Living with images

Ann has this incredible ability to bring home images and start working on them right away.  Sometimes she can start processing images the same day she took them.  Unfortunately not me.  Sometimes I can barely stand to look at them.  Sure, once I’ve downloaded my images I check them to make sure my gear is working and to see if anything jumps out at me and to see if things are generally turning out the way I see them, but I can’t do more than one or two adjustments (usually to bring the exposure into line where I want it) before I have to just walk away from it.  So on our trips, Ann is often furiously working away at images while I’m relaxing, reading the news or a magazine.  It particularly hurts when she says, “So, what do you think?” and she’s got a beautiful image on her laptop.  Minutes later, it’s on her iPad.  I accept that’s not how I work and live with it, but wouldn’t it be nice.The way I look at it, I have to live with my images for awhile before I can really get into them and pull out what I was seeing at the time.  It doesn’t always take a terribly long time, often a week or two, but sometimes it does.  It dawned on me that I really haven’t posted much from our trip to Utah.  Utah you ask?  Yeah, Ann and I took a two week trip through Utah last year.  Rented an RV and went out with some photographer friends who have taken a lot of workshops out there and who wanted to visit their favorite places.  I realized that I have exactly no blog posts from October of last year.  

Anyway, recently Ann and I were discussing how to best organize our Lightroom mobile on our iPads to be able to show people images.  This morning, before I had to start working I opened up Lightroom and started looking at how I had things organized and how I might change my different mobile collections.  I noticed the Utah 2015 collection, clicked into it and started scrolling through the images I had gathered into a collection (a group of images I might want to work on or show people).  Flipping through the images, one struck my eye that I distinctly remembered getting very excited about as I made it.  So I stopped and started working on it.

It may be a slow process for me, but sometimes it produces a decent result.

Needles - Canyon Lands