"M12 Fall Bales"
(photograph - click on to view a larger image)
I Love the Fall! It's wonderful out after a few frosts have calmed the summer's mosquitoes and other biting bugs. But it's really the sky, the air and the sun I enjoy...along with fall colors, the crops being harvested, even the early evening light.
But sometimes things catch up with me...I am trying to work on the many image files I downloaded onto the hard drives. I have processing to do. A lot of processing to do.
Years back I would always look so forward to going through batches of film, either after I processed it or had it sent out instead. I shot transparency film, so spent a lot of time over the light table peering through a loupe , checking for film scratches, sharpness and what were "keepers". When this film returned from a processor, it was almost like Christmas...I'd eagerly open each box in anticipation! When I processed it myself (E-3, then E4, then E-6 processing), I still got excited about what I was seeing but the work load would temper this enthusiasm somewhat.
I still look forward to going through images on the computer monitor, the old feeling of anticipation is still there but one thing I have noticed the past 10 years (I've been shooting digital since 2000) is the work load actually gets more cumbersome! Why? Well, when I shot film there was a "finite" number of exposures I could make...you'd have to be made of money for that not to be true! With digital I found I was freed up a great deal and did much more experimentation...also I took many more photos of what I'd call "idea" shots...these "ideas" pile up fast! Soon I have more "ideas" than I can manage - on my hard drive or in my own head! But I keep recording these ideas...and they need "Processing"...they have to be sorted and filed somehow so I don't forget them or loose track of where they're at.
Georgie knows how "organized" I am...uh...OK - "disorganized" :) But I still plug away.
The "M12 Fall Bales" photo at the top of this post was forgotten...but I only took it 5 days ago!!! Uh...I also saw numerous...too many to count images that I forgot about, and they've only been taken the past 2-3 weeks! I think I need to do a dump on my hard drive most people call a "head"! I seem to be hobbled as to how much can actually go up there and still be retrieved without too much difficulty!
The "M12 Fall Bales" image is something I like to do; panorama shots are becoming more common...I've been doing them since around the time I shifted to digital film, and they were less common then. There is now a myriad of software and cameras out there that automatically pull these shots together (stitch them) but I am still stubbornly plodding away - doing them the "old" way...stitching frames "by hand"...well, still with the computer, but without the automated programs. (This shot is made from 4 individual frames.) This takes a while, but it still feels right to me. Maybe someday the "processing" will get to me and I'll relent and go "auto" (?)...we'll see.
For now I'll still go through all these images that I shot just last week and had forgotten, or will uncover that great moment I remembered from last summer or spring - but tucked away so well I forgot where it was!
Never a dull moment here...now back to processing...
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