On Photography

I have been a photo bug for about 30 or more years on and off. Mostly family stuff, but lots of flowers, bugs, animals, and anything strange or weird. Up till about 10 years ago on film cameras.

I got my first of four digital cameras about 8 years ago, and if you are like me, you take and take and take more and more pictures, put them on your picassa and never print them. So 7 or 8000 pictures later the question is what do I do with them?

Recently I visited a Mass Audubon site called "Broadmoor" and saw an exhibition of the type of photos that I have been taking for years. I looked at my friend and said to her " I have all the same type of pictures, why can't I do this?"

We had been taking pictures of a couple of different sites in the area pretty consistanly so I had a pretty good size library of pictures for a couple of these type of exhibitions.

I approached the Stonybrook/Mass Audubon site about putting on an exhibition using some of the 700 pictures I had been taking since May of this year of their "Mute Swans and their 5 cygnets". Their answer was a very excited YES!!!

So, on Friday, December 10th, from 6-8 pm my "StonyBrook Mute Swans" photo exhibition will start. There will be cheese and crackers, (tentatively) and the Stonybrook peeps and myself "The Accidental Photographer" will also be there for the opening. I am so excited about this. This is the first time I have professionally displayed any photos.

In order to save money I cut all my own mats for the photos. You can see very well that this was the first time for me. Maybe next time I use already made mats!!! But it is the photos that count and the swans in the photos.

I am also doing up some photo greeting cards with the swans for sale later on.

A sardine between two whales......a seat on the train?

A whale watch maybe, no a car accident. I was the middle car between two SUV type vehicles. I walked away feeling fine, the car, well it had to be towed. Today, the day after, I had to see a Doctor for the pain in my neck, shoulders, back, hips, leg and foot. Two days out of work on bed rest.

I am waiting on the adjuster to look at the car to tell me if it is totalled or not. The back end was completely ripped off from the license plate down.

This car is a mazda miata 2006, my midlife crisis toy!!!! So it hurts to see it so mangled. I get the news later today about wether or not it can be repaired.