Allison Claire Images: Has it been a while?

I'm not sure when my last blog last - two or so weeks ago? It feels like much longer...

I'm so thankful that July is over. What a horrible month.

First things first though... I finally edited some new-ish pictures! These were taken around the neighborhood in July:

I like this one, even though this was not the effect I was going for... This is what happens when you go for a walk on a Louisiana morning and pull your camera from a cold place into a humid one and snap a picture without noticing that your lens has fogged over... But hey, it looks cool!

I really like the sharpness, clarity, simplicity of these images... Minimal editing, believe it or not! I mostly just increased the clarity and added slight vignetting...

I tried editing some of my duck photos from last month... Alas, even if I increase the clarity 100%, it doesn't make the pictures much better... So I'm not going to bother editing them... But I still have pictures of cute ducklings! I'll just have to save real wildlife photography for when/if I get a better camera.

In the meantime I've been knitting like a knitting demon... I think said in a previous post that I was "knitting to save my life"... It's certainly helped to keep me pretty calm...

I suppose some explanation is in order. I know that my last post or two had pretty negative undertones and I even mentioned quitting photography at one point. I've decided not to quit. But I have decided that I need to enjoy my environment more and put down the camera every once in a while... And as I said previously, July was an exceptionally hard month for me. Literally every aspect of my life fell apart in a spectacular way. Because this is not meant to be a personal blog I don't want to go into too much detail, but suffice it to say that family, friends etc., and job were all at a rock bottom there... My way of coping was to close up...

I'm not going to pretend that things are fan-freaking-tastic now, because they aren't... But I am coping with everything better. I thought to myself a couple of weeks ago that this would probably be a slow climb out of rock bottom and I think that is very true. So I'm slowly climbing... Trying to stay positive and have fun.

Anyway, here are some knitting photos. I'm planning on giving most of this stuff away because really all I'm doing is getting rid of yarn, and the best way to do that seems to be by knitting skinny scarves.