A new direction

I've decided to try something different for a variety of reasons. For those who followed my blog during my journey with cancer, thank you. The blog made communicating with a core group of friends and family easy in what was a difficult time for me. The cancer is in remission but not cured so there is also a secondary reason to start a new blog. If it comes back (and it probably will), everyone will be familiar with my blogs, so laying the foundation by getting this set up will be done.

Primary reasons for trying this:

Instagram is an app I post on frequently. Most of the images posted by others are extremely manipulated, although you may not be able to tell. Simply google a 'Lightroom' teaching on how to use the software on bird pictures. You'll go nuts. They replace branches with other branches, they remove objects from the scene that are unsightly to them, they can even replace an entire sky! The pictures are often staged, especially in the case of raptors. This is all very frustrating to me because real photography as a hobby is disappearing. Watch here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdjKRPO-Upc

I will not manipulate my images other than changing the lighting and cropping. 

I'm concerned that my pictures may get stolen or copied from Instagram. I have copyright information embedded in the pictures, but you can't see it. You can right mouse click on any image and all the camera settings/lens settings are there along with dates and other information.

The blog will eliminate cloud data and other collections from exceeding limits and  incurring costs as a result.

Sending emails that create a chain keep people from responding, as a response goes to the whole group on email.  There are others who want the pictures, but not with everyone on distribution, so this eliminates that and reduces the number of emails I need to send.

If you have any feedback on how I can improve feel free to let me know. 

Comments

  1. NettlesDecember 8, 2020 at 4:11 PM

    I'm so glad you decided to go back to blogging. This will be much easier than posting on IG or emailing everyone.

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