Lightroom, Darkroom

If you dig a hole at the edge of the ocean, the empty space will fill again with the next wave.

If you free up some space in your day, week or month–by finally getting your taxes off to The Man for example– be sure some new project will sweep in with the next wave to fill the void.

Somehow this morning, in the process of sorting some folders on my hard drive, I came across the guilty fact that a year or more ago, I bought Adobe Lightroom for half price–which would have been great if it was a tool I used with some skill.

On first attempt–if you can imagine this of an Adobe product–the product was vastly complex and vastly not intuitive. It slowed me down rather than speeding up my photo-workflow. I pretended we’d never met.

I’ve never really forgiven myself for wasting the egg-money. So now I have a new project to parallel the notecards project. I’m gathering “Lightroom for Dummies” resources and will go back to school. Again.

That said, it’s been a long dry spell photographically, as is typical for this lowest ebb in the aesthetic year. Soon, I’ll have my first spring wildflowers to shoot with the Lumix. Some of those may make a new notecard set. Who knows.

So: I’m going to Lightroom now to find a spring image to share–just to make me dive under the hood of the software and to begin to commence to revive the itch in my shutter finger. I need to be inspired in the worst way.

NOTE: This image of bloodroot (we should have already seen them blooming–but not THIS spring) was purchased by Monticello a few years back to use as background for a timeline of the Jefferson family. This was one of Thomas’s spring favorites. Mine too!