My new favorite blog is Cake Wrecks. If you need a good laugh, check it out.
I’m also enjoying Eliza’s blog, mostly because she reminds me of people I know. It’s not always updated regularly (though she seems to be on a roll right now), but I keep her in my RSS feed.
And, another fake tilt shift image, made with TiltShiftMaker.
This isn’t from today, but it’s pretty much what it looks like out my window this morning (minus the spring greenery).
My boss’ boss has the cubicle next to mine. When she was out for the holiday break, she asked me to water her plants. I warned her that I have The Black Thumb of Dqqm, but she was not impressed. Apparently her African violet wasn’t impressed, either, because it DID NOT DIE! In fact, it started blooming it’s silly little head off.
Via BoingBoing, an on-line tool to create fake tilt shift photos. Very cool! There is also a Flickr group for images altered with TiltShiftMaker.
You can buy fancy-pants (expensive!) tilt shift lenses. The same effect is also sometimes achieved randomly when you take photos from airplanes. The “model village” effect is cool, so folks have devised ways to achieve it using PhotoShop. TiltShiftMaker is free and easier than faking it by hand.
My mom’s cockatiel, Mo. Mo does not like dogs. Harriet pretty much ignored Mo, though, so I think Mo decided that Harriet wasn’t a threat.
Miss Brown, sitting by the kitchen table, hoping that food will leap into her mouth. The bottom photo is another Lensbaby 2.0 shot.
Taken with a Lensbaby 2.0 with +4 macro filter.
My mom’s piano is in pieces, so I thought I’d try to get some photos of its insides. There wasn’t enough light, though, so these didn’t turn out very well.
The pink from the sunset was so intense, it turned my living room pink.
red paper boat 