Moses Makes Pictures

Here are the five photos I like best 

1. Photography something circular or round 2. Photograph a stranger 3. A doorway 4. Something in disrepair 5. Abnormal perspective 6. Night 7. Contrasting colors 8. Fast movement 9. A challenging place 10. Something tiny 11. The weather 12. Interactions 13. Representation of time 14. Photograph a friends secret 15. Journey or travel 16. A Rock 17. Photograph your interest or something meaningful to you 18. People expressing emotion 19. Low vantage point 20 Reflections of object or area 21. Texture 22. Pollution 23. Take a photo of something ugly 24. Power or the force of something 25. Something Yellow 26. Strong Light 27. Staircase 28. Comfortable area or Home 29. Instructions  30. A trick or joke;-)

             I have no photos that I can post tonight. That is not to say I have not taken many photos. I have.   Some follow the guidelines that Julee describes for us, and some are taken in a less calculated way. However, I have failed to upload and post these photos due to a potent combination of digital illiteracy and motivational tardiness. Having missed the work study hours in the photo lab, and on finding that the library computers do not have access to lightroom, I gave up hope of posting my photos before Monday.My blog is a sad sight I know, like the structure of a house quickly and shabbily assembled to shelter from a passing cloud, and then abandoned on the coming of finer weather. It needs love and care to become resilient and and homely so that it can properly house my pictures as easy days of late summer turn to the long night of winter.              But I was not absent this week from ...

Wild clay drying in terra-cotta pots.

On Friday I descended down into the bowels of the Library and discovered, among the dusty stacks of long forgotten books, a cave called the Parker Media Lab. Here I swiped my student ID and made off with a Nikon D3200 dslr camera. When I made it back to the exit door I was relieved to see that sunlight still filled the waking world. I took the camera home and introduced myself, hoping to establish, if not a friendship, than a working partnership at the least. I have since discovered that this camera has a guide mode which is meant to walk a digital scrub such as myself through the process of taking a simple snapshot, that it has a limited ability to enlarge distant objects, and that it can automatically focus on one of 11 focus points. This is a link to the manual for this marvel of modern manufacture: https://cdn-10.nikon-cdn.com/pdf/manuals/dslr/D3200_EN.pdf