Glass… part 1…

Posted on May 11, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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‘Well, Arthur, that doesn’t look like glass to me’, I can hear you all muttering to yourselves.imageedit_1_9001763846

‘Well, I suppose that neon lights are indeed tubes filled with neon gas, so I guess this really is a picture of some glass’, you might be thinking.

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‘Well, that is certainly beautiful, but it doesn’t look like glass to me’, is what I am guessing you are now thinking.

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‘Oh come on now, that can’t be glass… you are just messing with us’, is what you want to say now, to which I reply: ‘Oh, but it is glass… and I don’t think I like your tone!’.

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But this post is all about glass. This is one of those macro photos I took of a project from my glass blowing class. And I took it using two glass lenses in my camera.

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Not only that, but I took the photos on a glass-topped table in my backyard. Throw in a few magical digital filters, and we are making art from glass, the making of which constituted art, as did the photography itself! So there.

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 3…

Posted on May 9, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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I know, they would be as useful for doing handy stuff… but think how fast we could run!

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 2…

Posted on May 8, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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These might actually be as useful as hands, I do believe.

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Things nature might have given us instead of hands… part 1…

Posted on May 7, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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Well, you could always get the lids off jars at least…

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Another nice San Diego sunset…

Posted on May 7, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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I have started to take double photos with my phone when the light is fading. I take one where I touch the screen to focus the camera, and one where I don’t do that…

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I am not sure which is a better photo, or which is a better representation of the actual sunset.

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So… uh… I guess I figured I would throw a tree in there?

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I made a new friend at work…

Posted on May 6, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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This is Ginger Snap.

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One of the other security officers brought her in, and I got to spend some time with her.

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She is a sweet little dog.

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And she cheered me up on an otherwise crappy day.

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A closer look… part 16…

Posted on May 5, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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I do have a correction to make. In the last post in this series, in which I am playing around with macro photography, I said that I had used the smallest of the macro lens spacers. The 20mm is not, it turns out, the smallest one.

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These photos are taken with the smallest one… the 12mm.

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I am still not sure which of the three sizes take the best close up macro photos.

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Or if it is possible to take photos just like these with the correct distancing of the camera with a regular or zoom lens…

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But I know I love these photos.

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I am still planning on taking some macro photos of stuff around the house and garden, and then cropping them down to one very small area, and turning it into a game where you have to guess what the photos are of.

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I might also take the macro lenses down to that pavilion in Balboa Park in San Diego, and take some macro pictures of those crazy-beautiful orchids they grow there.

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Who doesn’t want to get up close and personal with some orchid sexy bits?

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I do also agree with my older daughter, who says that most of these photos seem a little on the dark side. Sticking the lens right up against stuff tends to cut off the light source. Yes, I can lighten them up in Photoshop, but for now, I am just getting used to the macro lens spacer thingies.

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These are all pictures of that ‘fire bowl’ I made in my glass blowing class.

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Back-lit bougainvillea…

Posted on May 4, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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Just a few photos I took on my phone…

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From right outside the guard house where I work…

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Keeping the rich people in the exclusive private community safe from poor people… like me. That, is a bird of paradise flower.

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I don’t know what the green blob over on the right is. I think it is the waning sunlight doing something weird on the lens.

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It isn’t the worst place to work, even though I hate it when it is busy. There is a lovely fountain shaped like a giant vase, that splashes outside my door. The flowers hang from the eaves of my little guard house.

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I see lots of birds, and the occasional coyote running by.

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I listen to classic 70’s hard rock when it is slow, and a British pod cast called: My Dad Wrote A Porno. You should check that out.

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And of course there are the colorful hot air balloons sailing by overhead.

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So yeah, it could be worse.

 

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A note from my doctor…

Posted on May 3, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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Arthur Browne is unequivocally the most healthy human being to ever have a blog. He has the constitution of a horse, the legs of a super model, giant hands and feet, a lovely singing voice, and eyes you could fall into. He weighs almost the same amount he weighed in high school, and is almost as tall now as he was then. He still has all his hair, plus some  extra hair growing on parts of his body that never had hair before. He is that virile.

If Mr. Browne would eat more fruits and vegetables, he could well live to be over 9,000 years old. He is a sexy man, and I would date him if he wasn’t my patient.  He… wait… what? Oh, he is also very humble. This is his… uh… my official medical record for Mr. Browne.

Doctor Arnold Brownestein.

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A closer look… part 15…

Posted on May 2, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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I am still playing around with those macro filters, the spacers that move the two lenses of a camera further apart, and let you take really close up shots.

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This time, I am using the smallest one, the 20mm.

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I do love doing these.

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These photos are of another project from that glass blowing class I took , this time of the paper weight, the first thing I ever made there. I don’t know if this is a good, representative test, because the colored glass is submerged farther down inside clear glass in this one.

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I am also still wondering if the macro spacer things are really necessary.

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Maybe I could take these same images just by playing with the camera using the zoom lens a little further away. I will have to try that.

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But these are coming out pretty well.

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I am also still coming to grips with the tiny field of focus. I haven’t been cropping these photos very much. I even like the unfocused parts.

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I loved working with greens and blues in the molten glass.

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You gotta love earth colors, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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