The title says it all. These are not at all related other than they are all images that caught my eye over the past year and I happen to have a camera with me.

For the curious, "Dark Sunrise", "Blue Sky", "Mocha Swirl" and "Holly" are cropped with little or no adjustment to color. "Wheat" received some warming. "Helicopter" was bland because it was an overcast day so I did a lot with levels and in the end opted for a B&W finish. "Deer" has the most work because I wanted to make the animal to be accentuated so I did a layer and dulled the surroundings.

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I’ve had the iPhone 4 for a couple weeks now. At some point I’ll do a a few posts about how I use it, what apps I’ve installed, what I miss about the Blackberry (yes, the iPhone is not perfect), and I’ll explain why I’ve already visited the JailbreakMe website. For now, I’m going to talk about the camera.

The iPhone is the point-n-shoot I knew I wanted. It’s not the best camera in that category. For my needs, that would be one of the diminutive Canon units. So why the iPhone? Because it’s the camera I’ll actually have with me most of the time and not feel it’s a “hangar on”.

Take this moon shot. I saw it. Thought it was nice enough to photograph. So I took a picture.

I wasn’t planning to take a picture. I didn’t even know the moon was up when zen and i went for a humid walk.

The image posted was taken with the Camera+ app partly because it has a trick of using the volume button as a shutter release in landscape mode. But more so, I use it because it has some good quality post production features which I use for most of my blog posts. I have other apps but if the photo is pretty good to start, then Camera+ has everything I need in z single workflow – take picture; color, vignette, blur focus, border, publish – all done but the blog text or Facebook title.

Case in point; I’m still outside looking at the moon as I finish and post this.

Ubiquity is good

With last night’s rain, the sand indoor the patio bricks was nice and wet so when the ants dug out from their “flood”, the grains of sand piled high.

The resulting sand castles will not last long but make for an interesting sight.

Simple things to amuse and catch our attention as we consider the start of another day – with an espresso in hand, of course. (hmmm … I wonder what would happen if ants liked espresso ?!

The Wedding Invitation

I’m looking forward to joining family and friends for a wedding.

My brother “J” gets married in a couple weeks. It’s will be a road trip for the southern contingent.

I was excited to see the beautifully simple and creative wedding invitation arrive in the mail a few weeks ago. I am use to the traditional Russian Dolls format of most invitations. This one was refreshingly different.

Great job and best wishes to the happy couple !

Roy over at Return to the Center is an accomplished photographer with a eye for the unique perspective of things. I always look forward to the images he posts and the photographic excursions he documents.

Recently Roy attended “Skip’s Cruise Night“. The images speak for themselves. When I watched the slideshow, I immediately wanted them as wallpaper for my iPhone. Roy was great when I requested to post them here for others to enjoy !

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A big THANKS to Roy for sharing these !