Working on My Skills

Pointing my camera and capturing an image is only part of my passion for photography.  I love to find interesting things to photograph and play with the lines and textures of objects.  I also love to post process photos.  And, I really enjoy reading to learn more about photography.  I have many apps on my cellphone, two programs on my laptop and six online photo editing websites bookmarked.  Once in a while I use the editing capabilities of developing websites, too.  Then, there are my books, of which I have quite a few, that I read and work my way through.

So, today's photos have to do with me developing my skills, not only with the camera but with editing software, too.

I was taking some time this afternoon before I left work to take some photos that I thought I might be able to use for the album cover challenge. It was the first time I REALLY looked at the neighborhood outside my classroom window. The lines and colors of the deteriorating buildings are really quite interesting.

 

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 Ok, so it's really just my attempt at the album cover challenge... or one of them. I'm looking at doing another because yeah, it is addicting. This actually is not what I started out doing, but it turned out better than my vision. 

 Finally, a picture about the most recent photography book I am reading...

This is the current book on photography that I am reading. I am really enjoying working my way through it. It requires journaling and completing exercises, but it's really helping me think about my own identity as a photographer.

I guess I should probably call this "One of the things I'm reading," because at any given time I've got a novel, a book on my Kindle, an audiobook, a teaching book and a photography book going... along with my dog and travel magazines.