waitng too long

I've been away too long. I was busy with my mom who had an operation, and then i finally had time to address the mess i left my studio in. My studio is a corner or the cottage in the back of our house. i suppose it used to be the garage. It's just one big open space with no insulation. or even an inside wall, just the bare boards. One corner is my daughter's bed room, another is a sort of family room set up, which my daughter uses as part of her room, another corner is the bathroom which we really only use to wash up from my studio, and the final corner is all my art stuff. I have about 9x12 and i am grateful for that. I could use about twice the space. When i was finishing everything for the holiday fair i kinda trashed the place. and my computer was a mess, I save copies of things all over the place. Boy do i need a standard workflow.
When i returned to the studio i had to take everything off of one of my backup drives so my son could take it with him, so i sat down and painstakingly went through all the versions of all the images i have and got rid of the unnecessary duplicates and made sure i had organized backups, both on the discs and on all my DVDs. Then i looked around and saw the chaos which was my art materials. So I spent a week reorganizing all my stuff, and i still have to fix up the sewing corner. Finally I returned to the computer, knowing that i really needed to revitalize it. I spent the whole last week backing up my files and erasing my disk to nothing, reinstalling the OS, updating it; reinstalling all my software and drivers and updating that!
During this time i made some art, i made a few quickie books and took tons of pictures to experiment with new techniques. I'm looking forward to seeing the photos that i took at dawn down at monterey.

standup bass

I have no idea why I had trouble uploading photos in the beginning. Every time i tried to upload, i was taken to a page that wanted me to download Hello, which won't work on the mac. So i spent time finding ways to post fotos here without using Hello. But then, just the other day, here was this normal interface that let me upload fotos and post them in my blog entries. Whatever.

Here is a photo of mine. normally i love it but i'm not at my own computer and the colors don't look right. Anyway, people always want to turn this pic in a different direction because it's hard to tell what's going on. This fellow is playing the stand up bass while laying down, with the bass on his belly! I'm squatting near his head looking down the length of his body and the standup base. In the print version the rich colors and textures of the wood and his hands, contrasted with the black hat and the light greenand yellow background make for a nice abstract. If I could do it again, i'd like a little more light on his face.

Yes that's my kids

Great shot my kids took of themselves. rule of thirds and all that! So it was very easy to upload and post that photo. but again I'm confused because the interface looks different today????