Listening to: let the sun shine in . . .

Listening to: drip, drip, drip, drip

QUACK ! QUACK !! QUACK !!! QUACK !!!!

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"There are times I think I lose myself - don't know who I am. I get caught up in the struggle and the strain. With my back against a stone wall - my finger in the dam, I'm losin' strength and goin' down again. Then my heart turns to Alaska and freedom on the run.... I can hear her spirit calling me......"
J. Denver - To the Wild Country

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Perplexing Moments in Photoshop

Listening to: sighing dogs

Seems the more I work with size and dpi and resolution and aspect ratios the more confused I get. I think I've bent my mind around it only to discover that I've missed the mark again.

Should be so simple - everyone says it is so simple. I'm pulling my hair out!

I read - reread... just can't find that key that unlocks my brain to understand how to make the resizing thing work. I'm simply trying to resize for prints and products in DA and CafePress. Shouldn't take a PhD --- or does it?

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"There are times I think I lose myself - don't know who I am. I get caught up in the struggle and the strain. With my back against a stone wall - my finger in the dam, I'm losin' strength and goin' down again. Then my heart turns to Alaska and freedom on the run.... I can hear her spirit calling me......"
J. Denver - To the Wild Country
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Freedom

Listening to: pyrotechnics

July 4th should be an official DA holiday! The freedom to be an artist should be cherished and nurtured wherever it may be. Americans truly take this for granted.

There can be peace - or war - but what prevails is the artistic spirit borne of freedom.

And there are the truly free Alaskans who have tied themselves to barrels of oil and the revenue it generates. Not sure they are the same ones celebrating with fireworks lakeside in broad daylight.

My nephew is in Iraq fighting with our US national guard. His mother is relieved that he is somewhere safe from the drug dealers in his city where he works as a police officer and heads up the dealer's hit list. What has the world come to.

My sister has nightmares of her sons being drafted and sent off to fight. She feels helpless. We had several teenagers in Anchorage killed by gunfire last week.

Without art we may all succumb.

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"What are we making weapons for? Why keep on feeding this war machine? We take it right out of the mouths of our babies. Take it away from the hand of the poor. What are we making weapons for?" - J. Denver
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Journaling the Lazytea Way

Mood: LAZY
Listening to: Black Horse & Cherry Tree
Reading: The Tao of Photography

Long time without an entry. Been way too busy with web designs and learning new tricks which we all know is next to impossible for an old dog. Great light up here right now so I'm also out shooting alot.

One child is out "cleaning the dirt" and the other is in her room plotting to make a cosplay outfit "sexy, cute mushroom with fishnet stockings"

I am so deep in denial. I think I hear the seabreezes calling me....

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"...Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher." John Swarkowski
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