast... I might switch to seeing if Photoshop CS has any better auto-generation for its webpages, or some kind of tie-in to GoLive, which I've been meaning to learn how to use...
Anyhow. Very fun.

I've linked to all my attempts thusfar from this page, which I am using to try to guilt Katy into sending me photos.
http://www.bridget.kelly.name/katy/

I'll be putting up some more later. :) I love photography, I love my photographs, and it's been fun rediscovering them.
I am a big dork.

Comments

[qowf.livejournal.com]

Bridgit! Where are you in all these photos?

See, that's what I want to know.

How goes Eomer? I have been mad with work and life.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Hm... It seems that in all of these pictures, i am in none of them.
Either I'm not born yet, or I'm the photographer.

Oh, in the pictures of Sugar (the pony) there's a picture of me 8 years ago, making a funny face, in the distance, behind the horse.

But no, I have very few pictures of myself, given that I'm usually the photographer. I will put some up eventually once I have them organized, but they tend to be few and far between.

Eomer goes... I have been sidetracked by Eomund, but not severely. I was also sidetracked by a burning desire to finish an original novel. However, the English Civil War proves to be harder to write about than LoTR.

I like the phrase "mad with life". I am mad with power!! Etcetera. It amuses me.

I have a feeling my writing productivity is going to decrease, however, because I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get a Job. Bleah.

[qowf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, last I heard you might have a Job. Getting a Job does indeed cut into writing time, but it does pay and there's that part. : )

I need to go and catch up on your writing. I haven't been out to HASA in forever. It's sad.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I don't have a job yet. Not yet. Still hesitating.

But I did put up a series of pages today of photos of my sisters and me. So now there are pictures of me. On the Internet. Scary!
(you go to http://www.bridget.kelly.name/katy/ and click the link that says "me". The links above, to pictures of my sisters, are also amusing.)

[qowf.livejournal.com]

Okay, totally adorable, that would be you!

Thanks for posting! Look at you go with your mad camera skills!