Photo A Day: Robert Mann

05/20/2006

2006-05-22T22:38:00.000-07:00

"Ché en Masque": The daughter of one my co-workers at our company picnic. The child LOVES to have her picture taken. The camera likes her as well.

05/19/2006

2006-05-22T22:34:00.000-07:00

"Firewheel": Well now....this was almost an entry into the heat challenge....but I thought better of putting a flower in. What I went with....welll, it's not a flower....but the flower might have done better....it would be hard for it to do worse...trust me. LOL!

05/18/2006

2006-05-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

"Only a Sneak in a Guilded Cage": Don't ask...the title is from an old song....the image is of a Puma store display. They're getting pretty imaginative at that store and the display just changed. I did not look at it but I will soon.

05/17/2006

2006-05-22T22:23:00.000-07:00

"Marriott Courtyard": Took this on one of my walks home from work at night. I tried to process the lights rest of the image from the row of lights but I used the wrong selection and they just got brighter than I wanted. OH well....back to the PS drawing board.

05/16/2006

2006-05-22T22:19:00.000-07:00

"Osteospermum": I like these flowers a lot. You see them in gardens and flower boxes around the city. But never as a cut flower, guess cause the stems are not very long. So I bought a plant and took this in color and converted it to BW.

2006-05-15T22:19:00.000-07:00

"Medusa": So I was rummaging the CDs for some pictures and found this one that I had not processed. Saw it and said, "Medusa!" So I processed it and here it is. No what could I possibly come up with for Scylla and Charybdis? Hmmmmm.....LOL!

2006-05-14T22:30:00.000-07:00

"Agapanthus": Not real exciting, I know. But I finally shot something in raw and processed it so here you go. Love the detail. Just have some problems dealing with where the picures are when they are done! Oy!

2006-05-13T22:39:00.000-07:00

"Linear Refractions": No Noise at all!!!!!!! LOL! Happy! But where is my noise!.

2006-05-12T22:05:00.000-07:00

"Peony": THERE"S NO NOISE....where is the Noise....I need noise...I love noise....What AM i GOING to do WITHout NOISE!!!!!.....LOL!....Sorry, I go a new camera and I just cannot get over the fact that....THERE's No NoIsE!!!! OK...I'm still working with it...got off of Auto 'bout as fast as I could. Tried aperture priority to get some bearings and then went to manual. Only shot in studio so far and I've yet to take it (Nikon D70s, BTW) for a walk....but I like it very much...so far.

2006-05-11T21:40:00.000-07:00

"Brown Eyed Susans": Display from the 2006 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show.

05/10/2006

2006-05-11T21:37:00.000-07:00

"Blues and Greens in 3/4": Entry from the Rhythm II Challenge.

2006-05-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

"Delphinium Elatum": When I saw this flower at Pure Design I new I had to have it. Love the color.

2006-05-08T20:30:00.000-07:00

"Golden Curves": Ceiling lamp in the hallway outside my apartment. Shot with the camera white balance on cloudy.

2006-05-07T19:55:00.000-07:00

"Scabiosa and Palms": Thought the straight lines of the Lion Palms would be an interesting contrast to the flowers and their curved stems. Love anything purple and green.

2006-05-06T22:10:00.000-07:00

"Tulip Abstract"

2006-05-05T21:01:00.000-07:00

"Ribbons, Grain, Birds and Baubles": Tiffany and Company of Philadelphia store window display. Shot this earlier in the week on of my walks home from work.

2006-05-05T20:52:00.000-07:00

"Trois" and "Orange Sherbert": I was looking for "Trois" on my CD's and came across the Dahlia image. I never really liked the crop and processing of the dahlia image, way too much blow out of the whites. So I left the crop full and reprocessed it and renamed it as well....it was Orange Creamcicle....don't ask....some concoction Jack and Jill Ice cream made when I was a kid.

05/03/2006

2006-05-05T20:48:00.000-07:00

"A Bouquet of Reds and Yellows": Shot this at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church last week and did some DA stuff on it. Like the contrasts of the bright colors of the bouquet against the neutrals of the wall behind.

