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Out of a couple of closets. 2008-12-16 - 9:42 a.m.
It seems like this month is shaping up to be a time I talk about aspects of my life here I don�t discuss much. The last couple of entries have been about fitness and the fact that I teach a fitness class; this one is about my photography. Yes, I know I�ve mentioned that I take pictures. You may have noticed that this journal is oddly lacking in pics for someone who professes to be into photography. Other than the fact that I consider that to be a different compartment of my life (not 14B, clearly), this is also partly because I don�t think Diaryland is a great platform for posting a lot of images. Also, I do plan on getting my own domain up and running in the new year, and its chief purpose will be to showcase my pictures. I do have a flickr account, but it�s devoted exclusively to pictures of my kids for the purposes of sharing with friends and family. However, there are a few things converging this month that has brought my photography to the forefront in my mind: I�ve been struggling with getting a shot of my kids that I deem worthy of sending in Christmas cards (finally managed this yesterday); I made those wonderful to look at, but infernal to put together, picture Christmas books for the �rents and my grandmother and this entailed doing a lot of post-processing to pics I had, and; I�ve been working on acquiring a reasonable competency at Photoshop, and waging some serious internal battles over whether to upgrade from my ancient version 7.0 so that I can work with my RAW format pics, or whether to buy Photoshop Elements, or just stick with what I�ve got. The full Photoshop CS4 is, like, a thousand bucks. But I just don�t know if Elements would give me the same functionality. I guess it comes down to whether or not I really, truly, will be making a real go of making some money with my pictures. Photoshop will probably be a necessity if I do, plus it can be written off as a business expense. The other thing is, I�m starting to think about entering some contests with my images� starting today with the pic at the top of this page, which is my entry in Greeblemonkey�s December Greeblepix contest. I figure if y�all vote for me I�m a shoe in for, well, at least 5 votes. Hey, maybe I�ll think big and aim for double digits. If you click the link I can at least guarantee that you�ll see some cool shots, no matter whether you think mine�s the best or not.
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