A Click-Through for Joe is a Click-Through for the Bunny
First, I’m going to ask for your help in winning the Joeprah referral contest. Look to the right side there and you’ll see a cute kid with some self-aggrandizing text. No, not my previous post, the orange badge thing. Do me a favor and click on it. When you get to the site, stay there, because Joe is friggin’ awesome. He will definitely crack you up at least once. Twice if you’re lucky. Many times if you have a twisted sense of humor. Be sure to repeat this process at least seventy-two times each hour for the next month and a half. Rinse, repeat.
Don’t do it for me, do it for the cute bunny.
There are other competitors who have a serious chance at beating me down, but I am refusing to go down without a fight. Check out the current standings.
Second, I’d like to thank everyone who checked out the Dog and Bunny show. I’m at about 10,000 views, which is pretty cool considering I only posted it so my sister-in-law could watch it. Given the enormous success, Episode 2 is now out and this time with an awesome soundtrack. Dan was thinking the same thing when it came to audio, as the first one was just a rough cut with a lot of background noise. Episode 2 has an intro and background music, courtesy Bronco. Go see it, you won’t be sorry. Tell all of you animal behavior friends about it.
And don’t forgete, i can be found on Twitter now, so follow me!
Thanks for watching!
Dog and Bunny Show
This has nothing to do with the topic of this site. However, due to the extreme strangeness, I have to share it.
Long story short: We have two female dogs and one male bunny. The bunny has a crush on the bigger female dog. Weirdness is the result. Welcome to the Dog and Bunny Show, Episode 1.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Lost Your Marbles? Yeah, Me Too.
It’s obvious that you can’t get too close with a camera phone. I can get about 10″ away before the picture begins to blur. To overcome that in this instance, I got really close. Like waaaay close.
Chica’s latest photo project is to photograph a marble. I may be bending the rules a bit, but what you see is a marble, except that it’s sitting on the camera lens. No photo touch up, no filters, no nothing (except for levels). Just a semi-transparent, oval-shaped marble causing some wicked light refraction.
Nancy and I shot about a dozen of these, so you may see more of these in the future. The first three are mine and the next three are Nancy’s. I’d normally post one photo, but these are so cool that I’m posting six. Enjoy!
Side note: I asked my youngest for a few marbles and she said, “Why? Are you going to take pictures of them?” I’m getting a reputation for photographing stuff, I guess.
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It’s Like Riding a Bike…
Today’s photo is inspired by a tip from Chica over at Photo Projectz. She says in her first “Monday Photography Tips” post:
One of the things that I’ve found extremely rewarding is not looking through the viewfinder. Take the camera away from your eye, place it in an otherwise impossible position, and snap away. You might be surprised.
I took this to heart and gave it a go. The first few shots ended up looking horrendous, but I think it was only a matter of determining the angle of the dangle needed to get a decent shot.
This morning, I looked out the back door and saw the sunlight reflecting off of my daughter’s bike (which desperately needs to be ridden). Photo number one was a direct shot from the side and looked unimpressive at best. Then Chica’s tip came to mind and I put the camera underneath the back wheel, capturing a pretty good image. The angle is definitely more interesting than the first one.
After a little bit of cropping, burning and sharpening in Photoshop CS2, here’s the final image.
Don’t forget to submit photos anytime for guest posting! I’m accepting camera phone photos from anyone, photo professionals to beginners. E-mail them to photos(at)mygpscameraphone.com. Spread the word!
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Your GPS Camera Phone: Pups and Peonies
Your GPS Camera Phone: guest post by SoapBox Mom and her tween daughter
Inspired by your invitation, Pete, my tween daughter and I went around this afternoon and took a bunch of shots. She was drawn to the landscaping while I took some photos of our dog. We couldn’t decide which to send you, so we sent both. I worked with the photos using iPhoto.
For the photo of the dog, I cropped it, boosted the color one level, then brightened it (just a hair) using the exposure slider, adjusted the shadows (just slightly) and moved the sharpness quite a bit (I like what that did for her coat - you can see the detail so much more clearly that way).
For my daughter’s azalea photo, all I did was to boost the color and the sharpness just a teeny bit.