05/02/2006

2006-05-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

"Daisies and Delphinium": OK...the they're "Crazy Daisies" which means they are dyed mums. But they were the most orangey thing I could find to go with the blues of the delphinium. And since the delphinium gradient includes some purple hues, there was just enough yellow in the mums, er ...daisies, to complement that as well. From the Complementary Colors III Challenge.

2006-05-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

"Lux Aeterna": Shadows of a stained glass window at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.

04/30/2006

2006-05-01T22:25:00.000-07:00

"KCRC Distortions"
Distorted reflections of one of the dorm halls in the windows of the Kimmel Cancer Research Center on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

04/29/2006

2006-05-01T22:20:00.000-07:00

"Locust Cruiser"
Reflections of Locust Street in the rear of a PT Cruiser. Of course that guy in the lower right might have been cruising as well, not sure. Didn't really notice. Could have been.

04/28/2006

2006-05-01T22:12:00.000-07:00

"Really Tall Iris"
Time flies when your behind at work at the end of the month and you have big concert that is being rehearsed and performed all at the same time. I am frazzled and something had to give so this was put on the back burner. Better to play catch up on this. So what do I have for Friday....hmmmm...lets see....well what little I shot on Friday was for an upcoming challenge so...lets see....Ok Saturday....well....this would be it. Tallest dang Iris I have ever scene. Pretty colors too....saving my Iris macros for my trip to Elaines Garden this year...hope it is soon.

2006-04-27T22:14:00.000-07:00

"Gallery WIndow": Lots of DA stuff in this, mainly expunging bright light lights from all the ceramics and straightening the windows and cloning and NeatImage and healing and boosting saturation wiith Kyoto color (Flaming Pear) and simplifying with Buzz Simplifier no. 1 and...lions and tigers...and bears oh my...Portion of the SOTA Gallery window on Pine Street in Philly.

2006-04-26T22:25:00.000-07:00

"Pink Dogwood": Blossoms from a tree down the street. Shot in studio.

2006-04-25T22:13:00.000-07:00

"Melograno Flower Box": A DA of something I shot on Sunday at a restaurant near church.

2006-04-24T20:50:00.000-07:00

"Parrot Tulip": Bought two of these at the florist on Saturday. Liked the colors and textures of this one best.

2006-04-23T21:58:00.000-07:00

"Jewels": Raindrops on the leaves of a bush next to church today. The enitre bush was covered with these jewel like raindrops and they caught my eye as I walked by. Shot with the camera in macro mode and with a 10x close up filter.

04/22/2006

2006-04-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

"Double Tulips": A little patch in the Kater Street Garden that I took last Saturday. My outdoor flower shots are tempered by my not being able to control the light and the subject. But this little patch of touble tulips stayed still and I thought they came out very nice.

04/21/2006

2006-04-22T05:03:00.000-07:00

"3": Uh-oh!

2006-04-20T20:46:00.000-07:00

"Yellow Red Tulips": Today's little PS project.

2006-04-19T22:09:00.000-07:00

"Popped": Got some poppies from the Sunday florist (Pure Design) and two pods. One of the pods opened.

04/18/2006

2006-04-19T21:39:00.000-07:00

Pansies I & II: So I saw these great flower boxes on the way home Saturday. Pansies, not my fav flower at all....I mean really the little buggers are so hearty you even see them every where in the middle of winter around here... do have some great colors and these looked very nice and were at eye level so they were easy to shoot. I put my 10x close up filter on and was shooting away when someone from inside the house came out. Well as I was not doing anything particularly wrong that I knew of, so I did not let her phase me. We had a little chat and noted that the flowers did look rather nice that day. Then she asked for a print or two and I side sure and even showed her a preview. She went back in and I shot some more. These are two of what I got. Gotta get the prints ready so I can take them by.

2006-04-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

"Pink Cascade": Bought these on the way home Saturday and did not get to shoot them until Sunday night. I processed them today.

