the camera did not connect at requested speed, so i'm waiting for thirty seven hi-res to thumbnail into the contact sheet & glowing over the night that was. that is, i mean. is. bliss. so much so, i seriously doubt my ability to transmit it over these wires, even with dozens of fuzzy images & hundreds of blurry words.
ok: twenty seven images chosen for further reflection. patience, i whisper to myself, watching the green download bar creep across. at least three of these pictures are over a year old, they were on the memory card when i lost it; i believe i have a spider & a missed shot from a carnival. eight of twenty seven? that's it?
*much later*
& what if the story's never really told? it never was any less indistinct than any of the images which follow, there were really no edges on the night at all. boundaries were blurred, like the one between skin & air, stirring up such a benevolent chemistry; add a beer & a half, a great band, & friends, & the thought just trails off at this point, lost in the moment.
i do believe my old & non-wonderful camera may have been the perfect instrument to capture this. i can feel the night in these images, of course i'm still smiling, your mileage may vary.
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**note: the very strangely colored one is my graphics program's interpretation of 'auto-levels' when the only available light is a dark & vivid green. the last one? not sure why i did that, i generally don't, but tonight, it seemed right.
mt doesn't do that on these servers because i am unable to figure out how to get image::magick to work properly. it is installed, it just doesn't work.
what i do is, after i optimize my main image & save it off, i take the crop tool & pick out a 50 x 50 pixel area (with something interesting in it) & then i save that as filename-t. then, i upload the main image as a popup. then, i upload the thumbnail as an imbedded image & put it where the link text is.
ok, that sounded really complicated. but it's really pretty simple, & it gives much better results than just shrinking a whole photo down for a thumbnail. you get to pick which pixels represent the photo.
barring that we should be able to use NetPBM but i haven't been able to figure out quite how just yet. note to self: figure that out.
love the pics..
do i have your e-mail right ms.e?
that last one? whoa! wow.
I feel as though I was there, even though I don't know where there is. Well, I don't usually know where there is, so this is no different than my usual lack of there knowledge. But it reminds me that I can't seem to get mt to let me make imbedded popups like the ones here. I used to be able to, it's wierd.
Wonderful shots, girl!
Nice pictures. I like the auto-level one. I was also wondering what happended to the mt/thumbnail thingie Jill was talking about, I just don't raise my hand in class much.
i actually prefer the hand-thumbnailing, since it's cooler to have a representative sample of actual size stuff than a shrinky of the whole thing.