Palens…. Plans… Plains…. WTFrance? The rain falls mainly on the plains? Oh someone slipped something very funny into my coffee… Got me talking to myself too… Okay .. Maybe that's okay as I am the only one who would listen to this wacky stuff. Do not.. I repeat do not speak this out loud… Okay so lets just move that off to the side. Off.. by my left elbow outside the coffee stain area… if I look forward into the coffee urns shiny metal side. I can see my wobbly fez.. lookin back at me… Red eyes.. scraggly dirty blonde hair, full face and lots of laugh lines. Squinty. I think the urns version is better looking.
Angle of perspective. Ya know what I'm talking about? So you're standing in front of the Eiffel tower… yep.. Transported you a couple thousand mines away.. or next door for Some. You are standing there with your very nice DSLR with a full battery and an empty card. I cannot believe you have gone so far and not taken one picture yet… What is wrong with you?
So you turn the camera on, Take off the lens cap… Point and shoot from face on… Weeeee…… BORING!!
About the only thing you could do to kick up the interest from a face on shot would be to put the camera on a tripod. Take about 30 shots then go back and edit every single person from the shot. What would that look like?
I would like to try. It would be worth doing it. A little magic and you could remove everyone.. sunny day.. balloons just let go from… no one…. Woohoo…. Or you can get real close and get real low and shoot whatever you can. How about leaving just three people in the shot. See I want people to wonder what's so special about a photograph I take and then I want to try and trick them a bit.. or just have them think… instead of saying .. yeah.. another shot of the tower… woo yeah… zzzzzz
I gotta get motivated. You gotta look at these odd angle shots. Well you could pass right past them and onto the net links but are you really THAT kind of person?
Bombered.
Took this directly behind the rear right wing, close to the light as I could while keeping the main shape of the plane in shot. No cropping or editing other than tone mapped for light and texture.One of these things is not like the other.....
A standard picture but whats the story behind it. If you knew Bob well.. you would not ask .. but to me when I saw the line up it just called for me to hit that button... Bob is commiserating with the local New Mexican State Bird.
Stay Close.
Just right there. It looks like the last soldier at this Korean War Monument is telling my son to stay close.. dont get lost.
Wrong part of the snowfield.
This is at an ASOS site. Very boring. How can I make it not boring.. Make tiny snowmen then force the perspective.
Hot Air.
Durango Train. Okay by itself but get Mass Confusion up there in the air and it gets it right. Good train heading away with a watcher in the sky.
Woops!
Sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time and things just go great. No editing, No cropping,
Arc De Balloonuph.
Again.. Could it be more perfect.. yes. that balloon could have filled in my arc. They lined up just for a split second. Fantastic. Again.. No editing at all. If your lucky to get at the right place thats great.. but you make that kind of luck unconsciously. Get out there.. Force people to see something in a different way.
And said links…
Okay… for a long time I hated the smell of maple syrup… Goes back to an airplane ride, sick sisters and them having French toast with syrup on them before… ugh.. This I do not think is a good idea. One; can it taste as good and two; beheading saplings!!
More eavesdropping….. Google can hear you if you have your Google browser open and a mike connected.
Yeah… bad.. but here is worse…. Rio for the next summer Olympics… and such a bad place. You think Russia is bad for the winter version.. Yikes! And the pollution…. I am not a tree hugger in any way but I hate people who take nature for granted. Keep it clean and keep it green. At least 1/3 of all area on the planet.
This might be a slightly higher cost.. Or maybe not… If someone can figure a way to get money out of your pocket they will…. Which brought up a thought… Okay… I hate taxes. I hate that the money I pay in taxes is almost uncontrolled in stupid things. Here a kicker. I would pay more taxes if it was not squandered giving fat cats money or bail outs or loans they never pay back or the gov't just lining their own pockets. I want a full accounting and if you can't get the supreme court to accept your justification of the money spent.. you go to Jail and you pay the money back to THE American People! You are not above the law and you are not better than anyone. Quit wasting our money… now saying that.. I am all for helping the poor out or those that have lost their job or medical insurance. I could go deeper but I've already taken up too much space with this rant. Lets just say that people who need a helping hand should get it… with provisos. Those being that you do some sort of work and are not a drug user or alcoholic or ripping off the system. That work could be local cleaning, assistance at hospitals or other community work.. Only for 3 hours a day… because I expect you to be looking for a permanent job 3 other hours in that day. Is that too much to ask? Those 3 hours you're working for the community you might be learning a new job or career… think about it. That… added to your resume… like,I did 40 hours filing and inputting documents at the city hall. Now you have filing and computer work on your resume… So off the soap box… here is what I like.. Lower temps by painting or using white or light colors on tarmac.
Wow… did I go off there… sorry bout that….