Yes, here I was happy hands at home with the photo editing. I admit it. Guilty as charged. I do like it when you get these glowing things or highlights in a photo and here we had that going on. The original was considerably less interesting:
florida
Brilliant series of pictures taken out of a car window
Miami’s little Havana:
Florida is the furthest south I’ve ever been in my life. Sorry if this isn’t the most fascinating series of shots. I liked this place and I could have spent three months photographing this little neighborhood.
You sunk my battle ship
Oh no. Actually, this was part of a very interesting building in Miami:
The nearly no manipulation Olympics
Nope, these images were only sharpened via my trusty photo editing software, that is the one that came with this adorable little machine.
Behold:
And, this is all my fault, but you have to click on these to get the full effect.
Skip over the photographic existentialist musings….
If you want, but I can tell you that when I was photographing this water with the sun beating down on it, I wasn’t thinking of the water itself. I wanted it to look like glass that had sun reflecting in it and not water. I also liked the light and textures on the waves. So many things can be photographed in such regular, cliched ways and it is hard to find new perspectives on certain things. I shot a lot of pictures in this series, but these were the four that I stopped and looked at again. For you, my faithful public, a quad-tych:
Irritating the wildlife
I know, I know, you’ve already seen that title before, but this time it was me irritating the wildlife. I kept chasing the birds away to get that great “birds fly away” shots. I bet the birds didn’t like me too much, but I like the results:
There are four. I am a terrible editor, but I liked all of them. You, my faithful readers can tell me you like the least. Or most.
Lizard internal dialogue
“Which one is my better side?”:
“Uh, god, I look so fat.” Jeez, another diva. So surprising…
Diana Ross to this one’s Naomi Campbell:
“Would these idiots stop photographing me, please?”
Come over here said the witch….
And look at how much I saved on my car insurance:
Love it how the aminal brought its own breakfast to eat it with us.
A place I will never visit and …
The worst name for a road I have ever seen:
The visual alone sends chills down my spine.
Please, don’t call me Steven Meisel
I bought these shoes because they screamed beach, but when I put them on, my feet started screaming. Out loud, how much they hated these shoes.
Anyway, since I was old enough to plunk down my money to buy Vogue, I’ve loved their advertisements for all kinds of frivolous things I don’t need and still can’t afford. In my early days of photography, we are talking round about 16 or so when I was taking pictures with a Ricoh (is this company even still around?) point and shoot, I took a makeup compact and arranged it up with a bunch of other things and took a picture of it up close, with the Ricoh. The results — no, I’m not Herb Ritts yet. I’m not Herb Ritts now, but I think these are better than my rudimentary efforts.
Anyway, here’s my take on the shoes:
and scene.
wrong side of the camera 