Archive for November, 2004

Fred Miranda’s BW Workflow Pro

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

I sprung for Fred Miranda’s BW Workflow Pro plugin today. It takes a color image and lets you choose from some preset filter types (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, etc.), as well as apply toning, film grain, and so on. I’ve been playing with it on numerous images in my portfolio this evening, […]

Turkey on the Mountain

Monday, November 29th, 2004

[gallery=”117_1729″ title=”Glenn and Pie” class=”left”] For Thanksgiving I met up with the family on the mountain. I had been warned to drive “2 or 3 miles per hour” on the road on the mountaintop; it was reportedly foggier than it had ever been. True enough, the visibility was unbelievably low - if I […]

99 ¢/100

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

[gallery=”118_1816″ title=”Joel heeling” class=”left”] Ho ho ho. On Saturday I came home to discover that my next door neighbors had erected some candy canes in their front yard. (I’m fairly sure they are not a variation on the pink flamingo theme, but are in fact in celebration of Christmas) Joe joined […]

On eVite…

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

eVite has become somewhat ubiquitous in my circle of friends. It started several years ago when parties were organized via eVite. The organizer would select a stylish background (back-lit martini glasses, an out-of-focus birthday cake, etc.) and type in the e-mail addresses of his/her closest 100 friends. Then we started using eVite to organize […]

PhotoGeek Update

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

While browsing about, I found a cool little photo device: the Lensebaby. It’s basically a lens mounted on the end of a bendy straw (roughly speaking): bending the lens about lets you focus on only a portion of the frame, yielding some pretty interesting images. [gallery=”1161640bw” title=”Not Oasis” class=”left”] In other news, I have added […]