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I spent all day today at a “Maximum Photoshop” seminar, taught by Dave Cross, and I’m hoping my brain will retain at least 50% of the staggering amount of information given in the demonstrations. It was pretty amazing. Here’s a very basic example of what I learned:
This is the same photo I posted a couple [...]
There’s been nothing very exciting happening around here lately. But that’s okay. I shun excitement.
Look, here’s Emma ignoring Toby’s rule about Single-Cat-Occupancy-of-the-Tower. He’s taking the rule-breakage pretty well.
Here they are again, responding to a sudden noise.
Emma’s look says: That sound worries me greatly.
Toby’s look says: That’s the buzzer on the stove. In five minutes, I’ll [...]
I check out the Sartorialist’s blog at least once a week, mostly because it’s entertaining, but partially in the hopes that some sense of style will rub off on me. It hasn’t so far. Denim and polar fleece are the staples of my wardrobe…and if wearing socks with sandals is wrong, I don’t wanna be [...]
Man, I cannot believe I was lucky enough to capture this image of Planet Ballard. Isn’t it glorious up there in the night-time sky?
Wait…what’s this?
This cat is probably meditating on the seemingly impossible concept that, while he himself is lying on a sidewalk in Ballard, Ballard is also lying on the sidewalk before him. Does [...]
I’ve been celebrating the beginning of spring by going out and taking pictures.
There’s a crow in this tree.
Here’s a blurry close-up.
And another one.
This crow is apparently celebrating spring with a serving of catsup.
I’d want fries with that.
I had so much fun making my Rose Garden Panorama — letting Photoshop do all the work — that I wanted to try it again.
So. Tom and I had been walking, walking, walking along Elliott Ave. W., with constant traffic whooshing by. After a while of that, we turned left on W. Mercer Pl. and [...]
We used to have a strange-looking eye magnet that Tom found somewhere. It disappeared, as did several other refrigerator magnets, soon after Emma arrived at our house. Emma? Do you have some explaining to do?
I just read “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” by Garth Stein. The narrator is Enzo, a loyal, wise, and funny dog who believes that in his next life he’ll be reincarnated as a human.
Meanwhile, Enzo’s current family includes a little girl named Zoe — who has a lot of stuffed animals.
I know that [...]
I’m still working through Photoshop tutorials. This one was really cool: “Vintage Typewriter Keys,” by Felix Nelson, in the March 2010 issue of Photoshop User magazine. I’ve never actually seen typewriter keys like these…it almost seems like I’ve seen jewelry with this kind of look though. Maybe the jewelry was made from old typewriter keys?
Anyway, [...]