Today we graduate. In the lab at 08:00 to learn a few more quick tips and tricks and then begin to print.
The topic of the morning is not new to me, so I begin playing with a couple of pictures. These are photos that I took on Tuesday, but I need something to print. I have two, but would like a couple of more for the afternoon printing session. One turns out to be the picture of the day.
It's a photo of a plant that I was trying to do a close up of, and it just didn't work. So today I retrieve it and play with it. I turn it black and white, paint back in some color using layers, and then add a filter to make it look like a painting. A really neat transformation that saves the 'photograph', though I don't know if that is the appropriate word or not.
I call the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and find I will not be able to get in to Cade's Cove at sunrise as planned. Bummer. Not to worry though, Bill has an alternate shooting location for me. Tremont Road. The road that leads to the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. I've never been up this road before thinking it was a private road for the Institute. Not so. So that is my location in the morning.
We print and talk through the afternoon. A relaxing fun afternoon. Al brought his own printer, so I'm only sharing the printer with Nancy who is not printing a lot. I get 4 prints done on various papers before the afternoon is over.
I download my files to disk and am surprised that I have almost 3.5 gigabytes worth of data. Some of my picture files turned out to be quite large. I finish just before 5:00, barely in time to let Bill get out the door to pick up his son for baseball and the event is over.
What a week.
I pick up Krystals to eat on the road, and drive to Townsend and check in to the Best Western there after only one wrong turn. The room is OK and has a balcony where I sit to relax a bit. Here I fall asleep for about 1/2 an hour. I'm tired.
I drive over to the Park scout my shooting locations but it's getting too dark to tell much so I stop, gas up the car, grab a sandwich and head back to the hotel for some rest. One more shoot and my photography week is done.
