Lisa and I spent three months in Las Vegas so that we could spend some time with our son, Skyler and his family. While we were there, I played around some more with ON1 Photo Raw, Photoshop and the Aquarelleum Photoshop plugin by Profactions. Here are a few of the […]
Here are some of my photos of animals that I have recently revisited in Photoshop using the Aquarelleum plugin by Profactions.
At one point in the “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, John Lennon says, “And now, your host for this evening, the Bottles.” I collect blue glass bottles, along with a few bottles of other colors, too, and just couldn’t resist making this image with four of the bottles in my […]
I use the On1 Photo Raw application on my macbook to develop the digital photos I take. I typically leave the photos alone after developing them with On1 Photo Raw, but I was introduced to a Photoshop plugin called Aquarelleum that was developed by Profactions. I purchased a copy of […]
The phrase “Be Useful” strikes me as being at the heart of what it means to live happily on this earth. It is actually a truncation of the phrase, “learn to be useful.” As we grow up we have to learn how to be useful, since as babies, we’re incapable […]
Ever since the beginning of the pandemic when I started working from home, I haven’t taken as many photos as I was pre-pandemic. Commuting to and from work each day prior to the pandemic gave me many opportunities to see lots of interesting things and sights to photograph. Staying at […]
I started a pin collection several years ago because, well, why not? Lisa had given me a pin when we were first dating, and I eventually got the idea to add other pins. The pin Lisa gave me is the “I’m Sweet” pin, because apparently she thinks that I am […]
On Monday, October 8, 2012, I drove from Salt Lake City, Utah to LeRoy and Piedmont, Wyoming. I traveled along Interstate 80, past Evanston, WY to exit 24. LeRoy is north of the Interstate and Piedmont is south of it. I have fond memories as a child of camping with […]
It wasn’t by design, at least not on my part, but I really like the way it turned out. Yesterday, I was driving my truck to take a house-warming gift to Cory and Tera. My truck has a cassette player, but I had never used it, and Skyler thought that […]
“Hey Leon.” “Yes, Finn?” “What are we doing here in front of these books?” “We seem to be acting like placeholders for something that the photographer guy is waiting for.” “That makes me think that maybe we’re just bookmarks. What could he possibly be waiting for?” “I don’t know, Finn, […]
“Hey Leon.” “Yes, Finn?” “What’s this week’s color?” “I think it must be orange, because those are orange flowers in front of us.” “You must be right, Leon. It couldn’t possibly be green, could it?” “No, it couldn’t possibly be green.” “I hope it’s green next time, Leon.” “Me, too, […]
I’m sitting down to write this without a clear picture of how I want to convey what has been floating around in my thoughts, off-and-on, over the last year or so. I’m just going to start writing and let the revisions happen. There are many, many great ideas discussed in […]
Finn? Yes, Leon? Are you hungry? Are you very hungry? Yes, I am quite hungry! We have some apples. I like apples. And pears. Yum. This episode of the Finn and Leon saga is inspired by Nicolesy’s 52 Photo Challenge topic, “symmetry”.
“What are you looking at, Leon?” asked Finn. “I’m looking at all of those bricks on this wall”, replied Leon. “Hmmm, I wonder why they put all those bricks on the wall.” said Finn. “I wonder that, too, Finn. It seems to me that all of those bricks on the […]
Not in High School, not in College and certainly not before, in between, or (until recently) after, have I ever bothered to study Shakespeare or Shakespeare’s plays. I may have seen two, possibly three productions of his plays, but none of those made any impression on me. I don’t know […]