SOne of my favorite bloggers has been having a March Madness style movie match-up for the past week or so. She took all of the Best 
Picture Oscar-winning movies for the last thirty-two years and matched them up in a bracket. So that everything was random and not fixed in any way, she simply matched up movies that were sixteen years apart, so for example the winner from 1979 and the winner from 1995 were matched up and so on. It’s been fun voting on each round and seeing which films made it through and which were discarded. I’ve seen most of the films in question, but for the few that I haven’t seen, she also included a third choice in her voting. If you haven’t seen one or both of the films or simply can’t decide between the two, you can choose the third option which is “can’t decide or don’t know”. I’ve tried to stay away from that option, but sometimes the decision is just too difficult. Right now we are down to the second to the last round and the films in the semi-finalists are: Forrest Gump vs. Dances With Wolves and Titanic vs. Schindler’s List. Geez Louise, could the decision be any harder?!? I even tried to put off the decision by working on the digital printing I needed to get done, but in the end I finally had to choose. It was tough, and I wouldn’t let myself cop out with the third cop out option, so what I finally chose was Dances With Wolves and Schindler’s List. I’d like to take this moment to apologize to Forrest Gump and Titanic. You guys are tops in my heart as well, and please don’t hang a banner outside my door calling me a traitor, but a decision had to be made. I’m looking forward to seeing what all the rest of her readers think.
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February 10, 2012 2:58 am | 
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I sat there and took shot after shot. I was completely oblivious to pretty much everything around me. Which is why it took me quite by surprise when a police officer walked up to me and told me I needed to leave. Apparently this side of the road was a posted ‘No Parking Zone’.
Oops.
I honestly had not even realized that I couldn’t park there. When I pulled up, there was already someone else there taking pictures, so it didn’t even occur to me that perhaps I shouldn’t be there.
If I had noticed the ‘No Parking’ sign before I parked, would I still have stopped anyway?
Ummm . . . yeah. You bet I would have.
An opportunity like this doesn’t come around all the time.
Would I have sat there for an hour like I did? Probably not. Although I do have a tendency to lose track of time when I’m shooting something, as a photographer I try to be very respectful of privacy, private property, rules, and boundaries.
But in my defense, how could I not stop and take a few (or a hundred) digital stills of such majestic creatures? If only Nature would follow posted signs so that us poor humans could sit for as long as we liked and revel in the beauty around us without having to worry about whether or not it’s legal to be there, right?
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Digital Print | admi | January 31, 2012 2:02 am | Comments Off
I am trying to establish a Christmas Eve tradition for my family. Ever since we stopped going to my husband’s grandmother’s house for her family Christmas party on Christmas Eve, we haven’t really had anything to do that night. At first I was okay with that, after having somewhere to go every single Christmas Eve since I was a baby (growing up we went to my dad’s family gathering on Christmas Eve then once I was married we started going to my husband’s family function), it was nice to not have to pack up the kids and go anywhere, getting home late only to wrestle with the kids to get them into their new Christmas printed pajamas and then to bed so I could relax and put out the Santa presents. But after a couple of years of having nothing to do, I realized that I missed it. And since I want Christmas Eve to be enjoyable and not stressful, I’ve tried to think of something fun to do. Last year I came up with the idea of putting some hot chocolate in a thermos, grabbing some snacks, and after an early supper of homemade pizza, heading out to drive around and look at Christmas lights for a while, then head home and put the kids to bed. That seemed to work well and we all enjoyed it so we’re going to do it again this year. It’s also a good opportunity for me to take some lovely high color photographs of the Christmas lights. I’m not sure it’s a tradition that will hold since after a while the kids will get too old to want to look at Christmas lights, but it will work as a tradition for the foreseeable future anyway.
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Digital Print | admi | January 13, 2012 5:44 am | Comments Off
A friend of mine on Facebook tagged me in a picture that was just so awesome I want to have it printed on stickers to put on my Christmas 
card envelopes. It was a digital photo that she had found on the internet of a Christmas tree, but it wasn’t just any old Christmas tree. It was a Christmas tree made entirely out of books. I know, right? Books! It was so cool. Obviously someone had put down a layer of books in a circle, then another layer only alternating them enough so they looked staggered and so on getting smaller as they went up so that it looked like a tree. Then they put some lights on it and took a picture of it. I thought it was a really cool idea. And my friend thought of me when she saw it because she knows how much I love books AND Christmas! Two of my favorite things together in one place! I would consider making one myself except that I’m not sure I want to take that many books off my shelves. When I put them back, I’d have to reorganize them all over again. You never know though, I just might give it try next year…
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Coming up next weekend is a Christmas tradition that my parents and my brother and sister and I started a few years ago – our annual 
Christmas Slumber Party at Grandma and Grandpa’s House. We pack our bags (and me my camera so I can take digital photos of the festivities) and head to my mom and dad’s place for two whole days and a night of Christmas slumber party fun. We typically have the kids (there are seven grandkids still young enough to want to have a slumber party at grandma’s) help put up the Christmas tree and my mom’s Christmas village. We also usually make lots of different kinds of cookies and other goodies. Last year I think we cleaned up the kitchen about 5,396 times. Each time the kids were done with what they had decided to make, we had to clean up the kitchen (and sometimes the kids when they got flour or frosting all over their shirts). I got so sick of cleaning that stinking kitchen by the end of that weekend! The fact that my brother and sister and I look forward to the slumber party (we spend the night too) almost as much as our kids do is completely notwithstanding. And I must remember my camera again this year. I think I want to use my digital printer to make scrapbooks of the last three years for all of the kids to keep.
