ART OF THE DEVIANTS

Well it has been a long rough ride during the roughest and toughest time in my life which seemingly has no end. Not even a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel.

It has taken me weeks to work out what has been up with my photograph rejections and as it turns out ..

• One site accepted photos it already rejected?!
• One site was rejecting 33% of 6 and then 100% of over 60?!
• Another site, Adobe who make Photoshop and Lightroom, tell me that when you edit photos too much they more or less do not become photos any longer?!
  • So I said your software, Lightroom is wrongly named photo-editing software then?!

So it was suggested to me that I look for other sites that cater more for artistic pictures. Oddly enough I already did that and had a tab open. But I did not decide to go with them.

Nor did I go with the next half a dozen I looked at, though I came close a few time and espcailly with one called Folksy.

In the end I went with one called Deviant Art. Seemed OK though I did not know there was a limit to what you can put up without an upgraded account.

Also I went from 2GB down to one and the next day I started uploading and it was back at 2GB so I do not know if the limit is 2GB per day?

I have been rammed into a corner and my health is playing up and I am having difficulties trying to carry out my mission.

Even ow after realising that the evil social services tried to trap my daughter after trying to get her to sign a document that basically stated she was going to get into trouble no matter what and wanted her to fucking agree to it, now confirmed by a solicitor. Even with my heart playing up several times and me wondering if I was going to have a heart attack. Even with my daughter fretting on the phone about what the social services were going to try this time and try next. Even when I kicked a car door with blood coming from my leg and a bruise sure to follow. Even with being called out suddenly to go to my storage lock up to get some stuff out before I lose all my remaining belongings. Even with all that .. I got someone faking crying over a one foot wide strip of carpet needing a vacuum. Yah .. I said tears! I am wondering if I am going to get whined at tomorrow because someone else has been whining today and I was not even in the fucking house at all, all day!

See I keep telling people I just cannot win!

I need to get out .. I need to move on and my finances have all been cut off .. my ad revenue has been frozen. I have been contacted by some suspect people and I even .. hmm lets just say looked at half a dozen times today?

So another plan to fight back and the mountains placed before me..

Deviant Art.

They will help you sell all manner of things of an artistic nature and maybe others?

Here is the place that photos I have played around with in my photo editor to look bright, contrasting, soft and even a little watercolour painting like will end up ..

https://www.deviantart.com/saintallnights

A FISTFUL OF PICTURES (Part Six)

I managed to get out again as I had planned ..

I saw many things that I wanted to get to with the camera .. I mean in line of sight that would have only taken ten minutes .. but I could not.

Some pictures I took did not turn out as I had imagined, funny how that works, and no matter how hard I tried I did not create anything I really liked.

But then I was getting tired, was in pain, had chest issues going on and various things on my mind .. like death for one over two people.

I wanted to do this while I was here because the bus journey is dead easy and I will be doing it again .. hopefully .. but like this day .. only on a Sunday and, of course, if the weather is good.

Along with my many symptoms I have been dogged by a new one that seems to have something to do with .. balance and I noted that many pictures were a little skewed. This has never been a problem before and unfortunately I have no one to speak to about it .. GP wise as I currently do not have one .. long story .. NHS' fault as ever. I have been trying to correct this but NHS England are being their usual idiots selves.

Anyway here are a few more pictures ..

https://www.flickr.com/gp/89426160@N05/340a86

Where it should have ended three years ago but did not .. omitting a couple of things they stated to me from the letter .. I half expected so I recorded both lol

THE NEW SET

Well ..

I have been a little busy .. and away for eight days.

I am still shopping but apart from some stuff inbound .. the main shopping has paused .. due to some unforeseen circumstances and a change in a particular .. destination.

A destination I have already been to once ..

But here are some pictures with my new camera ..

Bear with me as I am getting used to the controls and .. trying to remember to alter my settings, aperture and such, as the light changes.

Right then .. a few things to remember for viewers going forwards ..

