An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks


Archive for November, 2009


Fall colors

Yeah, I know — not the most original name. Still, I had this one last colorful backlit shot from our trip to New Mexico about 6 weeks back, and wanted to get it up before autumn was too distant a memory:

Taken in Santa Fe, on the plaza…

Magenta-ish

A colorful close-in shot from the Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

Mystical reflections

When we were in Albuquerque a few months back, we ran across one of those fountains that puts out a sheet of smooth water from its top…

In the garden

So courtesy of Stuck in Customs, I found out about an interesting set of Photoshop / Lightroom / Aperture plugins by an outfit called Topaz Labs. They’re reasonably priced (as such things go), have a 30 day free trial available, and Trey’s site has a discount coupon so you can get 10% off on your [...]

Comin’ round the bend

While we were getting walloped by a snow storm a few weeks back, the “pup” and I wound up spending a big chunk of a Sunday indoors…

Gone heart-shaped

I’ve discovered that bins of beads can make for some interesting (and easy to find!) photo opportunities. Here’s a shot I took a while back in a trinket store in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

I wish the beads were a bit shinier, but didn’t think the store owner would be too wild about me hanging [...]

Promising

Typical Colorado — a foot of snow one day, sunny and clear the next…

Knee deep in lunchtime

I pulled up this summer shot to remind me of warmer times, if only as a break between bouts of snow-shoveling…

Feline

When I was out for a quick lunchtime walk at work, I saw this swath of cattails by the side of the road…

Round & round

A beautifully inscribed pattern on some needle etched (“two-tone”) Navajo pottery…