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Digital Print | admi | December 29, 2011 8:08 pm | Comments Off
Saturday was my dad’s 58th birthday. It’s hard to believe that he is coming up on 60 years old already. In my mind he and my mom will always be 40. They may have a few more wrinkles and a few more gray hairs, but they never seem to age to me. Anyway, since his 
birthday fell on a Saturday, I was able to take my kids over to his house for a visit. My kids wanted to make him a printed banner, but I managed to talk them into keeping it simple with homemade cards instead, although they did talk me into making some printed stickers for him which I am sure he immensely appreciated. The kids got to help him a bit with his dogs, they spent some time watching football with him, and they even got to ride the golf cart with him. Then I made a supper for us all of parmesan chicken, spaghetti, and garlic bread. After that we topped off the tank with chocolate cake with white buttercream frosting and ice cream. Then on Sunday my brother and sister and their kids were able to make down to my mom and dad’s place and the whole process was repeated. I even think my niece gave him some digitally printed magnets that she had made at school. Plus the weather was gorgeous both days, so I’d say my dad had a pretty great 58th birthday!
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Digital Print | admi | October 9, 2011 10:55 am | Comments Off
One of my favorite things to say is something I first heard from a movie when I was in Junior High. It is the Latin phrase, Carpe Diem, 
which means ‘seize the day’. I first heard it in the movie Dead Poets Society. It has stuck with me ever since. Unfortunately I have not been so good at seizing the day in recent years, though. But I have a new goal in mind now. Something that’s been percolating in my brain for a couple of years, but that I just recently put into form. In order to accomplish my goal, I need to remember Carpe Diem or I will be lost. My solution is to perhaps have get a digitally printed shirt made up with that phrase on it, or perhaps get some printed stickers that I can stick anywhere I look at often. Or better yet I need to put the phrase on one of my digital photos and then make a digital print of it to hang on my wall. I really like to do that when there is a saying that really resonates with me.
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Digital Print | admi | September 27, 2011 7:42 pm | Comments Off
Several years ago, I was naïve enough to think that I could print and sell my photos. I bought a nice digital printer, picked out what I thought were my best photos (at the time), and spent countless hours deciding what I would charge, how I would try to sell them and where. My intention was to sell them on Ebay, but once I got done with all my big ideas school had started for that year and I was so busy with the kids that the idea never took off. I now know that this “brilliant” idea I had was definitely conceived during an obviously delusional time in my life. For one thing, I underestimated how expensive paper and ink would be. The other thing I underestimated was the fact that most of my photos at that time were nothing spectacular. I do a lot better now, but I still doubt that I would see any of my digital photos on shirts or anything like that. The printer wasn’t a complete waste of money at least. I have done quite a bit of digital printing for myself and even some for some high-detail, full-color images that I’ve sold. There’s just no way I could make any kind of a business out of it. Nothing wrong with dreaming though, right?
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Digital Print | admi | August 4, 2011 7:57 pm | Comments Off
Quite often, businesses that my husband is working at will simply throw away office furniture that they are done using or that they feel has a flaw (the reason they get new). Sometimes he gets permission to have those pieces that are about to be chucked. That was the case just recently with some book cases. They are very nice bookcases, but they do have a minimal number of scratches and/or dings in them and one of the shelves is cracked. Thus, I now have a reference section for my library. Now all I need are digitally printed stickers to label each of the shelves like a real library. In the meantime, just for fun, I may have a digitally printed banner made up that says, “Carmen’s Library – Enter at your own risk”. The kids would get a huge kick out of that! I could also have someone use sublimation to put my favorite photo on a coffee mug that I could place on one of the shelves as a decoration. I was running out of room in my library/walk-in closet anyway, so I’m absolutely thrilled to have more shelves that I now need to fill up with books!
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Digital Print | admi | 7:57 pm | Comments Off
Picture Oscar-winning movies for the last thirty-two years and matched them up in a bracket. So that everything was random and not fixed in any way, she simply matched up movies that were sixteen years apart, so for example the winner from 1979 and the winner from 1995 were matched up and so on. It’s been fun voting on each round and seeing which films made it through and which were discarded. I’ve seen most of the films in question, but for the few that I haven’t seen, she also included a third choice in her voting. If you haven’t seen one or both of the films or simply can’t decide between the two, you can choose the third option which is “can’t decide or don’t know”. I’ve tried to stay away from that option, but sometimes the decision is just too difficult. Right now we are down to the second to the last round and the films in the semi-finalists are: Forrest Gump vs. Dances With Wolves and Titanic vs. Schindler’s List. Geez Louise, could the decision be any harder?!? I even tried to put off the decision by working on the digital printing I needed to get done, but in the end I finally had to choose. It was tough, and I wouldn’t let myself cop out with the third cop out option, so what I finally chose was Dances With Wolves and Schindler’s List. I’d like to take this moment to apologize to Forrest Gump and Titanic. You guys are tops in my heart as well, and please don’t hang a banner outside my door calling me a traitor, but a decision had to be made. I’m looking forward to seeing what all the rest of her readers think.
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