Photo friends, how many times have you heard yourself screaming those very words in your head? There you are, marooned on your friend’s or sister-in-law’s computer away from the awesome pixel transforming power of Adobe Photoshop. Sure, you just use online photo editing tools in Flickr for a quick crop, color adjustment or the like but if you need real Photoshop Power? What if you need to clone your ex out of a photo on...

So for this week’s post I thought I’d share a collage. These are just quick grabs off my hard drive. The only thing in common is that these snaps tend to make me smile. Apologies to those who didn’t want to be included but hey, it’s only pixels! Plus I’m not naming any names. If you’re not in my collage and you should be then we haven’t been spending enough time together. Sorry, life goes...

This past week I had the opportunity to team up on shoot with my good friend Karl from Dimension Three Architectural Illustrations.  Karl was actually working while I was hard at play working on a shot for my latest #p52 post.   Karl does amazing architectural illustrations and hopefully he’ll let me share his finished work here when he’s completed it. But back to playing.  Karl’s not missing a twin but here’s...

Self portraits are just uncomfortable business. But then again so is putting up a blog and sharing imagery and thoughts. All part of this experiment’s learning process. I like this shot ok.  But it’s only just passable.  And really it’s only passable because I put four shots together and created the frame to make it semi-interesting and passable.  So again another learning experience for me but not a shot I’m...

These images were shot a few months back when a good friend was in town with his son. His son Jakob didn’t have much experience with the beach and so it was great to watch him interact with it and have some fun. Fortunately Jake agreed to confine throwing sand at his father and I was let off of the hook since I had camera in hand. The lighting was absolutely horrible and I hate to shoot mid-day but I’m glad I decided I tout...