Wintoe

~

"I don’t really know whether art can exist without a certain degree of tranquillity or spiritual poise; without a certain amount of quiet you can have neither philosophy nor religion nor painting nor poetry. And as one of the specialties of modern life is to abolish this quiet, we are in danger of losing our arts together with the quiet of the soul that art demands." - Saul Bellow

~

2/19/2020, Harmon Field north towards the creek

~

I thought I might walk a few laps at the track but that mean north wind blew me back into the car, and I just took some pics through the windshield.

Still playing with the "new" Nikon D5600 I got last August. It's so much unlike the film type SLR's I used to use I'm not really too enthused. At least these are in focus...

Also learning new editing software that came with Windows 10, which seems a bit limited compared to what I'm used to but I think I'm done with ArcSoft. I downloaded their free trial version of PhotoStudio but when it came time to pay I broke down and for once in my life read the Terms of Use agreement, and could not agree.
I don't exactly speak 'legalese' but it read to me like they are reserving the right to make any use they see fit of anything you scan into their software (pullin' a Zuckerberg?), and they got rules concerning what type of thing you're allowed to put in! After you've paid for it, in your own home, on your own private computer. Maybe I was tired, maybe I read it wrong, but I hit the "no thanks" button.
Anybody read the Terms for Adobe PhotoShop?

~

Now that I think of it though, it's probably way too late to worry about any level of "privacy" - or any kind of "rights" for that matter -  on a computer. I've never read the Terms of Use for Microsoft either...

~