In a (New) World of My Own

I was experimenting with making my digital canvas a wee bit larger. Some would say that I embiggened it.

(dot dot dot)

These aren’t part of my 365 days of photos, but are instead a bunch of related photos I want to toss out: Dark and foggy. Lovely.

This photo is technically terrible. The stitching is lazy and parts of it are either blurry or outright out of focus. But I don’t care: This photo does its job as both an exposure control test (balancing highlights and shadow) and an experiment in handling perspective correction – in Photoshop – by hand.

As a bonus the image is generally purthy.

After about two weeks of putting off my curiosity, I finally subjected my conversations with my wife to a word-frequency analysis, courtesy of Wordle, who produced the shiny image below. To explain the source matter:

-The source was 210kb of Jabber (G-Talk) logs from May 18 2009 through to December 4 2009. In order words a little shy of seven months of talking.
- Emails and logs from other sources (Yahoo, Facebook, AIM) were all excluded as they are essentially negligible.
-Overly common words, such as our own names, were stripped out.

This is for those other natural-light shooters like myself: A series of presets to put some punch into your image, without adding an annoying colour-cast.

I’m always endeavouring to improve our service and our connectivity. I add ‘follow me’ buttons, I advertise us…everywhere, and now I’m very pleased to offer toll-free calling to (New) World Photography via the magic of VOIP and Google Voice. Click on the widget and Google will connect you to us – for free.

Caira doing what Caira does best – totally ignoring any direction and running around like a two-legged cheetah.

This post is dedicated to Caira, who has been necessarily ignored by her parents in the past few days – we’ve been off at the hospital with Garrett. If you’re reading this in oh, 2020, we’re sorry. We both love you very much, but the last few days have been hectic and distracting. If all goes to plan we’ll wing you away to a buffet of your choice in the morning for some shameless spoiling.

(New) World Photography is proud to present an image which we boldly entitle: ZIPPY DOG IS ZIPPY

Six hours in the park. Two clients. Weather was enjoyed. Fun was had by all, save for the window-smashing. Photos to follow. Gia and Stacy’s images are going up now. Buh. Tired. Frakked, even.

Mariah brought Jess home. Final bill was $625 (thank you everyone who donated). She had a broken tooth and a cut open lip that we had to pull out and treat, respectively. Caira fell off her chair during dinner and got herself a pretty shiner on her leg.