Clearing storm over the Grand Tetons
A WIP, for you non-knitting blog readers, is a work-in-progress. I like to finish things at least once a week. In fact, I try to schedule myself a "finishing day" which is different from a shooting day, a day given over wholly to the mysteries of Photoshop, or a writing and research day.
On finishing day, prints get put into envelopes. Stamps onto those envelopes, which are then carried to the post office. Emails are sent, documents filed, image files archived onto DVDs. With the last three trips on on top of each other, there hasn't been much finishing going on around here.
So far, there has been a lot of foraging, a sometimes necessary precursor to finishing. On our Yellowstone trip, we made lists of things to do and acquire in anticipation of living out of our 4runner for a month in bear country. I've been knocking back some of those items, essentials like windproof fleece, extra-long spoons to eat the recipes I plan to make from the ingenious Freezer Bag Cooking method. Check out the website too. New fishing poles, a hitch mounted rack for the back of the 4runner, the right sized trash bags are all acquired and checked off the appropriate GTD list. But that's not finishing, just foraging.
I have a mound of things ready to go to the post office tomorrow, just got an email with the last addresses I need. 98% isn't finished - I operate on a binary system of done or not.
It's harder with a new print, this one in particular. The panorama is 6643 pixels wide, four stitched images, and since I am the queen of Photoshop, they are seamlessly hand-masked together. I shot the images in September 2005, and I didn't start assembling the pano until months later. Kind of forgot about it. Moved it so far, then dropped it again, found it again a few days ago when I was organizing the book assets yet again. I'll admit the pano proved a welcome distraction from the organizing task for a little while.
Done is when I have a sample print filed in the drawer, and it's not there yet. Tomorrow is another finishing day - who knows, this one might get done too.
