Trader Joe's flower photographs

I can't go to Trader Joe's Grocery store without taking a few available light photographs of their beautiful flowers... In Photoshop I play around with various effects.. Here are two examples:

 The next day I saw some leaves that I liked:

Halloween fun

The end of last month I was house sitting for my daughter Kathy... The neighbors had a halloween party and invited me to come over.(with my camera)  Here are a couple of snap shots I took with my little 5 megapixel point and shoot camera... ( Click to enlarge )

  The following effect is a hipstamatic action in Photoshop followed by a black and white version:

New Hipstamatic Action for Photoshop

I found an action at "janawerner.com", on line, that tries to replicate the Hipstamatic app on the iPhone.  An action is a photoshop term.  If you want to know what it really means you can do a search for a photoshop action and it will explain it better than I do...I am really having fun with it. The following are some samples: (click to see enlarged)

The last photo of my twin brother and me was converted in photoshop to brown tone.

Ipad blending of two images into one

Blending images is pretty new to me..There is a blending app that makes it easy on an iPhone, iPod, or iPad.

Here are a couple of examples: (click to enlarge)

More Ipad fun

Here is a photo of rocks and waves from Pacific Grove, Ca: ( Click to enlarge)

Some Blossoms and Mustard Greens:

My New Apple iPad2

My daughter Kathy and her husband Eric gave me a great present...a new Apple iPad2...I am having a lot of fun learning how to use the photography apps on my iPad... Here is a photograph I made with it..

Then I made it more painterly   ( Click to enlarge)

The next one is a guy sitting on some rocks at the beach:

Early morning fog

This morning I opened my door and it was so foggy that it reminded me of London, England... I grabbed my camera and walked down to the end the street..... There  I was surprised by three turkeys walking across the street. (Click to enlarge)