Soap Bubbles and Macro Photography

Simply Beautiful. This guy is doing some incredible work. I have to try this soon. Creating a soap bubble film, lights and a colored background. Then take some macro photography.

http://2photo.ru/en/post/19381

Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Tx.

Oscar Wilde on Artists

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Butterflies and Retro Camera

Here are some more photos taken with Retro Camera. I really like how these photos came out versus the building ones from yesterday. There is one with the instant poloraid effect and two Pinhole camera ones. It's too bad that these images are actually very small. I would like to be able to make prints from them but at 648 x 648, we are talking a little over 2 by 2 inch photo at 300 dpi (dots per inch) or a 4 by 4 inch photo at 150 dpi. My phone camera is 5 megapixels but the little app doesn't use them all. I do like what it does do though.

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Retro Camera, Buildings and Pinhole

Here are a couple houses taken with Retro Camera's Pinhole setting.

 These two are from 801 Pine Street, Bastrop Texas, next to the County Courthouse. 

These two are an old house on 71 outside of Bastrop.  Not very good but they definitely give an old time, almost creepy feel. (Don't be going in, might not be coming out!)

Android and Retro Camera

I have a new toy on my T-Mobile phone, a Motorola Cliq. It's an Android based phone.  The little app from the Market is called Retro Camera.  It has a special set of filters that match the style of older cameras like pin hole cameras and poloraids so that when you take a picture with the phone's camera, they come out looking like they were taken with these special cameras.  I'll post some photographs that I have taken, mainly with the pinhole camera setting.

New Photographs on Zenfolio

Two new images added to my Zenfolio site. A artistic one and the original.

Lost Original

I really wish I knew what happened to the original file for this butterfly. This is a smaller scaled file from the original digital photograph.

zenfolio and mpix

Made an print order of several of the images I have on my Zenfolio site.  The main printer they have for the USA is Mpix. The photographs came back great.  I really wanted to make sure that they were going come back with the correct colors and brightness.  I shouldn't of worried.  They were recommended to me by others and now I see why.

There was one little thing.  And it was user error.  I had ordered wide cards that came with envelopes for the seashells (2nd one) photographs I have.  I thought I read that they were "cards" with envelope.  No, they were a wide print with a matching envelope.  Very nice print, but still a print with a matching envelope.  Looking back at the description helps explain my confusion.  They say the "free" envelope is to help you if you want to make a card from the photograph.

I am happy with the quality of all the photographs.

Butterflies gone bad

Group of Mushrooms

This image is available from my zenfolio site.

Butterfly Lousia

Floating Cupped Heart

Green Pump

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July's almost over and no Post!

Well we can't let that happen.  My, how time flies.  There are a couple irons in the fire right now.  The Roadside Memorial project continues.  Starting up a Zenfolio site to sell my photographs.  Along with a few misc stuff.  Will post some more of of my digital art over the next couple days as well.

Hope everyone is having a great summer.

New Project - Roadside Memorials

I have started a new project called Roadside Memorials. I want to document the crosses and other symbols placed in memory of lost ones along the side of the road. These are temporary pieces of history. Either by neglect, weather or rules that demand they be removed after a specified amount of time, they too become lost to history.

Many monuments and memorials across our country remind us of fallen soldiers, great leaders or dramatic events. The crosses and shrines that we see along our roads are much more personal. They memorialize friends, families and loved ones. People who may not be as visible to the general public but are definitely not forgotten by the people who knew them.


I have started a blog called Roadside Memorials where every week I will be presenting a new memorial found along the roadside.

Spirit Orbs

Box of Crayons

Give a guy a box of crayons, well, a really cheap set of oil pastels, a sketch book and he will find some time to play.  Oil pastels can get a little messy.  With little pieces all over the place and the surface easily smudged onto your fingers, clothes, etc.  Though they are NO WHERE near as messy as chalk pastels.

Iron Bolts

If you thought all I was selling was those cards, there are a couple of images and photographs that I have and will be adding. This one I have printed out as large as 20"x20". If you are interested in getting a print of this image please let me know.