Timepiece Ticks

Sweetie left last night… late, as usual.  But she was quick to answer her mornin’ wake-up call, and from th’ little I could hear of her thru th’ static of a rotten connection, she sounded good.  And so ends another weekend.

I worked nearly all of it.  I’ve got somethin’ over 300 images on-loaded from discs.  I went back to the originals, the NEF’s (Nikon Electronic Files, the raw stuff straight outta the camera) and built FRESH files.  And th’ 300 is only a “scratch on th’ surface of what-all I’ve got.  I’m certain to weed out a bunch; but I’m not even halfway thru th’ stack o’ CD’s yet.  An’ THEN there’s a big stack o’ DVD’s, more recent work.  And when I get tired o’ messin’ w/all o’ that, there’s boxes an’ boxes of slides I can scan for Timepiece II.

I’ll prob’ly bounce around ‘tween the 2 a lot.  But I’m finding images I’d forgotten I had!  GOOD ones!  So there will be a bunch o’ never-before-seen stuff to go up when I get it all squared away.

I’m gonna do things a bit differently this time ’round.  Just for starters, I’m goin’ to make the “preview” images, th’ ones you see when you click on a thumbnail, bigger.  They’ve all been 750 pixels-long side.  I’m gonna go w/a thousand this time; ‘give everybody a GOOD look @ what I’ve found.  And I’ve learned (a shock, I know) that I need to sharpen everything before I up-load it.  I didn’t bother in th’ past, thinking that would discourage would-be thieves, if things weren’t pin-sharp they wouldn’t bother.  But on reflection, I think it may have discouraged would-be customers, too.

Of course, there’s no way I’ll really know unless I get somebody willing to use th’ E-Mail link and give me a bit o’ feedback.  THAT’s NEVER happened!  The ONLY “feedback” I EVER got was when Mr. Constantinou, who built the shopping cart for me, valued my work as highly as he did his own.  That was a real boost for my tired ol’ morale.

And speaking of Mr. C., I tried all over Fredericksburg to send him the print he earned.  Would you believe UPS and FedEx wanted over $70.oo to send one 16×24 print to Ontario!?  I was floored!  Sweetie’s gonna hit the USPS office and see if they can’t be “reasonable” about it all.  I’m “on pins & needles” waitin’ to hear that it’s gone…

Well, I s’pose I’d better get back t’ work; this stuff doesn’t get anywhere close to done any other way.

Cheers!

RD