Tag: Journal
August 2, 2022 / Journal

Photo Workflow

My current creative workflow is simple, on purpose. I’d rather be out there shooting than processing or organizing.

I don’t have the time or desire to go out for that one shot that will make me famous. I want to create a body of work. I’m not interested in social media “likes” or new followers scrolling through their feeds quickly and not caring.

Innovate your new workflow by keeping it simple, self-host your own website, create digital, or e-zines in .pdf. Offer prints and downloads of your work instead. This will generate a more positive, direct response from potential followers. 
August 2, 2022 / Journal

Unsubscribed

In an effort to minimize and get down to the essentials, I have decided not to renew some software applications. I’ve always disagreed with the subscription-based model of supporting developers. I prefer to use stock apps or some pay-once-and-done software.

Bear notes < Apple Notes

Day One journal < my website

Drafts < ia Writer

Fantastical < Apple Calendar

Mind Node < pen & paper

Tweetbot < no more Twitter

Ulysses < ia Writer

VSCO < OK, I’ll probably renew this for some reason.
August 2, 2022 / Journal

You May

May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness in yourself and others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

August 1, 2022 / Journal

Map Quest Pt 3

Over 260 images cataloged on a map with GPS coordinates and waypoints. According to my Lightroom software, I only have a little more than 200 to add.

Then I’ll start a new map for geocaches I’ve logged followed by another map highlighting all of the street art I’ve documented. Whew.

August 1, 2022 / Journal

GC9XPFR

So I recently placed a second geocache in a park and received a note written in the hidden log.

Thank you so much for making a new cache in the city! We need more.

Gabriel De Rose

Thanks Gabriel, that made my day.

July 26, 2022 / Journal

Keep On Keeping On

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road…

Jack Kerouac

July 26, 2022 / Journal

Little Free Library

When placing my geocache earlier today, I noticed that the hide spot, a Little Free Library stand was neglected. I checked the registration on their website and noticed it was no longer active. An FLF representative returned my email inquiry indicating that it was likely abandoned since nothing was registered on their charter list.

Part two of my inquiry , was to ask for permission to become a steward of the FLF stand and they were agreeable. I am currently waiting for a reply to my FLF request to be placed back on the map and when approved, I will become it’s new librarian. I’ll then stock the library with some donated books and make a few purchases at a local used book store. Stay tuned!
July 26, 2022 / Journal

GC9XPFR

I recently placed and submitted for approval a new geocache at Geocaching.com. This one is titled: “The One Dedicated To Tracy” at nearby Tracy Park. This is the second geocache, loaded with trackables, log, pencil and trinkets I’ve placed out into the wild and loving the interaction from the GC community so far.

**UPDATE**

Due to my cache placement being in close proximity to an Adventure Lab cache, one that is virtual, my submission was denied. I’ve had to relocate my hide and it was approved. Frustrating that my physical cache had to make way for a virtual cache.

July 25, 2022 / Journal

Lomo Turquoise Emulation

Last year, Lomography teased the photo film community with images hinting that they were bringing back the Turquoise film. Development has been ongoing and is scheduled to release fall of this year, 2022. Pre-orders sold out and more have been pushed back until November. I can’t wait that long to experiment with this unique emulation. Below are the examples that Lomo gave us, followed by own attempts to duplicate the results.

Lomography’s examples

Oh well, back to the digital lab to fine tune the process and get those gorgeous colors!
July 23, 2022 / Journal

Micro Posts

Did you know that I have a page on this site that is dedicated to micro posts? Think quick tweets or blurbs of whatever I need to post as opposed to long form writing on the main page here.

July 23, 2022 / Journal

Explore More

For me to experience life I must explore. The insatiable urge to see what’s around the next corner must be satisfied or I will die, so it is for my own survival I must go. And so I go, typically with a camera as I have time and time again.
July 23, 2022 / Journal

On Meditation

The best meditation is being genuinely curious about the contents of your own mind.

Naval
July 22, 2022 / Journal

Stop. Enjoy.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living…

Jack Kerouac
July 21, 2022 / Journal

The Infinite Web

From the short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Sand,” there is an ancient book with no beginning and has no end. The narrator discovers this simple-looking book contains endless volumes of information that was good and evil.

“I realized that the book was monstrous. It was cold consolation to think that I, who looked upon it with my ten flesh-and-bone fingers, was no less monstrous than the book. I felt it was a nightmare thing, an obscene thing, and that it defiled and corrupted reality. I considered fire, but I feared that the burning of an infinite book might be similarly infinite, and suffocate the planet in smoke.”

He quickly deposits the terrifying, infinite book to the National Library and vows never to go to a library or bookstore again.

It’s strange to me to think that we open our very own Books of Sand every day without thinking of the consequences. The sheer infinite volume of the WWW is too difficult to imagine. It is our nightmare and distorts our reality. Like all tools, it can be used for good, but we humans do a frightening job of perverting even the best intentions.

July 21, 2022 / Journal

Never Enough

… not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

Jack Kerouac