• These images are shot in RAW
• Shock number 1: These are edited/processed in bad software (i.e. prob losing Image Quality)
• Shock Number 2: These are then shrunk down to 30% their original size .. yup I do not care how many times you look and think rubbish .. they ARE shrunk down to 30% - 42 Mega Pixels
• Shock Number 3: they are reduced in size in MS Paint .. yeah, yeah .. I know, I know
• Serif Affinity Photo will be purchased very soon!
• I will sort out my FLICKR account I never used .. much .. anyway
• Sony A99 II DSLT
• Sony G Series 70-200mm f2.8
• Sony Zeiss 24-70mm f2.8
• Sony 1.4x Teleconverter
• Sigma 85mm f1.4 (Incoming .. soo .. no, none of the pictures are shot with anything other than the two f2.8 lenses .. some might be at f4 or higher if I used the teleconverter)
• Two dozen 4K videos up on YouTube, see bottom
• I was with four children that were hyped up some of the time .. so could not do everything .. plus the family was kinda .. threatened so had to focus on that .. kind of still am, bear with me a couple of weeks, lol

On one shoot I met a really nice guy, photographer, who loved nature and we chatted in the hide for 3 hours. Kinda reminded me of why I do some of the things and blogs that  do .. people like him.

Now the 4K Videos ..

GAS BAGS

Well here is another blog I forgot to post and update on!

Yeah .. once before I had these big plans where everything was going to change but it never panned out and I never gt t the bottom of it or the reasons?

Yeeah .. this wasn't that.

But as it turns out the 'that' has returned from the proverbial grave and in a week from now I should have the answers I sought for so long.

Also the issue I had has been completed for the most part. Enough for e to make the radical changes I sought just over a year ago. Or was it two?

Did I ever mention that I live with various pains, a number of things that cause discomfort and anxiety and sometimes literally and I have short term memory issues. Did I mention that I have short term memory issues?! I apologise .. I could not resist that last line.

Sooo then?

Up until now my sessions have included only local areas I reach on my mountain bike? Yeah .. not any longer ..

I have a yearn for more artistic photos and am keen to really get used to spotting scenes with my eye.

Here are a few videos of what I will be using and intended for me to be more keen on the artistic side and if I was to state I not only had a raw shooting camera but that it was also fast and with a high mega pixel count it might be .. classed as an understatement?

Now I can shoot and edit in RAW but .. wait a minute .. it is taking two minutes to open a single RAW file on my PC?! Oh wait? I had plans for that?!

• Landscapes will now be sought out
• Artistic scenes will now be sought out
• Astrophotography will now be attempted at some point, have a blog for those pictures but real good ones might make it on here?
• Bokeh will now be on my mind
• Other lenses might well b acquired?

THE LONG PAUSE

I have had a serious issue going on for seven months now.

It should have not gone on this long but it did.

There was delay after delay and I am not even sure why, with most if not all of them.

As I stated on my corruption blog .. it will mean some big changes when it occurs and will mean that I can buy a shed load of things that are for professionals, like camera equipment.

But before I could buy anything else I needed something that would help me acquire these other tools, of which there is a long list.

Of course one of the other issues I have had is that I use my mountain bike for a lot of work and .. well the weather has been dreadful for me and my health condition. My condition does not like it when it is hot and humid and it was exactly that of late.

Well .. that is until it turned to rain and last night I could heard this horrendous and loud noise and I thought 'That sounds like really, really heavy rain but that kind of rain I have not witnessed before!'

I got up and looked out my window and I think many local Indian people could be forgiven for thinking they had been teleported back to India in he middle of a monsoon!

Anyway yeah so I needed the bike and as has been the case for years now .. if it is really hot, raining or even just a wind stronger than 10mph then getting anything done wildlife wise, or anything else for that matter .. is impossible!

But ..

.. not anymore!

As I stated previously .. many tools to come! Lol! Hmm professional DSLT and some top lenses and do some bokeh photography?! Yes please!

THE BLACK SWAN

THE WORK SPACE IN BLUE

DIFFUSED WATERS at FORTY HALL

Rippled waters and a two second exposure on a camera I sadly had to return!!

Darn it!!

SUNLIGHT IN FOREST OF FORTY HALL

FLOWERS OF A PURPLE STAR

A BUTTON SKY

Sometimes some great photos are spotted and framed...just by looking UP.

SOME STAMENS & A VIVID SUNSET

The golden glows in these I do like, every now and then I will get something that really does hit me, once in a blue moon or should that be golden?!

THE PURPLE ALIEN

A GOLDEN DAISY

THE DYNAMIC DIGITALIS

I found a wild growing Foxglove and did some experimenting...

EMERGING INTO LIGHT

Thought these were good...