what my day has been like

In order:

realized this picture that I was going to have printed 20x30 to put above our bed isn't a big enough resolution. Looks like the camera (point and shoot, vacation) was on too low of a setting. Always check your camera settings before you go on vacation, take pictures that will matter, etc. etc. etc. Keep it on a high resolution unless you are using those particular images strictly for online, etc.
The file can do 4x6 sizes just fine. Maybe I can do some in color, some in black and white and put them all together... same image but interesting set up? Thoughts?

Then, to ease my sad self, I made some raspberry muffins (with a crumble topping if you're interested).

Had delicious ghanaian peanut soup with a favorite lady for lunch, handled W's lunchtime breakdown over how much rice he wants (totally gets that from his father!), had W spill water from a vase of flowers T gave me this week (he's sweet)..... and the water went ALLLLLLLLL over my new 4x5's that we just picked up from the lab yesterday. They were in a box, the dye soaked through immediately and was streaked over quite a few. So they're lying out to dry on my counters. I feel blurry about it. Hazy about all that film.




Some of them needed to be washed and then clipped to drip-dry. This is where it all becomes funny to me. See these clamps? The big, industrial blue ones? I bought them when I got a strobe, some light stands and a nice-ish 5-in-1 reflector. This is before I got into the studio.


I bought these clamps (they're about a buck a piece at home depot. not a big deal) so I could hold my reflector just where I wanted, fix backgrounds and all that. Well, in my crazy nesting-ness I have been kicking myself about these clamps. I have approx 52,456 of these, in various sizes, at my studio, and keeping these ones at my house has just added to the photo clutter. I swear, its like I have organized non-chaos at the studio, but then at my house, my photo stuff that is here is somehow multiplying and STILL not remotely organized. It drives me slightly insane on a weekly basis. Well, wouldn't you know they were EXACTLY what I needed, in the EXACT number, for this little spilled-water debacle today. It reminds me a little of this instance in my life.

So, I just chilled out about the whole thing and photographed. I knew the film would be okay, it was just a bit of a hassle during lunch and naptime schedule, but after, I documented, and I can't wait to show THIS image below once the slide is scanned, because that is some sort of gorgeous pineapple (if I do say so myself).

And now, I'm sitting at my desk, eating a tasty muffin and drinking some milk. Happy and content. If it can be wiped up or washed out, it seriously is not a big deal. Hope your day is similarly hectic but lovely in all facets!