2006-04-16T21:56:00.000-07:00

"Sunday Morning III": My sister asked me to take pictures of our family church for a booklet she is preparing for the church's 100th anniversary this year. Guess this is really sort of Sunday afternoon from the shot time of 12:33 PM. I metered off the front chandelier light of the row of lights causing the background to be mostly dark except fot the rosette stained glass window in the background.

2006-04-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

"Easter Egg Net": Water drops placed on a piece of nylon netting refracting an Easter basket and eggs in tbe background. Happy Holidays everyone!

04/14/2006

2006-04-15T06:47:00.000-07:00

'Suburban Reflections': An architectural abstract. Distorted reflections of the Suburban Station Building in buildings of Penn Center Plaza across JFK Boulevard in Philadelphia, PA.

04/13/2006

2006-04-14T19:40:00.000-07:00

"Stock Exchange Dapples and Reflections"

Oh my...late again....been depressed about something or other....not sure what. Hopefully it will pass. So I was perusing items that I saved on my hard drive that I never processed and found one that I took in Dec'03 with my Fuji S602Z. Great camera. Been meaning to take it out again sometime, but I have really so bounded with the Fuji S7000 that I don't know what the results would be. Hope they'd be as good as this...well I like it...and I have no idea what I'm going be like when....well if....well when....well...we'll see.

2006-04-12T20:32:00.000-07:00

"The Palms": We get these every year at church. I believe they are Lion Palms? Anyway I came home with 4 and tried an linear angle abstract with them. Like the gradation of the greens and, of course, the lines.

04/11/2006

2006-04-12T20:24:00.000-07:00

Well I seem to be a day late and at least a dollar short...again! My Refraction of Light challenge entry did Ok. Got through round 1 of the MS Challenge but unless Nasti took a picture and dropped her camera (God Forbid!) while she was taking it, I don't think I'll make it past round 2. Heck, she's good the only way she'd not move on to the next round would be if she could not get the image out of the camera. Great cause. I will try it again next time around.

04/10/2006

2006-04-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

Oh my...well....the yellow challenge was interesting. It tried a few different things. One that I put it that did not enter was "Two Sunflowers". As you can see, I did not use my normal black velvet background instead using a piece of heavy yellow construction paper. It did not do to bad, in fact it was on three sites today....go figure. Always happens, I shoot more than one thing for a challenge and end up usually putting the wrong one in.

I really liked my challenge entry cause it was very different for me. I made some changes per suggestion received in the challenge and it won a site today as well. So maybe I wasn't entirely wrong for once. I am still fascinated that the drop turned out so well in this as it was shot at 1/16 sec.

2006-04-09T22:49:00.000-07:00

"The First of Spring": A little select desat.

2006-04-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

"City Sunset Reflections": Took fhis back in 2002 on the same day as "Life Un-Imitating Art" (see 04/01/2006 entry).

2006-04-07T21:47:00.000-07:00

"Petal Abstract IV": I went to my Sunday florist after church, before going to work, and bought a few flowers. Shot this in the office on Sunday. Lighting was a combination of the office and the later afternoon sun streaming in the windows on the west side of the building.

04/06/2006 "Office Shadows"

2006-04-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

I had a shift change for a couple of days and it has just thrown my regular routine off. Sorry this is so late. This past Sunday, in between church and work, was a fairly good shooting day. Had a nice time....even at work where I shot this. I just turned and... well you know its something you see that you hope you can get in the camera they way you see it in front of you and this sort of turn out that way. Later afternoon soon shining through a windows with the shadows of the blinds on a fine natural composition. I made a few adjustments for camera distortion and the regular processing routine did the rest.

2006-04-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

"Le Petite Dejeuner": I was going to use the original of this for the Yellow III Challenge but went a different direction....BLUE....LOL! No, just a different concept in yellow....so, of course I get told it's maybe TOO yellow...so maybe I should have gone with blue....Anyway this is the daughter of two of our choir members at church. I wanted to try something a little different DA wise and got a new magazine and followed some steps and made some of my own changes.

