I'll Be Back Soon

Sorry about the lack of updates here lately. I have a few things I have to take care of outside the blogging world. I hope to be back here in a week or two.

-- Ratty

Time Keeps On Ticking

Time seems to have gotten away from me again. I looked up this morning and I suddenly realized that I haven't written a blog post for a week and a half. This is after I had planned to try to gradually get back to doing this every day. It seems the outside world is still pulling to hard at me right now.

It's not interesting or fun things that grab my time. But it is tedious and boring things that tear me away from this that I love so much. I actually had these pictures ready the day after my last post. I was excited to share them with you, but now I can only remember part of what I wanted to say about them. Isn't that how things always go when you wait too long?

This first picture was all about the scene. I just thought that old broken down fence made such a good scene.  Part of what I've been wanting to accomplish with my photography is slowing down to capture just the right view or place. Finding a good place to do these things just seems important to me.

I remember reading some things about lighting effects. One of the things I read was about light coming in from the background. Remembering this, I found the perfect spot to test this out for myself. I've taken pictures like this before, but without putting the same thought into it.

Always before, I would just quickly react to a situation. That sometimes works well that way, but having a plan going in and being prepared with what I want to do helps make things that much easier. So I took this picture with a clear plan in my mind. It's not the greatest, but I was able to get the effect I wanted.

I always loved seeing the beams of sunlight shining through the tree branches from a view like this. Now I was able to capture that same thing. I actually took several pictures of this before I remembered to change my camera settings back from macro. Oops!

This last one is of a piece of firewood I have stacked up. I just thought the textures were interesting. I take pictures like this often, but I keep most of them to myself. I thought it was appropriate for this post though. How do you like it? I can't remember what I had the camera set on for this one. Macro would have probably been best, but I suspect that's not what I chose.

So that's what I've been up to. My photography's getting better, even if I'm much too distracted by obnoxious and boring things. Hopefully my next post will only be in another day or so. I looked at the comments from the last post, and there are much more than I thought. I really only thought there were a couple. I read them as soon as they arrived, but my mind just wanders too much.

Maybe I can work on my plant knowledge between now and the next post. I'm not sure if there will be much more time for that this year. It's getting cold out there now. Summer was scorching hot, and now it's already getting cold. That's the breaks I guess. What you gonna do?