On my real life blog when I reached my hundredth post I wrote a list of 100 things about me. That was difficult to do and doesn't seem appropriate for a photography blog. So I'm going to list 10 things about me and photography and 5 favorite flower pictures from Sunday and 5 favorite pictures of my children (so hard to choose!). I hope it is okay to combine it all.
1. I never liked taking pictures of flowers before I got my dSLR in February. They just were not that interesting to me. Now I love taking pictures of them. They are much easier to practice focus with than children.
2. I never heard the phrase catch lights until Scavenger Hunt Sunday's prompt "Inner Beauty" a few months ago. Now I'm obsessed with them.
3. The best way to feel encouraged about your photography is to look at pictures from your past, not to look at other people's work.
4. I have always loved taking pictures, but I assumed all people with children loved taking pictures. I thought it was a normal interest not a passion for a hobby.
5. I still don't have a tripod but I will probably buy one before I buy myself new shoes or clothes or toothpaste again. There are times when it seems it would be more handy than shoes.
6. When I prepared these pictures I thought they were all from June, but I think they might be from the first few days of July. With school's out I didn't really notice the calendar change. (If that is a problem for Top 5 please let me know; I can look up the date more accurately.)
7. I feel a little proud that all of these flower shots are SOOC except for some small cropping and sharpening/resizing for the web.
8. My iPhoto starts running slow at 40,000 pictures, so every time I add pictures I try to delete more than I add/keep from old albums to keep my photos at around 38,500.
9. It isn't as bad as it sounds to have to delete since about a year ago we paid $800 to have our first 7 years of digital photos recovered--which they did, including ones that had been trashed. "iPhoto" has them nicely sorted, but there are some that do not need to stay. It is taking me time to go through them all. We have two external back-ups now.
10. It is the math in photography that made me realize that my normal interest was an actual passion and one that I could possibly become good at--not necessarily pro-good--but that I can use numbers to produce the results I want took my "zoom in and shoot" style to an actual desire to study, learn, and improve. I've been loving it ever since.
There you have it--100 things about me! (5 flower photos + 5 kid photos) * 10 = 100. If you are interested in learning more of my secrets you can check out
my 100th post at my
other blog. Thanks for stopping by and celebrating my 100th post with me.
