Weekend Blogging

Have you ever noticed that on the weekend blogging just seems less easy? I guess it's cause the hubby is home, and we're usually out doing something or other, and I just don't have time to sit at the computer for hours reading other people's blogs & playing around with mine. Today I played with all the photos from the week's bellydance at the retirement home. That means taking out the ones I hated (of which there were a bunch this time because of a mis-communication and a grumpy husband taking pictures). It also means playing around with the ones I like to make them better. Yes, I "supermodel" my pictures. Shiny nose? Gone. Eye looks a little bloodshot? Hmmm. Yes. I can fix that too. Red eyes cause of camera flash? Usually fixable. Then I send them to ofoto and eventually get prints of the ones that I really want. I have a little bellydancing scrapbook.
I did a bunch of pictures with filters this time because they were such bad pictures of me "basic" that I played just to see what I could do. Some of the filters produced a really cool effect. I like doing that artsy fartsy stuff. It made me think of what Andy Warhol was doing with the silkscreens of people like Marilyn Monroe & Jackie Kennedy.... something to do with emphasizing the lines of the face and taking out other features. Kinda cool.
One of these days I'm going to get my teacher, D., who is also a photographer, to take "professional" studio photos of me all gussied up. Then we're talking "stuck on myself much?" But I really like looking at other people's photos on blogs, so I figure people who like me will also like that sort of thing.

Anyway. I'll post a link when I get the photo album all uploaded. It's got 28 minutes to go as I write this.