Well, I didn’t actually stop, I just stopped actively building my website. I am constantly taking pictures. This portion of the endeavor isn’t suffering due to lack of material. It is more so a lack of bandwidth. There is so much to do and live, and I also like to sleep, so here we are, five months later, awake and photos in hand. 😆 Adulting is hard.

 

 

                         These are the most recent additions to my collection.

 

Forgotten Monterey

My husband told me this is his current favorite photo of his. This is one of my current favorites too. (High in the Water is still #1) Monterey holds a lot of good memories for us in general. The number for 90° angles in this is exciting. I don’t know why, but I LOVE a repeating pattern and that is present even in the shadows here. 🥰

 

 

Quite frankly, this is just a bunch of stuff I really like. Blue is my favorite color. Nasturtiums and ferns are two of my favorite “backyard” plants to grow, both hold sentimental places in my heart. 

Eagle Salsify

Repeating patterns make my heart happy and this one was fractalesque on top of that. I LIVE for this kind of random shit in my day to day. I pride myself on my attention to detail and think I probably “notice” more than the average person and I find so much joy in things I think most would miss. (Hopefully I’m wrong about this and everyone is experiencing regular joy.)

While on my quest to learn what type of plant this was, I learned that this is an edible plant. The most common type has a yellow flower. I’m not sure of this is an invasive species or not, in my area. The undeniable thing is this flower brought a STRONG repeating pattern game. I will totally report back if I get up the nerve to eat it. There is a link to the Farmer’s Almanac article about salsify. 😬

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ongoing Process 

As part of my process, I print all of my images multiple times before I get the colors to my liking and have a proof that every other image moving forward needs to match. The companies who print images commercially vary GREATLY in their color ranges. One company will send an image of evergreen trees in neon green while another sends the same exact upload in forest greens, and that small difference can really make an image look fake or really manipulated when it wasn’t.

A professional photographer I discovered through Instagram, Jayzombie has talked about this issue in the past. I have decided that I want to print my photos at home and cut my own mats. This leads to WAY more versatility. I’m excited but also realistic that this process is going to cost me substantially more, I will be testing images much more often. Fingers crossed that there is a curve, and I can streamline long term. Maybe I can find a tax deduction within this process …

I confidently say all this while only having sold a handful of prints.

 

The integrity of my images is extremely important to me, and I have a feeling that it is going to be a lifelong journey of finding the best way to reproduce my images, and I am totally down for that challenge.