December 25, 2006
Blue Christmas
Richmond's financial district at sunset on Christmas Eve
We're too hopped up on sugar to be blue. It's a wet, gray Christmas outside, but we're inside, all cozy and geeking out with our new toys. And the sugar. I made a baked French toast dish for breakfast: a pan of bread soaked in egg and milk overnight, then baked with a topping of brown sugar, pecans, and butter. All that, and then we put maple syrup over it and wash it down with coffee. Oz insists on calling it pudding, but it is not! It is toast, and very French at that.
Oz gave me a fisheye lens for Christmas, along with about four sweaters. Now I can be both toasty warm and annoying. If the sky clears up by sunset, we'll go back out to the floodwall and try for another spectacular skyline shot, but this time with major parallax distortion!
I hope y'all are having a great holiday. Be sensible and consume less sugar than I have!
169 words | December 25, 2006 11:36 AM | ShutterbugMerry Christmas!
My inlaws got together and got me Adobe Photoshop for Hanukkah. I still haven't had the courage to install it, but I think today's the day....
Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at December 25, 2006 01:41 PMOh, don't be intimidated, you'll love it. Oz got me Photoshop Elements, the baby version, over Thanksgiving and it's great. It's worth having for the archive management tools alone. I haven't done any processing more advanced than color correction and I'm trying to avoid learning more than the absolute basics of postprocessing right now. My theory is time spent learning to get it right with the camera will save an exponentially greater amount of time spent learning to fix things on the computer. But the filter effects are pretty cool.
And Happy Hanukkah!
Posted by: 100 word minimum at December 25, 2006 02:16 PMMy version is Elements, but also got the video Premier editor, which ought to be very cool. After playing with Elements yesterday, I've come to the decision that it's going to be for special processing, not for first-look picture review and archiving. Max, however, adores the color fill feature: it's like using crayons on real pictures!
Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at December 27, 2006 01:52 AMI didn't install the video editing part of the software, seeing as how we have no video camera. But Elements is so much better for reviewing photos than what I had been using (the software that came with the camera). The tagging feature is really handy and Full Screen View is great for flipping through a batch of images.
Posted by: 100 word minimum at December 27, 2006 09:00 AMHey, don't quite know how I stumbled upon this blog but this photo of Richmond at sunset on Christmas Eve is gorgeous!
My name's Derick and I'm a VCU student living in Manchester. I have this view from outside my apartment. :-)
Posted by: Derick at April 11, 2008 07:08 PM