My GPS Camera Phone

This camera phone photo was captured on the same evening I visited the local caffeine dealer. The coffee shop in question shares a space with a bookstore, but not in the traditional big box retailer sense. It’s a cozy little place with a few cushy sofas and really good ice cream. The bookstore sells everything you won’t find at Wal-Mart or Barnes and Noble, a rare occurrence in any town.

The photo is nothing special, but the character of it is something else. The glowing light effect was NOT made by a photo editing tool. It was made by a good ol’ lens smudge. That’s one of the disadvantages of a camera phone. The lens is continually exposed to pocket lint, grubby fingers and loose change. This is usually to a photo’s detriment, but in this case, I thought it worked out pretty good.

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Visiting the local big-box bookstore is a favorite thing of mine, though it’s not often that I get to do it. Saturday offered the chance in the form of a well-placed escape from weeding through racks of clothes for the really good deals. I took the kids two doors down, got a giant crisped rice treat and a medium-sized cup of Colombian coffee. Once the sugar intake was completed, we headed to the kid’s section.

Normally, you would think that this would be the last place you’d want to be in a bookstore. Well, you’re right. This day, however, happened to be slow and the kid’s section was empty. I gladly took my position in the grown-up chair and began the slow, sliding motion downward toward an almost prone position. Before I fell asleep, I managed to snap this photo.

Asleep?! Yes, asleep. I wasn’t totally out of it and I still had my shoes on, unlike the guy in the cafe. I actually kind of dozed on and off, waking up and wondering why this huge cup of caffeine wasn’t working. After about 90 minutes of this, I had to arouse the kids from their blissful oblivion and make our way back to the clothing store. But I can say this much – it was some of the best rest I’ve had in weeks.

Photo tweaks made in Picasa2 – a little color correction and the focused blur tool (?) to blur out the background.

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