KalaInustra

It's been absolutely crazy lately.  

My eyes seriously need a good, in-depth checkup so I've not been at the screen so much... they were really getting hurty.

Life has given out a few good beatdowns lately, but I'm starting to bounce back a little... however, it's just in time for me to start working outside and get my plantings started.  I'll be around, but scarce.

Wanted to put this up, though, in case anyone runs across me and is wondering where I've gotten off to.  

I'm trying to make... *something* every 1-2 days, for a while.

I'm trying to get back into the habit of *producing* - not just *planning* or *thinking* or ... *stalling*.  

I'm also trying to get into practice with Photoshop, it's been a while....


So!  Backgrounds.  Seemed like a great solution.
I get to tinker with effects and layers, color schemes, random inspiration and requests.  It's been fun, and I'm going to try to continue.
On that note: if you have any thoughts on the subject, color combinations, styles... let me know?  I make NO guarantees.    But I'm *trying* to crack my comfort zone just a little bit, and I'm hoping this will help.


I have a few other pieces I'm working on - but it's hard to work and watch the children at the same time, so I make do.  I also have several pictures I'd like to get uploaded, and I hope to work on that this upcoming week.

And it's back to the grind.  ^_^
*waves*

Such a gorgeous morning... heavy, thick, late fog over everything.


Unfortunately, that meant it was also cold and damp, and my lungs didn't like it very much.  Neither did my knees.    It was very warm and comfy in bed, and if I'd not been riding with our son to school this morning, I would likely have stayed there.

I probably also wouldn't have had the motivation to go out and shoot.  I've discovered a few things...

Make sure camera settings are mostly to defaults *before* starting.
Never assume the battery gauge is accurate.
I need a tripod one of these days.
Geese are noisy neighbors.

...Well, I think I knew most of this already, but it's hard to remember when your brain is still sleep-fogged.

Last night was entertaining, the contests going on and all the banter.  Actually joined in - two of three actually got put where they ought to be, in scraps, and the last one was a massive 30 seconds! too late to enter, once it was in and finally uploaded. Grr.

Ah well.   It was fun, so therefore worth it, and I realized after the last that I was too exhausted to stay online.

The only one uploaded into the gallery didn't survive more than 5 minutes after, Grabstein did just about all the work, and dispersed the remains between himself and the kids.  All in all, I believe they considered it a success, and that's about all that matters with that.  

I've been working on a few oddities, although I'm not done yet... working for, tops, two hours in a day when I'm still getting re-used to photoshop means slow SLOW progress, but I'm picking a few things back up.  Probably start uploading a couple, into the scrapbook at least, next week... once things calm down.  It's going to be a busy weekend.