For the peony, my daughter used Photoshop Elements for this effect (similar to one you did a while back, no?) After using iPhoto for a few tweaks (black and white effect, boost of color, then fade color), she used the “Magic Extractor” in Photoshop to finish the peony isolation.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to be creative. We had a lot of fun doing it!
Be a guest blogger! Submit your camera phone pictures and story to photos(at)mygpscameraphone.com.
Swing Low
Just enjoying a lazy Saturday of coffee, clear skies and kids on the swings.
And file recovery.
In retrospect of how the Powerbook has been behaving, it seems that the hard drive is failing. I’m slowly recovering files and hope to get it all by this evening, but it’s an unpredictable process. On the bright side, it’s a reason to go computer shopping. I’d normally replace the hard drive, but I’m not about to attempt it on a Powerbook. My geek skills are good, but not that good.
In other news, I’m now on Twitter. I think my first tweet says it all:
“The assimilation is complete - I joined Twitter.”
So if you are inclined to see what I’m up to, follow me, peteej.
Inflating My Shadow’s Ego
Evidence that deep down inside, all guys are blockheads.
I took this today while waiting for my most awesome wife, Nancy, to pick me up from work. Taking a note from the Stop Sign of the Subconscious post, I used the hour to take photos of things. I’m particularly happy with this one, aside from it being a bit overexposed - I had to work with the image in Photoshop to tone it down a bit.
If you haven’t already noticed the huge graphic in the sidebar, then look there now. Submit your camera phone photos with a story and you can be eligible for a super-awesome guest posting spot! Since Google updated their PageRank, I’m now happy to say that I’ve gone from 3 to 4. That means the link love you get will be better than before.
I’ve already received some photo submissions, so get yours in soon! The line is growing…
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Stick with Me and I’ll Make You Famous
Do you have a camera phone? Do you have what it takes to be a guest poster on this blog? Are you ready to extent your online visibility to at least 10 more people?
If you answered “yes!” to all of the questions above, then you’re ready to become an honored guest blogger on My GPS Camera Phone, listed under the category, “Your GPS Camera Phone.” (Clever, I know.)
Here’s how it works:
- Take a picture with your camera phone.
- Send it to photos@mygpscameraphone.com along with some text that describes the image or whatever else you think it should say. Make it post-length.
- Get ready for Digg-like traffic. You get a solid link to your blog when (and if) I post your image.
OK, you won’t be inundated with traffic, but it will be fun. I’ve had great luck with posting the previous two guest bloggers, Shiera and Diane, though it was a test-run to see if I actually liked the idea. It turns out that I love the idea, hence, this post.
So be sure to wipe the lens clean before shooting and send me your photos! I’m eagerly awaiting your responses and hope to have something posted this week. If you have any questions before submitting, just contact me and I’ll get back to you right away.
Happy shooting!
Stop Sign of the Subconscious
My daughters had a drama rehearsal last week for their big Saturday night dinner theater. The drama teacher is notorious for going long on time, which is not a bad thing, but it does entail a lot of suspense-filled waiting, akin to watching water come to a boil. The question of the moment on every parent’s lips is, “Are they done yet?” Even the most involved parent’s demeanor can be shifted from excited hopefulness to that of a sedated mental patient with a simple horizontal nod, at which time they resume their sidewalk pacing and small talk.
Finding myself in this undesirable situation, I did what anyone else would do - I paced around and stared at the concrete sidewalk, stopping once in a while to engage in some small talk. After what seemed like hours, the late afternoon sun lit up the street in a way that only the late afternoon sun can. Feeling a subconscious urge to mentally stop and redirect my attention, I took out the camera phone and started shooting.
I like traffic signs for some reason. Maybe it’s the precision of the message they deliver (though it’s not always precise enough). Maybe it’s the symmetry and angularity. Maybe I’ve got some strange attraction to lines and angles. Maybe I was a stop sign in a previous life. Whatever the reason may be, it was certainly enough to make the Monday morning edition of the blog.
With regard to the rehearsal, it finished late as expected, but I learned that “late” is relative. Without the time to pace around and process my situation, I’d have never caught this photo. Having a sign that says “stop” was a great mental cue as well, one that I will pay a bit more attention to in the future.
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