Opinionated ~1~ * Motivation * Self Reliant??

How can you try to motivate someone when you cant even motivate yourself? Wow that is the question I have had for awhile. Have you ever got yourself to a point in your life when you just don't know where to go, don't know what to do, and don't know what to do next. Ya, well that's me. I look at everyone else's life and say well hey that's easy to fix you just need to do this and your good to go. Well where is my own advice?

You know I come up with all of these ideas, all of the time, of things I need to do to propel myself, but when do I do them? Never is the answer to that, never.

So what do I do to fix it N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Well no maybe not nothing, really what I do is come up with all of these stradegies, and purchase all of these tools to get me into the right catogory of being hirable to a job that gives me a weekly salary or get myself enough work where I am so busy I wouldnt even need to ponder the idea of working another job to be sure bills were paid. But then I do nothing with that.  

You know, I can tell someone how to save the world if I really believe they can do it. And it might take a minute for the advice to sink in, but when it does., I bet they actually do what they set out to do, save the world.

I have all of these pieces in front of me to put the puzzle together, so how hard is it to compose it into the picture that is me. So how can I be so bold as to tell a person the mixture to save themselves if I can't even save myself from being a motivated individual. What kind of person would want to take someones opinion that can't even give themselves their own advice and save their own world.  

Altering Images ~1~ * Roman Statue * Tinted Window

This picture is one of those almost lost causes that was taken from a  moving tour bus traveling through Rome. The window was tinted blue on the top to keep the sun glare from coming in, as well as having spots from not being cleaned as often as it should (I cant say much my cars windows has the same spots). So when I see these lost causes, I normally try to salvage them giving them a new life.

So what did I do? First I zoned into what the picture was truely about, the statue. Once I moved it into where I wanted it I then got rid of the obstruction the the left. With that, I used the clone tool, this is the tool I dubly named "The God Tool" as I can always take out what I do not like and put in what I want in the picture. I fiddeled around with this for awhile getting rid of the corner of the building as well as getting rid of some of the bars around the top of the statue that construction workers where using to bring back life to the dated statue. From there I made a cut out of the tall statue itself, so I could fiddle around with the saturation and tone. I did the same with the background, getting rid of the blue tint and getting a better tone to match the statue's new coloring.

The next and last thing I did and the last thing is add an element that was not there, the sun. How I did was with the lighting effect making it omni and pacing it in the right spot to give the photo an essence of a higher being.  And Oola a new and reformed photo that could have been lost in a pile of pictures that would never see the light of day again

Travel Photographer and Creative Artist located in Orlando Florida

In The Past ~1~ * School Project * Crocodile Poem

This is one of those times you wished you had payed attention to what you were learning in school. Aaand had a memory that could actually absorb and retain what you did. My first time actually Creating something like this and it was so much Fun. I need to go back and retake some of these classes to get it embeded in my memory.

Melanie's Photographic Travel Journal ~1~ *North Carolina* Morning Fog

A trip to visit my sister in North Carolina was well needed in my travel journal. It gave my new toy a chance to shine with many vivid photographs. As I awoke one morning I stood out on her patio to view a stunning show of mother Natures talents that laid upon the pond outside her apartment. A fog that I have been waiting to shoot was finally in view, it was so solemn and dense and picturesque against the wooded backdrop. This is what I have been mising living in the Orlando regions and this is what I want to find every time I hold my camera in my hands. Something mesmerizing to the eyes.








Travel Photographer and Creative Artist located in Orlando Florida

Inspiration is within my travels

I see a glint of inspiration somewhere in the distance and the Picture is so vivid and bright. The jungled vines seem to tangle me and make the journey that is so close, so so so far away. A machete would be of nice use in this sea of green. It could take away all the weight that shadows my soul and lift it so I can break free.

Getting my life in direction

So I am trying to push my way forward with this life that was given to me by doing something I love, Photography.
My site is up and now I just have to get myself noticed and hopefully someone will love what I do and let me show more of my creativity.
I am definatly going to use this as my journal through life and tell all about my climb into a world that should have been started a long time ago.

Travel Photographer and Creative Artist located in Orlando Florida