Determination & Artistic Vision

  This is the first time
i lay on my belly to get a photo.  i was a bit younger & more mobile flexible, so the main difficulty was all the people who interrupted me to ask, "Are you all right?"

Vision

i knew what i wanted; i just had to continue past all the well-wishers who couldn't fathom someone wanting to do that just for a vacation snapshot.

Persistence

Pe'e Pe'e Falls, Hilo, Big Island, HI, May, 2008

 MyGuy says this is where i became a photographer, though.
i knew what i wanted.
Though i was mostly using digital at this time, the digital camera was dying, and that day i was using a single-use film camera.
And i used half the roll trying for The Right Shot.

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First i stood at the far right of the overlook.  Then i inched left, then got on my knees.  It wasn't long before i was on my belly crawling to the far left end.  Shooting all the way.

The Crowd

The bystanders make a difference.  Despite your best efforts, they do.
Wisconsin Dells is a huge tourist attraction.  We were on a tour boat in early  August, height of the season.
Pe'e Pe'e Falls is often missed even in high tourist season, which May is not.  The falls aren't even at their showy best then.
So accomplishing The Vision was, in some ways, easier with the second set of photos.

Slacker Easy

Near Point Iroquois Light Station, Upper Peninsula, MI

Sometimes reaching The Vision is just too easy.  With my digital camera, i just bent from the waist & held it by my ankles. Shooting blind.
Not that i got it perfect, but sometimes Good Enough is Good Enough.
i deleted about half a dozen pics on the way to this one, but now that we're home, i wish i'd tried again. i should've gotten more of the foliage at the top.  And i'll probably crop it at some point - the toadstool at the right doesn't really add much, and we could do with less foreground.
But only God is Perfect.
The artist's job is just to put a frame around that perfection.

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Most of the scrapbook page supplies  here, to the best of my memory, are all by Creative Memories. i do not remember which company made the script background; the stripes and camera accent may or may not be by another company.