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Greetings! Thanks for visiting my site! I
am a programmer/analyst
and instructional
designer who loves to dabble in photography and
poetry
and of late, scrapbooking
- both paper-based and
digital. My husband Benny has an antique and furniture refinishing
business called Second
Looks and I've put up this site to complement
his business site by offering free wall-paper.
I've
only had one photography class through our community college
- that was several years ago and, unfortunately, they didn't
have a dark room where we could learn how to develop our
photos. So I'm strictly an amateur. :) But since then the
advent of digital cameras and digital "darkroom" tools such
as Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks has put wonderful
picture taking within the average person's reach more than
ever. We've come a long way from the little "box" cameras
of our youth.
Of
course achieving the right exposure, as well as optimal
composition, framing, and focusing of our subject is essential
when taking a picture. These processes must occur when the
shot is taken - but the final result is a matter of interpretation
of an image's "soul" - or perhaps the soul of its creator
- the details and effects that caught our eye and were the
reason we took the picture in the first place. That's not
to say that photographs don't |
sometimes take on a life of their own or
that a professional might not tell us that the more setup
we do with the camera, the less work we require in the dark
room. But still, the "digital dark room" allows us all,
amateur or professional, to bring out and to give weight
in many different ways to what inspired us in the first
place. When we send our pictures away to be developed, so
much time elapses that we forget the details. Someone else
makes all the decisions, and our labors of love may be still
born.
Lately,
I've been introduced to the wonderful world of scrapbooking
and have come into my own. I realize that I am really more
of a "point and shooter" and a "photographic journaler"
than a serious photographer. So eventually I think this
site will take on more of a scrap-booking look and feel.
Stay tuned ...
Photography
for me is a mix of training, practice/experimentation, happy
accident, and interesting subjects from day to day life.
When these features all come together, then you get a picture
to die for! But that's a rare occurrence. The photos in
these exhibits have been taken with a Pentax K1000 35 MM
manual SLR camera, Olympus C3000 and C5050 Digital cameras,various
lower end HP digital cameras, Kodak single focus 35 MM,
and now a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35. The non digital photos
have been scanned at some point with |
hp desk scanners or a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 slide and
negative scanner - but scanning's another story altogether.
=:o
Anyway,
feel free to drop in and browse for computer wallpaper in
the galleries below. When they are of adequate quality,
I make my images 1024x768 - and I have several of these.
I also have images 800x600 or smaller depending on what
size they look best. And as my "developing" skills and tools
improve I revisit pictures on occasion and try to improve
upon them.
Also
feel free to visit our fabulous guest galleries and blogs!
And please bear with me - I hope eventually to get the gallery
images loaded into a database to be available at different
resolutions via scripting and to make the gallery sizes
more manageable - just for the sake of learning how, because
it's a cool thing to do, and to make the site more accessible
and user friendly. I would also like to start a blog
of my personal journey in photography and scrapbooking,
but for now, you know how that thing called life gets in
the way ... ;)
Jeanne
Now! On to the Galleries!
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