Digital art?… part 10…

Posted on April 23, 2021 by pouringmyartout

Never go bird watching on acid…

The next post in this series will just be digitally-enhanced versions of this photo of a young Redtail hawk I took when I was at my mom’s house in the Bay Area at Christmas… with funny caption names.

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Droning on; version 2.0… part 3… Probing questions…

Posted on April 22, 2021 by pouringmyartout

Oh man, I crack me up.

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Some plant photos, just to clear them off my phone…

Posted on April 21, 2021 by pouringmyartout

The banana flowers are blooming again.

I doubt they are actually called banana flowers, but they sure look like tiny bananas.

And I spotted this weed that looks like a fractal.

I don’t know what kind of weed it is.

So I am just calling it the super pointy fractal weed.

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I have been so busy talking about stuff I got for Christmas that I forgot to talk about the stuff I got for my birthday… the final chapter… the Spark amp…

Posted on April 21, 2021 by pouringmyartout

Oh yeah… I got a Spark amp. If you don’t know what that is, you should Google it.

There should be some more music on the way before long.

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I have been so busy talking about stuff I got for Christmas that I forgot to talk about the stuff I got for my birthday… part 2… the masks…

Posted on April 21, 2021 by pouringmyartout

I know, these days you don’t think of that kind of mask, but don’t worry, I got some pandemic-themed ones too…

Yup.

I told you.

I love the angry chimpanzee one!

But not as much as that one.

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I have been so busy talking about stuff I got for Christmas that I forgot to talk about the stuff I got for my birthday… part 1… the crystal balls…

Posted on April 20, 2021 by pouringmyartout

It turns out that this is a thing now. You take photos through crystal balls, and get a weird fish-eye effect.

I didn’t even know about this as a thing.

But I got a set for my birthday. They come in handy little protective cases. There are too of them, of two sizes. There is a cleaning cloth and a little clear crystal stand.

I Googled it, and people mostly use them for sky and beach pictures.

So far I have just played around with the big one in my backyard.

Not all the pictures are great, but I will figure out some cool stuff to do with them.

I did learn that if you aren’t careful, you can focus light on your own hand and burn yourself like a kid roasting a bug with a magnifying glass. But I moved before it got that bad.

I am just beginning to see the possibilities.

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Droning on; version 2.0… part 2…

Posted on April 20, 2021 by pouringmyartout

The first flight of my second drone. Notice that I am controlling the flight and the camera on my own, with just a little advice from my daughter’s boyfriend. Notice how stable the camera is, how good the quality of the video. This is a whole new world of flying.

Best Christmas present ever.

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Digital art?… part 9…

Posted on April 20, 2021 by pouringmyartout
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Droning on; version 2.0… part 1…

Posted on April 20, 2021 by pouringmyartout

This is my new drone. The first one was fun, but the video and photos went to my phone, and were not really great quality. This one has a video card inside it. The range is better, the stability is better.

I can understand why my family wanted to make sure I was actually going to use a drone before getting me this one.

This is how happy I looked the first time I flew the new drone. Even my younger daughter’s boyfriend looked happy as he gave me tech support. Thanks Ben.

We took it up to Kensington Hilltop school. The photos come out so good. You can see San Francisco Bay in the background.

You can even see San Francisco.

Mollie’s boyfriend, Ben, did some fly-bys so I could shoot some pictures of the drone.

That was a real highlight of this last Christmas, which was awesome, even with the quarantining and all the rest.

Stand by for more videos.

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Droning on… the final chapter… sort of…

Posted on April 19, 2021 by pouringmyartout

Okay, this is it, the last of the videos from my first, and not very good, drone. But it is a nice aerial shot of the street where I grew up in the Bay Area, where I played hide-and-seek, and learned to ride a bike.

Like I said, this is all leading to something…

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