A FEEL FOR PHOTOS: flower photography

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Saturday, 7 September 2019

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 ..

Saturday, 7 July 2018

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 ..

Friday, 6 July 2018

FREELOADER DOING NOTHING

Well after being accused of being that from someone that is an idiot, tried to twist what I said into something I did not and went back under the rock from whence they came ..

With all the pain, several mornings of nearly collapsing and the searing heat I managed to do four days, well two and two halves after running out of steam, I got out to try and continue on with my photography plans .. as per the agreed business plan I had with my Job Centre at the time only to have the DWP pull the rug from under me one week after going self employed, .. to the person making the comment .. you fucking idiot!

What he would not want to hear is in my second year of blogging I got a call while I was cycling from a lady who got my number from someone I had met who had been reading my blog .. probably inspired to say this due to an early photo of this Hooded Man and I was called a modern day Robin Hood. Was not the first or the last time that was said to me along with a few other things. Nice things before you wonder, lol

To be honest I do not feel like Robin Hood as I have not got a pile of cash I have ripped off the rich and do not feel like I am getting anywhere fast! Lol.

As for the DWP I guess they discovered I was not being kind to them and pulled the funding from a firm they should not have done as they were contractors?!

As for the photographs .. I have taken around 650 to 700 photographs across four days which technically should have been more.

I will spend the next three to four days working my way through them and uploading them .. I will be very happy if I produce between 300 and over the moon if I produce 500 pictures.

I would imagine I have taken around 1,200 to 1,800 pictures and improving my post-processing skills as well as my eye and my use of the Sony A99II camera as I go.

Here are some photos and the first is a return of the Hooded Man from around four or five years ago which became associated with me .. in a way that made me feel kind of honoured ..

https://flic.kr/p/27vjyta

https://flic.kr/p/268hpEY

https://flic.kr/p/268hqA5

https://flic.kr/p/28TczYe

https://flic.kr/p/28TdooP

https://flic.kr/p/LKwh1q

https://flic.kr/p/28NSy2S

https://flic.kr/p/28TdSZg

https://flic.kr/p/268jv7L

https://flic.kr/p/27vmUVi

THE FIRST WAVE OF A FEW DAYS

Right then .. as I said and it was hard but I have managed to do a few .. well seventy photographs thus far which I think will be a little under 10% of what I took!

There will be additions to my Flickr account with other accounts like Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest getting the best of these.

These will be each day of tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and likely Tuesday too?

Well .. the 'First Wave of a Few Days' you may think is linked to that three parter? Well that three parter became a fourth parter as I was taken somewhere with Wild Strawberries, some neat other wild plants and flowers, very near where I lived back in the nineties, and some butterflies. Though I was very ill and out of it and we was supposed to go to a second location . in a damned car and I could not do it!

Yup .. happy with that number so far .. if it carries on at that ration I might get over 500 and maybe even 700 photographs up?!

Just remember that ..

https://www.flickr.com/gp/89426160@N05/622Q4y Flickr Account

Still Learning about Camera - Sony A99II
Still Learning about Post Processing, this might start to tell about now?
Fighting some horrible health symptoms .. while wondering if I am going to drop dead at any minute both with and without warnings
Two Horror stories currently unfolding
It was .. DAMNED HOT!! LOL!

Right there is some monochrome .. stuff, some Poppies, some architecture stuff and first photographs of parts of an old .. very old Abbey ..

But first and foremost .. after a five year absence and oddly but nicely associated with me and what I do in another blog .. he is back ..