2006-04-04T22:33:00.000-07:00

"Primary Drops": Set a RainX treated mirror in front of my computer monitor displaying primary color stripes, dropped some water with an eyedropper and ...well there it is. Later!

2006-04-03T22:47:00.000-07:00

"!9th and Market III": Today's weather really negated yesterday's. But I'm off tomorrow so we'll hope for the best. Shot this on the way to work yesterday. The curved corner of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange building across the street from the lines of the Commerce Square Buildings.

2006-04-02T21:54:00.000-07:00

"A Delightful Spring Day": Not warm, not too cold, brilliant sunlight. Today was a keeper.

2006-04-01T21:27:00.000-08:00

"Life Un-Imitating Art": This was my alternate Best of 2002 Challenge entry. Dusted off the old CD's and reprocessed. This was my first POTD at a couple of sites and even won a second place on Kodak when they had monthly prizes, though it never won a POTD with them....hmmm...guess I'll re-enter it. The processing was a bit different from the original in that I cloned out a set of parking lot lights in the lower corner right over the boy by the easel/architectect thing behind the many with the Binonculars.
The premise of the picture was that they were tearing down a building across the street from where I worked. On the building was a mural. The mural was sometimes called the Comcast Mural, as Comcast sponsored it. The building was being torn down to make way for...you guess it...the new Comcast building....only they never started it until about 3 years later. The irony of the situation is that the mural was actually titled "Symbolic Building of a City". I just saw this and took it and that was it. But there was more to see when I uploaded it. The juxtaposition of the really wrecking crane and the construction crane in the mural along with the wrecking hooks dangling from the real crane hanging over the top of the mural. See what is left of mural and you see some people gathered looking up in awe of what was a new beautiful piece of architecture in the mural which has been replaced by the real life crane. A news conference for the new construction turns to a news story of protest of the destruction of the building and the mural.
I was always please with this image and I hope you are, too. Later it's late....don't forget to turn your clocks ahead!

2006-03-31T23:38:00.000-08:00

"Live Together": I walked home from work one day recently and saw this building all by itself in a parking lot. As I got nearer, I saw this brightly colored mural on the side. The title is on the tree in the middle and the artists have all signed their names at the bottom. I shot this in three portrait mode images and made and stitched the three images together is PSElements 3.0. I wanted to get as much of the surroundings of the mural into the frame as I could. Made a few alterations to repair the merge but not much compared past pano efforts.

2006-03-30T21:02:00.000-08:00

"Color Abstract Redux": You all remember 'Color Abstract' from back in January? Yes? Good. Well I put a full size image of it on the computer monitor and put a vase in front of it and this is what I got. Had to tone down some the light bright greens and blues a bit, but otherwise, the colors came out just fine. Later!

2006-03-29T19:47:00.000-08:00

"Garden Rose Stained Glass": Not sure how this got this way. I wanted to do a water color DA of this image and found myself eventually drawing lines and erasing everything in the lines to a lower layer, except the main flower, and this is what I got. Took a while. Hope it was worth it! Later.

2006-03-28T22:06:00.000-08:00

"Streams IV": Re edit of my Low Key Challenge entry, not so low key now as the entry. A vase in front of my computer monitor displaying a blue green gradient fill. The vase is lying on a the non glossy side of a piece of aluminum file (the upper right diffused background).

2006-03-27T20:44:00.000-08:00

"Floating": Store window display for this year's flower show. Lots of editing and then I found I picked the wrong image of this set. Oh well. Got rid of street light reflections, bright areas in the store behind the back drop, creases in the backdrop as well as a gap around the center, a small bit of one flower on the right and a few of the visible strings holding the flowers in mid air.

March 26, 2006

2006-03-27T20:30:00.000-08:00

"Daffodil Duo"
Oops....must have gotten bogged down with a challenge entry whose score did not warrant the time I put into it....again! LOL! This is Kater Street Garden from Saturday.

