Suicide Doors

 

My 365: Auto Show

 

Postcrossing Card Today from Arizona

This is breath taking

 

My 365: Getting Ears Lowered

 

Eliminate Vertical Camera Shake

This can be done cheaply

Button Your Eyes: Creepy Self-Portraits

You know that new movie where the little girl gets trapped by creepy imposter parents with buttons for eyes? Scary, right?

Make your own here... http://www.coraline.com/#/?page=button%20eyes&subPage=0

Here is one I made.

My 365: Nordie's

 

My 365: Oven Replaced

 

Creating the perfect postcard

Since joining postcrossing I have had numerous requests for postcards with "local flavor." So, after a week of thinking about what's typical of the Cleveland, OH area and watching the "Holiday in 8 Pictures" uTube a half dozen times I decided to do a series of self made professionally printed Cleveland in eight postcards over the next year.

This is the first card in this series. It's yours truely along with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at night all lit up.

Postcrossing Card: Muscle Car

From Finland with Hugs!

Cat & Dog

My 365: D90 Returns Fixed From Nikon

My Nikon D90 returned today via UPS next day air. It's good to have it home and working once again. They only had to put in a whole new apeture assembly and adjust the mirror angle. Seems a pretty extensive fix for a camera so new. I hope this isn't something defective in all the Nikon D90's.



This is my last picture for now taken with my backup! I have the Nikon D90 back in hard albeit a lot heavier than the D60 and I plan on giving it a work out as the next snow storm hits early Wednesday morning.

This is one of the first pictures taken with my Nikon D90 fixed...

My 365: Happy Birthday

 

 

Setting up a small home shoot

 

My 365: My Nikon D90 Wish List

 

Try out the Nikon D90 System Builder

Postcrossing's Card Received

Today I received my first incoming postcard from the postcrossing group I joined.



On the flipside, all three of my initial round of mailed out postcards arrived to their destinations and were logged at Postcrossing.

Elements 7: Before & After Portrait

Before...



And after...

Home & Garden Collage

 

My 365: Home & Garden Show 2009

 

My D90 Camera Arrive at Nikon Servicing Today

The Nikon D90 is at the service center and logged in. Lucky for me its under warranty. I wonder if they will ever say what the issue is or if this is an issue a lot D90 ownwers are having.



I hope this experience doesn't color my opinion of Nikon and my Nikon D90 camera. I have been using the Nikon D60 as a backup and I actually like it better. It's lighter and I have no problems with it at all yet; even in the cold.

Parker Art

I've turned one of my pen friends hand drawn cards into notecards and postcards.



I'm still stuck in the house on my couch dealing with a case of pleurisy.

More Photoshop Elements Fun

This is my friend's dad Ed.

Elements 7: The Magic Extractor Tool

Today I had some more fun at my pen friend Tiffany's expense. Here is the lesson and the finished product and a few of the steps along the way.



My finished product; homemade easter cards ordered for my friend from Vista printing.

 

A few of the steps...

Life's a beach when you have a scanner, two pictures, and photoshop elements

This wasn't too dificult...



This digital image taken in California with an Olympus P&S...


And this scanned hard copy picture taken with some unknown POS.

My 365: Old Wickliffe Dairy

 

Nikon Tutorial: Holiday in 8 Photos

I'll be going on vacation on March 1st to Sarasota, Starke, and Jacksonville, Florida. I plan on doing several challenges while I am there and hope to employ the holiday in eight pictures technique for each main stop.

My 365: Trying out Pentax's 7 Recommended Settings

This came in a free ad book from Pentax and I decided to try them out today with the Nikon D60. My Nikon D90 has already left for servicing after just 6 weeks of ownership. I started having serious trouble with that "err" code after four weeks and it cost me a lot great candid shots.

 

I am happy to say that I am satisfied with the Nikon D60 as a backup camera. I was shocked that after just a few weeks I'm already to the point I can't be without a DSlR camera -- the Casio while it’s easy to carry like a concealed weapon in my purse, the pictures are lacking the clarity I have quickly become accustomed to.





These pictures were taken with the Pentax suggested setting on the Nikon D60 DSLR camera.I noticed that they are date and time stamped as being yesterday at 9 pm. So my next mission is to figure out how to set the time correctly.