in the cloud

So you upload all your digital pix to the cloud.

And you scan all your printed pix to digital and upload them to the cloud.

But how do you access them? Share them? Browse albums?

Google photos does not allow you to share your Google Photo cloud pix unless you group them into albums, then the albums can be shared.

That is actually a good thing since that forces/encourages you to organize your pix. 

So you have all these albums that can be seen by anyone who has the link, mmm… now what?

And then you discover you have more than one Google account with pictures, how to gather all of that together into a user-friendly application?

Idea!

Make a webpage with links to all the albums, with a representative thumbnail pic for each album. Links to each album from all the different cloud uploads, different usernamed accounts, etc.

Post this onto an already recognizable platform that the family is familiar with, like Susan's Blog…  

check it out - CLICK on the page 'photo albums'  above

And yes, another perk, this will maybe nudge Susan to keep her blog more up to date!

without color

having fun with Picasa photo editor - sometimes color is overrated - channeling a little Ansel Adams with last year's vacation photos...

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist best known for his black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West.

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." ~Ansel Adams

“I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” ~Ansel Adams

prom snapshots

Kyle and Shelby senior prom 2013

photos at the train depot, Ellijay, Georgia

Melissa and Kyle, mom and son, photographer and subject... friends. Melissa in her Warrior Dash shirt with mud in her hair rushed home to take prom pictures of her first born's last prom.

Meanwhile Madison of McM Photography (in her Warrior Dash shirt and mud in her hair also) rushed to her first photo shoot. (above) Great position, Madi! Whatever it takes to get that shot!

McM Photography - Madison's friend Savanna and prom date.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.  ~Author Unknown

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  ~From the television show The Wonder Years

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.  ~Eudora Welty

got film?

got film?

Hey, Buddy!

I’m taking a photography class this semester and we require cameras. Mom & Keith are letting me use their old digital camera and because the teacher has a lack of cameras, I figured I’d bring my own film camera too. I was wondering if you had any that I could borrow for my class?

Thanks,

Madison

pre-digital camera bag and accessories

Sorry to say I got home, got out my old 35mm camera and got some new batteries for it, but for some reason the shutter is not functioning. I will play with it some more if I come home next weekend but for now it is out of commission.

Sorry........

Are you going to be doing darkroom work? What are you mostly going to be shooting, landscapes, architecture, nature, all of the above? If you have time sometime I will tell you about my adventure in photography which started at Georgia Tech taking architecture major. I got into darkroom work and set up a darkroom in the basement with an enlarger, developing tanks, etc. I did mostly black and white but got into doing prints from slides later as slides were the economical way to go at the time. Anyway...........if you are interested.........

Love Ya...........Buddy.

stop action!

As of right now we’re making pinhole cameras out of cardboard boxes! We’re going to put light sensitive paper in them and take them outside to take a picture, then we’ll go into the darkroom and learn how to develop the photo!

Later we’ll be given a roll of film and we are supposed to take pictures and then develop them. When we give the pictures to our teacher we’re supposed to tell her why we took that picture in particular. So really we can take whatever pictures we want. After the film cameras we’re going to move onto digital and work with those cameras and Photoshop. ~ Madison

focus

composition

High school, we didn't have interesting classes like photography! When Madison asked for an old film camera, Buddy thought why would anyone go back to film when we have digital? But they are learning how it all works, or worked in the olden days... lol.  Fun to see kids get excited about school!

photo play

it's a small world

macro in the workshop

focus on tools

focus on shavings

blurred background

relics in the woods

just walking through the graveyard behind the workshop... looks like makings of a moonshine still!

red-headed visitors

chopping wood

what happens when a redbird sees its shadow?

redbird's better half

family vacation, heading south

Trying to get some work done but the view out my office window is way too distracting. Pictures turned out pretty good considering they were taken through a second story dirty window!

from the creek bank

Carrie's dog, Tasha, has two favorite things

playing in the creek and fetching a stick

and when you throw the stick in the creek, even better!

slow moving water

Whenever anyone goes for a walk around here they usually end up at the creek, ever moving and changing with the rainfall and light, it is like a magnet that draws us to its bank.

Yesterday was no exception, a day-after-Christmas walk to work off some holiday treats and try out my new camera. I found willing subjects in slow moving water and fast moving dog.


shaking it off