"doctoring"  

I'd like to make it perfectly clear   but it isn't    and I love it

T w e a k i n g  my files in Adobe Lightroom 5  "photo processor and image organizer" 

cropping    contrast    light-dark    color-saturation/intensity    sharpening    spotting

I never printed my own color pictures in a darkroom   don't know how I woulda tweaked 'em

Whatever

Read my pictures

Gets So Much Right For All Of Us
Thank You Bernie

True and perfect 
Mikey had his heart attack in the car 
As we were about to enter the vet's for his ending

Esther wrapped Mikey ceremonially

Nancy and Esther   enviable emotions  Thank you

Backyard burial was beautiful

Mikey  very-fine cat-companion guy   

Months of caring for our 17year old    

Even 5 cat boxes in our small house

We spent hours with him on laps

Misty will finally get all the food she wants     yin-yang forever

Follow-up to another meet-up at Trader Joe's
Rommi from Estonia  thought I might do mentoring = email n tiny:

Flickr for picture sharing Rommi

I started this w/o help:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/billdane/

If you sign up for Flickr  you could search groups using the title Street Photographers + + + +

Here can be a start place to find picture-folks you might like - my group that I started with help :

https://www.flickr.com/groups/edgy_poignant_pictures_bill_dane/

Check the Groups that folks belong to    scan them for possibles

All my pictures are now at Flickr and my website

(Just finished an 8 month adventure   lost all my files    salvaged most    try to forget the lost)

Good places to start:  
ATGET  Evans  Frank  Winogrand  Friedlander  Kertesz  Brassai  Cartier-Bresson  +++

Follow Your Very Own Head-Heart-Libido

Os  Bill

Os Kitties! 17 year Companions 
Will find a way to help Mikey die at home   then Misty

 MJL 
Guilt by association
Is what I'm dreamin' of

I find him the most straightforward poignant accessible art-writer

PETER  SCHJELDAHL

Thank you Nick  I think of you

at least 3 times a day     for various reasons    none which involve nuts-in-the-dirt     ok  1 must have    

I am rocked n rolled

The Website  This Website  your website & mine!  

I'm exhausted    realizing   absorbing  the magnitude of your gift/s

Fuckin A  we said in the 50s   

​​Fuckin A  man

Fuckin A  Major-P

Love  Bill-dad

Why wouldn't I say that film is the fullest art form
Because it takes so much money
Because made-for-TV is    Music    Writing    Theater     +
Follow the money    
What's next for us

This MJL is on my what's-left mind

Since 2007 . . . and yesterday
Every time we website 
Nick at the codes-keyboard
Nick all-faculties-focused
Nick my comrade sun-in-law
TruthOut:
(i always sit-with and try to participate)
It's made in Nicholas Jarvis Powers 
SoLucky me  Thank You Monet
Os  Bill-dad

With a full heart-head   this may sound cheesy - tough:
If our today's commonist-picture-share-adventures never beget stuff   this'll fade 

Responses   dribs n drabs  over this time   
Our righteous fluctuations of energies goals wills
Our political dignity  integrity

We have lives    priorities going here n there  

​Whatevers  I love it!  ​Thank Yous

Your boostershots along the Blvd + +  are my fine pleasures

This is to tell you  I have been surprise-energised by you  Marc   Dan

Happy lucky ages of props'ing by Nancy Monet Nick Esther Moses ++++++

I don't expect you to fill my li'l-hustle holes  pimpin'-blocked-Bill

The website is likely gonna be the plenty-enough pleasures   

Joy!  Pictures plus  all there  @ billdane.com    and responses

Some folks looking   seeing feeling thinking . . .

