Pumpkins Scream In The Dead Of Night

 My bloggery composition routine(?) has altered somewhat substantially over the years.

I started this blog on Diaryland.com, eventually moved that to Livejournal.com.  From there my original LJ became something of a thing for my insane thoughts and I created a different one to be somewhat more reasonable.  From there I moved to Blogger.  After several years of that, I moved everything to WordPress.  

It took a long time, but I was able to pull all (I think) of the DL posts over to LJ.  Then I moved it all to Blogger and from there Wordpress.  It was somewhat time consuming to get everything moved over and, for lack of a better word, rebranded.  But eventually I pulled it off.

As for the actual composition, originally I was using the built in online posting stuff.  I tried a few offline clients for LJ, but nothing really ever worked out well for me.  Eventually I came across Windows Live Writer and got back into things.  That one was discontinued and I switched to Open Live Writer.  It never worked as well as I would have liked it to, but that may have been the computer rather than the software.  It was nice being able to double post on separate blogs from one app, but I have since basically abandoned the Blogger site in favor of this one.  I am now uploading from the WordPress app

But! But! But! I am actually keeping a running log of posts I am working on (outlines, actual posts, just general notes) in a text file in Microsoft Works Word Processor 9.0.

Yes. I said that.

 

 

Works 9.0.  

Why? Why not!  It is a fairly lightweight program, uses an obscure file format, and, frankly, because I like it.

Once I get this done, I will copy and paste it into the WordPress app and set it free!  Will I do it today? This one, probably.  I have several other entries in this file to finish, and many more ideas, so there will be many posts that end up showing up later than the original dates, but I am posting them based on dates I started to try and keep things in the correct sequential order. 

It’s Not The East Or The West Side

Just read a brief article about the “Bigger Luke” Star Wars fan theory…

In response I’m going to tell you the joke that never gets old.

Ready for it?

Here it is!

People.

There’s A Voice In My Head That Drives My Heel

Today we went to Yellowwood State Forest, which we do about this time every year.  Brown County, Indiana in October is always very visually appealing due to the forests and everything doing their autumn thing.  One year the weather was dreary, so I was the idiot doing my photography in black and white. (insert link to previous post/photos)  Today I decided to do something I’ve never done before…I equipped my bag with nothing but DSL’s (Nikon D3100 and D3500 and a Canon 40D) and Automatic lenses.

Nothing manual.  At all.

I will say this, I felt like I had virtually no control over my visual compositions.  Point, click, let the camera do the work.

I was not a fan.  The way I tend to use the light has been described as “interestingly awesome” by more than a few people and automatic settings just do not allow that kind of customization.  The camera captures what it sees in the way it thinks is best.

Which is fine. I would guess the majority of people who take pictures of things want to have an image that is more or less how it actually looks so they can have an accurate memory.  I take pictures of nature, primarily, and I try to go more for feeling.  I can go out on a dreary or rainy day and get something that is visually striking:

 

 

On a day where the sky is as dreary and gray as this:

 

Manual settings on a digital camera are a must for me.  There was just something too sterile about this one:

 

(Canon 40D w/Canon 35-80 automatic lens)

Versus this:

 

 (Nikon D40X w/Maybe my beat to hell Spiratone 135 manual lens).

But that is just me and I am weird.