Good news and bad news... We got eight inches of snow on Friday!!! How ten hours of microscopic flakefall added up to better than 12-inch drifts is beyond me. We SO needed the moisture. However, editing the 98 photos I was able to snap throughout the day contributed to my lack of a new snowflake pattern today.
I pretty dramatically crop most of my snowflake photos because I don't have the high-power equipment some of my favorite photographers use. No complaints. I love shooting snowflakes with my setup, and I love the challenge of trying to make my photographs look presentable.
Well, I guess until Friday... When the flakes are as small as they were and the photographer is as desperate as I was, there is quite a bit of image degradation when cropping so severely. I ended up having to use AI to sharpen the photos just a tad.
That's not an easy process because most AI programs are not built to render exact duplicates of existing photos/artwork. That would be plagiarism. Most of the programs I tried could not simply sharpen the images. However, I did find one that would sharpen one of the images in a collage, and for now, that is good enough to me.
It also gives me something to plug into today's blog post because I haven't finished writing the pattern for the St. Patrick's Day-themed flake I'd planned to share today. I may have to create a diagrame because I don't know that a written pattern will be helpful.
So there's actual doubt this particular pattern it going to see the light of day this year. Doin' the best I can, my fellow and lady crocheters. Full-time caregiving and garden duties (and snowflake photo editing) sometimes take a toll on my ability to produce weekly snowflake patterns right now. I'm very thankful I have plenty of existing patterns to occupy bored hooks.
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