Pokey Flowers.

Some dangerous-looking flowers for your viewing pleasure. No idea what type of flower this is, but it was neat to photograph.

Because All East Asian Studies Majors Should Have These.

Oldie. Grand Staircase in Caserta.

An oldie but goodie. Before I had ever dreamed of having a dslr camera... there was canon coolpix instant shot... and good ol' photoshop. 3 photos stitched together- please don't look too closely, there's a poorly stitched together part in this. I'm trying to find some great panoramas I stitched together from Bahrain, but I fear (and I'm in the right to fear) they're on my parents' laptop.

Wool Texture.

A dear friend of mine is incredibly talented in the area of knitting and knit this amazing wool sweater. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to photograph it.

All the pretty colors.

Flowers in the Garden.

Flowers are great. Did a bit of photoshopping on the second- very "glamour" flower power. :D

String Theory

Relaxing Spaces.

A few relaxing spaces I captured last weekend.

Cats: Not the Musical.

Cats are wonderful. And make me sneeze.

Elmo.

Took a bit of artistic liberty with this one. Looks drastically different from the original.

Flower.

No posts till Sunday.

Big weekend. Will have some great shots on Sunday. I pwomise!

Close up + Range of focus fun

Spent a little time putzin' around with both the macro auto setting and the custom profiles on my camera. Didn't come up with anything too spectacular, but thought I'd share anyhow.

A Walk in a Little Town

Walking to the mechanic's gave me about 2 miles to explore the not-quite-completed sidewalk and the buildings of this town. Very cute. Very 'New England'. I took some artistic liberties with a couple of the photos' color. Photoshop's capabilities are endless. :-)

This was part of a war memorial for soldiers from the town who died in WW2 and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Nature overtaking the interstate bridge.

Adventure in New England

Stark (pictured above) got very ill on a roadtrip. Fate has brought me to a quaint New England town and the free wifi of the local McDonald's. Blessed be McDonald's free wifi. (Partnered with AT&T no less!)

G.K. Chesterton is quoted as saying, "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." I'm definitely taking the opportunity to consider this an adventure... even though my bank account definitely considers this an inconvenience. After spending the night in an adorable local lakeside hotel, I decided to traipse around the lake and snap some shots. Here's what I came out with.


I'm hoping the weather clears up more (it was cloudy & sprinkling when I took these) so I can visit the lake again before I leave.

Garden Photos

Had to snap some photos while walking down the street in the Have. It's really delightful when people keep their gardens well.

Shammy Morning Glamour Shoot

Aw! Lookit! Shammy's taking a nap in the sun.

Oh, but I think the snap from my shutter woke him up!
Oh, he's definitely awake. Lookit those puppy eyes!
"Oh hai!" Hi, Shammy! Good morning! You were looking so cute napping in the sun, I had to take some pictures of you!
"Omigosh! No moar pick-chures! They steal mai sole!"

Okay, fine, no more photos today!

Bookshelf. A lot of Star Wars books. :)

A new kind of art!

Wow, it's been a long time. (I say that a lot in my blogs.) My strained relationship with art has taken an interesting and awesome turn, mostly thanks to Bananapants over at HoChoAddict and his other new 'baby' in the form of a Canon Rebel T1i dslr camera. After using it a bunch to take some fun photos of friends, I realized what an amazing piece of equipment the camera is.

I had commented to Bananapants, "It's like painting! But about a billion times faster!"

So I sought the advice of the media-savvy gents at work, checked out other cameras, but in the end, I took the plunge and bought the same camera Bananapants has. I've had it for less than 24 hours, but I've been able to take some stunning photos of incredibly mundane things.

I was going to add of those photos with this post, but realized that I need to load the memory card software on my computer first.... and that CD is at home. Maybe tonight? :-)

Sumi Ink Tiger