Saturday, January 24, 2009

Friday Photo on Saturday

I've seen a meme going around that I wanted to do but I misunderstood.

It said you had to choose the fourth photo from your fourth folder and post it. Despite the fact that I have made a complete adaptation to digital photography, I thought this meant the physical folders of our photos.

Well, I couldn't do that. None of the thirty years of non digital photos have ever made it into folders. This is how I keep them:



So how was I going to choose the fourth photo from my fourth folder? Perhaps it could be a lucky dip: close your eyes stick your hand in and retrieve any packet of photos... The task of categorizing these and filling albums of the best ones has been on To Do list for twenty four years. Of course I imagine, now that I'm writing, this job is never, ever going to get done.




Finally, I saw it around a bit more and worked out it was them there computer folders! So I decided to steal it. And here it is:




It's come from my (digital) folder called 'Desktops/Backgrounds.' It's one of an obsessive series I make on textures/patterns/arty images that catch my eye. It's a tortoise shell - it was attached to its owner when I took it!

8 comments:

Carol said...

Oooohhh it's gorgeous!!!

C x

Ange said...

Great shot!

Deborah Carr (Debs) said...

It is gorgeous.

HelenMWalters said...

That's an amazing photo. And yes, I failed to understand that meme as well ;)

Lane Mathias said...

Nice tortie and nice to think of him still in his shell:-)

Liane Spicer said...

That shell is a beaut!

Anonymous said...

That is beautiful

Flowerpot said...

that tortoiseshell is incredible.