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[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

This series really impresses me.

I really need to find a way past the impediments that keep me from doing something similar.

impediments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i hope you do, because i really enjoy the pictures i've seen from you, and i would love to see more; i think you have an eye for it.

don't know what's keeping you from it, but for me it was two things:

1. i didn't think anyone would care. this is a common one for me; i don't consider my own pursuits boring, they please and even excite me, but i think others would find them boring, and nobody else would want to share that sort of thing. especially the smaller pleasures. it's one of the things that makes me shy, and it could use dismantling.

2. fear of perfectionism setting it. because if i make other people sit through something that excites me but might be questionable for them, at least i ought to make it THE BEST. and that always, always stops me dead because my inner critic has a lot to say even about my better photos. i have to work very hard not to look at the dailies that way, of purposely posting pictures that are very definitely not the best, or even among the better ones, because hey, i took them that day, and they show something that stopped me for a moment.

oh. there is a vague third thing: i hate obligation, even when self-imposed; it makes me grumpy or even resentful. and i need to badly acquire some discipline in that regard. so this is a small exercise in pushing myself across the hurdles that come up.

but it's really paying off. i am taking more, and better pictures than i did last year when i was in a real slump; all the practice is sharpening my skills bit by bit. i am getting out more, walking more. clearly there are people who enjoy the pictures, even the ones where i cringe when i post them. and it's interesting to see who enjoys which ones, and why. it's very much not predictable for me in many cases. this'll be good for curing the "other people couldn't possibly care" that keeps me from sharing a lot of things i do.

Re: impediments

[dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

You're taking some really good pictures, especially considering that you're doing it without really good equipment. I've been seriously impressed with several of them.

And, hey, I thought this posting photographs thing was a good idea, though I'm not sticking to one I shot that day. (Or, admittedly, one per day.) So it's had inspirational value!

-- Graydon

Re: impediments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh, thanks for the compliment, and that's way cool that it's been inspirational.

i'm not sticking 100% to one i shot that day (or rather, the day before), i just sorta aim for that generally. if i become too strict in my demands on how i do this, i know i will stop doing it, so i have vague guidelines for myself, but i am not stressing over it. mostly the "one a day" is meant to a) get me outside and b) battle the perfectionism.

openID, eh? *goes to check out that blog*.

Re: impediments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

excellent, you have a blog. i can look at your pictures! :)

syndicated on lj as dubiousprospect (the final 's' fell victim to the limited length for usernames).

"Living in the Future"

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

first flower is a bougainvillea. second one i don't know, but it looks tropical -- acanthaceae, maybe a justicia?

Re: "Living in the Future"

[dubiousprospects.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Thank you for the syndication.

Bougainvillea is the unanimous opinion on the first one; no idea what the second one is either, but tropical would fit with the birds so quite likely. Don't really blame the zoo for not labelling all the plants -- it would be a lot of extra work -- but am so far from a botanist I can barely seen green. :)

Re: impediments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

What's keeping me from doing it is that it takes me so much time sitting in front of the computer before I can actually post something, and secondarily that it's such a chore.

I need:
(1) a reliable broadband Internet connection;
(2) a software solution to organizing pictures so that I can pull the memory cards from the cameras I used that day, stuff them in the card reader, and not have to use my brain at all to get the files copied into the file structure *I* want them in;
(3) a software solution to organizing, uploading, and presenting as a web page the edited pictures I want from that day.

(2) and (3) are things I ought to be able to do for myself, but I'm so damn burned out on software and computers that I've made zero progress towards those goals in the more than 3 years I've known I need them.

I have a tremendous aversion to paying commercial software prices, but if there were a package that would just do what I wanted, I'd be willing to pay for it. What I'm not willing to do is to pay huge wads of money for something that I then have to deal with learning to use, hoping that I can actually get it to do what I really want.

Re: impediments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

what's your operating system of choice? what file structure would you like your pictures to end up in?

i have fairly good knowledge of the available software out there by now, maybe i can help find something that works for you.

[eub.livejournal.com]

vanillaleaf?

vanillaleaf

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i don't know, but i'd say that's a good guess.