My favorite educational photography site
People often ask me how I learned photography, and the truth is: practice. Trial and error. Immediate feedback from digital cameras. I took one short class during college, but learned more about developing my own prints than photography in that class. The real way to learn is to understand the mechanics of how a picture is taken, and then practice. I will write more on this later, but i wanted to share one of my favorite sites to learn about what makes a picture. It is called: Cambrigde in Colour and can be found here: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/
It a very detailed site that explains everything you need to know about taking a picture. I will write another post soon about the main things i consider for each picture…but i figure this is a start!
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Packed
This image is a good depiction of what it is like to travel through the streets of Delhi – at least if you are a local there. There isn’t really a concept of “safe travel” which is why I would never drive there. I did once – in a parking lot – but was too scared to go on the streets…and I am not a timid driver. 😉
Pray
Sometimes you can take beautiful and inspiring pictures of simple objects in your house. This is a Buddha statue that a friend bought for us. I really like the way it looked with the glow of the candle on reflecting off of it.
Give
On my last visit to India, my family sponsored a meal for local children in the village. Every time I look at these pictures, I am reminded of what a privileged life we live.
Warped
Millennium Park; Chicago, IL
This pictures makes me feel like I am in Gotham…during a bright sunny day.
Journey
Embarking on a journey. India style.
Meditation
This is a picture I took in a small temple in india. Whenever I look at this scene I get this feeling of peace and serenity while remembering god or a high power in general. What I love Is the juxtaposition of this one person sitting by himself and meditating against the room packed full of people below.
I get so busy day to day and have been bad about making religion a regular part of my day. So I try to look at this picture often to at least have a moment of remembrance when I do.
Felt monster
Meet Mr Happy. He is Radha’s little friend. He is made out of felt and took me all of about an hour to make! (Yes, I know it looks like it should have taken 15 minutes…but I’m a beginner, remember?)
I plan to make more…we’ll see what designs I come up with. Hopefully my techinique will get better – this was one of my first experiments with applique work. The possibilities are endless!
A couple notes
-I originally planned to make this a stuffed monster…I quickly abandoned that to make a faster option
-if you notice, I top stitched (not very well) the bottom of the monster instead of hand stitching it. Another shortcut (kind of like how I cook =)
Have fun creating!
My new Altoids Headphones Amp – HOMEMADE =)
Meet my new headphone amp:
My husband, L, has been wanting to explore a new hobby, and recently started to get into making his own electronics. Meaning working with resistors, and capacitors and circuit boards etc…yeesh! Good thing is, he loves it. He has done more reading in the last month than he has in a long time because He has been reading about his new hobby (and most of it on his new Nook)!
So for his first project, he decided to make a headphone amp. That means a little device that helps boost power to your headphones. It is particularly useful when you have big over the ear headphones – not your regular ear buds- because those need more energy to power. And of course, things like iPhones and iPods dont have a ton of extra power to spare.
The other thing it does though, it is cleans the music signal a little bit and makes everything sound better too. It even as a bass boost switch if you like to listen to your music with an emphasis on the lower frequencies, like me 😉
The thing I love most about this amp – besides the fact that L made it from scratch – is that it is in an alto ids box! How cool is that? Usually they are just in small, black, non-descript containers. But this Is so much more interesting and looks awesome!
One catch: he is the one with the big headphones not me!
SEWING LESSON NUMERO UNO
SEWING LESSON NUMBER 1:
Metal is STRONGER than Teeth
Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, under ANY circumstances, use your precious and fragile teeth to grasp needles…or you may end up with a needle width gap in your perfect little tooth. Or even worse, a larger gap, crack or chip.
Unfortunately, I impart this wisdom based on experience. Last night I finally took a sewing class at a local high school (as a kid I always wondered what wierd people took classes at high schools at night =) and really enjoyed it. That is, I enjoyed it UNTIL I decided to use my teeth to try to pull an embroidery needle through a thick fabric, only to end up with pieces of my tooth in may hand. UGH. I was crushed. Especially because I have BAD teeth to begin with, I just went to the dentist a few days ago (couldnt it have happened BEFORE my appointment??) AND I’m going out of town today for 2 weeks. So WHEN am I supposed to get this fixed! ACK! To top it all off, a very nice lady in my class instilled some more fear into me: “Be careful not to eat anything hard, otherwise more of your tooth might break off.” “Make sure you see a dentist soon in case the hole gets bigger or cracks!” Start hyperventilating. Ok, I’m probably freaking out more than I need to, but as I mentioned, I have bad teeth and I am already haunted with the very real possibility that I will have barely any of my own teeth left 10 years from now.
Ok, I’m moving on. PLEASE learn from my stupidity. Teeth are FRAGILE. Metal is NOT. Do not try to over-power metal with your teeth. It will backfire. =[
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