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Sipping On Spit
Sipping on Spit and Chewing on cables life turned to strife not close to a Fairy Tale or a Fable.
My Hopes falling through the cracks on the floor that mirror my heart.
I await death but it teases me, you see.
It comes and holds me in it’s cold embrace and then walks away laughing at my disgrace.
But held I was awaiting the disentanglement as my body sputters and my Spirit seeks to be rid of the carnal clutter.
Sitting in the glow of an 11-year-old computer screen swallowing coffee hard to wash down the screams that are the echos to the tears that stream…and caress an old man’s face. Hoping the coffee will speed up my heart so that I know that it is there and not subjugated like a silent tectonic plate with despair.
I have kissed many a tear from a woman’s cheeks but nary a one is here near my seat.
My whole being falling into a hole being that it has collapse and my life is a seen as a retrospective time lapse video.
Holding your face in my arms with you head canted looking radiant and enchanted.
Lips slightly parted as my hands caress your face and I bring my lips to your blossom of a mouth and kiss you gently.
Lightly biting that lower lip and pulling it forward until I hear an inspiration.
Then we begin the dance of silent lengua franca.
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On Friendship
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Tagged Kahlil Gibran
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Lightroom for Search Engine Optimization of Images
Make Lightroom do some of the SEO heavy work for you.
Using Photoshop and Bridge for SEO
How to use Photoshop and Bridge to add your info to the images for SEO purposes.
Size does matter
FYI I just spent some quality time with The Dashboard (cue the music!)
Please there is no reason not even to ‘gift’ the image to a client to upload a 45 megabyte image.
There were several on one page.
That just slows you blog and some will wonder to ADHD land.
I first copy the icky (yeah, I use icky and what of it?) code that wordpress spews.
I prefer NOT to link to a larger image.
I upload the size that I want to and that is the end of it.(off to your room, in my best Daddy voice)
I had to click on each to make humongous and then drag onto my desk top from I dragged (I stopped the drugs, that explains things) into PS and did a quick change from adobe 1998 to srgb and a cmnd option i to bring up the image size (all about the size) but this time I was making it smaller.
I chose 900 for the landscape and 700 for the vertical.
My reasons (most are unreasonable with an untenable deposition)
Most blogs are set for 900 and 1024 is the size of the monitors that widely used (legacy era)
Now allow for some padding (don’t hate, I need to workout) and margins.
The vertical is the most browsers allow 680 depending on how many ‘things’ are sitting under the url window.
From 45 mg to 1.5mb is a huge savings.
I saved them between 8-10 if I gad at 5-7 more saving in size.
I could have stripped them of all their exif also but chose to leave them alone.
One of the pixels was Lawyering and calling the PS-Po-Po on me.
Trumped up charges that I was pushing it around and it had diminished capacities now, pish posh.
That pixel had it coming I tells ya!
Breathe Rasta Rican breathe, I did inhale while breathing officer krupke.
I need a nap Who’s down for some OPP?
Protected: Sandi
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Squirrels
These are some of my “big-boned” squirrels.
I had them hooked on Panera Bread for a few seasons.
You can see the reflection from my back porch in their eyes.
I live in Ellenville, NY and have tons of lil creatures traipsing through my backyard.
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Business Sense is Good Sense The Pitfalls of Pricing
Business Sense is Good Sense : The Pitfalls of Pricing
Marianne Drenthe,
www.marmaladephotography.com
In early 2005, when I started my photography business, Marmalade Photography, I set out to create customized photography services that were not only unique in my market share but also a service that allowed for a more luxurious experience for my clientele.
When I first set out, I encountered many of the pitfalls of pricing that I see photographers making today: lowballing, basing their pricing on what their competitors are pricing, cheap pricing just to “get them in the door”. These phenomena are not new – they’ve been around since people started taking payment for their services even long before photography became a viable profession.
Somehow early in my professional photography career I got smart. A firm believer in education and learning from people who are already walking the path I want to be on, I went to a workshop conducted by a well-admired photography studio several hours away. To this day I will swear it was the best time and monetary investment I ever could have made: by leaving my business, home and employer for several days I was able to immerse myself in the experience of education by taking time away from those things that would detract me from learning my business up close and personal
…and I’ll say it again – undoubtedly it was the best investment I have ever made for my business.
Before embarking on my little adventure I was priced to compete against the only photography experience I was familiar with: mall photography. But the mismatch of my pricing vs. service offered was made evident to me by the business guru of this photography studio: my services, my level of skill and the custom experience(s) I gave my clients was more in line with a luxury brand.
The truth of the matter is this: custom costs.
It costs TIME (on my end and on my client’s end). It costs SKILL (something that I certainly had back then but has grown exponentially as my years in business grow). It costs EQUIPMENT (every time the shutter release is clicked it depreciates and wears your equipment down just that much more).
via Marmalade’s Here to Discuss Photography Pricing and Give Away Some Goods! » Photographer Cafe.
Shadowhouse Creations Square Texture Set Vol.27
Shadowhouse Creations was created in November of 2009 and employs an army of one, myself alone. Seems no one likes working for free these days. Shadowhouse Creations is located on the outskirts of a small mid-western town, in a spare bedroom of my house, converted into an office, art room and PC room. How Chic!Here at Shadowhouse Creations we/i harness no Illusions of grandeur, all you see here, are creations of mine, such as textures, photoshop brushes, tutorials, layer masks, photoshop and artistic tips, calendars, posted web resources of interest and other things I hope of interest. it is my pleasure to provide free resources for like-minded people.Oh, one last thing, if you have the time, you might have a look at “La Cinematique” my slideshow featuring some of my artwork and photographs and leave a comment on what you think, feedback, good or bad is always welcome.Thanks, until we meet again.
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Tagged Photoshop, Textures
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