This is the same photo I posted a couple of days ago, except this time it has a vignette or burnt-in edges effect. The exciting (to me) thing about this, is that I had no idea (doh!) that there was a masks palette in Photoshop which allowed you to make editable adjustments to masks. Editable! Woo-hoo! I know this makes no sense if you’re not having your own love affair with Photoshop, so I’ll stop now.

Tom says that the real thing to notice in this photo is that Emma has a leg-up on Toby.

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 saunter to the kitchen and see what’s being dished up.

Anyway. The Sartorialist has been posting some vintage photos lately, and I decided to steal his idea for today. Except he is posting actual vintage photos of actual people, and I’m posting a contemporary (I took this last summer) photo of a dog, which I’ve photoshopped, hoping to make it look older than it is. Which is clearly not in the spirit of what the Sartorialist is doing.

Still and all, this dog has style.

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 this mean he is in two places at once? Is he, at the same time, both very large, and very, very small? If he gave Planet Ballard a might whack with his paw and sent it spinning into the street, would his tiny Planet Ballard self get motion sickness and throw up his breakfast? Does this mean he had two breakfasts this morning? Good grief, life is confusing sometimes.

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.

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 saw this little pathway into Lower Kinnear Park. Traffic sounds fell away…and look…a vertical panorama!

This was made from three different shots. Before they were photomerged, I rotated each picture 90 degrees clockwise and saved the file. Then, Photoshop merged the three into a seamless whole. Magic! At which point I rotated the merged version 90 degrees counterclockwise, returning the whole thing to an upright state.

Meanwhile, Enzo’s current family includes a little girl named Zoe — who has a lot of stuffed animals.

I know that this dog doesn’t look like the Enzo described in the story, but if you buy into the idea of one Enzo, it’s not much of a stretch to start believing in others.

Anyway, the typewriter keys were pretty impressive, but they still seemed to need something more. Like maybe a picture of Toby? This is the head-shot that Toby submitted when he auditioned for the lead role in a local stage production of “The Great Gatsby.”