99% =  =   + + + + + + + 

website

​Os Bill​

good luck Dan

go   self-serving adventures   a lucky-must

the strength and will to try stuff

a new generational identity comin'

oy  but the chance you'll miss the classless train

go peddle  mutha fukka    seat saved here

(what's a sea-jew* do for heartburn Dan 

i'm dyin' here Dan

devil of a man   burning sand)

tryin' ta luv ya Dan

*norwegian

Re: li'lbilly = cute alter-self from original '07 website-builder playground ...
mail:

believe i might be in recovery Marc      Dan you there    Nick

this 8 month salvage-plus thing   website 

i'm winded   

not depressed  not anxious   fagged-out    love it

tax-shit  here a month   don't move   fuckit

nikon d3300+60mm macro  in my face    go-way

who's sean stewart    rod's   can't be

fuckin' ngai      no give-ups

if i was a cocksman    no Nancy

lose some   winsome li'lbilly

chairMacTRUCKIN'...  not bad at all    coffee breaks  'news'paper    entitled doo doo out my asshead

let's grind it ...   Bill

99% =  =   + + + + + + + 

website
bs: just old ?

Merci grands guys intelligents     

Mais jml pourquoi tu cible-exagère mon utilisation Lightroom5

Ce est junior 

Je queue d'aronde avec le docteur Ngai

Ok Guys   sadly  have to leave busy  Sianne Ngai   damn   find her plus tard!?

​I love your threads  I love post-bluejeans moi   living more in the gray areas en ce moment

​Dear Marc in Montreal   Dan​ in Kvernaland/Paris

I am very grateful for your my-pictures-engaging

Sounds like possible fun adventures for you  me and my pictures   possible

Will you please tell me which size font font is best for commonist email-connecting

​Os  Bill​   love it

bs: I can't generate a time-consuming interest in my postcards now  NYMoMA has all I'd care to re-see

    There are so many pictures there sent w/o much editing  I'd likely cringe if it went more-public ?!  

       We would edit !

I am ecstatic evolving this latest website ...

For the first time since 1963  I believe I see what I've been hunting relatively gut-clearly  head-cool

I just don't know the best size for my font choice     whaa whaa li'l pink boy  and

You guys are making me feel lazy and nonfunctional  But

What a pleasure to read your stuff about mine  

Thank You Very Much  

It's the thoughts that count 

It's you doing the you-work that you do  hoping not to-take-away-from

#1  I trust you two + + +

#2  I do not have art-world and $ expectations  beyond exciting periodic masterbatory indulgences

​#3  ​Prioritizing my connection with my pictures - the website does it - right now  back to 1971

        It's the pictures    I'm not happy to fit others' presentation-goals   unless they match mine-ours

​#4  My pictures  plus  are now accessible to all  on the website and Flickr  ​

​      If folks have an interest in  shows  books  words  ​trade    they Go places

#5  I use Lightroom5  a photoshop-junior tweaking is close to darkroom manipulations I do what I do  and love it

#6  ​I am not equipped to be very helpful with PR    I hope you ask    I believe the website tells all

#7  ?  Os Bill​

99% =  =   + + + + + + + 

website

They have to 'love' my pictures   if it happens that someone writes 

Hello People
I have been looking as hard as I can for these past eight months
To find out if I can honestly see my pictures
Salvaging the 2700 disappeared files - editing - tweaking - over and over - again and again
Editing the number to 900
The last two months - deciding which of the 900 pictures are the 'me' to present
Final tweaking to 'discover' my pictures  again and new
Editing the three time Eras
? Which pictures must be in the 3 Eras  and which ones must not be lost - the others
I just went thru the website pictures again  now after publishing
So much of what goes-on-around   feels to have the pictures left-for-granted
? Easier to talk about bio-stuff  paper-rep   shows    pr ...   I can't be for long there ...
Seeing the pictures moves me   elsewhere   head and heart    and
I don't care if I'm speechless with the poetic

• 
  
  Bill Dane PRO 9m
  Didi S. Gilson
  We finished billdane.com/ YES! Damn! 8 fine grinding months ...then Nick and I did the website in 2 x 10 hour days of codes FUN n dancing ... Disappearing all my files =ed best major picture event of my decades! = salvage-edit-tweak-organize-edit-tweak-edit: WEBSITE! Os Didi - Bill
• 
  Bill Dane PRO 2m
  Nick Monet Romy were tethered to home those days = sad...
• 
  Bill Dane PRO 1s
  Nick is also powering up in studio - finishing album #2:
  lofisymphony.com/

Thanks!  Over n Over . . .
Nancy Dulberg   Monet Zulpo-Dane   Nick Powers!
Without you! not so much! 
= this website + + + +
LOVE  Bill

How are you three doing? 

