Speaking in Plain Shamish: 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Fauxlaroid Thursday - August 2, 2012

My sweet blog friend Angela just starting hosting a Fauxlaroid Thursday!! Show your very favorite picture of the week as a Polaroid! Who doesn't like Polaroids! I know I do.... in fact, half of my childhood pictures are Polaroids! I linked to all of Angela's posts because she gives great tips on how to create great Polaroids! Won't you link up with her and I???? I choice a picture I took with my 35mm f/1.8 lens. I love this flower bud... and I am super happy with how it converted into a Polaroid via Poladroid. The colors are beautiful!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Insta-Friday - April 20, 2012

From Life Rearranged - "Simple, everyday moments make up our lives. If we're not careful, we'll miss it. Capture it in all its grainy glory using nothing but a cell phone."

You don't have to use Instagram to participate... any cell phone pictures are fine - plain, unedited or prettied up with any of the tons of apps out there. Personally, I have a bunch of apps... Hipstamatic, Instgram, Camera Awesome (my fav), iphoto, Camera+ and the list goes on and on. Heck, I just found an app that makes panorama shots and another app where you can video record short blips, and then you choose which part of the image is animated and which is still! I'm going to have to play with those two soon! Oh how I love technology!!! Anyways, if you are on Instagram.. I'm shamish - follow me, and I'll follow you back! :)

Before I get to this week's pictures, I found a picture I took with my iPhone back in the beginning of March when I toured the Fergus Falls (Minnesota) State Hospital - a historic Kirkbride Asylum for the Insane. I am still in awe of how well the image turned out with a phone camera! I used a fun texture from the Camera Awesome app to make it fun!

We had some crazy storms in the middle of the night earlier this week, and the sky was just wild looking when I drove to work.

I took this from the top of the parking ramp before work.... I love this image. I love how you can see the old houses and the expressway and the trees in the distance. And the color of the sky was so pretty!

And this is me on top of the ramp after work..... STILL crazy windy out!

Pictures of me and my boy (uh-hem.... teenager. Almost 16 teenager.... I'm in denial thus the pouting) And one of him alone... pouting because he hates his picture taken!