Bridgette Guerzon Mills | pages 9 and 10 in my pandemic journal

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I bouhgt some Neocolor II (Caran D'Ache) and checked them out. Never thought I'd like them, but I do.

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Releasing into my journal...pastel background.

The Journal Cure.

Journal Entry.

Composition notebook journal entry. Acrylics, collaged papers, mixed media. For a how-to blog entry please visit my blog:

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Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune--without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

-Emily Dickinson

Breakfast at Blinco Street Cafe, then a bowl of mandarins at home.

Painted page in my Art Journal.

pen over watercolour

On my Birds Diary : )

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My collection. Can't stop it.

Needing some summer!

Bridgette Guerzon Mills | page 3 and 4 in my Pandemic Journal

brush pen and w/c

Es muss nicht immer Rotmarder sein...

I bought some really cheap brushes and noticed that it's not necessary to use always Siberian Kolinsky Red Sable fur brushes ;-)

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some of my papers

page two.

materials: printed cardstock, blank paper ripped from a vintage book, a bike ripped from the pages of elle, masking tape, and a polaroid of the playground at school.

words: lyrics from "do you remember," by jack johnson.

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mixed media in visual journal

Visual journal: just me complaining about the heat but still lovin' summertime and writing...

Pupito's 5th painting !!!.

Watercolours on Pupito's Journal.

Journal Page

On my Bird Diary : )

All elements shot with an iPhone6 native camera and ProCamera.

Edited on iPad with Snapseed, Leonardo and Stackables apps.

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Pupito : PInk Love !!! : )

Seth Apter's book "Contexture"

5th spread by Bridgette Guerzon Mills

collage and beeswax

My interpretation of a doodle found on google.

page three.

materials: printed card stock, pictures found in a photo album belonging to my grandmother, lace, blank paper ripped from a vintage book, and an apple cut from the pages of an issue of good housekeeping, circa 1945.

words: "you picked me," by a fine frenzy.

He comes every day to my garden !!! : )

Watercolours on my Birds Journal.

page five.

materials: printed card stock, blank paper ripped from a vintage book, masking tape, illustrations torn from vintage books, and a nameplate that came with a package of assorted sheets of printed card stock.

words: "boats and birds," by gregory and the hawk.

pen over watercolour

brush pen and watercolour pencils

Brush pen and watercolour

1 January 2006

well, i'd like to think i could come up with something a little more significant for my first visual journal of 2006. for me, however, in this moment, after the week i've had, this photo is extremely significant.

a disappointing experience with the fuji S9000 (as some of you are aware of), and an even MORE disappointing experience with people on a fuji forum where i went for help, suffering numerous insults and told that it must be user error that caused such horrible results from the S9000 after over a thousand shots...being told i was a whiner and a spammer, well, this is MY flickr page and i'm saying right now: f*ck all you nasty people on the fuji forum. and to all those who genuinely tried to help and gave so generously of your time, to those of you who were willing to believe i got one of the many S9000 duds out there, let me say again a huge thank you.

this photo was taken with my 2MP fuji 2600 under almost identical conditions as the S9000, and in spite of over a dozen different settings on the S9000 i never achieved anywhere NEAR these results. this shot is one of only FOUR that i took only 15 mins ago. ALL four are what i'd call more than "good", and i had trouble choosing which one of the four to use.

clearly the S9000 i got for christmas was a dud, but given the experience i had all around (with the camera, with the people we bought it from, with Fuji themselves, and with the forum) i have no interest (or stamina) to give the camera a second chance - dud or no dud. could be my loss, who knows? but this is MY choice (and one i'm more than willing to live with) based on a lot of circumstances (mostly that we CAN'T easily exchange the product because it was bought in the US), and a choice based on a lot of soul searching and evaluating what i need most out of a camera.

i now have a Sony DSC-H1 on order....it's shipping right now. i'm undecided between the H1, the Canon S2 IS and the Panasonic Lumix FZ20, but we'll see how the Sony performs, and whether it gives me what i'm after, if it produces photo-quality that I look for....which is clearly different than what some fuji folk look for or nikon folk or canon folk, etc.

after all, it all comes down to personal taste. when some of the fuji forum people pointed out that my old photos on this 2600 were over-exposed and over-saturated, over-this and over-that, well, i don't really care. what i'm after is crisp images where my subject is in focus. my little 2MP 2600 gives me that, and i'm hoping my soon-to-arrive Sony will as well.

god, it's been a hell of a week, researching and debating, making lists, going over printed-out specs of various cameras, looking at hundreds of 'samples' and 'tests'. i'm exhausted. life has stood still for this camera research. i don't want to have to compare anymore! i just want to be able to download some photos and feel good about them. i want to download some photos and say 'wow' to at least a couple out of every 50, not wonder why all 1000 are completely out of focus, are too soft, too grainy or noisy, you know?

anyway, to those of you who have followed this saga, thank you. it is the reason i have not posted many photos these past few days. my passion has been drained. for the past three hikes my 2MP camera has stayed in my fanny pack. i've had no interest or drive to shoot anything. i'm sure the new camera will reawaken that former passion.

and then you'll be seeing more of me.

thanks to all my flickr friends who continue to encourage and inspire me.

P.S. and to those who come here to criticize, the reason the exif information is not present for this photo is because i added the border. there has been NO touching up of this photo, but anytime there has been any kind of post-processing -- i.e. cropping, borders, etc. -- the exif information is deleted. the exif information for this photo is the same as the previous photo in this stream.

Cannot stop to buy new colors and rearrange my watercolor boxes. Those little cute stamps I bought in our new boesner store.

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One day in my life ;-)

The right side of one of my inner maps.

A bum sketch from the White Lion, West Kirby

For the one I run 2...

Includes a gel medium image transfer, Tim Holtz Stamp(heart stamp).

blogged here:

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This one is special. It was a poem written by a third grade student while I was substitute teaching. The writing was so beautiful. He gave me a copy for my notebook.

On Pupito' s Diary ( second pages ).