So, I am trying to get my photography website up and running and myself ready to try to make a real living with it. Not the website, but my photography. I have been messing about with it for so long one way or the other, but I have an interest in photographing people that I have never really explored, but I also have a lot of ideas on what I would like to do. Seems a good way into this would be to photograph people for a living. I would like to work with their ideas, and maybe get the opportunities to input some of my own as well, which is to say, I would have a lot more creative control than that, but I will work with others to creat what they are looking for, too. I believe I have mentioned this before, recently. The photography for a living bit, not the mechanics of my own business in it.
I had the day off today, and got some of the work in the yard done that I have been trying to get to for a while now. I cleaned up some of the mess, and am working on getting things cleared away for winter. I also did a big-ish job in moving the tree trunk out of the back yard. It was still up, so I cut it from the stump and took it to the woodpile. That is me getting rid of a lot of problems in our yard as putting a single tree out in the middle of where the old septic system was turned out to be a bad idea on the part of the one who planted it there. Thankfully that was not me. Now I need to drill some series of holes in the top to catch water and rot the stump. It was a poplar tree that split up into a lot of branches early, and does not leave a lot of clear wood grain for use in the low part of the trunk. Whatever! It will burn just fine.
I got a few other chores done today, and have laundry in to finish the day. I started it off weird for a busy day full of work. I showered and shaved. I have been using the straight razor more lately, especially for over me now full beard. Well, full as in not a goatee. I keep it fairly short, and am shaping it with the razor. I am using it more now since I figured out how to put a hell of an edge on it. It is sharp as can be. So it has a place again, along with the safety razor, should I decide to do some more extensive work.
I have been listening to French music on YouTube lately to get used to the cadence and the sound of indiviual words. But the music I dug out to start with has been AI. I like the sound, generally, but it does not seem too imaginive even to me, who does not understand much. So, I dug up Edith Piaf tonight. It is much more imaginitive and interesting. I will be going for more from someone else, but I have a lot to learn and discover. I don’t know the artists I should be hunting for.
Oh, I did something dumb and didn’t realize it. I have been dipping six and nine inch candles, but meauring the diamieter in a one inch opening for the bases. Well, I need to do the six inch in three-quarter inch bases. So, I will have some short ones for the bigger stands, but the smaller stands that usually take a six inch around here will need a whole load made, still. Opps!
I will be working tomorrow. I need to earn a higher amount this week than I have been the last couple. It has been pathetic, even though I have been working my tail off. I could do with a photo client or three! That would sort me out some free time to work on the website and get me some more pictures to put up there. Goodness. Maybe I will be working by the New Year?
Okay, so there is one thing that kind of disturbes me this year. I am watching the weather forecast going into Christmas, and it is wanting to produce warm days into the 50’s all the way up to the day. Seems a bit extreme. I am waking up to find a chill on the house, but it is not cold. It has only been cold twice so far this year. Otherwise it has been more mid-autumnal warm or warmer. It just does not seem right. Well, I giess we will see, but from what I have read on the science, this seems like we are on track for some serious change over the next few years. I keep waiting for the summers to become unbearable.
Well, enough of all that. I would do well to remember to bring my camera tomorrow as one of my favorite Christmas decorations is up, and I want to catch a better photo of it than I did last year. Meanwhile, what a good time to go to bed, and drift off to Edith Piaf.