Well, I definitely broke a cardinal rule of the 7/52 this week… I only shot for the project on one day. I could make excuses—and the ones I have would be convincing and you would likely give me a pass, given the terrifyingly fabulous week I had—but I won’t. Suffice it to say, I was …
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So I was pondering a theme for the week, couldn’t come up with anything better, so I decided it would be LensBaby Week. Yay. The LensBaby is a sort of toy tilt-shift lens with a pronounced sweet-spot (area of acceptable focus) and distinctive blur to everything else. I have the Muse with the plastic optic (no …
True to myth, April has been fairly rainy thus far, or was for two or three days this week. It’s a blessing here in North Texas, where we’re enduring a lengthy and moderate-to-severe (according to the National Drought Mitigation Center) drought, a curse to commuters, and a delight to my senses: the smell of ozone …
Shot while packing the car to leave Medicine Mound. More pics to follow, if anything from the D7000 or LX7 ends up worth sharing. iPhone 5. Pure camera app. Minor crop and slight edits in Filterstorm.
For this week’s 7/52, I decided to pit two toy camera apps against one another: Plastica, the relative newcomer, vs. the venerable Hipstamatic. For the most part, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves and leave a proper review of Plastica for a time when I have more time to devote to it. First, though, …
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It was a beautiful afternoon.
Something mysterious, almost. Like the capital on the swing ride at the small town carnival that rolled into town last week, or looking through a clear umbrella at an evil-looking fog, maybe. I played with this one a long time, adding grain, darkening the vignette, playing with split toning, but ended up with something somewhat …
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