Life as seen through my iPhone camera.
These little ornamental strawberries grow in the backyard and I hope that Essie doesn't notice them because currently she's all about eating any berry she finds. These ones won't hurt her but I really need to discourage her from thinking every berry is safe and delicious!
I took the picture with Camera+, cropped it and used the Sunkissed filter from Effects.
Kevin is a visitor we've been having in the backyard over the last few days. He's a very young black cat who seems healthy and fed and is extremely friendly with people. So far I'm not worried about Kevin but if he starts to look poorly we're going to have to intervene on his behalf. He's too lovely of a little man to be homeless and hungry!
I called him Kevin as kind of a joke (having been inspired by a friend's recent hunt for a dog name) and it immediately stuck. Essie calls for him and when she sees him she's all, "HI KEVIN!" He loves kids (and everyone else) and follows Ess around the yard even though she sprays him with the hose. He likes water too, the weirdo.
I got this shot with Camera+. I cropped it, used the Clarity filter from the Scenes menu and then the Fashion filter from Effects. They're so cute!
Ess and I went for a walk to the park today and on the way home she was captivated by the sumac lining the sidewalk. She so, so wanted to pick one of the great big red cone-shaped flower things that grow on them but she only succeeded in pulling off one tiny red fluffball from it, which she clutched in her hand 'for daddy' until I persuaded her to let me hold it while she carried the daisy and other wild flowers we found for him.
I took the picture with Camera+, then imported it into PhotoWizard where I cropped it, then used the Red Giant filter from the Classic Effects menu.
PhotoWizard updated with a bunch of new stuff so I wanted to take it out for a bit of a spin again. I forget sometimes how freaky awesome that app is.
My mom has lots of raspberry and blackberry plants growing in her backyard and Essie is already attempting to raid them. There are a very few raspberries ready for picking but the blackberries are still mostly green. Mom bought this blueberry plant a while back and planted it along the side of the house. I don't know why I didn't think to look for berries on it earlier but today I noticed that it has a bunch growing and they're pretty darn big already, even if they are all green as they can be.
I took the picture with Camera+ and cropped it. That's all I did because I felt like any filters I used made the berries lose their delicate green colour.
The peonies have obviously interested me this year in all their stages of growth. I took a shot a bit similar to this just a few days back but now with the stamens dropped off I'm fascinated by the way it reminds me of a type of Carrion Flower on a miniature scale. I remember reading about Carrion Flowers in a National Geographic back when I was a kid and being literally afraid that something like that existed in the world. I'm not sure what freaked me out so badly. It's not like they eat people.
I took the picture with Camera+, cropped it and then used the Clarity filter from the Scenes menu. I didn't use any other filters from the Effects menu because I liked the colour as it was.
Out in the front yard today. Essie was wearing pink and yellow socks, pink and brown sandals, purple pants and a hot pink sweater. Somehow she made it work! She's decided she loves playing in the front yard lately and since she's been very good about staying on the grass only I'm more than happy to hang out there with her. There's something about the oak tree that makes her happy.
I took the picture with Camera+ and cropped it. I used the Clarity filter from the Scenes menu and the Fashion filter from Effects.
I was looking through all the photos I took of the bubbles and trying to see if there were any that I could use. I was hoping that there was one with great focus that I'd simply overlooked but it was not to be. I did find myself coming back to this one in particular. I had edited it then set it aside as not being well focused. I liked the composition and colours but it just wasn't quite good enough for AOMi, you know?
I'd cropped it and used a Grunge filter on it from the Effects menu in Camera+ already, but I decided to fool around with it in Corel's Paint It! Now. I tried every single filter on it to see which I liked best and they were all pretty good except the Pen And Ink, which is usually very hit or miss. I quite liked Modern, Oil, Illustration and Impressionist, though, and had the idea to combine the four in Diptic to showcase the different filters.
That looked a little boring so I rotated each square of the tetraptych until I thought it looked cool. And here it is!
