City Council has put the fate of the convention center on a temporary hold. It's time to go watch the red needles and palms point-counter-point the leaves changing while the oak trees do their thing on the opposite side of the rail tracks. And, while we wait for City Council again. Now, that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to some people that I know, but God love them, they never did know how to stop and smell the roses anyway. Had they done so, their visionary look on life would have been at a whole different level. Having said that, I've made some new discoveries that have me planning into the first half of 2022 already.
On Sunday, I was on one of my discovery missions. In the past, I would do one of those trips about every four months. Now, I do one about every three weeks. Riding the buses and trains has expanded the little pockets that I had missed or overlooked in the past using my wagon wheel system of covering the metroplex. While it did generate a lot of stock work, it missed some of the more detailed things that I love in architecture and nature. It also opened up new windows of opportunity to see more things that are beneficial to my expanding interest in textures that make for fantastic abstract creations.
In things to come, the use of the new versions of Photoshop are being cemented into the plans for a new line of cards that are mainly greeting and note types, but the postcards have abstracts on the photo side. I have experimented in the Zazzle area for this. It peaked a level of interest where I went looking for some of my old friends in the printing business that I had used for years in the Great Lakes. My stationary company competed with landmark department stores in the wedding announcements, and funeral thank you cards became a mainstay to my, then, photography hobby since childhood.
In my junior high years, I had learned how to set type in a small town newspaper and had also learned how to run an old Mergenthaler hot type linotype machine. To this day, I have had opportunities to sit down and take old slugs and block new slugs of type into place to run on a letterpress printing press just to see if I could still do it. This time, however, just for fun to help refresh and past techniques and bring them into the upgrade to the most modern Photo Shop experience. However, I continue to uphold the non-use of photo shop to change my images where they involve people or editorial images. The only place any use of photo shop will be on textures used to make abstract designs.
In the meanwhile, I continue to search for the most common of things to photograph from a totally different outlook on what is now part of new technology. I have been looking into the new 50 megapixal cameras but they have been shifted in the budget because of the Covid-19 experiences world wide. Sales and use of stocks are rebounding back to near pre-Covid-19 levels, however, the market has changed (and not for the better) from the likes of Social Media that created thousands upon thousands of self-appointed experts in what the stock business is all about. It's a two-blade sword in my opinion and others that I communicate with, in what's happening with the stock business. In the long-run, we, as a society, will pay the price for that somewhere beginning in the near future.
