Arlington Cemetery Redux

Sometimes when you take a photo, it's a perfectly good image, but it's lacking some oomph. Joie de vivre. Pizazz. That's where photoshop comes in handy.

A dreamy kind of look.
Vintage black and white
Harsh "high-pass"
Vintage sepia

All of these are interesting for different reasons. Everyone will have different preference for different styles. So, at this point, the hard decision of choosing one photo boils down to this: What message are you trying to convey? Or emotion you want to evoke? A dreamy, tranquil one? A time-encompassing one? Harshness of war/death/whatever? Solemnity?

If I had to produce a photo for a commercial purpose, my choice would be a lot easier, depending on the product or service we're selling. But for personal sales...I probably would choose the black and white one, because it's a type of image that would work on most people's walls.

What do ya'all think?

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Pooped

I can't remember when I last had a weekend with nothing to do. It's been GO GO GO GO for the past few weeks. I did manage to snatch a few minutes to snuggle with Apollo this morning though.

Tomorrow is the Veteran's Day, so in honor of that, I went to Arlington Cemetery again and to the war memorials at the mall. Most of the pictures are on Flickr, I like most of them, although they need to be cleaned up a bit. Here are a few.

Men in uniform, yum.

Not so yum.

Domino, anyone?

Bloody leaves. Somehow poignant.

Somber view.

To see more photos, click on Apollo's picture to the right, and it should be on main page. If not, it'll be in the "Other" set, tagged Veteran's Day.

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The Dog and His Blue Ball

My weekend, again, didn't go quite as planned. However, I did manage to get myself down to the Arlington Cemetery, and took a few many pictures. Around 100. However, about 95% of them were bad. Very bad. I was upset. I'm not sure why...was it my lack of skills (I know I need practice). Or was it just the light? Or the lens? After looking at the images, I think it's a combination of needing more practice, and better lens. I'm still using the kit lens that came with the camera.

Here's one of the better ones.

So, to console myself, I decided to take a few many pictures of Apollo.

Wheeeee!

Ahh, one of the many pleasures in life.

My little thief. I'm so proud.

Mine.

Get your paws off my ball, damnit! WOOF WOOF

Popped the ball. Woe!

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