Isabella – The Promise of Yet Another Dream

Today I have been un-NIPSA’d I was rather surprised to find out that I was NIPSA in the first place and requested an explanation since I have been moderating my photographs rather diligently. Well here was a surprise. They accused me of tag-spamming. That means that my tags were irrelevant to the images I was posting. Although it is true that I would mass tag in batches, so it wouldn’t be unusual for a tag here and there to be on a wrong photograph, but I never thought that would be a reason for NIPSA. Well, here it is. I was wrong. Anyway, I spent the better part of my free time this week on removing the tags that were assigned to too many photographs. I know I did remove many relevant ones, but I also managed to bring myself into the good graces of the Flickr Police. So now my images are all searchable, although mostly moderate or restricted. Art – restricted…. hmmm.

This Sunday will be a photo exchange day between the members of my Photo Seminar Group. We are a group of avid photographers who meet once a month to discuss, critique and share ideas on the art of photography. Once a year, around Christmas time, we make the meeting more festive. We share some wine and food while discussing photography. Then we pick names and exchange photographs. It is a good way to build a photography collection.

I think this year we will take the full two weeks off for our Christmas break. Lucky that the holidays fall on Tuesdays. Makes it all so convenient. I think this year we’ll try to make it down to New York City, again. We (Mary and I) love visiting the galleries in Chelsea at this time of year. Who am I kidding? We love visiting NYC any time of year.

Almost forgot this photo of Isabella from a shoot last April. I keep coming back to these image files, finding them more and more inspiring every time. Never any shortage to yield yet another image that I am happy about.

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