Writing and Art

Writing in this blog has helped me to be a better writer. It is easier to come up with sentence in sequence. The fluency of writing is easier to maintain due to daily practice. I have learned to spell the words I more frequently use (thank you spell checkers). While it is still not up to professional journalist standards, I guess it is not supposed to be as it is a blog. Reader beware.

1.Do it often:

Art is the same. If you don't practice it, it is much harder to pull it up and use it when you want to "art".

2.Don't Miss the Details

I have the photo I took of cruise ship in Juneau up on my study wall. It a great photo because it has all the elements with out being staged. There is a tiny piece of foreground, a massive ship in the right middle third of the photo and some great atmospherics (clouds) coming down to the city in the background with reflected lights on the water.

When I framed this photo in Juneau just before we left, it was one of the few times that I really wished I had a more extensive camera and the ability to operate it. This photo was taken with a couple of premises that help even out the playing field.

3. Work in the Right Frame of mind

I took the photo with the camera resting on the ledge, not in my hand. This reduced the vibration, even though the ship always has some vibration.

4. Sometimes you have to do it multiple times to get it right:

I bracketed the exposure. I shot the photo with several different exposure combinations so that I would not miss the shot because I was in the wrong photographic mode.

5.Use Past Experience to do something new:

I was prepared for the shot, because I had taken a similar one with with the cook on the balcony looking at us leaving Juneau a trip or two before. While that photo is good, this one is even better, because I had planned it and took more time making sure that it would work.

Applying this same principals to writing.. even a blog.. its a good reminder on what it takes to make this successful.

: ) Pat