Well, it's been a long time since my last post. Life has been full of life and that's kept me very busy and somewhat unmotivated to blog. So, some of the results of the busy-ness are as follows:
1) I have finally downloaded Firefox and Ad-Aware (ok, the whole Google Pack) and am now whipping along at unheard-of speeds minus 100+ (!!!!!!) adware items that my Earthlink Protection Center software did not eem to find it worthwhile to mention.
2) I did laundry today and while doing so, witnessed a very clean but apparently homeless man camped out in the laundromat watching TV (HGTV, to be precise) sucking raw eggs. His grocery store bag also included a Rock Star and an apple. Go figure.
3) Hurray! I finally downloaded and cleaned up some new photos from last year's Arizona vacation! The one above a favorite. When the CCC built the dam in the '30s, they also put in some really interesting art. After having been inside a couple of dams in the past, I found the art outside more intriguing than the loud, noisy guts inside, as well as a lot cheaper (had I but realized it, you can walk around outside all you want for free if you park ACROSS the river and walk across the dam to the visitor center area. Somehow, it just seems that the insides of damns should really have windows looking out onto mermaids or large sturgeons or subversive Earth First divers or something. If you're in Vegas and need to get some fresh air to nurse a hang-over, this is a great place to go.
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This is another awesome photo. What are you using to edit these? I like the vignette... not overdone. I'm not always a fan of sepia, but this really works here. I love the contrast of old concrete and sculpture.
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This is another awesome photo. What are you using to edit these? I like the vignette... not overdone. I'm not always a fan of sepia, but this really works here. I love the contrast of old concrete and sculpture.
I recommend these extensions for firefox: they remove obnoxious ads from pages:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/
Hey, Jay --
Thanks!
Somehow I published your comment twice and don't know how to undo it. Will try the firefox extensions. Ha, at least this way it looks like people are reading me!
Ironically, this photo is uber low-tech. It was taken on a disposable non-digital camera, copied to disk at a drugstore in Vegas, and then imported to and edited on Kodak EasyShare.
Sepia seems to be my favorite texture recently -- I love the aged richness and moodiness of it. B&W almost always leaves me cold unless it's being used to show movement or strong light.
I tend to like simple lines and compositions, which also seems to work in sepia. Hmmm. It would be interesting to wash something all in blue or green or pink or whatever stain. Would it have to be sepia? Would lilac work as well?
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