I changed the number of rows that display on each page in the Boston, Baby! gallery. I have a fast connection at home & at the office, so it doesn’t effect the load time for me. If it slows down the load time for you – let me know. I don’t want to make people wait!
I just told Patti of I Must that I would participate in her photo-o-thon. I think it sounds pretty darn cool, so expect a ton of photos from me this weekend. As if the ones I added last night weren’t enough! (Sorry, no captions yet. And the film ones still need to be uploaded. Tonight.)
Thanks to Astrocenter.com, I found this part of my Libra horrorscope to be amusing:
Take a more active role in improving your overall health. You may consider yourself a victim of certain things and genetic traits that cause you to act this way or eat this way, etc. Keep in mind that you are the ruler of your own body and the maker of your own destiny. Remember that you literally are what you eat. Your body needs nutrients and vitamins to remain healthy and happy. Today’s conjunction between Mars and the Moon is helping you jump-start yourself in this area of your life.
I stopped the BFL diet last week, and I’m not starting again until Monday. However I started to think about it today – making a list of what I need to pick up at the grocery store, working to make sure I keep waking up early so I won’t have an excuse to skip workouts when I oversleep, and just getting ready to kick it in to high gear – it’s time to continue the work on improving my health. There simply is no excuse.
Lately I have become even more addicted to photography. It’s been a fantastic creative release for me that I had lost touch with over the years (I used to go through a ton of film every week and I have the boxes of photos to prove it.) As I take more photographs with my SLR (single lens reflex – aka my “real” camera, a Minolta X-370 35mm camera where you set the f-stop, the shutter speed and focus the lens, all manual) and my digital camera (Olympus D-460 Zoom that I love), I want to learn more about how they work. These articles have been pretty interesting for me:
:: Digital Photography: The Way I See It – great info on the difference between SLRs and digital cameras and tips on how to pick a digital.
:: Digital’s Dirty Little Secrets – fantastic insight on going digital. Things I hadn’t thought of before. Wow… I think my excursions with the SLR are going to increase now.
:: Pictures in the Mind – good article about photo composition and how to “see” a shot. I’ve had people comment before that I take good photos – but the trick is what they say here; “the more you shoot the better you get”. That’s what is great about digital – take all you want, the only worry is a full card or dead batteries.
:: Top 10 Digital Photography Mistakes – advice. Read it.
:: Get Started – links to a ton of articles to help you make the most of your digital camera and to be a better photographer too.
:: Secrets to Enduring Travel Photos
Several of these links are from Ciscley’s page with photo links and information, part of her CisSnaps, her photolog.
Now I’m going to go add more photos to the Boston Baby! gallery! Some of my “real” film photos will be online even, including the black & white ones!
I still feel *really* out of the loop after being in Boston. I have blogs I want to read, but I don’t feel like even looking at a computer. I have projects to work on, but while they are going well they take time. I have housework to do. I need time. I don’t seem to have enough of that, or I have it and I just want to use it to read a good book. While that’s not a bad thing, it still effects everything else that I need to take the time to do.
Maybe the weekend will help me get back in to the swing of things. Maybe.