Notebooks of Scott

A couple days ago I was thinking about the rise of modern consumerism, and the demand for instant gratification. Practically anythig you find in a store can also be found in an instant form. Walk through any grocery stor and you will see hundreds of examples. Frozen pizzas, instant oatmeal, etc. Just pop ‘em in the microwave and there you go. Yet despite this insistence on the word “instant,” there are a great number of people in this country that have hobbies, most of which involve taking large amounts of time to create or do something, along with taking the time to learn the necessary skills.
So,even with the emphasis on “instant,” many of us are striving to find things that take lots of time to do.

One of the things that I like to do as a hobby is steal my sisters camera and dabble in a little artistic photography. Of course, since it is simply dabbling, most of my photographs came out mediocre at best. However, that was before my mom pointed out a post by the blogger Pioneer Woman. She uses photoshop to enhance nearly every picture she takes. Nothing fancy mind you, just a little contrast here and and a little saturation there and some other minor tweaks that I have yet to read about. I thought, “Hey. Why not try it.” In doing so, the quality of my work has increased quite a bit. It isn’t quite professional quality yet. But its certainly better than before. Perhaps Photoshopping isn’t all that bad after all.

Some of my pictures, some ’shopped and some not are on my FLickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/smckittr