The Beginning
I have started this blog once before, but I needed to reinstall the server software for reasons of my own mistakes and lost my previous entries. So, now I start it over again. It is probably best since the server software is installed properly this time and I changed to disk drives so there is 1TB of mirrored storage. I do not believe that I will have that much to write, but it is nice to know that I have room to grow and add other ideas and people to the system. Who knows, maybe some of the users I currently have on the system will decide to contribute their own blogs. I do not know where my efforts will lead me. I talk about my work of choice being photography. I have written several unpublished short stories and one unpublished novel. I do not expect to publish any of them, but that is only because I do not have enough desire of my own. If I had someone in my life that gave me a little push, I might put forth the effort, but it would be for them and not for me. Not because I do not think either they or I am worth it, but because my interests in doing so are not hight enough. I will include an image at the end of this entry that will show you the kind of photography I like to do. I want the original picture to be at its best without having to do a lot of cropping, shading and adjusting to make it what I saw in the first place. This is not easy to do, because the picture as seen by the brain is a lot different than the picture seen by the camera. The cropping done by the camera is absolute where the cropping done by the brain just minimizes that outside of the crop and does not remove it entirely. This means the essence of the surroundings has to be captured without making it a focal point of the picture and the focus of the picture needs to stand out enough not to be lost in all that surrounds it. In addition you have to determine what is the actual thing that captured your attention in the first place. Was it a particular item or this entire image including all the surrounding. All of this goes into the picture and the trick is to make it happen with just one shot, not a thousand. Here is an example of what I mean.
