Arr! There are times when I feel like a nut. I had planned for this shoot about ten days ago and kept rolling it in my head how to get it done. A couple of things I learned were:

1. Setting the white balance on manual helps to make the colors more consistent.
2. Check to make sure you didn’t forget to reset the manual setting on your lens (oops!)
3. Even waking up at 4:00AM sometimes doesn’t give enough time to piece an idea together.
4. I’m never completely happy with my work unless there’s tons of positive feedback (by the way – no feedback on this one. humph) – even then, I tend to want to change things.
5. Sometimes you just have to quit and move on to the next idea.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Today I said some dirty things to people I love. Nasty words, nasty thoughts … just useless mean stuff. I hate it when I lose my temper like that. What does it take to not only learn how to control my tongue, but to have it so much part of my nature that I don’t even lose control of it when I’m exhausted and bitterly angry.

To anyone out there I said mean things to… sorry. Please forgive me. You really are special and important and didn’t deserve it.

Ok. So I suck at photoshop. The latest few flickr photos show my shame. But this is interesting – it gives me an opportunity. I could either say “eww, this is too embarrassing” and give up on making fantasy photoshop shots or I could say “eww, this isn’t what I wanted” and keep trying until I get it right.

Every time I get these choices I tend to pick the safer and less embarrassing of the two. I wonder which way I’ll turn this time.