An early morning walk through the neighborhood using the John S lens and BlacKeys SuperGrain film…liking it…
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A beautiful day after the rains last week pulled us toward Point Reyes. First a late breakfast at the Pine Cone Diner in Point Reyes Station.
We decided to go to the south end through Bolinas but had a few false turns because Bolinas does not want anyone to know where they are so they won’t put up jsigns. Found the right track and went to the bird observatory.
We walked their nature trail
Along the trail we found California wild flowers
Monkey flower
Ceanothus
Douglas Iris
Osoberry that I was able to identify all on my own because I have taken so many pictures of the one in my backyard.
Some that I did not know…
A spider web tree that we named ourselves
but not many birds…
Walking
And eating
And walking
All over this city
Sights totally amazing and I haven’t been picked off by a small car, a roaring scooter, or the bicyclist talking on his cell phone! Day 2: ankles, knees, and hips are feeling the cobblestone thing a tiny bit, but onward we move! Can’t miss anything…
What do you do if you have been on a plane with no lunch and then you get settled in to your apartment and you realize the pangs in your stomach are too intense to be denied? If you are in this place, and you are Lois and Terry, you go out searching for your first gelato. In places that look like this
Until you find this
And you eat this (flavors: tiramisu and amaretto)
On a bench in a small plaza with this behind you
And then you wander back home getting used to cobblestones under your feet, passing by one of the paper stores on “the list” (quick look, quick look), and then you come to a corner where you get your first glimpse of this
Speechless with awe…
It is such a good thing that there is a Trader Joe’s to run to in order to quickly pick up a spot of color for the table when you have guests. After the blooms grace the table for the event, they can do second duty as photo subject. A nice way to test composition and color combinations.
Hipstamatic app, Fusioncam app, Blender app
The rest are taken with the native camera of the iPhone and processed with Snapseed app on the iPad.
Hadn’t posted on Instagram today, so I took a break to go back in my files and I decided to use this shot I took from the passenger seat of the car some where North of here. Between here and the Canadian border.
It was shot with Hipstamatic originally, but I used Dynamic light and Snapseed tonight. I could see the ponds next to the side of the road and was going for the reflection.
I am pausing in the travels briefly. After the first few days it became obvious that the blog was not going to be in real time but some type of virtual experience of the trip. We arrived home but the blog has not gotten out of Seattle yet. Now, here I pause for a diversion, oh, maybe in the virtual we will never get home. I think that may be a great way to take a real trip.
I have always had a fondness for the Seattle Space Needle because when I was in the seventh or eighth grade my family went to the Seattle World’s Fair and I have an iconic picture floating around here somewhere of me on the observation deck of the needle.
Can’t find it at the moment, but it was a great diversion on the trip to try to get a picture of the Space Needle. I never quite knew when it was going to emerge, but I ended up with many opportunities for shots, from the car and not. Here the shots are all grouped in one post.
This shot was on the way up to Canada when we were just driving through Seattle. The top of the Space Needle is just barely peaking out between two buildings that dwarf it.
When we arrived back in the area and made our way to the Seattle Art Museum from Port Townsend there was more opportunity.
Those are both from the freeway, but then we were on city streets the next day with Pat and I got some interesting angles.
From the sculpture garden
One last one from the freeway as we left the area the next day.
The iPhone continues to amaze me in the way it can capture shots from a moving car. One last one, that isn’t a space needle but is a brewery-what more can you ask for…
Square photos are using the Hipstamatic app with these combos of lens and film: John S lens and Kodot XGrizzled film; John S lens and Big Up film; Watts lens and Big Up film.
Photos in rectangular shape are taken with the native camera if the iPhone and cropped with Iris Photo Suite if needed.
The Space Needle is special…
It is Saturday but I did take these shots on Friday. Pressures of the season makes me just a little behind on everything. I am still on the theme of trees because of the workshop I am taking (Los Arboles) and this week my talented and oh-so-creative niece, Katura Reynolds, had an entry in her sketch blog about trees from an illustrators point of view. I love to be at family reunions when Katura is there and she pulls out her portable water-color set and paper pad to catch the color of the dusk on the hills. She is cool to be around. I hope you will look at her blog because the next entry after the trees is how to draw rain and it is a nice discussion from a highly gifted scientific illustrator and creative brain.
My iPhone photos are of my morning walk immediately after a rain on Friday. My neighborhood on a gloomy, dark morning with the Hipstamatic app adding a little extra color. The Hipstamatic app does cheer me up…
Gutter Leaves
All taken with the Hipstamatic app except the last that was also processed in the Plastic Bullet app.
I am going to try to explain how the shots in this image were layered together. Usually the process of creating an image like this just sweeps me along and I cannot pause for the notes. My mind races with “Can I do this?” What happens if..? The wonderful part about the iPhone and digital photography is the easy to try, easy to eliminate syndrome. I like FotoMuse app a great deal, but it has pre-set layers and when I found the DXP (Double Exposure) allowed me to superimpose everything that was my own image, I gravitated toward it.
The main image in the layers above was taken with the Hipstamatic app and started like this:
I like to use this image to sign my finished photos but found that it needed to start out as the bottom image rather than the last thing I put on like in a painting.
It is just a blank piece of inkjet printer paper where I signed my name with an ink pen. It was laying on my dining room table in a room that does not get much natural light and the iPhone I was using didn’t have a flash. So after a few false starts, I put the image into PSMobile to lighten it as much as I could without losing the ink line. (Also, I have put images into TiltShiftGenerator to blur from the center and lighten as much as I can.
I also took a shot of some hand-lettered script from a graduation certificate for my Great Aunt Ethel. She graduated from University of Rochester in 19o8. The original image had the bold word that kept ending up in unfortunate places. So it went from this:
To this:
When I realized that I was using the two images together often, I made a new image in DXP. I only have to grab it once if I want to use it.
This is what goes as the first layer in DXP. The image of the vases goes next. The composite effect in DXP is HalfMix.
I could stop there or put this image into PicGrunger and apply the creased effect.
Another one done in much the same way:
With this shot of a lightened photo of one of my texture paintings.
This one went through the LoMob app also. The script here came from an iPhone photo I took of linen fabric with writing on it. I didn’t take very good notes because I get lost in the process (I like to justify that I am keeping my retired brain active!) When it works it is an Eureka! moment. When it doesn’t work, it becomes a quest until I can get something I like. Definitely, this is not boring…
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