Hope you have a great Sunday.
Paul
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 11:12 PM, frank theriault wrote:
Well, I'm bored. So you'll all have to bear with me. My eldest
daughter, Anne was here - originally just for an evening, but then for
several days due to the blackout. It was loads of fun, although I still
have to get used to the idea of going out drinking with my little girl,
who I held in the delivery room only a short while ago <wistful smile>.
But I digress...
So, tonight's the first night in a few that I've had to myself. I found
a bunch of photos that I'd forgotten about, taken last year with my
little Minolta HiMatic F - the el cheapo that I throw in my courier bag.
Just for fun, since I was telling the list about my track bike a while back - and I don't think everone figured out quite what a track bike is - here's my now departed Cyclops track bike.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1688565&size=lg
Note the tight geometry (ie: short wheelbase), lack of gears and lack of
brakes. Also note how it's one of the loveliest bikes you've ever seen!
<g> So delicate looking, clean, bereft of all adornment (because she
doesn't need adornment). My new Rossin, with fat aluminium tubes, is
lighter, stiffer, but not nearly as lovely - even though it does it's
job better.
So, just to bring this back to photography, I finally figured out how to
dodge and burn on PhotoDeluxe (which is, I believe, Adobe's cheap
domestic version of Photoshop). Feathering, right? Does that ring a
bell with anyone? Anyway, I burned my reflection, top left, as it was
much darker in the print. Still not perfect, but better than it was. I
took the camera away from my eye, in hopes of getting my face in the
photo, but all I did was move the camera and cut off the front tire. Oh
well.
Hope you're all enjoying this Saturday evening, as I am!
cheers, frank
-- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
