A few nice photo editing images I found:

Adventuring in the Valley (and a new NBC TV Interview)
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Image by Stuck in Customs
Argentina is gorgeous. Have I said that before? Doesn't it go without saying by now?

You really get to know a set of mountains when you have to hike around them. Fortunately, in the middle of these death marches, I was able to stop and drink in some of the scenery. It took a lot longer than necessary to get to the destination, but at least I arrived with a camera full of photos. That beautiful peak in the distance is Fitz Roy. I was very lucky to see it, because 90% of the time it's covered with clouds.

So, last night something else lucky happened! Here are the high points:
- I did an interview that aired on NBC at 10 PM here in Austin. The segment was all about HDR and turned out really well. Jim Swift interviewed me and he did a great job editing together a nice little story. You can see the full video in the upper left hand area of the TV Station's KXAN site.

-- You guys should contact your local NBC affiliates and ask them to get the segment from KXAN - that would be cool!

-- The story also mentioned the HDR Tutorial, which you can get to via that link.

- The news segment mentioned an upcoming PhotoWalk in Austin on August 6 that I am organizing. You can find out more inside the Facebook Event!

From the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

172/365 - I'm Apparently The Poster Girl for Internet Narcissism
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Image by Helga Weber
First was that feature on repubblica.it where I was called the modern day Narcissus. And then a feature on some Spanish blog, titled "It is enamored with itself". Seventy four comments, most of which are negative.

I thought of writing an entry about it on my blog but decided to just do it here on Flickr instead. It seems that my stream has gotten popular online and I've been around on the internet long enough to know that people will always judge and have misconceptions about you. I've long learned to not take personally criticisms or words that otherwise wouldn't have been said about me if these people actually knew me.

A handful of people seem to think that I have a lot of free time (aka nothing better to do?) to be able to do what I do (daily self-portraits). Here's how it is: it takes about 15-30 minutes to take my shots (weekdays, I do it before leaving for work. Weekends--- when I have more time--- whenever I feel like it). Editing takes an hour or so, sometimes less, as I have a saved PSD file with all my adjustment layers that I simply drag to the new pictures.

That's about two hours of my day, max. This is a hobby, something I like doing and do mainly for my boyfriend who is 7 thousand miles away. There are people who spend more than two hours on their chosen hobbies. Would you say they have a lot of free time?

Some of the comments say that I have low self-esteem (um, I don't think so?), that I am self-centered and too enamored with myself (would you rather the opposite, a girl who has a bunch of issues and constantly nitpicks herself?), that I am ugly (LOL ok), and that I have no imagination because with all the possible subjects to take photos of, I choose to just shoot myself (I am my best subject, self-portraiture is what I find most interesting...and quite frankly, I don't have the time and luxury to go around the city and take photos of things and people).

I hope I don't sound defensive here, I just thought it'd be best to put down my thoughts on this. I find nothing wrong with self-portraits and narcissism and it bugs me that these people make it out as a bad thing. When my camwhoring starts harming and hurting people (highly impossible, yo), then perhaps I'd understand their point.

Now excuse me while I go visit your streams, I'm probably 50 pages behind.

OUTTAKES IN COMMENTS!!! =p

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