(Around) 52 Photos in 2010

Red onions at the market

2010-04-28T03:26:00.000-07:00

I went with Angela to the Palagonia market this morning. I took my camera with me because none of the photographs I had been looking over looked like something I wanted to post here. One of the first booths had these onions. I was struck by the bold, purple color.

Not much processing was done on these--I wanted to keep the mentioned color that I had mostly already captured. The only things I did were crop, after which I slightly tweaked the contrast and white balance.

beach and boat version 2 and a post for this week

2010-04-19T12:04:00.000-07:00

So, I have reprocessed last weeks photo. This time I used UFRaw and GIMP. I'm much happier with it:

Here is my photo for this week:

Some unfortunate flower is being made into a delicious lunch for a snail... and an opportunity for me to practice manual focus on a close subject...

A Beached Boat; New Posts and Photos are coming

2010-04-15T05:32:00.000-07:00

Dear long suffering followers (all four of you... maybe more if I ever start posting regularly...),

As indicated by the title of this post, I assure you, more post will be forthcoming shortly...

Thank you, Ryan, for your suggestions regarding timely posts, I'll be implementing them. I already have a stockpile of a few photographs...

Now, the entry for right now:

Ang and I were on vacation over the last week and the first town we stopped in was Marinella di Selinute. We saw the boat on the sand; this is one of about five photos I took... still not quite happy with the processing that I've done on it... working that learning curve...

Pumpkin Pop Art

2010-02-15T07:52:00.000-08:00

Here is a Che Guevara version of a picture I took of my cat a while back.

You can almost hear him say: "Mao!"

To make this picture, I adapted instructions found in a You Tube instructional video on using Gimp to turn a photograph into pop art. The main change I had to make from the video's instructions was to remove all the background as my cat has light collored fur; his fur didn't work out so well even with a fairly light background... So after removing the background elements, adjusting the color balance and contrast, and removing more background elements, I pretty much followed the video instructions.

Black and White Keys

2010-02-03T07:51:00.000-08:00

This months photo club challenge is black and white. My picture is above. Basically, it's exactly how it looks: I took a long exposure of my keyboard while playing said keyboard. Enjoy!

Photo Club Presentation on Publishing

2010-02-02T14:09:00.000-08:00

This one is for the photo club. No, it is not a photo... it is a slide presentation that I'm going to present to the photo club. I made it using Google docs. Maybe I'll eventually do a voice over on it. For now, hopefully the brief blurbs and links will be useful. My notes are not ready to publish yet...

Town through plants...

2010-01-31T06:04:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken above Ramacca. I took it by pointing my camera out the passenger window and focusing on the plants in front of the lens.

A Road...

2010-01-31T05:58:00.000-08:00

This on is at the same location as the last post. The town off in the distance is Ramacca. I think.

Anyway... with the water on the road and the clouds, it kind of reminds me of the image that one of the major US movie production studios puts at the beginning of the flicks they produce.

Shades of Blue

2010-01-31T05:47:00.000-08:00

So, I've fallen a bit behind in posting photographs. Today, I set out to correct that fact. These posts (and a couple to follow) are from pictures I took today.

After doing a bit of grocery shopping, I took a bit of a detour on the way home and drove in the general direction of Radusa. Once there, I drove out into the country where I got plenty of mud on the Subaru and was able to take a few photos.

It is a rainy day but the sun was trying to peek through in the picture above. I really like the shades of blue contrasted against the green field. The picture was designed such that the ditch leads the viewer's eye to the sky.

Relaxin', watching TV

2010-01-15T22:12:00.000-08:00

So here's my entry for this week.

The photo club has a black and white challenge for next month. I'm not sure this will be what I bring there; it is just a working concept at this point.

Enjoy...

Music Collection

2010-01-05T22:14:00.000-08:00

Hello 2010!

So, this year I've decided to start a photo blog... specifically, my goal is to post at least one photograph each week.

I'm also in a photography club that meets once a month. Each month, we'll do a "photo challenge"--a challenge on a given topic. For example, one month we did a "depth of field" challenge and another was on the topic of sound.

This months challenge is collections. Here is my photo: