Happy Monday Rainbow Sky (free texture) Creative Commons


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Happy Monday my friends!!
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September 19th 2008 – Cause It’s Only Money


Image by Stephen Poff
Explored! #6

I don’t think this needs an explanation.

I’m headed to dinner so maybe I’ll leave a witty description later… or maybe I won’t… it’s friday!

Edit: Back from dinner and just picked up Clarissa from the mall… so I thought I’d finish my post.

Today was a really slow day at work. They let us go at 3:30, so I finally decided to do the shot I’d been wanting to do for a while.

I saw this old pump a while back while out driving and instantly fell in love with the setting. I jumped out of my car and went to the door… no one inside… it looked abandoned except that… there were drink machines inside that were all lit up. Well.. I didn’t want to just start snapping away cause there’s a pretty busy highway nearby and I was worried that someone would get suspicous. So I marked it on my GPS and decided to try later.

I’ve been back twice since then without snapping a single photo.

So today I was determined to find someone who knew what was up. So I parked and went to the house next door to ask if they knew the owner. No one was home. Luckily on my way back to the car someone pulled up and said that they used to own the place and that the new owner would have no problem with me being there and told me to tell them I had permission. They said the guy only opened it up in the mornings and very rarely in the afternoons.

So, this pump was kind of cool. I wish I could buy gas at the prices that were still on the dial… .62 per gallon.

Afterwards Tam and I had a nice little dinner at Ryan’s and were about to finish "There Will Be Blood".

G’ Night!

Strobist info: Bare Canon 430ex at camera left.

The Moment


Image by seanmcgrath
Another shot from the sesssion I did with Julie and Mike. This is probably my second favorite shot from that day, and I haven’t posted it yet cause I was waiting to add some textures.

Well I finally got some really great textures, and after some experimenting, think I ended up with the edits that perfectly compliment this beautiful moment between these two.

Thoughts/questions on the editing anyone?

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Kamikaze @ Flickr Snow War I


Image by Hamed Saber
This is Hossein, my brother, and our last used weapon in the war against our powerful enemy!
We used a tree as a catapult, and shoot Hossein to the enemy, but he landed near our camp

For more information about the very serious Atomic-Snow war, check my previous posted shot!

Unfortunately my mouse was broke down yesterday, and I can’t edit photos with touch-pad! Just cropped this.. I wish I could add some smoke beneath and after him! Imagine the smoke yourself!

Added to flickr Explore (interestingness) page of 26 February 2007.

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