2006-03-25T21:04:00.000-08:00

"Forsythia Buds": Walked home from my voice lesson today in a very light rain. Went by the Kater Street Garden for the first time this year. Had a mac(ro) attack and shot everything, just about, with my 10x close up filter on top of the the UV and circular polarizer filters on the camera. I liked this one when I took it. The detail of the buds in full size is really fine. More from the garden tomorrow, unless I shoot on the way to work. Later!

2006-03-24T23:10:00.000-08:00

"Angled PAFA": Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Shot on my way home from work, got out early but have to work Sunday in exchange. Shooting architecture can be a bit trying in cities due to narrow streets. This is not the most narrow of streets but it limits the ability to get a lot in the frame. I have been using this angle for a while . The top of the frame is leveled to the top of the building and the camera angled from there. As you can see, you can get a lot more of the flavor of the building in one shot than you might with either a strait on shot on a perspective shot with the building straight up and down in the image. Later!

March 23, 2006

2006-03-24T16:10:00.000-08:00

04/01/06:Well it's not doing too well and since this post is about to fall off, I thought I would put it up:

Thought I had done this and woke up to see that I apparently had not. Any hoooo.

"Primrose Seltzer": It's actually Diet Sprite. Display an image of a patch of primroses on my computer monitor and placed a 2 liter bottle of Diet Sprite in front. Shot in standard mode, not macro, with a 10x close up filter on the camera. The crop is about 40% of the image out of camera. (Guess it would be nice if you saw it...well....I'm maybe using it for the water challenge...so we'll see if it goes in or not.)

2006-03-22T20:39:00.000-08:00

"Encircled": Store window display. Shot this on my home from choir rehearsal last night.

2006-03-21T21:34:00.000-08:00

"Flowers by the Crystal Blue Stream": Display at the Philadelphia Flower Show.

2006-03-20T21:54:00.000-08:00

"Eyes": Reprocessed image of my entry in the Pick Two Challenge.

2006-03-19T21:58:00.000-08:00

"Office Patterns": This grouping of offices in the Mellon Bank Building (or us is Citizens now?...I forget) have caught my eye for some time when I walk home at night. So I tried it again the other day and it seemed to turne out OK. There's another grouping like this on another building across from where I work that I think might be better if it ever turns out. Oh well....someday.

2006-03-18T21:01:00.000-08:00

"Double Calla": Double bloom, one of two, on a calla lily plant I bought at the Flower Show last week. Shot this today along with a slew of others from the plant: there are about a dozen blooms on the plant. Uh-oh!LOL!

2006-03-17T21:00:00.000-08:00

"Design in Blues and Greens": Well you knew it had to come back at some point. Displayed an Amazing Circle that I made from a gradient fill on my computer monitor wiht the glass in front.

2006-03-16T22:07:00.000-08:00

"Caps and Pipes": Another fromt the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Philly.

2006-03-15T23:19:00.000-08:00

"XTerra Scape": Reflections in the left rear panel and window of an SUV.

2006-03-15T23:06:00.000-08:00

"Little Yellows": A small pot of minature tulips.

2006-03-14T21:56:00.000-08:00

"Green Hats and Scarves": Some marchers in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. The guy up front was very animated.

2006-03-14T21:53:00.000-08:00

"Four Gerbera": Potted plant I got at the flower show.

2006-03-13T22:46:00.000-08:00

"Replenish": Display at the 2006 PHS Philadelphia Flower show.

2006-03-13T22:31:00.000-08:00

"Veterans": Hey aint that my office building in the background? Yep sure is...guess I should get over there but hey, there's this big parade and everyone is wearing green for some reason? How will I get to the office...on a Sunday?! Guess I'll just have to wait 'til the parade is over.....and shoot a lot of pictures. (Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge in the 2006 Philadelphia St. Patrick's Day Parade)

2006-03-12T18:59:00.000-08:00

"Spokes": A multi colored plastic slinky, acutally a promotional item from work. Tried something different, I hope, angles of which this is one.

