humbled

For someone who has only been on Ravelry a few short months and wishes I'd joined sooner (there, I've said it), I had a great compliment paid to me the other day. Well, really, WM had a great compliment paid because he took the photos of the baby blankets. I received this Rav message:

We’d like to feature your photo on the Ravelry page for Tyler by Melissa Leapman.

Humbled and honoured as I was, of course I said yes.

I am not a photographer!

I am not a photographer. I have owned a camera of one kind or another since I was eight years old. It was given to me by my paternal grandfather who loved photography. His son, my dad, travelled the world and took lots of photos.

I was astonished as a teenager to find my boyfriend at the time didn’t own a camera so I can honestly say that I introduced WM to photography by buying him a camera when we were in our late teens. It was a Kodak Instamatic; remember those? You dropped the film in the back, stuck a flash cube on top [if needed] and away you went! Everyone had red eyes from the flash being too close to the lens!

Now, WM is into Gimp [similar to Photoshop, so I'm told] and owns an SLR digital camera as well as an SLR film camera and a really, truly underwater camera. And he collects cameras!

I did photography at TAFE as part of my fine arts course. Heck, I even got a distinction for art photography! Not that I'm boasting, I'm just trying to state my case. You'd think with my family background, my TAFE experience and living with a keen photographer, I'd take photos as a matter of course. But I don’t!

As I said, I am not a photographer. I don't even have a camera on my mobile phone. I specifically bought one without a camera!

I do have a nifty little digital camera. It takes very short videos [so I'm told] and does lots of interesting things but I rarely remember to take it out of the house. When I do take it out I forget to use it. Like the sock workshop last weekend - I took the camera but it never even got out of its case. It lay all day on the table with my samples, yarns, spare needles and sock books.

This "not being a photographer" has interfered with my blogging. I have things I want to say and projects that I’m working on but I forget to take photos until it’s dark outside. Even though words are my livelihood, I still believe that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. How many words would one need to describe how a project is going [or not]? One photo can say it all!

But I have none to show you! Nary a one! And that’s why I haven’t posted in over a week!

To post or not to post?

I keep writing posts and saving them, waiting to add photos and not getting around to it.

We're redecorating and this place is mad! We had three weeks to clean, repair and paint all the walls, doors and woodwork before new flooring and carpets are laid at the end of next week. Sounds easy? Prior to taking on this ridiculous commitment, DD and I both injured our shoulders so can't help and WM works 8 hours a day, six days a week! The good news is the physio said I'm still allowed to knit! Yay!!

Anyway, back to my comment about posting... despite all the madness, I'm going to post - with or without photos - whenever I have something to say! After all, I can always add photos later!!