Tim’s Ramblings

New set of textures! Can never have enough!! :) :)

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It’s the year of the tiger this year. So mom got me and my sister some of these tiny little figurines.

I’m not really sure what it’s made out of…wood? Not sure. You’ve seen other ones like this from other places too. The ones with the bottle heads and such. The macro lens came in useful for these since these are only like an inch and a half tall :)

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Kinda cute huh?

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Gaming day at Ben and Laurie’s. It’s been far far too long between the last session. Gotta do this more often!

These poor dice are feeling neglected.

Sometimes in these sessions you have to improvise. We got here a “map” of a warehouse, a bunch of bad guys, some cars and us. Yup. Fun :)

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My friend Judie made more cupcakes for a local coffee house called Mojo’s.

Red velvet. Mmmmmmmm. Looks so good huh?

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More cupcake love.

And now that the photo shoot is over, I am going to EAT ONE!!! :D

More “Best of 2009″ photos for today.

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These were from Matsushima in Japan from this past year. Some color and texture work since it was a pretty dreary day.

From Seattle just outside of Pike Place Market. This was shot with my wide angle and it was already a pretty dynamic photo but I wanted to really amp up the feeling of movement and energy and also simulate one of those Holga type “toy cameras”.

A more abstract kinda dark and somber pic. This was shot at Huntington Beach. The original is quite pretty with beautiful colors in the clouds but wanted to see if I can get a totally different mood.

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Went to Costco with my sister and her husband. Ahhh…Costco…rows and rows of stuff in a giant warehouse…

It’s nice to find stuff in bulk but in the end you kinda feel like this…

Kinda tires you out… (-_-)

Conference call tonight… It was fun… Still jet lagged too…good times…

Anyway, off we go. 2 photos this time. The 2nd one was taken late last night but oh well.

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Fun with the micro four thirds macro lens. :)

I actually shot this last night. I was in bed when I noticed the moon. It looked cool so I went outside in the backyard freezing my ass off to get the shot. :) I know it’s not crisp but that’s because the clouds were moving really fast. This is only like a 1.5 second exposure (with a faster exposure moon layered on top).

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Yikes…February already…

Today’s photo is another one from the past. This was taken back in March of 2009. You can see the original if you go back that far. But this time it’s with about 5 different textures :)

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My new canvas prints came in! I got them printed relatively large at 16×24 and they look really nice. I’m really digging the tree one too. Now to figure out where to hang them… Hmmm….

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Saturday was the day I flew home. And so my camera phone came in handy for the photo of the day.

Knowing you have a long long flight ahead of you sucks. But seeing “on time” is a wonderful thing.

Granted it’s just one of two flights to get me home but at least I know it will start off good.