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Ship shape and Ready to Walk the Plank

11/3/2014

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"Never again."

When I was in the middle of trying to research my novel, I just wanted to get off the ship. I read about how weevils tasted--I can't remember if the little ones or the big ones are the most bitter. I discovered that some captains knew the extent of punishment, as in number of lashes, that a man could handle and still survive. The book had a bit of a chart.

The romance of the sea sank a quick death while I was researching.

In Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana tells of a man who fell overboard, but could not swim. If a ship is under sail, moving quickly, it can take a bit before the crew can react  enough to attempt a rescue. The man drowned, and his belongings were auctioned to provide money to give to his family.

So when a ship returned to port, I realized families couldn't readily assume their loved one would be on board
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And the ship probably smelled better than the crew.

By the end of the research I did have more of a fascination with sailing, and a vast respect for the hardiness of anyone who could survive a voyage in earlier times.  

I think I might enjoy writing another book set on a sailing vessel, but never would I want to experience what the sailors dealt with on a daily basis. Or even once.

Photos taken in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
Replica of Christopher Columbus ship which floated up the Arkansas River.

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Take This Camera From My Hands

9/28/2014

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Never again. I quit. I wasn't going to take pictures anymore. I don't want to. Don't care about it. Nope.

I once freelanced magazine articles and took the photos to go with them. I've had a photo used for the cover of a phone book, in an ad, and even  had one of my pictures on the cover of a magazine.   

I don't even have a decent camera anymore. Not really. For blog posting, I take quick pics and also buy photos from fotolia.com. Much more efficient than taking my own photos. The variety is amazing too. Shopping for the images is more fun than I ever expected, and kind of addictive for me--which does mean I could spend way too much money there.

Then someone told me about Quozio. It's a site you can go onto and type sayings and it will put the quote on a background suitable for Pinterest. I started playing with the site a little, but I wanted to try a few shots of my own. The next thing I know I'm outside with an old camera trying to take my own backgrounds for quotes.

To make a long story short--as if I could--I end up making a background for a friend's book--Without Mercy by Alicia Dean.  I took a photo in the back yard, put a quote from her book on it and sent it to her. And she seemed to like it. Posted it on her FB page and another friend shared. The next thing I know I'm digging around in the barn hunting for rope to photograph, and barbed wire, to see if I could make a quote photo for my book.

A few days later I looked out and saw the light. I saw the light. Oh, it was beautiful. In the evening, sometimes the hues are more golden.

And so, with a borrowed camera, I took a few photos, of, you know, stuff. Like old wood and wheelbarrows. Flies. I didn't even realize when I took a picture of the deer poop that I was at it again. But after about the 30th picture of a flintlock mechanism on a gun--the little shutter inside my head clicked.

I'll still be buying photos, but I also would like to buy a camera.


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