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Moody Lentz started in the Reptile House and became General Curator of the Saint Louis Zoo. Saint Louis Zoo.
it was a moody night on Lake Michigan. New goal...bring camera with me wherever I go.... well, not everywhere.
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.
While trying to grab a pic of the supermoon last night, it disappeared behind the tower and illuminated the clouds.
February 2017
In-house, Drumbo, ON
Journal:
I like pictures to tell stories, with a before, middle, and end. This shot works because it looks like there is action so the viewer has to imagine the story. It's moody and dark and sinister looking.
Some shots don't really look like much when you first gaze at them. I love post processing because I can take shots like those and make something beautiful out of them. It's just an idiosyncrasy of mine. This one had good "bones", but needed some drama.
When I was young, I took a job as a cosmetician selling Vivian Woodard cosmetics. The part of the job I enjoyed the most was doing the makeup for women to show them how good they could look with a little camouflage! Some of the before and afters were dramatic, and I know that with my own face, the same is true. While I've occasionally posted pics of myself on here with migraines, and such, no makeup, the flu....usually, that is not the case, as like every woman, I prefer to present myself to the world at my best, and I will doctor the photos accordingly! (It's one reason I tell men not to hit on me here, since what I present isn't necessarily 100% accurate!) I enjoy the process of altering reality. I like things to be the way I want them to be, not necessarily as they are. So, post processing is almost a neccesity for me, not because I can't take a good shot or compose a pic well, but because I want to take it beyond that into something better. I want it to be art.
I was telling my brother the other day that I prefer the old, classic movies on TCM because in the 1930's- 1950's things were more colorful on screen. Everything was larger than life. Women were more stunning, and men more dashing. Guys SHAVED back then, and wore clothes that fit! Women didn't have to strip to look alluring. Things were a tad more refined, more subtle, but more beautiful. I remember my mom saying that if she wanted reality, she didn't need to spend money to see it!
Art is like that. While photography can focus on the ugly side of life, art tends to draw our eyes to something higher- lovlier. I don't think I will ever be a photographer. I will always be an artist who does photography.
Advert for Moodys Furniture shop, 65 to 83 Railway Street, Braintree.
This was in the Braintree and Witham Times on the 14th June 1990.
There are now flats on the site. I think this was originally Fox and Hounds corner. The shop had been established in 1880. In the 1881 Census Henry and Mirah Moody were innkeepers at the Fox and Hounds, 157, Coggeshall Road, Braintree. In the 1981 Census were Henry Albt and Ann M Moody at 9, Upper Railway Street with their three children, they were coal merchant and shop assistant. In the 1901 Census at 9, Upper Railway Street were Jonah H, an Ironmongers manager and his sister Alice M Moody,
October 29th & 30th I attended the West Somerset Railway's learn to drive a steam train course. www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/stage1.html
Somebody who's opinion I value highly recently said to me that I should do more B&W. She is right of course, I love it yet havn't seriously done any since poverty enforced it back when I was a student. This shot captures steam drifting through the morning sun and across Lord Nelson on the left.