They have been working on the installation for a week. Today I was out with Dickens for our daily walk and the Point and Shoot. Got some shots to update the progress and then played with the images in Lightroom to see if there was a way to make photos of a big rock in a construction site look interesting.
"Dickens"
A day at the groomers is a perfect excuse for a new photo. Dickens is so used to the camera that he sits where I tell him and poses for an entire session. I can change lights, lens and even put new batteries in the flash unit, no problem. He waits patiently.
He is the best!
Meantime in post, I was playing with the OnOne Photo Effects software. This photo has a cracked paint texture added as a background and then in photoshop I added a canvas texture. Before that I used paint daubs and dry brush to the the painting effect.
West Lake in Hanghou, China is a perfect place for morning exercise.
I haven’t been good about posting photos from my August trip to China.
Today I was trying out the latest version of OnOne’s Perfect Suite which works with Photoshop and Lightroom or as a standalone program and I decided to try a composite of these people exercising in a open pagoda on the bank of West Lake with the Lotus field that was right beside the pagoda. I like the effect.
This year we had our annual camping trip at Skamokawa Vista Park in Washington state, along the Columbia River west of Kelso. As always there was great food and good fun with friends. But, the weather was not with us. It started raining just after we went to bed on Friday night and may still be raining today. Every once in a while the rain would let up, but the sky remained gray. The soggy ground was not camper friendly this time and I learned about sleeping in a wet tent!
But I did get a chance to try out my new Nikon D7000 and the 70-200 2.8 Nikon lens that I finally bought myself. Here are the images from this weekend. The last photo is of a glass sculpture in Tacoma, WA where we stopped on the way back to SeaTac Airport.
Sunday moning group photo.
Trash for Teaching is working on a new project modeled after the Rube Goldberg contraptions. Here is a look.
