This hangs on our front door. It’s a winter decoration we’ve had up since before Christmas. We’ll take it down when Spring officially starts.
I can’t wait for that day.
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This view used to include trees. I have some pictures of the space when it was still trees. I walked by it everyday around lunch when I would go out to stretch my legs. Now it’s a construction site. This will be a Hilton Garden Inn when it’s done. Cause that’s just what the world needs…another hotel. Any time I encounter a situation like this, I automatically think of the Lorax.Today was an overcast day, with a weak sun poking through the clouds. I took the picture using ProCam, with the Ztylus wide angle lens attachment. I imported the picture into Snapseed, where I applied a couple of filters. The first filter was something called Drama, which can really make a sky pop out at you. The second filter was a black and white contrast filter. I like how ominous the result makes the hotel look.
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Honestly, this is one of the best things about coming home. The fact that I can kick off my shoes and stuff my feet into slippers. I haven’t had a pair of slippers in years. My feet are big, size 14, and I can’t just go into a store and pick up a pair, so I’ve put off getting a pair for years. Imagine my surprise then when I got not one, but two pairs of slippers for Christmas. Now, the first I do when I come home is peel off the socks and shoes and shove my feet into one of my new pairs of slippers. -
I still really struggle with night photography on the iPhone. Then again, in fairness, the iPhone doesn’t have the full range of capabilities that a SLR camera has (the iPhone has a fixed aperture, which can’t be changed no matter what app you use) and I’m always trying to take picture of the moon (a really difficult subject).I snapped this one using night mode on ProCam. The thing I like most is that it captured the beauty of the clouds and trees in the moonlight. And Venus. I think that smaller dot is Venus.
The thing I don’t like is that there was just no way to tone down how bright the moon was in the shot. It totally overpowered the rest of the sky.
I’ll keep trying, but for now, this is what I got.
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We have such great trees where we live. I’m not sure what I expected, but such tall pines were a surprise when we moved the New England nearly twenty years ago. The pines in this picture are right outside my front door. The day was stunning, warming nicely and sunny as all get-out. I took this picture up into the underside of the pines, with the afternoon sun lighting the undersides of the branches. I added a filter at the end. It didn’t need one, but I liked ’70s summery feeling it gave the photo. -
I’m running behind tonight. So here’s a picture of some of the books piled next to the desk.G’night.
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I caught this picture of Maggie when she wasn’t looking. Those tend to be the best times to get pictures of kids, when they’re just being themselves and don’t know anybody’s watching them. We were in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, and she had been reading a book in one of the chairs. She turned to look behind her, and that’s when I snapped. Something about her look and position just suggestion a good picture. I usually don’t post pictures of my kids on this blog, but you can’t really see her face, so I’m good with it.Shot with Hipstamatic.
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Out for a walk earlier this afternoon. The sun was bright and beautiful through the trees. Sometimes you just need a picture of trees.This picture is unfiltered, just cropped a little to get the street out of it.
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Lines fascinate me like never before. It could be the drawing course I took at the Worcester Art Musuem last fall. If you’ve ever taken a drawing course, you’ll know that drawing, at its most basic, is nothing more that lines drawn the best way you can. When I find lines and patterns just by walking around, I usually take a picture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it needs a little help.This is a standpipe in the parking garage at work. What drew me to it was that fact that it lined up in perfect parallel to the wall and the electric conduit next to it.
Taken with ProCam, cropped and zoomed with Snapseed, filter applied in Hipstamatic.
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Short one tonight. This is the detail from the couch in my living room. It’s one of those microfiber ones that looks like leather, but is better at handling what the kids can throw at it. I took the close up then applied some post-processing using Snapseed.
Scott Lyerly 