often i will find myself rambling on-and-on about buster and the joys of dog-ownership to anyone who will listen is in shouting range.
one question i often get asked is, “…with your hectic med-student-schedule, how does Buster keep himself entertained while you’re away saving the world?” (you too, have probably found yourself wondering the same thing.)
explaining buster’s life is too complex for words, therefore, i’ve taken these photographs to sum up his busy life.
on sunday, i met up with the fam in “the oc” and it was rad.
my sister made green-spice-cake-cupcakes in honor of st. patrick’s day, and so tonight i’m celebrating w/ Mr. Jack and these green-vegan-delights.
also, i brought the camera and shot these photos of brandon, because he’s new enough to the family that i can stick a giant lens in his face and he wont say anything about it. (i trust this will last for no less than 6months or so.) i told him i was going to make him look like a male-model and so i gave him the “american eagle filter” treatment. sorry ladies, he’s taken.
so i finished up w/ some lab stuff and decided to waste the rest of my saturday afternoon writing up photoshop actions. here’s one i’m kind of liking…basically, it takes a photo and adds the gallery matte and title, etc.
during the winter break, i went back there, took some pictures and had a talk w/ myself b/c god wasnt answering her phone.
usually, i dont get into editing/filtering my shots; however, the 100 or so photos i took at the church are the exception. they have become photoshop’s bitch.
no photoshop filter is too much and destroying them w/ pixels is quite therapeutic.
pretty sure that this is a transient thing, so enjoy it while you will…in fact, instead of blogging maybe i’ll just throw a new header image up now and again.
the weather here in socal is beautiful and even a typically smoggy place, like Cherry Valley, is enjoying blue skies. here are a few shots from earlier this morning—albeit with a little bit of morning haze.Full Flickr Set Here
in the few months that i’ve had my dSLR, i’ve been using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 to organize and touch-up (read: attempt to make something decent out of) my photos. Thanks to the handy NAPP membership that Josh gave me, I’ve slowly been moving away from the Lightroom-one-stop-paradigm.
Currently, I only use Lightroom to store photo metadata, etc and do all of my editing in Photoshop.
with that in mind, i’m looking forward to trying out the new version of Apple’s Pro photo app—Aperture. there’s a free 30-day trial upon on the Aperture site, and based on early accounts, the rewrites made to version 2 have made the once sluggish application slick and speedy.
merlin mann twittered the following about Aperture 2’s release:
Oh, so NOW I get all the fuss; Aperture is a prosumer porn organizer. Sheesh. All this “Pro Photographer” crap had thrown me off the scent.
today was incredible 72F in socal. here’s photographic proof…
when i came home from lunch, buster was lounging on the patio soaking up the january sun.
i managed to snap a couple of shots of the buster enjoying unseasonably warm weather.
after taking these pictures, a woman walked by the patio pushing a baby in a stroller. buster proceeded to go into “defend” mode and made the baby cry. i tell you this story should you mistake buster for a timid-emo-puppy.
both the new image and the previous one were courtesy of one of the greatest young photographers around. Josh Bradley has been taking amazing photos for years and has been one of my best friends for even longer. Back in 2006, he took an image from my band days and used some photoshop magic to make me look like a rock star. For 2008, I’ve once again made use of his talents.
the new banner image was taken this past December when Josh was giving me a lesson on portrait photography and mobile-flash techniques. Before he took this shot, he had me holding a reflector disc and used an off-shoe flash to produce a great image.
in addition to portrait work, josh shoots amazing nature and wildlife photos. he’s currently working on getting his online store setup and i would highly recommend that you go to his website and browse through his photos.
i am fortunate enough to have two josh bradley prints hanging in my flat and now you too can enjoy his work. head over to joshbradley.net and tell him i sent you—he’s even offering a 10% discount on all prints for loyal/faithful/loving onelonelysuccess.com readers.
again, special thanks to josh for graciously donating his time/skill to helping me give this little blog a fresh new look for the new year.
tonight’s sunset was awesome from my parent’s backyard. while buster was chasing rocks (yes, rocks) i decided to play w/ my budget tripod and shot these pictures.
also, i’m playing with google’s picasa photo service and so far i’m liking it—at least as a place to dump blog-related photos like these.
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