Being 2 days in your home was up n over...

I am hungry.

But  to finish this website with you  has me chill  exhausted   mello  

   while the dishes pile here on the sink n counter and all over...

I am embarrassed to say I slept 10 hours easy   2 days

Since 2007  words have never been enough!

Os  THANK YOU  Monet and Nick   

Lucky Romy n Bill + + + +

+ But  Nicholas Jarvis Powers  I never find your design credit on the website.
This is not good!

It would include: Nick's Music  and  nickpowers@live.com  

This is it!
This is one of those "it"!
We finished our billdane.com makeover today.
Thanks to the intensity of Nicholas Jarvis Powers' powers*****!
My Pleasure  Bill

From my Flickr profile:
Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area + 
camera street picture hunter gatherer @ billdane.com/
Walking - scanning for striking signs of our human adventure
My sense of this life, like yours, worth sharing
Thank You for communing 
Good luck for all of us   Os  Bill
aka William Thacher Dane & Bill Zulpo-Dane
= = =
I also do Flickr Group: TREASURE my gallery for the pictures of others
= = =
Now I absolutely crucially pleasurefully use Lightroom5

I believe i just finished this part of my adventure.

All the pictures for Flickr are now there.

You may say, "Who cares?!"

I am not the one to funk wit you for your loss of pleasure!
Good luck for all of us!

Just gonna KEEP ON TRUCKIN'...

and finish my billdane.com/ pictures = soon . . .

I am, less n more, biildane.com

!Thank You for your Flickr visits People.
I been head down grinding for 8 months salvaging-editing-tweaking 
all my 2700+ self-Mac-disappeared picture-files.
Did not lose many.
One of the best and most productive events 
in my picture-life! = forced editing*****!
Os Bill

having been looking and seeing all 2700+ salvaged files since june    
an forced adventure of hella-huge magnification     

i believe i comprehend the centrality of e d i t i n g

look   see   out   in   tweak   in   out   tweak   organize   chrono   sequence   tweak   out  look see

KEEP ON STONEWALLIN'... li'l ol' me  Nicko Ho Ho 

It's workin'... !

more nailin's    crushin's    

gettin' it crackin'

grind mode      

on fire here  Brutha-sun

​gonna be The Website

said, there's a time for every season

​William Thacher Dane​

(bs,not: w/o Nicko_las Jarvis Powers tech n Soul = No website!Os)

I am sorry 
I fuck up
Grinding flickr and website MakeOver still in-progress 
Pictures will go and come back 
I love the ocean shoreline 
Pictures will go and come back  

EDITING

6 months Salvage  Edit  Tweak  Edit  Tweak  Organize  More 

Flows   Ebbs   Rips   Calms

Fantastic  Funky  Very-Exciting

Coffees    coffees

I will be done ... 12/31/15 ... or

Thy will be gone ... ?

So grateful I lost all the files    Recovered most

I do these forced labors of love

I will totally KEEP ON TRUCKIN'...

Thank You Nancy Rose Dulberg! + + +  
Os Bill

Don't move on possible Commonist Soft Trade
until my pictures are all Done-Over!  Early '16 . . .
Editing is the engaging-exhilarating-grinding pits +++
I love it !     
A week later --->>> How in-my-pea-brain did i keep this picture that long? ... OUT !

Dan Skjæveland sent me the MoMA Atget today!
Vikings connect  Lucky me

Partially-surviving the G-ma/ma  must have been full-time stuff for the small n vulnerable

Perfect compare   the Nathan n Francis jr:  simplistic-head-style-specs:    

Nathan  You got the academic  memory-reading-research-articulation-writing +
My mom  sister  wife Nancy and Esther = that 'brain-style'

Duke got the 'what's happening here'   get me to a pole wit dogs  sailing  tennis   ?fatherhood?   I'm outta here . . .

