Last night’s dinner. I do love a good burger, and Five Guys always delivers.
Shot using Hipstamatic, using the Rudolph lens and the Daydream film.
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This is my town’s common this morning after last night’s light snow.Taken with PureShot.
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Today’s photo was a tough choice. I had another picture I took this morning that I wanted to post, but, in honor of the first real snowfall in the Northeast tonight, I though this one would be a better fit. It’s kind of a blurry mess, as night photography with an iPhone is a skill I have yet to master, but whatever. I like it. So there.Taken with PureShot, cropped in Snapseed, converted to black and white with Black Cam.
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I love taking black and white pictures. Sometimes they work sometimes they don’t, but the result is always interesting to me.Taken with Black Cam.
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I met up with a couple of writer friends last night so that we could go over our works in progress. It was a strange misty foggy night. The weather is changing, going from chilly and overcast yesterday to warm and rainy today. As the warm air came in, the fog came with it. Heading to my car, I was struck by the way the woods behind the pub looked in the fog with the sodium lights of the parking lot hitting it.The end result is above. Photo taken with PureShot, lightened with Sanpseed, and a layer of stacked filters applied from Formulas.
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I took this one while once again playing around with the macro lens. It caused me some problems at first because I couldn’t get enough light at the bottom of the picture. My phone kept throwing an unwanted shadow across the penny.
Then it occurred to me that this might make for an interesting black and white photo. The high contrast between the reflection of the light and the shadow from the phone gives this picture, to me, a slightly unsettled feeling.
This unsettlement, coupled with the subject, “E PLURIBUS UNUM” feels timely. The Latin translates into “From many, one”. This refers to the states, and how they all came together to form a single union. Yet, these days, the union feels threatened. Not by Obama, or Trump, or a whole host of other players each of whom as a finger in the pie. No, I find the union threatened by our devotion to divisiveness. You can see this on social media every time you open Facebook or Twitter. There, in your newsfeed, you find someone yelling about how their side is right, and your side is wrong, about how the current administration is the savior of all humanity or the devil incarnate. The headlines are getting snarkier, with things like “You Won’t Believe How This Caller Shut Down Rush” or “What Obama Is Taking From You Next.”
We must learn, or perhaps re-learn, that we are one nation, and that, to make this nation stronger, we must find common ground. This means that we must do what is unthinkable these days. We must “compromise”. This does not mean that we give up our values or our ideologies. This means that we agree to work together to get things done, that we realize that this country cannot be led by a “my way or the highway” mentality that has plagued the last two administrations, that we agree that to come together and be stronger, we much each give ground to the other side so that a common bond can be reached. The extremists in both parties hate the word compromise. They feel that it means “to completely surrender your beliefs to the other side.” That’s not what it means. What compromise means is to “settle a dispute by mutual concession.” Mutual. Both sides coming to an agreement.
We have our differences. We should. It’s what makes for great conversation and thoughtful discourse. Great things can come from conflict. But when we treat each other as the enemy, then we are no longer a union. We are AB UNO MULTI, “From one, many.” Let’s try our best to avoid that.
(Oh yeah, picture taken with an iPhone 6 using PureShot, macro lens by CamRah, cropped in Snapseed, and converted to B&W by Black Cam.)
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I love taking pictures with my phone. If you know what you’re doing and know some basic techniques and theory about photography in general, you can get some really great shots.But I also love taking ordinary or uninteresting photos and transforming them into a type of photo art. Today’s picture is an example of that. I was out for a short walk after lunch and liked the way the tree in the foreground looked against a slightly cloudy sky. The end picture was a little dark and uninteresting, so I decided to monkey with it.
I cropped it and tuned it using Snapseed. Then I imported the picture into Distressed FX and played around with the pattern. I added the birds with Distressed FX as well. The result is a moody looking piece with a creepy vibe.
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I came outside after work today to find this: a smidgen of light left in the sky. The days are getting longer. Thankfully. -
They say the best camera is the one you have. The same I think can be said about filters and lens. Take this one for example. This is a morning shot of sunlight through the trees…as seen through my tinted sunglasses.
Scott Lyerly 