exciting times

i don't know if anyone reads this blog ... mostly because i never write anything in it anymore! well, i'm not really announcing this to the "general public" yet, but i'm excited and have to tell someone, so i am telling my blog. and if anyone should happen to read this, i guess that's okay too! :)

9w3d:

way behind

hmmm

seems to me i haven't blogged in awhile. and i started the year off so strong! maybe i'll catch up again one of these days. i've been taking TONS of photographs and have been enjoying playing with them in photoshop and i just adore the topaz adjust plugin! i have lots and lots of new flowers popping up in my yard. i don't remember having so many in years past, but maybe it's just that i wasn't really looking. these just came up this week:



they are called star-of-bethlehem. and i am captivated by these bluebells:



thanks to the kind folks on flickr for helping me to identify all of my beautiful blossoms! perhaps i'll dedicate my next post to logging and identifying all of the flowers that i have in my own tiny little yard in pittsburgh, pa!

experimentation

something new to play around with!

ooh

i like the way this one turned out!

topaz adjust

does some pretty cool things! still trying to decide if it's worth my $50 though. here's an example of some photos edited with the plug-in:

some stuff

this:



and then this:

miniature fakes

all of these are photographs of full-sized things manipulated in photoshop to look like miniatures. it's fun to play around with them.





















what do you think?

A LOT of snow

and ice damming, and water in our bedroom and dining room. heavy heavy sigh. bastards at njm won't cover any of the major damage. lots of tears today. self pity. and wine.

ominous