New Photo Blog

Just a brief update for tonight, and I promise, I'll have a full post tomorrow.  I started a photo blog on Tumblr, just kind of a journal of my adventures in photography and digital photo manipulation.  Come check it out HERE.

Little artist

So, I know I may be a little bit biased, but I'm pretty sure my kid is an artistic genius.  Okay, maybe not, but I still think that she's not bad, for a 4 year old.  Here's some of her recent artwork.

    This first one, she tells me, before she starts painting, "I'm gonna paint a summer scene.  With a palm tree and the ocean and the sky and the sun.  It's gonna be the beach."  The result:

    Next up, we have beadwork.  She got into my bead box, and made me a pair of earrings.  Very, um, freeform.

    Finally, she moved on to pen and ink drawing.  She knows that my favorite animals are penguins (followed closely by the duck-billed platypus).  She's drawing away, and finally says, "Here, Mommy.  I drawed this for you, 'cause it's your favorite!"

    Remember, she's only four.  I figure that's not too bad.  xD  Peace out!

Accidental Art (or Yeah, I totally meant to do that)

So yesterday, we were decorating the Christmas tree at my parents' house.  I was playing around with my little point-and-shoot camera, trying to get a clear, no-flash shot of the tree with the lights on.  In the dark.  Eh...it didn't work too well.  Blurry, dark, yucky.  So I started messing around with the ISO and exposure settings, which is about all you can adjust on that camera.  I snapped a pic, and noticed that the lights were blurred in a very interesting way, due to a little movement at the time of shutter release.  So I started purposely moving the camera, just as I released the shutter.  Wow.  The result was this:

 And this:

 And this:

Pretty interesting results, considering I discovered the technique by accident.  Peace out!