It's been forever

It really does feel forever, to me at least, since I posted to this blog last. I guess I am just dealing with some major artist block. I have been looking over past pictures, trying to dredge even an ounce of creative inspiration out of something and it's just been.. meh.. nothing to really write home about. 

 

I've been thinking, maybe I need to restart my inspiration series, for myself mostly!

Today is just a short blurb, I kinda like how an image turned out that I edited. I was shooting for a bright springy picture and ended up kinda dark.. I always end up kinda dark.. why is that??

Going with my whole love of colors, I have a new color palette mix using Chasing Dreams free Color Palette templates. 

As always hope that this inspires a color mix for you! Or better yet, download the templates and play around and find your own color palette!

Cowgirl Love

Southwestern Palette

Lilac Love

So very absent

I challenge myself to post here more often. I put out our hard earned $$ for this site and here it sits, like a red headed step child most of the time. Forgotten, left behind, neglected.  I can use the term red headed step child because my first born has red hair, and I am irish, it gives me the right ;). Not dissin red headed step kids promise!

So, back to why I am here, school semester is near to over, we're in the last few weeks and the end of the road is near. At least for a month then it will be back to the grind.

I have been busy busy, hence my neglect of the site. I could put up all the pics that I have taken since summer, but they definitely fall into the description of Photo101 and lack the beauty, spontaneity and simple life that I am used to exhibiting.  I do have a couple to share though, ones that I worked on despite being pressed to finish homework. Sometimes you gotta break the rules right?

Todays top tags *Wordle*

Unpacking, more then just my belongings

I always under estimate, be it about moving.. life... anything and everything.

I am still unpacking. Inspiration has been hard to come by as I see my studio get loaded with new boxes, every time that I finally get it empty of boxes. I want to just throw everything away and make my life zenified. But I go through the boxes and there are so many memories, cherished, and painful. Some to be repacked for a day when my heart can handle the pain.

Good new is though, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We're almost done moving out of our old place, and I am almost done unpacking what is here. Which means that I will finally have my studio set-up. What a dream come true! I can't wait to actually start doing something with my chosen profession besides take pictures of beautiful sunsets and pretty flowers!

Inspiration... yeah I think I got that covered!

/mood frustrated

So, I am going to be a mere hour from the next Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks Tour with with Corey Barker.

For those of you who are interested check it here Down & Dirty Tricks Tour

I want to beat myself with a photoshopped wet noodle for not getting that NAPP subsription, like I have planned on doing, every time I think about it. (which is almost daily and there are so many discounts that depend on it!) The one thing that sooths this ravaged soul is that Scott Kelby won't be hosting the party at Phoenix. For $100 I want to see the man, the myth, in the flesh. Not that Corey Barker or Dave Cross are artists to sneeze at! But to lose my seminar cherry is going to require a name I have known to be synonymous with photoshop since I first discovered it.

So, maybe next year they will hit Phoenix again. Maybe next year I will have the fundage to actually go. Maybe next year I will finally remember to join NAPP!

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Weekends are for rest...

Yeah right...

So I finally have the gallery up. Kudos to Photogallerycreator on creating a free and amazing gallery for wordpress! I was trying all sorts of hand coded galleries and then stumbled upon the FIAGallery. I am a happy camper now :)

So now that the site is up and almost to my standards. (Not to sure about the pink frou frou look yet. It's me, but not sure that I want that to carry over to my photography persona. I found an amazing wordpress skin on a photographers site from Hawaii... I wonder if she would share it with me! Well... after I make a ton of changes to make it more "Me" that is :D.

So tomorrow starts back up my 60 days of Inspiration. For tomorrow I am going to be going with Textures from Epic Edits blog

TEXTURE

If texture is a big part of your subject, make it stand out and make it obvious. Match up the textures between your subject and your background. You might even try texturizing the entire photo for additional impact.

Photo by Sukanto Debnath

Playing with textures is one of my all time favs, to those of you not in the know, I have a group on Vox dedicated to using textures!

Well... since it is already tomorrow... take care and see you soon!

A true first, and inspiration

So for my first post, I though the best thing to do would be to inspire myself, and hopefully you dear reader. I spent the evening working on the blog and looking up all sorts of inspirational photography ideas. I finally decided that I am going to start with the first idea from this blog.

1. Play with Photoshop
So much of photography these days happens after the shutter release has been pressed. There’s probably a ton of things that you don’t know how to do in Photoshop. Learn something new and see what that does for your photography potential.

My sister leaves to go back home to overcast wintery snowy Chicago on Thursday.  So I have decided that I will start my trip down inspiration lane that night. I am going to shoot for 1 inspirational idea a day, I can't wait to see how this pans out :D...

So, for a picture that has been inspiring me lately I leave you with some beauty.

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