causes rats in laboratory cancer: Seattle Skyline

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Seattle Skyline

I have been playing with my 30 day free trial Adobe CS3...

Here's the photo I was playing with today. It's from the deck of the cruise ship leaving Seattle on our way to Alaska. Not a great photo...it's gray and cloudy and dreary. Typical Seattle in the fall and winter, really, but not what I want. Yes, my reality is fluid and changeable.

After I cropped out superfluous water and sky...

I went arty. I like the blocky cutout look of this one, and the way the black building on the right is reflected in the water.

With this one, I added some lighting and punched up the depth of the color and the contrast. Still a gloomy day, but brighter.

This one is what Seattle would look like if it were in fact in Hell, rather than Washington.

4 comments:

No.79:16 PM
cool
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Anonymous2:08 AM
Ha! Another reason I need to try photoshop. I can put things/people in hell that I think belong there. And I have a list. A very long list ;) That does look pretty cool.
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Julie3:13 AM
Wow. Two spammers in one comment thread.

Complete with a request for updations about recent cancer information and a singing heart.

Hey Maggie -- I didn't think of it that way...I like Seattle. I don't want it in hell...but now that you mention it, there are definitely some things I am going to have to hellify...
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Unknown9:26 AM
Great work in Photoshop. I have CS2 - still trying to learn how to use IT properly, so it's going to be a while before I upgrade to CS3. Meantime, the spammer I want to get my hands on is that idiot from Brazil. All of the comments start with the same text, but they point to different places. I have a hand grenade just for him and his computer.
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Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.