What to do in the winter?

Piggy-backing on my last blog post, about staying focused, what should I be doing during the winter? Well, the first and obvious answer, is to go out and shoot winter scenes. Scenes like the one included with this post.

The second answer is to sit down in front of the computer and finish processing all those photos from previous shoots that are sitting on my hard drive collecting "cyber dust".

That second is a toughie. And kind of hard to explain. I don't necessarily dislike photo processing. I do get excited when it is done. But... there's always a 'but'... it is kind of tedious.

Ok, very tedious.

The corn field and barn shown here is near Palo, Iowa, and was taken last winter (I think). Too bad the barn isn't bright red. That would be a nice contrast on colors, but it's aged look is interesting in its own right.

Stay Focused (pun intended)

A friend of mine has a website called "Life Is Too Busy". I wish I had thought of that name first. It is so appropriate. A week ago I realized I had not posted anything since September. Seriously, where does the time go?

We all need reminding from time to time. If at all possible, some time needs to be taken for a "time out". Time needs to be taken for the pleasures in life. Time needs to be taken so that the knots in the back of your neck can go away for a bit. Do something fun and/or relaxing.

As should be fairly obvious, what is relaxing for me is getting out and taking landscape photos. I'll say it, I need to STAY FOCUSED and devote at least a little time each week to doing something photographic, even if it is working on past photos that haven't been processed yet.

Today's photo is of Council Lake in the upper peninsula in Michigan. Seemed appropriate for this time of year.