Sick

"Then I painted another study of a marine, nothing but a bit of sand, sea, sky - gray and lonely. I sometimes long for the quiet, where there is nothing but the gray sea - with a solitary sea bird - except for that, no voice other than the roaring of the waves."
Vincent van Gogh, letter 231

I can't shake the illness I have, so I stayed home from work and studied the operation manual for Rachel's digital camera.

I was too sick to work in the darkroom, so not able to print any of the new negatives.

I was reading an article about internet photo stock agencies. There are quite a few sites having more than 3 million images from amateur photographers. It seems pretty easy to do - make a digital photograph, tweak it in Photoshop, upload it to the site for no cost, and wait for someone to download it, which puts some cash into the photographer's account. Since I will be making a lot of color studies in the future, I might as well download a few of them and hope they sell. If they don't sell, I will only lose the time it took to download them.

A few recent color studies :