Tessie L'Amour, did you know...?
I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me.
I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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Plus I have always loved digital image manipulation. I majored in art in college, specifically photography, but because it was the mid-late 90s, the only class we got was on Photoshop 2. And the instructor was trying to teach it out of the manual he had clearly never read, so I wound up teaching much of the class I paid to take. Very disappointing. Although it did lead to the very epic argument with my advisor about what is photography. She and I didn't see eye to eye on any of it.
I was more a photojournalism/human experience sort of person, and she was one of those who hand-colored her B&W prints of small children sharing toys and shit. She had the nerve to tell me that if a photo was edited on a computer, it was no longer real. But oh, perfectly ok for her to pastel paint a fake life. Needless to say, I had a new advisor the next day.
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If I can do the exact same thing in the photo lab (like solarization, etc) its still photography. It changes to digital art when I manipulate the actual scene, layout, or make a change I could not make in a lab.