03.01.03
more photos from disney's animal kingdom today. i took a bunch of photos of
various textures with the intention of making photoshop brushes out of them.
they looked so cool that i decided to make a gallery out of them. i really cranked
the contrast and saturation to bring out all the details in the textures.
02.24.03
well, our disney passes are about 2 weeks from expiration... bummer. eventually
we'll renew them, but this is going to be the last few trips for awhile. we
went to 3 of the parks today and i got some great pictures at animal kingdom,
which will make up the next few galleries. today are pictures of some of the
birds at the park. i tried to keep my digital tweaking to a minimum so as not
to mess with the bird's natural colors.
02.17.03
sommer bought me an accordion for my birthday last year and as a strangely coincidental
bonus, there was a book on ukulele songs in it called 'everyone's favorite songs
for ukulele.' the book is really old and cool looking, nice yellowed pages and
everything. the funny thing is that it is old, so i don't recognize any of the
songs. the funnier thing is that even if it wasn't old, i still probably wouldn't
know what everyone's favorite ukulele song is...
02.09.03
i collect a lot of stuff, but one of my oldest collections is lighters. my grandmother
gave me a lighter some time ago that had a tiny music box built in. the thing
never worked and i was afraid to crack it open and try and fix it. one day i
decided to take a look, got it to work one time and then it promptly broke into
several pieces. i decided to take the pieces and photograph them outside on
a mirror. this was done with the macro function on my camera, because these
are some seriously tiny pieces. i would love to find more lighters that produce
music, it's a fascinating concept.