What is it?

I have no idea, but there were a bin of them on clearance at REI. A casual iPhone shot tuned up a tad with PhotoForge.

Domestic

Shopping is one of those domestic tasks--represented by carts outside Stew Leonard's. This iPhone photo was almost monotone as it was, but I used MonoPhix Lite to render it entirely into B&W.

Luscious

These red peppers on sale at Stew Leonard's are just luscious. A few adjustments were made to this iPhone photo with PhotoForge.

Sky

This afternoon, the sun tried to break through lowering clouds. PhotoForge helped play up the lights and darks.

The Dreaded Mall

Sierra took me to the Dreaded Mall (which was actually meant to get me away while everyone else was home setting up my surprise birthday party.) I pumped up this iPhone shot with Mill Color to play up the garish plastic nature of the mall. It was framed in PhotoGene.

Oddity

The weather has been so unrelentingly grim that I couldn't bear another monochrome scene--so I used the iPhone and PhotoStudio to create a fantasy tree of the maple across the street.

Self Portrait

I've kept a journal since I was 17. Any real self-portrait would be found there.

I was given my first camera--the kind you looked down into--when I was five. I fell in love with photography then, and it's has been a passion ever since. The arrival of consumer level photo editing software galvanized my interest, because now I could make the pictures look just like what my eye saw or my imagination envisioned when I clicked the shutter.

The picture of the journal was taken with my Kodak Z915; the one of myself with the iPhone using the Self Image app (which I downloaded just today for this project!) They were assembled in Elements.