BlueSoySauce

Let me start off by saying that the best way to get the best results from a picture is by perfecting your technique and getting the right moments. Then let me say that the best way to perfect your technique and get a lot of amazing shots is by taking more pictures. After you have taken loads of pictures, killed many batteries, and filled many memory cards (or film rolls), then you should review all of the photos you took and pick those that you find to be the best. As you do this more often, after travelling to many places and finding many new photo ops, you will get better at handling a camera and picking the right moments. That’s when you will find that you don’t have too many pictures in quanitity but a lot of pictures with quality. It’s all about the technique and when you have your camera ready for the climax of a photogenic oppurtunity.

Same big problem with me, I have lots of lists of things I want/need to do in my head. But after I am done thinking about it I usually take a nap, go on the internet, or think about something else. It’s a habit I have to break, and no matter how many things pop up in my mind I have to list my priorities and start working on some of the higher ones. If I can nibble at a hard task for just 5 minutes then maybe I can get somewhere. Just 5 minutes no matter how big that task is. Then maybe it will help me realize how easy or fun the task actually may be after finally engaging in the high priority task for just 5 minutes. I read in some book once that if you imagine a task as a slice of swiss cheese, each time you complete a 5 minute task relating to the activity you will make a hole in that slice of cheese. Eventually the cheese will be filled with many holes and then the task will seem easier. So maybe if I list all the small and bigger tasks of one high priority activity and then I work on each one seperatly for only a small amount of time I can easily finish it. Working on something for 5 minutes (which isn’t a very long time) might eventually turn into maybe 10 minutes or 15 and I will be getting somewhere. Now that I am done writing this I have inspired myself to go work on a website project for one of my clients! Wooooo!!!

I once was given an electric stapler as a present for Christmas and I barely used it. Mostly because of how reliable it wasn’t and how cheap the plastic was. It was a gimmick being that you could see the circuitry working it’s way around the inner walls of the clear plastickyness. I kept it for a couple of years because I would feel bad if I got rid of it since someone was generous enough to buy me something. Then after those couple years I forgot who it was that gave it to me and it’s red plastic base along with it’s plastic transparent crappiness was deserving to be broken into a couple dozen pieces. I ran the technology downstairs and out my garage door to the drive-way where the hard, rough, and deadly-hot asphalt was ready to claim it’s victim. I raised my hand clutching the stapler high in the air and thrusted it down onto the crime scene. It’s crappy plastic exoskeleton flew all over place with the red base flying across the blacktop near the grassy edge. I repeated the smashing of the stapler until the circuitry was broken, it’s walls were now complex puzzle pieces, and the heavy base was split in two exposing random wires and the four AAA battery slots. It was fun at that moment but my Mom wasn’t all too happy and I couldn’t find any decent way to clean up the mess. I just picked each piece up one by one, and I was actually amazed at where some of the pieces had landed. The overall experience was very entertaining and I might have to do it again in the near future, to maybe something bigger and more complicated such as my dated electric piano, my crappy mini-fridge, or an old computer monitor….