I’ll take “Things That Are Stacked On My Dining Room Table” for $200 please, Alex.
Tag: snapseed
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I love Legos. Always have. This past weekend I picked up an airplane Lego from Target. After putting it together, I took a couple of pictures to see what it might look like through a camera lens. The original was okay, but I decided to spruce the picture up a bit. Using Snapseed, I was able to crop the picture, apply some filters, then a frame, then more filters. The result is like an old time photograph, the kind you might if you’re just sitting at the airport terminal waiting to catch a flight, and a two prop plane wanders by. -
We have a lot of Pooh in the house.That is all.
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I’ve sat in this hallway at least a hundred times. It’s where parents squat while waiting for their kids to be finished with ballet class. Today, between classes, waiting to pick my daughter up, I snapped off a quick photo. Normally it’s just an ordinary hallway. But with a light out at one end of the hallway, and applying a little noir filter in Snapseed, it suddenly became a hallway I would not walk down if you paid me. -
I’m in the middle of some editing/early reading of the work of a friend of mine. Something about having my writing crap spread out on the table just begged to have a picture taken. Then, once taken, it just begged to be altered in Snapseed. Only too happy to oblige. -
In honor of the warmest March 9 in Boston’s history, I bring you a picture of a Christmas light.Well, sort of.
Today was in fact historic for Boston weather, as the temperature hit 75 degrees today. Which is fine by me. We’ve been fairly fortunate this winter, having not had a lot of snow. Then again, given last winter and the winter before that, we were kind of owed a milder winter. And with today’s temps, we’re starting to feel like maybe spring really is right around the corner.
One of the ways we decided to survive this winter was to embrace a Norwegian concept called koselig. It loosely translates as “cozy”. It basically involves making your home as warm and friendly as possible. This can cover a lot of ground. From extra blankets to candles, from warm slippers to wine, from friends over for dinner to fireplaces. One of the many ideas is to have as much warm light as possible. Makes sense if you think about it. Norway is pretty far to the north, and the days get super-short up there. So more light is a great way to ward off the long dark nights.
This year, in an attempt to survive another long New England winter, I strung white Christmas lights around the ceiling of the downstairs. I also hung a string of the “icicle” lights in the front window. The effect has been noticeable for us this year, making the downstairs feel a little more magical than in years past.
So today, in honor of the coming end of winter (and hopefully we’ll avoid any late season snowstorms that we’re prone to), and in anticipation of the coming spring, I’m offering up a close-up shot of one of the lights.
Taken with the Ztylus macro lens, cropped in Snapseed.
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I’ve started re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It’s an utterly enthralling book and this is my fourth or fifth time through it. I read it for the first time about seven or eight years ago and it surprised me how much it stuck with me, especially since I’m pretty ambivalent about some of Gaiman’s other works. I was “meh” about Neverwhere, couldn’t get into Anansi Boys, and thought the Graveyard Book was good if not ridiculously derivative. (Then again, Gaiman made no bones about how the Graveyard Book was heavily inspired and influenced by Kipling’s the Jungle Books, so I should be more tolerant–but I’m not.)But American Gods? One of my favorites of all time. To a certain degree, I felt I learned more about America than I had ever known just by reading an Englishman’s fictional account of a road trip taken by a couple of guys, one of whom may be a god.
The cover of the book is a highway stretching off to the horizon through the plains, touched by the fire of a lightning strike during a storm. As I went for a walk today, I took my book with me, as I usually do. I read while I walk, but pay attention to where I’m going as well, trying to make sure I don’t end up like Stephen King. I look up occasionally to check where I am, that I haven’t veered into the street, that I’m out of the way of the passing cars.
Today, I looked up at one point and saw the above picture. It’s a stretch of road bending down a hill. There were two guys walking along it. I quickly took my phone out and snapped the picture. I tinkered with it about in Snapseed (cropping) and Hipstamatic (filters). The result is a picture that reminds me of the book I’ve started to re-read. I’m good with that.
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This is a borderline cheat, but that’s just tough. I couldn’t resist. Happy Leap Day. See you in four years.Shot with ProCam, made slightly less uninteresting in Snapseed.
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I didn’t get out much today. It was a “clean the house” kind of day, and I didn’t think pictures of used Swiffer sheets would be all that compelling. So, in lieu of something interesting, it’ll just have to be something pretty. Here’s a picture of the sunset, as seen through the trees outside my front door.See you tomorrow.
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Here I am, finding more uses for the fisheye lens than I thought. Tonight was the annual Sweetheart Dance at my daughter’s school. Actually, it used to be called the Daddy Daughter Dance, but the school changed it up this year so that moms and sons could attend. This year, it was held in the gym (it had previously been held in the cafeteria) and to capture the full scope of the space, I used the Ztylus fisheye.
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