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Another silly train of thought post.

So this train of thought must originally begin with this factor….

I’m getting a new camera lens for my birthday.

Cannon 50mm f1.8

And this lens is now constantly on my mind.

So this morning, when I saw this picture on thekitchn.com, my mind’s light bulb switched right on with bright obnoxious flourescent light.

Source: Apartment Therapy

This is how my days escape me. This is how I have too many projects. This is all because I can’t help myself. I love to create stuff.

So I’m looking at this picture, and I think about how I like it and about how I can’t wait to get my new camera lens.

And there is pornography for my lens. It’s a Flickr group of just pictures taken with this particular lens. And I look at it all the time! So I go there (AGAIN) and I see some amazing photographs and furthermore some pretty good examples of photographer watermarks.

I groan. I’ve attempted to use Lightroom’s watermark feature, but it’s just bleh. I wanted more, so I watched this:

And then I started to make watermark ribbons. Like five of them, until I settled on something very simple.

But while I was making watermarks, I thought, let’s do this for real. Maybe I need a domain to add to the watermark. God knows why.

So I bought a domain: rochellephotography.com

And then I implemented my watermark workflow, which included my new URL.

Well you know what that means right? I have to have a website to back that up. So I did some research and found a template that I liked, and I activated it.

The template

Trouble was, this particular template, as gorgeous as it is, sucks to manipulate. So I was nose deep in customizing this thing the whole rest of the day. The entire Super Bowl. Yep.

At this moment in time, I am unsure if I will keep it. It’s much too difficult to manipulate. I just think it looks super pretty. And, there’s still a bit I need to do with adding images and the like and actually having a consistent watermark.

So yeah. This train of thought cost me $14, and an entire day. But it was pretty fun and so I guess it was worth it.

Please tell me that other people do this and that I’m not a complete whack job.