no, this one

I changed my mind. This is the one.



The theme of this show is Blue. Not merely the color blue, but anything you could conceivably relate to that word. I didn't have any images in stock that I could apply to that theme, that weren't merely pictures with a lot of blue in them. I didn't really want to go that route since it didn't seem very original, but besides that, I didn't see any blue images that stood out anyway.

So I was trying to come up with a new angle. First I tried to take something that wasn't ordinarily blue, and make it blue. I tried a tree, but it was so tedious, and it wasn't all that impressive anyway, that I didn't finish it. Another idea I had was to take something that is normally blue, and make it not-blue. But that's tough, since so few things are naturally blue that would never be another color. There's the sky or the ocean, or... ?

So then I remembered the picture of the blue eye. I made the colors dramatic and thought it looked good enough to enter. But then I was playing around with it and come up with the rainbow of colors you see at the top. It looked pretty cool, and I realized it was something that is normally blue (if I labeled it as a blue eye) that was no longer blue. But I was unsure that angle would work for the judges.

Then I came up with the idea of putting the original and the "negative" together. That shows both the blue and the no-longer-blue.

I submitted it tonight (three hours before the deadline), and notifications come out on December 3rd.

busy week

Monday night was the big Scotch whisky tasting at the St. Andrew's Society. This one was a lot of work! The three of us used to do one meeting to prepare, plus a few e-mails. This time we did three meetings, many e-mails, and at least one more meeting would have been nice. We really had to do a lot of research to be able get across our points. It went well though. It might not have been our best, but we are happy with it.

Tuesday night was the CoPA meeting, our photographers' group. Kinda dull, but oh well.

Wednesday was Whisky Head. the theme was Irish whiskies. Educational, since I'm not too familiar with them.

Thursday and tonight I worked on my photograph for the show.

Tomorrow is Drammit. I need to write tasting notes.

Whisky groups... St. Andrews, we present two tastings a year. Whisky Head is put on by my friend Doug, five times a year. Drammit is a group of friends (we all bring bottles) which meets four times a year. November is when they occur in the same month, and this year they are all in the same week!