Life as seen through my iPhone camera.
So while walking Essie to daycare again this morning I went past the chain link fence through which the flower from Day 315 grew. There had been a thunderstorm in the early hours of the morning (from what I hear; I slept through it) and the flowers were spotted with raindrops. Lovely.
I took the picture with Camera+, cropped it and used the Clarity filter from the Scenes menu.
A while back we took Essie to Toronto for her three-year neonatal followup visit. I find these visits nerve-wracking and this one was no different. I felt coming out of it that Essie did really well, although something that stuck with me were the frowny faces that the evaluators made over Essie not pretending that little red blocks were actually apples to feed to a teddy bear. They felt that it was necessary that she be able to pretend that an object was another object, and I couldn't really tell them whether or not she did this at home for certain. I thought she might, but I didn't know it was something I was supposed to be watching for specifically.
So today when I saw her gathering up acorns and leaves with this chunk of rock and talking about blueberry pie I wondered what she was up to. She came running up the walkway and pressed it all into my hand, assuring me that she was giving me a 'beautiful blueberry pie'.
I think she's pretending just fine!
I took the shot with Camera+ and cropped it. That's all.
I was on the front step watching Essie play in the yard this evening when I looked down and saw this bit of rosebush (I think) that had dried out and fallen to the ground. I was struck by how much it looked like a cross and figured it was appropriate for today, it being Sunday and all.
I took the picture with Camera+, then imported it into Snapseed where I cropped it, used a Drama filter on it and then a Vintage filter. I haven't been using Snapseed as much these days which is a shame because it's such a fantastic app and between it and Camera+ and their user-friendly interfaces I can't really see myself needing much more when it comes to editing iPhone pictures.
The hornet nest above my mom's doorway has afforded us a lot of hornet interaction in the last little while. I can't say it's been pleasant but it is sometimes exciting! My older sister visited for a short while the other day and we sat out on the front step chatting. I noticed this hornet climbing around on some plants and took some pictures of it but it wasn't until after that I noticed it had only one wing. Poor hornet. :(
I took the photo with Camera+, cropped it, used the Clarity filter from the Scenes menu and then the Depth Of Field filter from Effects.
This flower was sticking through a chain-link fence while I was walking Essie to daycare the other day. I loved the optical illusion of a glowing star it gives when looked at straight on down the center, and loved it even more after I edited it and just thought 'BAM!' every time I see the picture, like it's exploding violently or something. The little dusting of flecks on it must be pollen.
I took the picture with Camera+, cropped it and used the Backlit filter from Scenes.
While playing in the front yard today Essie noticed that the clouds had broken up somewhat and there was a lot more blue sky. She took the opportunity to get down and cloud-gaze for a bit to try and find some shapes.
I took the pictures with Camera+, cropped them, then used the Black And White filter on them. After that I imported them into Diptic where I assembled them into this triptych.
This image is extremely similar to Day Two-Hundred-And-Seventy-Three. It's an alternate shot that I edited differently in order to capture the shadows that they cast in the evening sun. The reason that I'm posting this one today is that Kevin came back! Yes, we hadn't seen him in quite a while and I was getting pretty worried that he was gone for good (while hoping that his owners had decided he should be an indoor cat.) Tonight, though, he showed up again with a collar and tag proclaiming his name to be 'Lenny'. What kind of maroon names a cat LENNY? He's obviously a Kevin!
I would have taken another photo of Kevin tonight except I had neglected to bring my iPhone outside with me; something that rarely happens. So it's this old shot to celebrate the return of Kevin!
I took the picture with Camera+, cropped it and that's it. I really wanted this one to keep as much of the natural light and colour as possible.
