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I grew up in Adelaide but I spent more than 20 years in the tropics and got used to how green and lush and just how alive the place was. Now in comparison where I grew up looks dry and barren and the only time anything gets really green is in the middle of winter.

South east of Adelaide is Mt Gambier, a nice little country town sitting on the lip of an extinct volcano.

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But if you instead go north of Adelaide the countryside looks like this:

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What a striking place! A great artist who worked and lectured in Australia retired to my semi-ghetto here and said his work was completely altered by the Australian wilderness. He passed away some years ago but his pastel works are collected all over the world. He was first inspired by the moors here and gradually moved on to travelling the world looking for other empty landscapes and was most impressed with Australia. His work may not help when figuring out how to photograph where you live, but I think that 'multiple exposure' or taking one photograph on top of another, might be the way to go. Most cameras have it in the menu or else there is a setting on a dial or something. The artist's name was David Blackburn and there is a rare interview with him on YouTube somewhere (because he wasn't a fan of crowds and media). This is a link to two of his pictures: BLACKBURN, David | QAGOMA Collection Online
 
Cloudy Stuart said:
His work may not help when figuring out how to photograph where you live, but I think that 'multiple exposure' or taking one photograph on top of another, might be the way to go.
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It's called High Dynamic Range, or HDR. Works very well if you blend the different images yourself where as just letting the AI do it ends up giving you an image that looks like AI. You also need a really solid tripod for this sort of thing, no wobble.
 
Howdy Cloudy!

Welcome!

The problem with self publishing is that the author has to also be the promoter. Publishing companies do the promotion, if they publish something.

Since both writing and promoting are full time jobs, it really, really rough trying to do both - a lack of readers does not, in any way, mean that readers wouldn't be there if somebody was promoting your work.

Best wishes & good luck!
 
TBRS1 said:
Howdy Cloudy!

Welcome!

The problem with self publishing is that the author has to also be the promoter. Publishing companies do the promotion, if they publish something.

Since both writing and promoting are full time jobs, it really, really rough trying to do both - a lack of readers does not, in any way, mean that readers wouldn't be there if somebody was promoting your work.

Best wishes & good luck!
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You speak much wisdom, TBRS1, and thank you.

With my next story is finished I might post it towards a few agents, just to see whether I am in vogue since the last time I tried.
 
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