Vegas :: Sat., Apr. 14, 2012

In Vegas for the annual BEA conference. I'm staying at a small resort just off the strip. Nice view.

Cairo Life :: The Old NDP Building

A constant reminder that things are different today in Cairo than a year ago. Who knew that the then ruling National Democratic Party's headquarters would be set on fire and to my knowledge there was little or no attempt to put it out. Taken on Sat., Jan. 28, 2012.

~kim
The power of positive thinking.

Camera Aperture

For some time, I've been trying to upgrade my photog skills. I know some of the basics, but then I fail to use them during crunch time.

Trying a 12 week free course over at Two Peas in a Bucket. It's called "12 Weeks to Better Photos". Easy enough.

First lesson is about aperture. I took three different pics using different apertures: 2.6, 5.6 and 8. I want the look that is best seen here in the 2.6 image. I like the foreground in focus and the background fuzzy. Gonna work on that more.

A Travel Log from the New York Times

Check out this project from the New York Times. I think you can submit your images and stories.

"Why We Travel: Readers' Photos"

A Little Photo Editing and Collage

I took this photo a while ago in downtown Cleveland. At the corner of Superior and East 9th Street; I was traveling west, so I'm right near the Catholic Diocese Headquarters, which you can't see on my right. But directly across the street is the Hampton Inn.

I took two pics. The first one I just wanted to toss out. And the second one is in the top left corner. I used the night snapshot mode on my Canon A570IS digital camera. I like the second picture. But the first picture has found life in the photo editing world.

I used Picasa to do some very minor editing. You can see the results in the other three pics. I sharpened each of them, then added an additional feature: the one in the upper right corner is focal black+white; the lower right corner is warmify and the lower left corner is black+white. Nice, huh?

Oh and then I had to assemble a collage to exemplify my work. Up next, I plan to try to utilize some actions using Gimp.

The Road to Home

Here is more of my beginning photography (and just so you know, I am not taking pix while driving. I only took pix when I stopped and there is not much stopping on my drive; you'll notice how most of the pix are taken when I am stopped on the bridge):

oooooooh, how I love strawberries

Strawberry, originally uploaded by dulcelife.

I saw this photo and I immediately thought 'yummy!' Props to the photog Dulcelife