A recent visit home to the parents this past weekend produced a few more pictures.
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Early spring is not the most aesthetic time of year. Dull browns and grays run together in wet smears, and the retreating snow reveals its winter-long aggregation of garbage and dog shit. Still, there is a sense of impending improvement, along with an increasing agitation and impatience for hot, sunny days.
I’ve been introduced to a job possibility by Stephanie, through one of her friends who works at a screen printing company. It’s for an office position, full time weekday 9-5 type of work, which would be wonderful right now. Getting tired of the home-health I’m in now, particularly the short hours and split shifts that still manage to consume the entire day.
The only drawback to this is the location, rather far out in Onalaska. Not driving, it would involve a bus ride north and then a transfer to the shared-ride taxi service, which while cheap would be time-consuming. I don’t feel like I can be very picky at this point, having been in need of full-time work for a while, and the manner in which this opportunity availed itself suggests it would be a mistake not to take advantage of this. After all, one can keep looking for something closer to home in the meantime.
I’m not sure what reaction those shoes would have garnered in the 19th century. Rather simple grunge edit: Separate highlight/shadow and contrast adjustments for figure and background, gaussian blur to upper half of background, film grain, and free brushes from the Adobe exchange. See (almost) original image, after exposure fix.
Taking advantage of the above-freezing temps, Stephanie and I did photos of a couple of new outfits she has made. Unfortunately the sun disappeared just before we started and created a bit of a challenge with the snow and contrast.
I am getting incredibly impatient for spring; so many pictures to take!
