I got the last of my pressed leaves from the giant dictionary and played with my bucket of leaves for hours, until the camera battery died.
My daughter helped me with the lighting and composition and editing. I learned to play with the histograms and edit the pictures to make them pop. I'm not sure what you're supposed to do, but I just crop and crank up the black pixels.
I spent hours editing the leaf photo file from November. After deleting all the ones I could part with, this month's file has 1251 photos. That's maybe a few hundred too many. October's has 2055 pictures, so November was an improvement, photo-OCD-wise.
I know I should clean up the files, but who do I delete? All these pretty textures and colors and patterns -
they remind me of stained glass windows in church, and sunny days, and earthy smells. They make me happy, even if they are filling up my hard drive.
I can't think of a better waste of time or space on a rainy Saturday.
Don't delete them. If you run out of hard drive space, but them on a thumb drive so there is no reason to delete them. They are all so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteStained glass! As soon as you said it I could see what you meant. Nature's perfect stained glass colored leaves brought to life by your eye for them. They are simply gorgeous. And to share this with your daughter makes it even more special. I love every single leaf and crop. The colors. So rich.
ReplyDeleteThey will one day be something you can clean out, if you need the space. But for now, I'd keep each and every one if I were you! They are SO BEAUTIFUL! :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd that is what external hard drives were invented for. If the house was to catch fire, I would grab the cats and the external drive, and call the dogs, and run...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the affirmations and the reminder to back up my hard drive photos - I have one of those handy passport external hard drives that makes it easy.
ReplyDeleteOh, thank you for posting these. Exquisite!
ReplyDeleteThere is so much I do not know about my camera so every so often I sit down and attempt to try something new.
ReplyDeleteI love all the colors of the leaves in your photos...textures...I will miss it Fall colors have left to the drab of winter.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know how you can delete a single one. Even I have an Art/Friends/Mel/Leaves folder that is chock full. I'm keepin' 'em, thank you very much. I'm on vacay this week but I got the snots and coughs. Still, even snotty, coughy free time is better than workin'. We had WIND last night. Lost power for an hour. Weather!! How fun! xo Deb
ReplyDeleteTHese are incredibly beautiful -- that's what I think!
ReplyDeleteThese photos are amazing and inspiring!
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