Bookshelf at Borders
Books on the shelf at Borders. I read in a photography book that you’re always ten meters from ten good pics. I found one. :-), originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
I went to browse the photography books, and in one of them I read that you’re always ten meters from ten good pics. So I started looking around. It wasn’t easy–the bookstore’s lighting was flat and fluorescent and it was your standard chain bookstore. So I decided to play with the neat symmetry of the shelves vs. the chaos of the books on the shelves… and I still wasn’t happy. So it was time yet again to play with the photo editing app on my phone. Fun stuff. :-)
Fun with my cameraphone and in-phone processing
I know I’ve been totally MIA lately with regards to this blog. I’ve been working on a HUGE report project for work, and I’ve routinely been putting in 14+ hour days. Yes, I’m getting paid extra for this–it’s going in my trip fund for this summer. And it’s an interesting project–frustrating, but challenging. I thought we were done a couple of times already, but alas, no… but it’s just about there. Have to finish up a few little things this weekend, then it’s going to the printer on Monday, getting bound, and getting mailed off to the people who it’s for. Good times.
Anyway, last night I took a short walk because I needed to get out before I went crazy, and I took a picture with my phone of a neon sign on a car repair place around the corner from me. I’ve been meaning to photograph it for a while since I think it’s kind of a neat sign, and eventually I’ll get back out there with my “real” camera, but I thought this little experiment would be fun for now.
The first shot is the original one I took, and the successive shots are different processing methods done with an app on my phone called PicSayPro. Feel free to click on the title of this post and scroll down to the bottom and leave a comment voting on which one is your favorite–I’d really appreciate it! :-)
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Original shot.
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Duotone.
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Duotone again, but this time I dropped the exposure and upped the contrast.
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Posterized.
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Inverted.
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Cross-processed.
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Sepia and then cross-processed.
So… favorites? Click on the title of this post and scroll to the bottom to comment. :-)
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Leahy concert in Modesto last night
So I should be leaving for work, but I wanted to get this video uploaded. I went to see Leahy in concert last night (second time I’ve seen them!) and it was SUCH a great concert. They really do put on a fun show. :-)
This one is actually the six-year-old son of the fiddler in the blue shirt in the background. What a kid. He had such a serious look on his face. :-)
Such a fun evening. :-)
Another tip jar sign
Unlike the one in this picture, the tip jar I saw today at a street fair in Old Folsom wasn’t cute and creative… it was actually kind of sad. But I took a cameraphone picture anyway, because I’m weird like that.
Maybe she was going to use the money to paste together pictures to form an artistic image?
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Cameraphone roundup – working backwards
While I wasn’t all that thrilled about the time change this morning, the fact that it’s sunny makes it so much nicer. This window is right behind my desk at work, and when I got here this morning, I stood for a while with my face turned up to the sun and my eyes closed, just enjoying the feeling of the warm sun on my face, glowing through my eyelids.
Sun through the window at work
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Last night’s trivia round was “moderately hard”, according to the Trivia Master, but the questions led one team to name themselves “Moderately Hard, My Ass”. The questions killed us, and as a result we did uncharacteristically poorly (not helped by the fact that I second-guessed myself on two questions and so we missed them both!) So as a consolation, we decided to stick around and play darts. As a side note, if anyone knows someone in Sacramento who has a strong sports knowledge, we’ll buy ‘em beer if they want to be on our trivia team. We have a major hole in the sports knowledge department… Guess that’s what happens when you get a bunch of geeks together.
My trivia team: "Drinkers With a Trivia Problem"
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Yesterday I went skiing again (I have two more free passes left, and then a coworker is going to give me one for taking senior pictures of her son, so I’m pretty set for what’s left of winter.) It was kind of a lousy skiing day, all things considered – the time change (ok, and a late Friday/Saturday night) left me groggy, I got on the road late, got to the cheap rental place late and they were out of my size skis and poles, I ended up standing in a long line to rent poles at the slope because the ones I had just weren’t going to work, it was a lot colder than I thought it was going to be, and to top it all off, then I decided I’d try something different, and after I got stuck and had to take my skis off to walk out, I ended up getting stuck almost waist-deep in the snow. Bad bad move. However, at least I got to be outside on a very lovely (albeit cold!) day, and I got a change of scenery.
In Spanish, "Sierra Nevada" means "snowy saw". Quite apt, eh?
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Signs you don’t want to see on one of your favorite restaurants
So I went after church this morning to my favorite dim sum restaurant for some Sunday morning dim sum… Whoops. [Click on the picture to enlarge it if you can't read the sign.]
Bummer.
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And now the warped part of me wants to know which one it was–insects or rodents.
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This made me smile
Cute tip jar sign, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie.
Tip jar sign at Rick’s Dessert Diner in downtown Sac. :-)
