What do you do?

So many sweet comments on my photos.
I want to say thanks for taking the time to comment on them.
I see so many great photos on all of your blogs and I love seeing what everyone shoots day after day.
It's inspirational.

I LOVE taking photos.
I 'see' photos everywhere.
Everything & anything can be a photo to me.
I especially love photographing people (hi kids!)
I have loved taking photos for years.

My dad gave me my first film SLR right after I was married (17 years ago) because he heard me talking about how I was interested in taking photos. It was a Sears camera. He claims not to remember this now. lol! (Hi Dad!)

I took a b&w film developing class at a local college 16 years ago because I was fascinated with taking photos.

My favorite part, right now, is the editing/post-processing.
I really, really LOVE the editing/post-processing part.

(See photo above)

So much so, that my dream would be to find a job where I could edit photos for hours on end FOR MONEY! lol
But I'm one out of a million people with the same desire.

I really believe my photos are pretty average.
My photog friend Alien (who takes great photos!), http://planetalien.blogspot.com/2007/09/let-talk-about-my-photos.html
explained this once before... it takes tons of attempts to try and get one good photo.
Once in awhile, I'll get a photo rooc (right out of camera) that I'll get excited about.
That's not too often.

So I take hundreds of photos.
Usually of the same thing.
Just trying to learn.

I have the utmost respect for self-taught photographers.

I take 99% of my photos in manual mode.
I play with aperture & shutter speed & ISO & white balance.
But still, most of them turn out average.
So playing in Photoshop can change so much of that.

I'm also very lucky to have a photographer friend that is always open to learning anything new about photography (Hi Tracy!) She cracks me up and has great ideas: http://www.tracywburgos.typepad.com/

So that's my thing. That's what I do...
I take hundreds of photos.
I fiddle with all kinds of settings in manual mode.
And I spend hours in photoshop. (just ask my poor husband).

Thanks for visiting and keep taking photos so I can continue to be inspired!!