Inspiration

In the past year or so I've become very inspired to make something artsy/artistic/creative. It's a lot to live up to, being married to an artist, but I can still try. So what if I fail or if I'm not good at it, at least it was fun and inspiring (if only to myself). Since we got our point-and-shoot camera last November, I've really been trying to "get our monies worth" and take all kinds of photos. I should probably read the instruction manual and really take the time to learn the different functions and buttons to it. Ben taught me the "macro" and "infinity" functions and I can't stop playing with them. I told him I would be using those functions forever until he teaches me a new trick, haha. That is how I took the banner picture of the moth on this website, using the macro function.

(moth picture using macro function)

So I take pictures now...that's my thang. I edit pictures too. And although I haven't tried picking my brain cells using Photoshop, I have enjoyed using the free online picture editing tools. I have really been wanting to show off some of the pictures I have taken recently and would love feedback. I think Ben is getting tired of me always asking for his feedback. I don't feel like I have an "artist's mind". I don't see things the way he does or the way he can imagine it. My mind is probably pretty square, but I am trying to step outside of the box and understand other ways that objects can be viewed. I am still learning and playing. So while I definitely want feedback and criticism, I'm still fragile and enjoying my playtime.... not toooo much negativity please. :)

this is one of the few I haven't edited. yet. i was playing earlier trying to get only the water drops in focus. it kinda looked neat but was making me a little sick with everything else being blurry. i figured a picture shouldn't make people sick so i got rid of that edit. haha. maybe there is a way in photoshop to carry out that idea without it being an eyesore?

another unedited one. taken in my mom's garden. the flowers look like that because i was using the posterized function on the camera. so technically the camera edited it before i even really saw the picture. wow gotta love modern technology.

it's probably obvious i edited this one. ben says it's too blurry but i actually kind of like it (why else would i have kept it like that). suggestions/comments?

Atlanta, Georgia

Picture Overload

Ben's digital camera broke a few years ago and I have never gotten my own digital camera (still have the camera that takes film, which [sidenote] is a funny story because at family get-togethers, if there is a young kid around, they always want to see the picture I just took and I have to always disappoint them because my camera isn't digital so they aren't able to see the picture....and usually they don't understand that concept since they're growing up in a world that's all digital). Anywho we got married in June and received some money at the wedding and I told Ben "hey lets finally get a digital camera on our honeymoon and we'll have all these awesome pictures, blah blah" and he said "no lets save the money and just buy disposable cameras for the honeymoon" (and no Ben I won't let you live that down, haha). Well we made a pact then and there that we would get a digital camera on Black Friday. So we did (I made sure of it, haha)! We got a good deal and I've been trying to take lots of pictures....but I typically forget to put them on the computer.... so get ready for picture overload!

                                                Fred and the new vacuum are not friends

                                           playing with the macro function on the camera, 

                                  these are some really cool coasters we got as a 

                                                       wedding present

                                                            aww what a little angel

                                                             stickin' his tongue out

                                              accidentally had the flash on but gosh
                                        what pretty green eyes he has!!!
                                                  (he's curled up in a ball here)

                                              hard to tell but the note says 
                                          "Happy Valentine's Day, I Love You" 
                                                and inside is reese's! Yay!

He also got me flowers, but I will share those pictures in another post. I'm trying to take pictures of them everyday because when i got them, the buds were still closed, but they're opening up a little more everyday. I want to make a little picture collage of them opening up. They're verrrrry pretty! :)

Well, it's someone special's birthday today and I need to go decorate and run some errands before he gets home, so toodleloo!