The title of this post has something I hate and something I love... I don't love wasting time. In fact, I HATE it so much that it makes me mad. There are only so many hours in a day and I have enough ideas and work to fill a day countless times so when I lose time..... EEK! I just spent what must have been an hour trying to make my Flickr badge. Now, it is pretty simple. Just follow the steps. However, when I put in the tag for the photos I wanted the badge to use, it says there are no such photos. Nope, wrong, there are hundreds of photos with the tag Polaroid in my Flickr. Then, I think I will use the public sets open, but it will only let me select from four of my sets, which are TOTALLY NOT the sets I wanted to use. Three of them contain lots of nudity and the other set is not a Polaroid set but a set for a group I started for photographs of stickers which are NOT for my portfolio, just for fun, but don't look good on my blog as a badge because the stickers are really small so the photos look strange.... urgh! I know EXACTLY what I want to do, just spent an hour experiments and searching forums, but I have ended up with a nudy badge I hate, not because I hate nudity, I love nudity, but I didn't want every image that ever shows up on my badge to be nudity. So frustrating...
Luckily, I have been doing this while eating these amazing gummy bear like gum drops that I bought in Guanajuato, Mexico, a couple weeks ago. I was there teaching a digital travel photography course (more on this soon, I SHOULD have been editing photos from the trip while I was "playing" on Flickr). These candies are the only thing keeping me from quitting. Although half way through eating them I did pause and regret the fact that I had not photographed them first. The colors are so pretty and now there are not enough of them left for a photo. Oh well, I will keep on eating.
I had grand plans for my post tonight but now I have just complained about Flickr and praised candy. C'est la vie... It's 1 AM, time to sleep. Here is a candy image...
Hi All! So, I had a bid accepted on Alchemy about a week ago. And I didn't dislike working on this custom order. It all went very well. The woman who put in the request, fell in love with her husband in a barn... a good roll in the hay, perhaps? LOL, where is my mind? Anyway, I have yet to hear the story but she promises to tell it to me. She was very good at communicating with me. And she was open to me experimenting. I did put in the bid that I would do a double exposure but was not sure exactly how. I tried two ways. She picked the darker, more moody one, where she and her husband are less prominent in the image. It is funny, because I did this one on the first try with the idea. It is actually two transfers, on the same paper, which is why it is dark. The other technique was to expose both images on the same piece of Polaroid film, then make the transfer. She provided the images. I sent it off yesterday. 
She sent this in her last convo...
