Sunday, June 12, 2011
If I Was A Betting Woman...
The set-up for a surprise picnic for a lucky girlfriend
There was champagne, flowers, and cliche finger foods...
If I was a betting woman, I'd place $100 this guy proposed!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Pete, Re-pete... Hey, wait a minute
Never believe what you see. All the elements are real - they just didn't happen all at the same time.
Thursday, June 09, 2011
breathtaking flower
This really cool Corpse flower blossomed last night.
By morning, the stench was much diminished.
By morning, the stench was much diminished.
The tree she's standing under is a later stage of the same species.
The tubes are monitoring the scent over time.
The tubes are monitoring the scent over time.
Check out the web site below and click on its Facebook page.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
If I could do it all over again ...
I would be as google earth ...soar over mountain ranges
swoop along canyon walls
glide over desert sands
fly above crashing waves
drift with the wind
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
As shot in camera - a bee in a peony
Closed Loop Park is Thurston County's one and a half acre demonstration garden built on a portion of the Hawks Prairie Landfill that was closed in 1991.
Closed-Loop Park is one of the first parks to be built on top of a lined landfill. The 60 ml plastic liner only 16-18 inches from the surface covers decades of accumulated garbage. The liner prevents rain from soaking through the garbage which would create toxic leachate (or "garbage juice") that could sink into the groundwater.
The Pacific Northwest Peony Society donated a collection of over 90 peony varieties that are now growing at Closed Loop. From May to early June visitors can enjoy the colorful blossoms.
Breathtaking views of both Mount Rainier and the Olympic Mountains dwarf the activities of the landfill operations.
The park site is located on a highly visible and well traveled spot adjacent to the Hawks Prairie Landfill. You are invited to explore and enjoy this new recreational and educational addition to our community.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
If we were playing Jeopardy, the question would be...
WHAT IS 'VANNA WHITE'S MAILBOX"?
Would anyone care to buy a vowel?
If I could do it all over again
I would wade more I would gather sea shells and listen
I would build BIG sand castles
I would speak of cabbages and Kings
Friday, May 27, 2011
Photoshop Makes Something Out of Nothing - NYTimes.com:
Photoshop Makes Something Out of Nothing - NYTimes.com:
By ROY FURCHGOTT
"The newest version of Adobe Photoshop, CS5, has some pretty tricky tools, and at least one that the developers at Adobe didn’t know about. But it’s a surprise that can come in handy.
The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo..."
"...The tool won’t work on just any image and repeating patterns are best. “It doesn’t work well on a street for instance, where there is no pattern,” Mr. Hughes said, especially when the area you are trying to fix is vast. “Let’s say you gave it a large area to fill, say 30 percent, and you’ve got a flagpole here and a car there, it’s really hard for it.”
An attempt to use it on a missing corner of a vintage photo didn’t work, but it might have been a problem of trying to repair too large an area, said Mr. Hughes. “The trick is to carve it up in small pieces.” So just repair smaller pieces at time rather than an entire missing section all at once.
While it’s fine for removing a piece of trash from a lawn, or a lens flare, be careful about overusing content aware fill and calling the result a photo. You can sail past the point of fixing a photo and straight to pure illustration."
By ROY FURCHGOTT
"The newest version of Adobe Photoshop, CS5, has some pretty tricky tools, and at least one that the developers at Adobe didn’t know about. But it’s a surprise that can come in handy.
The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo..."
"...The tool won’t work on just any image and repeating patterns are best. “It doesn’t work well on a street for instance, where there is no pattern,” Mr. Hughes said, especially when the area you are trying to fix is vast. “Let’s say you gave it a large area to fill, say 30 percent, and you’ve got a flagpole here and a car there, it’s really hard for it.”
An attempt to use it on a missing corner of a vintage photo didn’t work, but it might have been a problem of trying to repair too large an area, said Mr. Hughes. “The trick is to carve it up in small pieces.” So just repair smaller pieces at time rather than an entire missing section all at once.
While it’s fine for removing a piece of trash from a lawn, or a lens flare, be careful about overusing content aware fill and calling the result a photo. You can sail past the point of fixing a photo and straight to pure illustration."
