Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Not to say others won't be welcome ...

Darling, I'm sorry.
Let's never fight again.
I said some ... honest things. But, as my Daddy used to say: honesty about the rice ignores the glory of the curry. (Well, I'm sure he would have said that, if he'd thought of it).
I picked up my PEN for the second day in a row, inspired by grass. And I had fun.

It took eight shots to get the one I like. Plus a few of my co-workers wondering why I was shooting the verge, but who cares. Let us rekindle, PEN, my friend. Let us photograph the mundane and make it beautiful. Let us find the beautiful and make it transcend.

Here is the grass:

And I didn't even use the filter. Much.

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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11:52:00 PM PST

    Nice.
    (How do you use the filter not much?)
    I can't help thinking though "the cows would love that grass". Looks like good eatin'.

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    1. franzyWednesday, November 21, 2012 at 5:34:00 PM PST

      There's a little slide-across window which lets you play with the warm/cool, blur/fast, soft/contrast, etc.
      I believe I warmed this one up a bit ...

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    2. AnonymousWednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:13:00 PM PST

      I see. I assume you mean in camera. I haven't used them since the early days, can't be bothered. I sometimes to a bit of contrast, saturation, blackness tweaking but that's about it. I don't really know what I'm doing in the editing department so it's safest not to try.

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  2. RiverWednesday, November 21, 2012 at 12:41:00 AM PST

    Let's go for raw honesty. Did you use the filter or did you not? Why would you? What difference does it make to the photo? I think you should show two photos of the same subject, one filtered, one not, so that we can see the difference if there is any.
    "honesty about the rice ignores the glory of the curry"
    I really like that.

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    1. franzyWednesday, November 21, 2012 at 5:37:00 PM PST

      Maybe I will just post the 'natural' version to show the difference.

      Use freely and cite often!

      (You can use that one too)

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  3. MedicatedMooFriday, November 30, 2012 at 6:25:00 AM PST

    "honesty about the rice ignores the glory of the curry" - put it on a t-shirt!

    Oh, and 'let's never fight again'? Not a chance. If you don't fight occasionally it's because you're ignoring each other.

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    1. franzyFriday, November 30, 2012 at 8:25:00 PM PST

      A t-shirt? I think I just found Mele's Xmas present!
      She's gonna love it!

      I agree, but probably only about inanimate objects.

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  4. franzyFriday, November 30, 2012 at 8:24:00 PM PST

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32