no other touchups except the b+w conversion.
I was told (as a kid) that I was standing behind the screendoor when the outhouse blew up.....
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Have tried using the "despecle" filter on photos of me with no luck.
I posted a howto on b+w's a while back, that allowed you to work each color seperately, trick here (done in monochrome mixer in Aperture) was to lighten the reds and bring down the blues....slight sepia tint as an afterthought.
Beautiful child, by the way...

I may have gone too far...again...with thte trying to be funny....sorry.
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lovely shots.
I'd crop the second one. right down the middle of the first lady's back.
It's a nice shot, photographically speaking....but from the perspective of the woman, not terribly flattering.

Guys...if a woman ever asks you "Does this dress make me look fat?"
There is only one right answer....
("the dress has nothing to do with it...It's your a$$" is not right.)
"Just kill me. Kill me now. No, Really I want to die...." is as close to right as you'll ever get.

looks like a problem Gerri Gets from time to time, when she doesn't have the flash properly seated in the hotshoe.....maybe a repair is in order if checking the contacts doesn't fix.
On the positive, at your dog looks cute. I don't think mine has ever stayed still for thirteen minutes in her life. My three year old isn't even sure what she looks like...she's just this blurred, black whiriling dirvish, that blows through the house once in a while....

George W, deserves a medal!
He's an inspiration!
Shame on all who make fun of him!
He is living proof that even "SPECIAL" people can do anything "mainstream" people can do...upto and including being "President".

you can't always count on walls and ceilings being where you need them when you need them.
get a set of stands and umbrellas (white shoot through umbrellas,preferably)

There's acouple new liquers on the market made from maple syrop....
Now, maybe I sholud get some of that for a product shot, self assignment!

reminds me of a BMW K100 I bout years ago.
The old fella who sold it to me, warned me of a loud rattle (left side) on cold startups. He was certian of valve problems (the engine lies flat on it's side with a vent directly over top where the valves and fuel injectors are) or faulty fuel injection. But everytime he took it in for servicing, could not repeat the problem....the engine was too warm.

He was a kind old man, losing his eyesight, crippled in one leg. Told me about how he used to ride with his (recently deceased) brother.

I got the bike home (I couldn't possibly afford a bike at that time, and a $6000.00 bike for a grand, was a no lose proposition for a guy who can fix things).
Sure enough the next day, there was a horrendous, loud ratlle/knock noise that could be heard down the block. Not the kind of noise one would expect, the accoustics were somehow different. With the handle of a screwdriver pressed up to my ear (and the tip of the screwdriver used as aprobe) I quickly ruled out the valve covers, and injectors as source of the sound. To my dismay the sound was comming from the glove box!
He had told me about how a cleaning solution had damaged the surface of the windscreen and how he'd replaced it with one bought from a police bike.

The glovebox is above the vent on the leftside, over the valves. The hollowed area between the bottom of the glove box and the top of the valves is for airflow, from the radiator. Made a great echo chamber/amplifigher for the nuts and bolts he had left over from the old windshield.
He had left them in the glovebox. It was normal for this bike to vibrate on cold starts.

I did go back, explain, and offer to let him out of the deal.

I got some stories about his brother, and told a deal is a deal and he was happy to see the bike go to someone that was as passionate about motorcycles and as honest as his brother had been.

filters:render:lighting effects.....in photoshop
mystic light plug-in
and various other techniques can achieve that effect.
I guess the telltail would be the flat light on an image that should be mottled with highlights and shadows.....
but really....
It's a lovely concept. A pretty girl.
better than those Big chain store portraits...

psst....'spider.....I thoght that one was his daughter.....
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anywho, I love the many efforts he posts....I suspect with every passing week he's improving, learning and SHOOTING more and better images.

I'm glad he's not in my neighbourhood, 'cause I'd hate to have to competet with him three years from now......