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Self-portraits

The doggies
The doggies

Are self-portraits the ultimate vanity? Or is that reserved for people who have kids because they're entranced with the idea of creating a mini-version of themselves?

Anyway, I was playing the expanded functions on my camera when you set it to take photos in JPG. I usually have mine set to RAW because I like the ability to adjust the images for

The doggies
The doggies
colour, contrast, exposure and sharpness. While the Fuji seems to do its own thing fairly well, pics taken in the JPG setting always have a
Oops.
Oops.
slightly strange colour tone that I can't duplicate with Adobe Camera Raw for the life of me. (Shit, I think that was a run-on sentence.) To get back on track, we were driving back home and I thought I'd play with these settings and see if I could be happy with them. I used the "Chrome" and B&W settings, all on the highest qualityimage, should I feel the desperate need
Self-portrait in B&W
Self-portrait in B&W
to adjust the pics later.

The doggies were my first victims.

The next easiest subject, and mostly willing, was myself, so I indulged.

The id in me is pleased with the way these experiments turned out, so I thought I'd share the joy, haha! Plus one with my man, whose patience is virtuous and appreciated. :)

Self-portrait
Self-portrait

P.S. The drag and drop feature with the photos doesn't always work. That's annoying. :P

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Picture A Day: Day 12

Here Be Origami Cranes
Here Be Origami Cranes

So, when I'm waiting for one of many, many red lights to change to green, I occupy my bored self with a little origami. Cranes are a good one because you can stop at any point in the folding to start driving again and it won't undo itself. Unlike the little origami stars. Stars are best made in static mode, not in transit. Perhaps this reflects the actual objects'/creatures/ general state: cranes fly, stars stay put (no, in general, I mean, not including shooting stars (which are meteors anyway) or the fact/theory that the universe is still expanding from the Big Bang (if that theory hasn't been disproved now).

Is it poor writing skill when your parenthetical comments are longer than your actual comments?

So, yeah, I guess this is a picture of boredom. At least they're pretty. :D 
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Picture A Day: Day 10

Eastlink
Eastlink


Under Eastlink
Under Eastlink
Eastlink
Eastlink
Near my workplace, a new highway is slowly growing. The road has finally made its way across Ferntree Gully Road, so as I drove by on my way home, I grabbed a few quick snaps. The focus is dodgy, composition is less than idea, but I guess it captures a moment. When this highway (which is going to be tolled, I hear) is finally complete, it's going to be interesting to see if it really improves the traffic in the north-south direction in Melbourne's east. Whether or not it does, the fact that one of the entrances/exits is basically next to work is going to make getting into work slower and much more painful. In the meantime, I'm just going to gripe about the amount of dust it's construction is creating and wishing that the company building it would throw in a few car washes.

Okay, I'm over it.

Bees evacuated
Bees evacuated

On to the BEES! They're gone. Dad works fast. I drove to his place this evening and the mattress is elsewhere, the shelf is empty. There is real honeycomb in the kitchen.
Now there's honeycomb!
Now there's honeycomb!
Apparently the bee-evacuators commented that the hive was enormous considering that they'd only been there 2-3 weeks. I'm just glad they're gone. The honey is a nice bonus. :)
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