Thursday, May 26, 2011
To Market, To Market - what a difference a day makes
Tuesday, May 17
Thursday, May 26
And, what is your definition of "right", if I may be so bold...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Recent Adventures
Juanita Bay Park; Kirkland, WA
Vietnam War Memorial; Olympia, WA
Snoqualmie Falls; Snoqualmie, WA
Just for the fun of it! :)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Space Shuttle Twitpic Woman Gets Paid, Credited & Snubbed By Media
Space Shuttle Twitpic Woman Gets Paid, Credited & Snubbed By Media
Since snapping photos and a short video of space shuttle Endeavour’s last takeoff from her Delta flight Monday, Stefanie Gordon has appeared on MSNBC, CBS in Palm Beach and ABC in Miami. Her Twitpic photos got significant media exposure — popping up everywhere from Anderson Cooper 360 to The Washington Post.
“I told every news organization that contacted me, ‘as long as you credit me and spell my name right, you can use it,’” Gordon tells Mashable.
But when she sat down to watch the ABC News coverage of the launch, Gordon saw her video appear without credit. CBS News also used the video footage without crediting Gordon.
No organization was legally obligated to credit her. Twitpic, the Twitter-posting service Gordon used to broadcast her photos and video, recently clarified its terms of service in order to quell the news media’s habits of hijacking newsworthy images without asking permission. The company said media outlets need to ask permission to use images or videos — but did not say they need to credit the person who took them. Yet NBC and CNN both chose to heed Gordon’s request for credit.
“It angers me,” says Gordon. “You take the time, it’s your photo, it’s sitting on your phone … it’s frustrating to see your picture without your name on it.”
Other news organizations treated her like a journalist who would expect to be compensated after capturing a newsworthy event. Gordon says The Washington Post and The St. Petersburg Times each paid $100 for the rights to print each photo. The Associated Press paid $500 plus royalties for each photo, she says.
The range of news organization responses to Gordon highlights an emerging problem: As smartphones and sharing services like Twitpic create an army of citizen journalists, the rules for how traditional media uses the information they collect are still being created. Platforms like YouTube and Flickr Commons operate under a creative commons license; what’s posted there is up for grabs by news media — but what rules, if any, should be applied to other valuable media bouncing around the social media universe?
Since snapping photos and a short video of space shuttle Endeavour’s last takeoff from her Delta flight Monday, Stefanie Gordon has appeared on MSNBC, CBS in Palm Beach and ABC in Miami. Her Twitpic photos got significant media exposure — popping up everywhere from Anderson Cooper 360 to The Washington Post.
“I told every news organization that contacted me, ‘as long as you credit me and spell my name right, you can use it,’” Gordon tells Mashable.
But when she sat down to watch the ABC News coverage of the launch, Gordon saw her video appear without credit. CBS News also used the video footage without crediting Gordon.
No organization was legally obligated to credit her. Twitpic, the Twitter-posting service Gordon used to broadcast her photos and video, recently clarified its terms of service in order to quell the news media’s habits of hijacking newsworthy images without asking permission. The company said media outlets need to ask permission to use images or videos — but did not say they need to credit the person who took them. Yet NBC and CNN both chose to heed Gordon’s request for credit.
“It angers me,” says Gordon. “You take the time, it’s your photo, it’s sitting on your phone … it’s frustrating to see your picture without your name on it.”
Other news organizations treated her like a journalist who would expect to be compensated after capturing a newsworthy event. Gordon says The Washington Post and The St. Petersburg Times each paid $100 for the rights to print each photo. The Associated Press paid $500 plus royalties for each photo, she says.
The range of news organization responses to Gordon highlights an emerging problem: As smartphones and sharing services like Twitpic create an army of citizen journalists, the rules for how traditional media uses the information they collect are still being created. Platforms like YouTube and Flickr Commons operate under a creative commons license; what’s posted there is up for grabs by news media — but what rules, if any, should be applied to other valuable media bouncing around the social media universe?
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Funnel Cloud
If you missed it. . . . . . . .I took this picture on my way home from work last night. April 28, 2011 I couldn't believe my eye's. Pulled into a farmers drive, got out my camera and popped on my lens while watching this funnel cloud form and took a few pictures! It took about 15 minutes to form and about 3 to retreat back into the clouds. I emailed it to KOMO 4 and my photo made the 11 o clock news!! How cool is that : )
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Not much unusual here
you should stop and smell the flowers 
after going a hundred miles an hour
I know it's not to this month's theme...but I only got 4 photos for that so here's some fun playing around I have done this week.
after going a hundred miles an hour
I know it's not to this month's theme...but I only got 4 photos for that so here's some fun playing around I have done this week. Saturday, April 16, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A room with a view
This is the view from one of the guest rooms in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in San Francisco.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
This week's miracle product
It's the bowl WITH A STRAW!
They even have their own Facebook page.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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