AT&T Giants Stadium

My Girlfriend took me to see the Giants stadium... I found it interesting.. San Francisco has sure changed compared to when I used to go to camera stores in the early 80's..The whole area has been
re-developed and is beautiful.

There is a statue of Willy Mays in front of the entrance:

And there is a marina right behind the ball park:

Here is an example of the new developments in the area:

Here come the fans to see the game:

Fort Point and Golden Gate Bridge

Took a hike down to Fort Point, at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge...
Here are a couple of photographs taken along the way:

 Fort Point is in the second photograph ,under the bridge, on the left..Went into the Fort and climbed stairs to the various floors..

The below photograph of the blue door is an example of the interior of the building..Great photography opportunities..

Here is a Sailboat photograph I took later in the afternoon:

It was a beautiful day in San Francisco, Ca.

How to antique a sailboat photograph

The first weekend of the month I went to San Francisco for 3 days..One day was spent at Fort Point and the Marina..I took a photo of a Sailboat coming back into port with my Panasonic point and shoot camera. I cropped it into a Square Format photo :

I uploaded the photo into my IPad and ran an Autopainter Van Gough effect to come up with the following:

Then I put the original photo and the above photo into the Blender app and masked out the sails so they wouldn't have the painter effect... Then I put the photo into Pic Grunge to add a more antique look and frame..Signed the photo with the Impression app :

Next time I would like to find a large sailboat with large masts and sails...Fun

Ipod Photo to a Corel Painting

The other day I took a photo of my girlfriend Yvonne, with my IPod touch... The file was less than one megapixel in size.. I loaded it into photoshop  and upsized it to 8x10 so I could paint it in my Corel Painter Essentials 4 program:

Then I loaded it into Corel Painter program and did a clone impressionist painting.. Followed by blending with the just water brush to smooth out the skin tones..For just a snapshot I thought it came out really nice. (Click to enlarge)

See you next month.

Trader Joe's Flowers

Every time I go to Trader Joe's store I always look at the flowers..I always take a few photographs with my IPhone ..There were some tulips in my favorite colors:

I then took this photograph into corel painter essentials 4 and made a impressionist painting out of it:

The Silver Creek Country Club

I went to the Silver Creek Country Club happy hour.. I was intrigued by the stairs..Pretty fancy
Here are two IPhone photos taken and processed in various apps.

Car Show at the villages

This month I went to a car show at " the villages" in San Jose, Ca.... I am not really a car show buff but I enjoyed looking at the very old cars... There was a "Henry J" car and a "Stutz".. they played 50's music and I got to even dance a few dances... Here are a few photographs I took with my IPhone:

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Now for the "Stutz".. My dad owned one during the depression..

The steering wheel was on the right side.. I had a lot of fun taking photos of the gages on the dash. .. I think they make neat subjects.:

There were some 50's cars ..The first one is a TBird convertible interior

This 50's car is set up like it was parked at a drive-in