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04/10
02:15
This was a late theme decision of “Playing by the rules”
The bobble head was a gift from Ken. Being a Phillies fan, when the bobble head’s bat broke, he gave Jose Reyes this non-regulation bat.
Since then it has graced my desk every day.
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04/10
00:20
Today’s theme was travel. This one is little bit more like space travel, but hey whaddaya want from me!? I had all of these ideas, but it turned out to be a very busy day and here I am after midnight trying to sneak it in (forgive me?).
So here’s EJ’s whiteboard with all of the planets in marker. He’s especially interested in astronomy. You can even see Saturn’s rings there at the bottom.Not a lot of digital adjusting, just some white balancing (everything in my house is freaking fluorescent) but this is mostly a natural shot.
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04/10
23:24
Today’s theme was Doug’s choice: “Sleep”.
I really didn’t know what to do with this theme, but then as I was driving tonight I was deeply moved by the moon’s beauty in the night sky. This photograph is practically inspired by charcoal style art and has a slew of digital enhancements to bring out the beautiful light and the surrounding clouds. I’m most proud of getting this shot handheld for about 10 seconds, manually focused, pointing up at the night sky. All of which was pretty rough to do!
So after one week of photos, this is my favorite (so far).
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04/10
22:58
During the last few themes I plucked from a website that talks about this day in history. Today’s fairly impromtu theme was:
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va.
So ideas of honoring Lincoln came to mind. Johnny suggested pennies, which made me think of a little factoid that not everyone knows; Did you know that in every penny sits a tiny Abe Lincoln inside the Lincoln memorial? Seriously, take a closer look:
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04/10
00:31
I’m a bit late (about 31 minutes past the day 5), but I’m going to count it!
On April 25, 1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.
For the tribute I went with a double theme: License Plates and NY. I still have both my NY License Plates from when I lived there.
In this picture I decided to transpose the photo (so that you can ‘read’ the letters and the NY state map) and adjust some of the bad lighting in my living room.
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04/10
18:50
In 1962 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal. So naturally, today’s theme for my 365 Day Photo challenge was: Television.
Only a few minor digital adjustments: cropping, a bit of white balancing, and some shadow enhancement.
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04/10
17:12
When I can, I’ll try to post about my photo endeavors during the challenge. Here’s Day 3′s photo (click to enlarge) with the description I put on Flickr:
Today was a very tough choice. I went with what I thought was the best photo, my first photo.
These are sheers from my colleague at work, who prunes her plants from time to time. Only a bit of color manipulation for the effect, but overall I really like the photo. I wanted something gritty to balance out the album of nature shots (I had some good nature shots today).
Enjoy.
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04/10
12:13
Ever heard of Nursemaid’s Elbow? If you’re not a parent or a physician, probably not. Even if you are a parent, it only occurs in some 15% of children typically ages 2-4. In a nutshell, your radius (bone in the forearm) gets disjointed from the ligament that holds it to your elbow. You can see where it can slip out of the ligament in the illustration shown. Eventually, when you’re in your teens, you really cannot get this injury anymore.
This has happened to EJ 3 times, the last of which was last Monday (playing Flag Football). We took him to the medical center where the doctor performed x-rays, just in case. We found no cracks or fractures, so painfully, EJ had to get his arm flexed to place the bone back in place.
Typically, it takes about 2 or 3 days to be fully recovered, but here we were 3 days later and he was still in pain. Time to go to the orthopedic specialist.
Jeesely put on her best concerned mommy face and took him there this morning. Turns out that this time, he cracked cartilage by said elbow. So get out your permanent markers, because for 2 weeks and 2 weeks only EJ will be showcasing his glorious light blue cast:
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04/10
16:36
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04/10
15:04
I’ve been taking a lot of photographs with the new camera and have been posting mostly to Flickr. but I thought I’d post some of my favorites over the last few days:
