I took a couple dozen photos. In reviewing them I deleted some, naturally. I'm trying to be a bit more selective in my review process. Is it a 'good' shot, technically well-composed, color good? I don't like to 'doctor' photos if I can help it. Sometimes just some cropping. Then come the next questions. Is it a photo worthy of keeping? Why? More often than not the deletions outnumber the keepers. That being the benefit of digital...just go for it, experiment, erase it if you fail...some techie advances have been good!
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| Self-portrait with Pipe |
*popples are stones that have been washed smooth and rounded by years of tossing in the surf. In Rockport, many of these stones came from the local quarries and were once ballast in sailing vessels. Removal of popples from Rockport's beaches is prohibited.
4 comments:
Well, I'd thought you'd taken up smoking when I read this, this morning and you were painting a self portrait as Van Gogh did. (if I remember correctly?)
'Popples' - what a lovely word.
They are known as cobbles here, and I don't think is illegal to take one or two. Perhaps, by the truck load!
I have a number all around the garden, one from each place where I have had a holiday. :)
We also have 'cobbled' streets, but these are stones cut into 4" cubes.
Cheers......Bernard.
I do believe that you are correct about Van Gogh.
"Popples," eh? Out here in the West, we'd probably call 'em "li'l rock thangs what go in boats."
Imagine getting busted for stealing rocks off a beach!
A Van Gogh-style self-portrait? With or without missing ear and funny hat? You'll have to take a snap of that and post it.
Hmmm, should I mention that popples fetch a good price in rockless south Florida?
Don't ask.
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