A FEW FLOWER SNAPS

Been back at the grindstone .. for a number of weeks though I have a few .. issues as well as obstacles .. I cannot process my RAW files they way I would like .. for the moment.

Been killing it, and myself, for around four to six weeks now. Some self psychological tricks and some brute force. Almost got me killed .. twice in 30 seconds .. bunch of other idiot cyclists and when I avoided them at high speed my heart went wild.

Still here to tell the tale.

Also as it turned out I was being punished .. due to other blogs and for telling the truth, would you believe? Been going on since 2016 though I suspected it a lot sooner.

Now at the time many said I was mad .. but not any more and I did manage to prove it.

I have also been hitting several social media sites to build up interest .. some a month or so others back in January. They have been hitting those too. It seems some truths are not OK while some lies are .. would you believe it?

I have taken a fair few and over 6,100 since I got back into it some weeks back. Along with my Sony A99II I also take out a little Nikon compact I have been using for years. Wish I could replace this with something that is more .. professional, manual, raw files and with much larger apertures.

I will get to the ones taken with the Sony I have ever so slightly altered.

These are taken with the very old Nikon that is a camera for snap photography really ..

SECOND WAVE OF A FEW DAYS

Well here is another lot of photographs ..

Hard work this ..

Photography is, in many ways, a pain in the arse .. for me.

• Have the right tools
• Get to where you might find photography subjects
• Work out the best settings or better still vary them with different shots
• Work out the best frame or ..
• Work out the bet angles
• Pray to God the light is good when your there
• Get them home
• Upload the to a computer
• Put them into a RAW image editing program
• Fiddle with settings prior to converting
• Convert
• Fiddle with even more slider .. like monochrome
• Upload to Fickr
• Wait an eternity for that
• Tag all the pictures
• Then link the pictures across to blogs ..
• And Instagram
• And Pinterest
• And Tumblr
• And Facebook

Sheesh! Bloody hard work .. sitting on your arse doing nothing while 2,600 photographs take themselves and post-process themselves for you?!

However .. I do enjoy it and find it .. therapeutic .. most of the time. This worked well for me and my health issues, even long before I knew what these health issues actually were. Of course now I know I have at least two and these cause all manner of issues.

But what can you do?

Well if your the public services you can make promises you then break at the thirteenth hour and give no support whatsoever and then pull the rug from under you. Because that is what you do when your in it with them .. you suffer and some have even died so that they can save money ..

But again .. what can you do?

Here are some pictures ..