A lil bit… and looking up

Did a little bit of cleaning/organizing in the studio.  Might not be apparent to the naked eye.  But I did get some stuff done.  Really… I did.  Didn't do any painting, however.  That was a little disappointing.  But, sometimes life happens.  Or sometimes nothing happens.  All you can do is pick yourself up and try again.  So that's what I'm doing.

I bought myself an early birthday present.  Something I've been wanting for awhile.  I've been using a Kodak Easy Share camera… which was as it says Easy.  But I always wished I could push it further.  It's been a dream of mine to upgrade to a digital SLR camera.  I've gone and done it.  Canon EOS Rebel T3.  Not the most expensive, but expensive enough.  Now I'll just have to learn how to use it.  Should get delivered tomorrow.

I also need to get out more and take pictures.  I love doing it, but don't always take the time.  I've got a long weekend coming up that I was not sure what I was going to do with.  5 days off… in a row.  And I have been telling myself I'd stay home and do art things.  But sometimes I tell myself that and it just doesn't happen.  I spent a whole lot of time accomplishing nothing and just have wasted days.  So I think I'm going to plan a few short road trippy type adventures for myself.  Nothing too huge.  Day trips.  There and back again.

Even just thinking about it now is getting me excited.  I can't wait.  And hell… maybe that'll get me inspired to get my butt back in gear and get my photography page on here back up and visible.  

A lot of the pictures I had been taking were limited to a few things:  flowers, ducks, water.  Reasons?  Not because those are the only things I like to look at.  But those were me sticking in my comfort zone.  I know where the Lyndale Rose Garden is in Minneapolis, and I know it's beautiful there.  So I know if I go there I'm bound to find something beautiful to look at, photograph.  And I'm comfortable going to Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis.  Which is where all the duck pictures and water pictures are from.  That's also a place I feel comfortable.  I used to go there and walk, a lot.  Especially at hard times in my life.  When I needed to clear my head.  Be at peace.

I've got some time to plan.  It's not this weekend, but the following weekend.  I'm off Thursday through Monday.  Holiday weekend.  Maybe I'll even find a place to watch fireworks for the 4th.  That is something I used to love doing, but it had gotten corrupted by the past.  Maybe…

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