More distractions

The weather here has been very inclement for the time of year, so when it was raining (yet again) at the weekend I succumbed to book shop browsing and came across "The 1000 dot-to-dot book cityscape".

One thousand dots per picture, luckily each hundred dots is a different colour so hunting the numbers is made marginally easier.

The first one is Amsterdam.

Colouring in

We were at The Pencil Museum in Keswick a couple of weeks ago. It's a place I have been wanting to go to for ages. The reality didn't quite match the expectation in that it was very small and if there hadn't have been a video of the pencil making process the trip round it would have been very short.

I spent quite a time in the shop and came away with a colouring in book as well as a "Daily Sketch journal". While I don't do sketching, I thought it would be a good way of  putting down daily ideas for photo projects and also to record hints and help I glean along the way.

As for the colouring in .. I haven't done any colouring in since being a child. I am enjoying the process of the colouring in together with using it as a means of experimenting with time lapse.  In addition, it is making me very aware of the benefits of Slowing Down, (I realise this does just pertain to keeping within the lines!)

This is the result of  first attempts in both processes. The video merges 4 smaller ones and really could do with slowing down. It isn't obvious but each of the videos was taken with different time lapse intervals.

This second video combines time lapse of the colouring in together with some animation I have done using Photoshop. I have just discovered Photoshop's animation workspace which makes things a lot easier than the long winded process I had been using.