2006-03-11T21:32:00.000-08:00

"Spring has Sprung": We had an all day symposium on the Brahms Requiem that we are preparing for our Anniversary Concert at the end of April. On the way back, we stopped at one of the choir members homes. Rob, who drove, works part time as a landscaper and wanted to see what had come up of all the bulbs they planted at this home. Took this there...not sure if it was one of his or not. Love the pale purple and yellow flowers against the fall and winter dross around them.

2006-03-10T21:36:00.000-08:00

"Primrose Carpet": Two from the flower show.

2006-03-10T21:35:00.000-08:00

"Flower Show Colors 2006"

2006-03-09T21:48:00.000-08:00

"Flower Box and Daffodils": Display at the 2006 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show. Just a quckie to start...have to wade throught the shots I took today and I may go back again tomorrow. Later!

2006-03-08T22:25:00.000-08:00

Just because I'm going to the flower show tomorrow I thought I'd share some of what I did with what I took last year. The first, "A Few Flowers by the Porch", was the first display I shot as it was right by the entrance to the show. The basic filters used on all of these are Buzz Simplifier No. 1 and Kyoto Color from Flaming Pear.

2006-03-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

"Flowers by the Pound": This was probably the hardest of these to do...I merged together two images and did a lot of cloning and erasing to get it this way. I was very happy with the result.

2006-03-08T22:20:00.000-08:00

"Green House": Don't know what happened here or whether I could ever reproduce what it was I did, but this is my favorite of the flower show images from last year (Shhh! Don't tell the others;)!)

2006-03-08T22:16:00.000-08:00

"Garden Palette": Not a fan of diffusion but I used it a bit in this and it turn out OK. I cloned out a chair and its shadows to the the left of the palette and did some buzz and coloring along with a dreamy filter.

2006-03-07T21:54:00.000-08:00

"Spring Bouquet": Flowers by the altar at church on Sunday...did them up a little. Flower Show is open and I'm going Thursday and maybe Friday too...if I need to. 2 days..can't wait.

2006-03-06T19:15:00.000-08:00

"Chips": Reflections of bags of potatoe chips in the side of a food vending cart. I've been meaning to process this and put it off and then I coudn't find it. I found it last night and that's about it. Like some of the detail in the reflections....might have help if I used a wider aperture and got some blur on the real bags of chips but...oh well. Later!

2006-03-05T22:30:00.000-08:00

"Red, White and Green": I was thinking of using this for the Square Crop Challenge but went a different root. The square crop just did not work out on this one and went a different root altogether.

2006-03-04T21:04:00.000-08:00

"Kimmel Verizon IV": Sorry...I'm bushed...had to work today and I've ton of pics to review...Hope I get to them cause the Flower Show is next week ! AHHHHHHHH!

2006-03-03T11:46:00.000-08:00

"Design In Pinks II": Yeah....I know...it's that glass again....but I posted it because it made the cover of the Macro Close Up Gallery at megapixel.net this week. There's a link for the site in my index (or at least there will be in a moment). Later!

2006-03-02T22:42:00.000-08:00

"Double Daf": From today. Two double daffodils.

2006-03-01T22:00:00.000-08:00

"Tulips and Roses": DA version of a subject I tried for the Painting with Light II Challenge.

2006-02-28T23:06:00.000-08:00

"Color Mosaic": I was messing around at the last minute, again, shooting for the Painting With Light II Challenge and I shot this. Most of the other images of this were blown out, but I like the colors and design of this one, especially the curly queue thing in the lower half. What is it? I bought a color spinner at the Mummers Day Parade on the 1st of the year on a whim. Did some stuff with it that I didn't like too much. Then, and I have no idea why, I bought another one at the NJ State Aquarium the weekend before last. So I held them both up in front of the camera and moved them in a 4 second or so exposure and I got this out of one of the brackets I shot. I didn't enter in the challenge cause there was no subject being light painted...it's really just light painting, period. Later!