He was very often rather nasty    all his insecurities & funk were visited on/in my head    Edie's also    

Respected Edie's pol works & survival tech n grit  & occasional loans!   'dad' = lost

I finally could not be more grateful  (close ones do suffer my neuroses)  ie w/o them/that  I could not love the:

T. Morrison  R. Banks  L Michaels   B. Pancake   H. Boll   Beckett   Godard+  Marx+   MalcolmX
Mozart+  VanGogh  Picasso  Pollock  Kieffer  Atget  Winogrand  me ... ++++++++

Moses & I  et al  are some kinda hybrids  small-western-academic-ingredients hands-on naive here-n-now dudes?

I very enjoy being here-n-now  self-sucked into avoiding my major picture editing thing   going on since June
when I funkily-Mac-button-pressed WRONG &  lost every fuckin' picture-file

to be salvaged over 3 mos of combo efforts with 'pros'   better than moi
 and now editing and tweaking from 3700  'down' to 800 'perfected' files

= website makeover   & flickr redo   

Like my 'childhood'   LUCKY FUCK UP  ?!  i needed this to kick lazy-pink-entitled-ass into real-edit-gear    
So Grateful

Be Well Joe   Bill

My TREASURE gallery intro:
Hey! 
$-Logo-Guy be Ironic-USA-Evilmeister!
And this is Gallery billdane.com
Here are many people's unique visions.
Each person will have only 1-2-3 pictures.
Of course! I do not 'SEE' your pictures the way you do . . . Love your own pictures! 
Like you, I look...I decide...I move on...
Thank you for communing.
Bill www.flickr.com/photos/billdane/

... from an 'orthodox' friend:
oh, justin

he doesn't want to offend "the americans" in their nice perpetual war economy

another thing

stephen colbert can take his leave it to beaver ugly american moral majority
and you know what

yeah, 9/11 was tragic

the same day 25,000 people died of starvation

and every other day

largely due to the policies created by people working in those trade towers

has nothing to do with first or last responders

so john stewart can blow it up his right wing

Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc

sadness    slow death  quick
every sq cm of our planet:
Oakland, ramallah, boxingday-tsunami, mogadishu, mumbai, baghdad, myanmar, 
molenbeek, harlem, kobani, timbuktu, fukushima, holocausts, plagues, ebola, aids, 
hearts  cancers   flora-fauna are going   capitalism   et cetera   ad nauseam . . .
KEEP ON TRUCKIN'...   find the joys

Kitaj did a semester at UCBerkeley in'67-'68, 
i was doing a masters in painting 
looking at my paintings for a seminar he says, 
"These are the best pictures I've seen out here (west coast), 
but ya know Bill, the heroics of these were done by Kandinsky and Mondrian." 
It still took me 2 yrs to stop, get a camera, self-learn & go... 
love it! Bill.

Hey! 
My $ Logo-Guy Be Ironic-USA-Evilmeister.
And this is my Gallery
Here are many people's unique visions.
Each person will have only 1-2-3 pictures.
Of course! I do not 'SEE' your pictures the way you do . . . Love your own pictures! 
Like you, I look...I decide...I move on...
Thank you for communing.
Bill 
Now

Fool hacked computers at Berkeley High and posted racist crap.
Students walked-out to the Courtyard!
Thank You!!!
Os BHS ... us

I do a Flickr gallery.
Out of millions of Flickr pictures it's impossible to know and find all of what's out-there. 
It is often inspiring and humbling to find-see so many quite-fine-to-wonderful pictures! 
In a few places on the planet my pictures get valued by chance-luck ... 
But we miss most of the beauties out-there!
Os with luck-chance for all of us, Bill

I am believing there are so many images and pictures in our world,
it's making our creating and discerning real funky adventures.