I am goingto breifly touch on my "photo" resolution (hah!)... While on our honeymoon, I took over 1,000 pictures. That's right. One. THOUSAND. pictures. I will be the first to admit that of those, there will probably be close to two-hundred of them that can be "tossed" - as fuzzy, or bad lighting, or ones that look okay on the camera, but not so good when viewed on a computer screen.
Going back to my gaming days - long before the manufactured "Collectible Miniatures" games, when we used real miniatures (some of which may have had lead in them) that we had to hand-paint, ourselves* - we used the Battle Systems & Skirmishes rulebooks. And I liked taking pictures of landscapes, especially of areas that I thought would translate well to dioramas and game settings.
That's something that has stayed with me... I'm a sucker for a good mountain shot, or a sweeping lanscape with a variety of foliage and natural dynamics. On the cruise, going around Cape Horn, I took a variety of shots of the actual Cape, where the only difference was where a spot of sunlight was falling on the side of the mountain. I am still going through the pictures, putting together a movie/slideshow (WELL over an hour... more like two... with only a handful of pictures removed), but I will (and have already been asked by coworkers) to load them to my Flickr stream... And when I do, you will notice some of them inthe widget on the left (the one cycling the pictures)... I may even put a post (series) together of some really cool pictures...
*The painting thing was what our group called the "Silver Surfer" rule - if a miniature was going to be used in a game, it had to be in some stage (preferably finished) of being painted. This was to prevent anyone from dropping some money buying a ton of figures on their way to a gaming session.
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