Focusing And Refocusing: Views From An Evolving Life

Just Another Bikeless Saturday

STILL haven't been riding, to speak of. If only I had a place to stash the bike on class nights.

Raining today so the SIG got postponed; supposed to be lovely and sunny tomorrow, just right for a class that emphasizes hills. I wonder if I can lose 10 pounds by tomorrow?

The assignments for Visual Storytelling this week is silhouettes; two examples below. The above isn't a silhouette (obviously) but I'm rather fond of it anyway. It's kind of an anti-silhouette. Maybe I'll stick it into my project, for kicks.

I have to say it was weird being by the river (below) without running or riding on it! The water towers shot came in my before-work foray to the UWS. I shot at intersections (that is, when there was a break between buildings) during the 15-minute window of sunrise.

But why won't it upload full-sized??

Loving Lensbabies

 

Hard to blog about bike commuting when I'm not bike commuting, and for that matter not riding my bike much at all. A variety of extenuating circumstances (how lame is that).

I have, however, been spending a lot of time on my various multimedia projects. Here is one of the latest. For fun, I got a Lensbaby Composer to make artsy pictures with. Lensbabies do selective focus, purposely blurring the non-selected parts. And you have to manually focus, and with a D40 you also have to do all the metering manually. All of which adds up to a rather silly endeavor for someone who doesn't know what she's doing -- and who desperately needs new glasses or contacts and simply can't see well enough to manually focus.

Anyway. The B&H Event Space did an "urban safari" in Times Square, using Lensbabies. Here are a few of the results. Which, again, has nothing to do with bikes or commuting. But I ran out of time to maintain two blogs, so I think I'll condense everything into one again.

When I told my favorite photo editor about my Lensbaby adventure, he said: "We're not allowed to use Lensbabies."  To which I said: "But I'm not a `we' _ I'm a `me' and I get to do whatever I want."

There are certain benefits to not doing this professionally ....