A Sepia World

Well sort of eh?  I mean if you like brown, your world can be any color you want it to be, its just a matter of mind set.  Mine right now, well just about all the time, is pretty stinkin’ bright whatever color it is, and for an autumnphile, brown works. 

This week’s header challenge was “Sepia”.  The fellows that I “challenge” with are a little less challenged in the whole world of photography than I am.  Luckily for me I had a chance to catch up with my favorite photo guru, thanks Tia Brant (check out her and her husband’s stuff @ weshootforthem.com).  So armed and rearmed (some of what she told me yesterday, she and I have already gone over but… I don’t take enough fish oil obviously, right Bee?) with all the pertinent info I was able to play around with a few of my more sepia friendly photos. 

My template doesn’t allow for anything but a header proportioned header.  So along with the idea of always wanting to use my own photos and current ones at that for the header (just my own rules for me, not rules of the header challenge),

My great-grandparents, my mother's maternal grandparents

and even though I recently went and made scans of photos of my grandparents from my older sister’s collection, I chose to adjust a photo of my own.  Not sure how these folks would have looked in a 43×10 shot any way, what would we have gotten, their eyes?  So on with the photos that I can mess with…

October 20, 2010 Header Challenge selection

The front and nearly center turkeys in the photo are already nearly sepia, like a good many things right about now, so I cut them out, made a layer of the background, turned the background sepia because our grass is very not-brown, then adjusted the color of the turkeys themselves and wa-la a current photo turned sepia with a bit more cleverness than just setting the camera on sepia mode.

The other thing Tia taught me was some rudimentary things on writing on a pic.  With my new skill I was able to say thanks to all our customers who found us before someone decided to steal yet another one of our signs.  No matter how junky we make our signs, someone always steals them, oh well.  Before our sign disappeared, Bet was able to sell most all of the poultry she had aimed to sell, plus a little more. 

On Saturday a whole family, five cars worth, came and made a big purchase, they would have bought more turkeys from her and she nearly sold too many, when finally she said, “hold it, I gotta see what I have left for the ones I’ve already promised and the ones we would like to eat. Okay I’m out of turkeys to sell!”  

She almost pulled a Dirt.  He is famous for selling so many of his lambs that we rarely have more than one to eat ourselves, and when your talkin’ lamb and parties, one ain’t much.

Bet and her new buddy, Aurora, Rory for short. Thanks Rachel Oppelt for letting EBet purchase her.

But after a good Friday and Saturday of sales, Bet had enough money in her pocket to go and retrieve a beautiful four-year old bred Nubian doe.  Nice.  So now we are back in the goat milk biz.  Not for sale, too much government regulation, but for home use and supplementing meat bird feed, and dog and cat food, and maybe have a little goat milk soap makin’. 

Dirt tried to object on the grounds that dairy-anything makes a farmer have to stay home in the morning and come back early in the evening.  But with a tad bit of logic, the fact that she already has to be home in the morning to let birds out and come home early in the evening to lock them away from the coyotes, raccoons, bears and weasels, mixed with about ninety percent sweet-little-blue-eyes, he relented and took her and the stock trailer to Elma on Sunday to pick up her new sweetie pie.

So I say, thanks poultry customers!  Thanks for making my poultry manager a happy girl.  A few less birds to lock away at night, a slightly  lower feed bill and a new buddy!

My little Marvelous, a perfect if reluctant subject for my new silly sepia semi-skills.

And thanks Tia for your generous and patient time with me so that I could have a little sepia fun this morning.

Dear Reader, take a gander at what the others (Dave, Fishing_Guy,  Mac, and Gail’s Man) have for “Sepia” this week,  I’m sure they will all have delightful photos and I will hate having to place my vote.  Choosing one over the others… ugh, worse than picking a menu item for dinner.  Or breakfast.

That reminds me, I’m hungry….have a great and glorious day Dear Reader, sorry I haven’t been out and about these last few days but I’ve been up to my elbows in so many things, most of them sticky and not conducive to keyboard use.  I hope to be back on it by tomorrow, including a photo or two of what I’ve been doing in the kitchen and how the curcurbita season stacked up.  ‘Til then, have many a beautiful autumn moments, frolic in the leaves and mist a bit.