Photo 365 - Day 191 (Got Seed?)

Day 191 (January 10th, 2011)
Title: Got Seed?

I like birds, I think they are fun to watch and take photos of.  Now, normally pigeons aren't the smartest of all the birds (I like to compare them, intelligence-wise, to a brick).  But, this little fella was stalking me.  We had a lovely lunch all ready to go at my favorite deli in Santa Cruz (Eric's!), and down flew this bird.  I thought, "Oh, a bird.  How lovely!  I should take a picture before he remembers how to fly and leaves! (again, IQ of a brick)."  I shot a few photos and got my yum-wich and ignored the bird.  He didn't fly away.  In fact, he slowly side-stepped closer and closer till he was about 2 feet from me.  Then he gave me this look like: "Sooo... I see you sitting there, enjoying your lovely sammich.  I was just thinking, perhaps you might have some seeds in your pocket that you might want to be tossing over here.  No reason why you might want to do that, if you have any seeds... Course, it would be tragic, just TRAGIC if anything happened to you while you were eating that darn yummy looking sammich.  Yep.  Tragic." 

I realize that I might have read a tiny bit more into that look than probably was there.  Perhaps when he went "Coo?" all he meant was "I'm a brick that can poop on your sandwich!"  Either way, I was worried and gave him a cracker.  He was appeased and we finished our meal, albeit with sidelong glances at him the whole time, just in case. 

Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 144 (Postman)

Day 144 (November 23rd, 2010)
Title: Postman

I found this guy hanging out on the side of a group of old tree stamps that we got (for scrapbooking).  Its about 1/2" tall and I thought he looked he looked just creepy enough to share with everyone! 

"Use Correct Zip Code... Or I'll find you in dark one night and make you wish you had!!"

Clearly its good that I don't work for the post office.  

Enjoy

Photo 365 - Day 71 (Dak)

Day 71 (September 13th, 2010)
Title: Dak

Its a cat.  A cool cat.  A Dak cat.  This is one of the many "Extreme Pet-o-matic" cats of Rachael and Eric.  Now, as much as I enjoy breathing and being able to see (re: allergies), I still love petting their cats.  Their cats have an cool ability to have all of their bones turn into jell-o when they are being pet (and basically become a giant purring hairball). 

I took this with one of my smaller "carry-along" digital cameras, but I feel it came out really well.  I did do some photoshopping (as you can tell), including: layering (to get the selective coloring of the eyes), altering the saturation and colorizing to get a nice black and white feel, and lastly an Inner Glow layer style to give it that vignetting-like border.

Enjoy!

 

Bonus Pic!

While I was playing around with the layers, I decided to make something just a bit creepy. I made an Eric/Dak collage.  Normally I don't post pictures of people, just because I'm never use they will appreicate/approve of it, but I think in this case its ok.  Besides, if you don't know Eric, I doubt this picture will help you recognize him on the street.  I mean, his collar doesn't even say Dak on it!  Sheesh.