Pictures Thru My Lens

I have been absent from here for a few months, and a lot has happened since I did my last blog back in April of this year.
I suppose the truth is I struggle putting my fingers to the keyboard, putting the right words together, my brain says one thing my fingers another...

It is four months since we lost our beloved Goldie, and she is never very far from our thoughts, but after much consideration, we have ourselves another dog, well a puppy to be exact. A cute little 8 weeks old Cavoodle when we picked her up. She is now 4 mths old and we have now had her for 8 weeks, I am now chasing her around teaching her that our socks are not to be chewed and not to run off with my favorite lipstick or tear up the bill I've just receive. Well, it is all part and parcel of having a puppy.

Instagram seems quite harmless, no long winded texts about this or that, just # and one word to describe your photo or to force some person to click on the elusive word, then to like your photo. Just a place to put your photos for others to view, so this is where I have been besides on my Facebook page where people view your images but no one ever seems to comment not even one word.

Facebook is sometimes politicly incorrect, where people share countless inane things and hope you like it or for two people to shout at each other in disapproval of what was said. A place where people become addicted to the stupid things others say or do on their page. A place where you can stalk other people pages when you utter not one word to them. Where you can sit in your living room chair not even having to leave the house.

Well yes, I have left the house to take in the cold of Winter, put on my coat and grabbed my camera and off we went once again on our adventures, taking photos to place on Facebook or Instagram, We do watch the likes, we do read the comments and we do feel a little disheartened if a shot we thought was great only gets a few likes of which 1/2 are from your beloved.

The cold heart fact is if you didn't care what people thought of your photos you wouldn't post them for the world to see, you would leave them hidden on your hard drive and never think to show them to random strangers.

Like anything else, you like the pat on the back, the comment saying wow what an awesome shot, admit it, you like the accolades and endorsements others give you, isn't that why you post your photos?

I'm not one of those who has an iPhone, I don't choose to display my phone photos for the world to see, but many do for the same reason I display my camera photos, they want the recognition as well, just like me, though the quality of their photographs, we say are not good. They like just one person to say what a great photo, even if they have no clue what they are doing.
It is all about our self-esteem and making us feel good for just a fleeting moment.

Yes, I'm going to share my photos like any other, I'm going to hope for at least one comment or like to boost yes my self-esteem, to put a smile on my face for a fleeting moment and in the hope someone says yes that photo is good enough how do I purchase it.