Friday, July 08, 2011

On Hold

I need to place an order to restock.  But, in order to do that, I need to know what I am short on.  I'm sure at this point, you are saying......  'Um, really?  Why can't you just count it and do your order?'

The reason it just is not as simple as that is because I made a promise to Mr. Bill that after the Midwest Fiber Festival was over, I would not be bringing the fiber back into the house.  I would instead be unloading it to the new shop.  And that would have already happened if I were not waiting on the electrician to finish putting in the wall outlets (picture coming later).

In the meantime, I tried out the Brookstone 'iconverter' this week end.  If you are just trying to make quick copies of your photo negatives and do not care about having top notch quality then this little machine will work OK for you.  If you are wanting top quality scans of your photo negatives do not buy this machine.  It works OK for slides, but not for print worthy quality.  Here are a few of the slides I scanned in over the week end.  Note, some of these have been heavily photoshopped.  None of my negatives turned out.  After the slides starts some old digital from the time before digital cameras were such a big hit.
There is a tree on the island of Dominica that grows gourds.

Cynthia

For Sale

Kasey

The island of Monserat.  This is a photo of smoke coming from an active volcano.

A tattoo band on a friends leg.

And so we start in on the digital images.  The majority of these were taken for a photography class I was taking way back when.  The one thing I took away from the class was.....  Always try to look at the world from a different angle.  In other words try to see a simple object in ways that most would never think of.

A very small basket in a grainy macro setting.

Yep, it's just a flower.  I do love my flowers
Shoe


Light Bulb

A disgusting habit.

I am thankful I no longer smoke.

Camp Nelson

clip

clip 2

Daffodils 

The rocky shores of Dominica one of the islands in the Caribbean.

Face in a fan

Bonfire at Terrapin Hill Festival

Getting close to the fire

The circle

I love fish markets.   Not only can I buy dinner, but it makes for a great photo too!

Fort Shirley in Dominica

Gull

Gulls

Peace Lily

Stone Rose

Yep, another little flower.

mare for sale

Orchid

Phlox

Reflections

Sedum

Mmmmm.....  Snapper

A study of light

Stranded

Taking a break

2 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

Thoroughly enjoyed the picture gallery! Sorry the electrician is taking long.......I am sure you are more than ready to get in the shop for good!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures! You're making me want to go out with my camera and take some pictures today. ;)

Other Fun Facts..................

I taught myself to knit by watching a woman while on a flight from Scotland to the USA in 1996.

I taught myself how to spin yarn Feb 15th, 2007. I think I've done fairly well:)

'Lunabud' is a combination of two dogs' names I was loved by, Buddy and Luna:)