My GPS Camera Phone

Here’s Amy the cat, making it known to the feral population in my neighborhood that she owns me. I pet her, she meowed and then sat down just like that. Aww, how cute.

Tune in next week (tomorrow) for Sepia Week! Seven days of sepia tone photos, all using the built-in sepia filter. Then after that maybe Negative Week, which will be incredibly cool and weird at the same time.

Today was a great day to go outside and sweat off about 32 pounds in the 96 degree heat. Try as I might, I was only able to fend off my girls until 4pm, at which the temperature dropped to a mild 93 degrees. Outside we went.

After finding a snake skin, a giant caterpillar and a huge banana spider, the kids started riding bikes. I had a beer. And took some photos. Out of them all, this one was the best.

The neat thing about this is that the movement of the bike made the round wheels oval and gave a little bit of blur to accent the motion. No Photoshop here, just me laying in the driveway while kids ride by.

What a day. I took this picture on my way out the door, but forgot to post it! Better late than never. I’m surprised Dan didn’t prod me for a post. Speaking of Dan, congratulate him on his Photoshop victory where he made John Chow look like Britney Spears. Sheer brilliance.

Alongside the pinecone ginger are some elephant ears that come up every spring and bloom in the late summer. If it’s a mild winter, they hang around, but one good freeze and they’re history.

They seem to be doing much better this year than last, probably due to the heavy rains we had last month. Hopefully, the rains will return. But then again, that just means I have to mow the lawn more.

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I love my motorcycle. It’s a 2007 Suzuki Boulevard C50T. What you see here is a shot of the engine cylinders which produce enough power to get out of it’s own way and then some.

If you’re looking for a decent cruiser, this is a great bike to start with. It sounds great, rides smooth and gets incredible gas mileage (somewhere around 45 mpg). Given today’s gas prices, it’s the way to go. Buy some good rain gear and you’re set for anything.

Look closely at the reflection and you might just recognize someone.

All this week, I’ll be featuring nothing but gray. Two reasons: 1) it’s a theme thing that sounded fun and 2) my camera phone takes better grayscale shots.

There’s an interesting side note on how my phone takes black-and-white. Instead of capturing the image in grayscale color mode, it captures a desaturated RGB image. Is this the case for all digital imaging? I just found it somewhat interesting.

Anyway, the picture here is my trusty Weber grill that I’ve been using for about seven years and it’s still going strong. Gas? Who needs gas? Well-weathered and seasoned, this old-school charcoal grill has produced some of the best slow-smoked pork butts this side of the Mississippi. It will be a sad day when it finally falls to pieces.

I almost used the word “fetish” instead of “obsession,” but then I thought that might attract seekers of adult entertainment. But who in the heck would have a fence fetish? Well, there’s that guy who literally loves his car and that other guy who likes sleeping with his motorcycle. But a fence lover? Nah. Impossible. (I’d run a Google search, but I’m afraid of what I might find.)

2 minutes later…

OK, so I ran a search and it turns out that most results have to do with horses, fence-spotting, or violating the purpose of a fence. So it wasn’t that bad after all. If you have Google Earth (follow the link below if you don’t), check out this KML file of different snow fences. It’s actually nice photography.

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