2006-02-27T21:31:00.000-08:00

"Purses and Parasols": I shot this for the Fashion Challenge....beyond basic editing though it might have fared better than my entry even with basic editing....ouch!

2006-02-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

"Three Tulips": These were a centerpiece at our meal prior to our concert yesterday. I asked if I could have this set cause I love the natural composition of the straight stems and flowers against the curves of the leaves. Nasty to light cause they shine a little. I covered the sides with reflecters and sent all the light above onto a piece of white poster board over the shooting area.

2006-02-25T21:44:00.000-08:00

"A Glass of Liberty Place": Took the $Store glass and placed it front of yesterday's image on the monitor. I think we'll put the glass away for a bit and see what else there might be to do....Well, there is St. Patty's day to think of...better get to work on that pronto!

2006-02-24T21:09:00.000-08:00

"Liberty Place Abstract II": I went into the vault tonight to reprocess this. I took a different image of the group that I shot back in Jan.'05 to use for another picture that I will put up tomorrow.

2006-02-23T22:32:00.000-08:00

"Entangled": Two French tulips amidst some bear grass.

February 22, 2006

2006-02-23T06:31:00.000-08:00

"A Glass of Union Station": Ooops again....bought everything up to put this in before I went to bed and just forgot to do it. Anyway....put an image of Union Station, Washington DC that I took at the DC Cherry Blossom DPC GTG last year and put the $Store glass in front. Tried a few others as well. The glass is getting quite a work out. Want to try to get a couple more of the glasses soon to see what a couple or three can do. Later!

2006-02-21T21:36:00.000-08:00

"Tiffany's Window": Shot this on the way home tonight. Thought of using it for the Fashion Challenge but went with something else altogether.

February 20, 2006

2006-02-21T06:27:00.000-08:00

"Red Lines, Yellow Columns"
For the life of me, I could not get a post in last night before I went to bed...nothing seemed to be working on the Hello side...so I gave up in frustration.
I processed this from Saturday....it was sort of funny....we arrived early at the aquarium and I saw this building and had to shoot it. I was walking towards it and ClubJuggle drove by. He rolled down his window and said, "You're going in the wrong direction! We're over there!" And I pointed to the building and said "Building! Pretty building!" And Juggle nodded his head knowlingly and drove on. I met up with everyone when I was done.
Sure wish the light had been better.

2006-02-19T22:37:00.000-08:00

"Clown Fish and Anemone": I think. From yesterday.

2006-02-18T22:06:00.000-08:00

"Tropical Fish !": There were so many kids at the aquarium I could barely see straight let alone hear them yelling out the name of the fishes as the ran and slammed themselves into the side of the tanks! It really was funny at times...."FISHIES!!!!".... slam.... shot already to shoot, fish isn't even moving much ... and ..."FISHIES!!!" ...slam ...the vibrations scares the fish into a movment frenzy and all but knocks me over....never doubt the strength nor get in the way of a pre-schooler who nows his fish!

Oh and BTW...who ever came up with the quaint expression, usually whispered or said in a hushed tone, "Let's use our inside voices"? A) It does not work and B) I don't know about you but I really don't think the general public is ready to hear my inside voices.... what?.... what?... oh...yes?....what?....inside the house not inside the head voices?....ooops ....so very sorry ...never mind.LOL!

2006-02-17T20:05:00.000-08:00

"Moment Observed": Cleaning files off as the HD is getting crowded and there's a DPC Philly GTG tomorrow at the NJ Aquarium so I'll need space for sure. I took this last September at the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Festival (or something like that...not sure of the exact name). Booths surrounded the entire park and there were some more inside. Lot's of great works I would love to own. This artist had a both near one of the corners and I shot this as this couple was sharing a moment...I think he said he would get some picture she really wanted...while the artist looked on. The entire image was simplified and then gausian blur applied in big doses to the artist's work so as not to infringe on her copyright. I blurred the park scene in the upper left on a whim but I think it is OK... Later... maybe some fishies tomorrow.