The "U" Picture

Driving home in the dark, needed a picture.

Pointed the camera out the window with the flash turned off, and voila, the "U" picture.

Bottles of water...

Can you tell that I didn't get out of the house with the camera today? Close up of the case of water that Andy bought from Costco.

Inside the toaster....

Artsy day... I like the contrast in focus in this picture.

Another late post cause of sucky internet...

Yep, I go to Las Vegas and take a picture of the Eiffel Tower.

At least it's an artsy angle!

Strands of hair

Clayton's head, a day or two without washing his hair.

Reflection in the car's finish

I was caught by the image of the tree as distorted by both the shape of the car and the finish.

Yes, it's Tuesday, and I didn't really get out to get any kind of exciting picture -- but this is pretty cool anyway.

Red windsock on a blue sky...

Stark color difference.

Taken at the Half Moon Bay Airport.

More rear curtain ...

Yesterday's picture used rear curtain slow sync. Today at puppy class, I decided to play around with it some more -- this time in a lighted room. See the "ghost dog" that passed by on the left of the picture?

Artsy, distorted, matted reflection ...

Grey day in SF, getting late, looking around the house for something different to shoot. I took a couple of pictures that had some reflection in them, and then started looking around the house even more as a meme.

This shot is actually on the top of our covered cat box. The reflection is of the porch light through the window above the door.

I like the subtle color and light levels of distortion of the reflected picture.

Flame in glass...

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Flames make for interesting pictures. Yes, I know, this makes me sound like a pyromaniac, but I'm talking about candle flames, not warehouse-insurance-fraud flames.

Anyway, the light of the flame reflected and refracted through the crystal is visually interesting. Even the minute crack in the glass comes through.

Looking up

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OK, first, let me say that I did not REALLY get a tattoo. Just an April Fools Joke in case anyone didn't get it.

Now, today was Encryption, which, to a propellerhead like myself, was great. I soaked it up, and thus, did not need the evening review so much. That in mind, I grabbed the camera and went for a stroll in the Marina Park next to the hotel.

Lots of pretty decent (for me) pictures -- see the flickr page to see the rest.

I liked the composition of this one the most. I took it outside the hotel looking though the pigeon shield up the face of the building.

Fuzzy Clem...

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Clemmy blurred (not enough light). Gives her a really cartooney look.

Fun with Photoshop

Ok, I didn't take any "epic" pictures today, so I decided to go with an "artsy" version. I snapped a shot of the flame of a candle, then ran that picture through Photoshop's "Glowing Edge" filter to get this.

The wick itself is in red at the bottom, with the hot flame extending above it in white and blue.

Z...

Thomas bought a Z. Thomas' Z is orange. Thomas' Z is fast. Thomas gets to start paying his own insurance now. Thomas is about to wake up...