October 19th, 2008
Yesterday I spent a few minutes enjoying an exceptionally beautiful day at Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, otherwise known as the Ballard Docks. It’s a great place with plenty of park for picnics, leisurely strolls, and biking. I really enjoyed the dynamic of a very industrial place, including shipments by boat and train, alongside a lush park full of birds and other assorted wildlife. I could go into that great life metaphor which is the salmon migration (aided by a fish ladder at the docks), but I feel I’ve already met my “warm fuzzies” quotient for the day.
In addition to enjoying the park, I also had fun with a new iPhone app called CameraBag. Aside from some extended manual controls for file size, the real fun is the filters it applies to your images, making them much cooler than they really are. Below are some examples of the “Helga” filter, which is based on the style of image for which the toy camera, Holga, is most known. The snapshots turned out great except for a few which seemed skewed. I can’t quite tell if it’s the camera or the filter but I’m guessing it’s the latter of the two.
September 28th, 2008
While visiting Portland, I took in some of the sites and snapped a few shots of poster remnants. When I have the time or inspiration I may process a few more, in the meantime, here’s what I have so far.
September 9th, 2008
This past Saturday was spent at the Puyallup State Fair. As I chowed down on corn fritters and funnel cake, I was reminded of the Indiana State Fairgrounds, which was just down the road from my childhood home and where I found myself year round either at the fair, many an antique show with my grandmother, or struggling to stop with an ounce of grace on the ice rink. The Puyallup Fair had everything from salesmen pitching their wares to rodeos, 4H cat shows, sheared sheep, and carnival rides. It was great fun but with the cost of rides (at nearly $5 a pop) the good times had to be reigned in with only a lackluster ride in the haunted house but good times spent on the bumper cars and Spaceship (a.k.a. Gravitron).
View all the photos as a Flickr set.
August 26th, 2008
What can I say, I like rotting tree trunks just as much as I like soggy, ripped newspapers.
