A Doubly Humbling Post

Recently I've found myself in several conversations where I discovered that I was WAY more familiar than I should be with FAR more television shows than I should even know exist. And while it's nice to be able to make conversation with just about ANYONE (who doesn't have an affinity for the tube), my investment in all things pop culture and small screen feels a tad ridiculous.

You wanna talk sitcom? I could go on forever about Modern Family, The Office, Community etc.

Drama? Bring on the Brother's and Sisters talk. Flash Forward? Lost? How about Parenthood?

Old stuff? Friday Night Lights. Prison Break...and that's just what I'm watching currently.

Oh...and there's too many more. I'm stopping here to at least nearly save my pride*.

That's the humbling part, now onto excuses...

As you may or may not know, I do a little bit of photography.What this means is, though I spend up to 2 hours at a photoshoot I have many more hours at home in front of my computer editing that same shoot.

As you can imagine, this makes for LOTS of hours at home at my desk. 

Enter fatty excuse for television craze number one.

Have you heard of hulu? Are you familiar with netflix?**

These two gifts of the world wide web have helped keep me fairly sane in the last couple years as I work to make my images as close to perfect as possible. Without them, I would have far too much time for the wheels in my head to spin off their axle (trust me, it's dangerous).

I won't bore you with all the details, but...

for those of you who don't spend much time taking and editing photos (and I sort of doubt anyone's coming here to learn about photography so that's probably you (although...certainly feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)), I thought I'd give you a glimpse of before and after post-processing.

The first image is straight out of the camera...the second is after my time behind a desk enjoying guilty pleasure television shows...

In every case, it helps to have ADORABLE subjects, so take that into consideration...I can't post-process that.

Also, feel free to divulge in the comments if you'd like...about your television obsessions. Maybe it'll make me feel better.

*who are we kidding? I felt ok until I started listing them.

**there are times that I turn on a book on tape or a sermon instead (one more attempt at making you think I'm not totally dumb).