Rainy Day Pictures
Funny, I deliberately posted a picture (on a wallpaper site) that I didn’t like that much, and it almost immediately got favourited by someone. Just shows, you never know what others might like. 
Why did I post it? I’m entering into a period of confusion where I want to post nice things but don’t want to post things that are too nice, just in case someone pinches them… then I ask myself why I really care.
I never posted any short stories on the internet; that was a ground rule from around 2001 or whenever I first got online. Now I don’t know… I mean, I’ve got this blog; that has short stories of my life. Sometimes I think I should just enjoy myself and not worry too much. Where pictures are concerned I’m practising, and looking at other people’s pictures (and tutorials) for inspiration. There’s a bit of give and take involved.
I find myself looking at a picture and thinking “mm, I love that one,” and putting it carefully away. “For another day,” I tell myself. Maybe never… or maybe one day I’ll be so good that I’ll post today’s rainy day pictures without a second thought.
I suppose that’s the aim.
Living in Scotland, UK; I work from home as an editor and pet-minder. I was born profoundly deaf and am no stranger to agoraphobia. I began renting out my house and have moved upstairs at my mother’s place. I used to have an Oriental Ticked Tabby (
That the picture there? I like it a lot — I like how you can see the ripples from the drops into the water.
It IS a great picture! You might want to look into some of that watermarking (or digimarking???) software so you always claim these wonderful works. I’m glad when you share. I’m always impressed!
Shu
It wasn’t the picture I mentioned, but thank you.
The one I didn’t think anyone would like was a dark fractal.
I should consider watermarking - that’s a thought. Up to now I’ve been signing, but those can be cloned out.
It is a great picture. Too often I forget to photograph little details like that. I just don’t have the eye. My brother and daughter are brilliant at capturing such such scenes whereas I too often look at the big picture. I have recently got into photographing cloud formations though and want to start a collection of my clouds. But, as often happens, I never have the camera with me when that brilliant cloud formation is calling out to me. Damn! The hassles of sharing a camera - but not for long…
I’m always seeing beautiful skies and wishing I had my camera, but I tend to suspect I would make a mess of it anyway. I clearly remember setting up my tripod and spending the best part of the remaining light getting cloud pictures shading into sunset, and then discovered I didn’t have my memory card in the camera, so it hadn’t kept anything. I thought it was set up to tell me, but it kept showing me pretty LCD thumbnails of the pictures it had pretended to take.
It’s all part of the learning curve, I guess.