Photo-Finish Friday -- Moody

One of the scenes in Yellowstone National Park.

Photo-Finish Friday--Where's Yogi?

A family enjoys a picnic in Yellowstone National Park.

Gratitude Monday --By Way of Illustration

I am grateful for the trip to Yellowstone. I am happy I got the chance to see Old Faithful, and I am very grateful that I finally sorted out about some of the camera settings on my Pentax.

At the risk of this getting old:

And now a similar shot after the illustration filter:

I originally didn't care for the illustration filter, but I've got to say it's growing on me. 

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Two Sentence Tuesday -- Words and Pictures Edition

Most of the past week has been devoted to playing. I've been experimenting with the various colour filters available on my cameras and am torn between my enduring love for black and white and a newfound crush on sepia.
The Pentax offers a few more things to play with like colour extraction and illustration than the Olympus does. There's a lot to learn, but that's good because it's fun.

Two sentences from the Pentax K20D Operating Manual (Pentax Corporation 2008) about the illustration setting:
"Creates an image that looks as though it was drawn with a pencil. The setting cannot be adjusted."

A waterfall in Yellowstone after some playing.

I've managed a bit of writing in between the pictures. I'm rewriting my first manuscript and it's coming along slowly as I want to give it some thought and do as adequate a job as I can muster.

It may not ever be send-out-worthy, but when someone finds it languishing on the hard drive after I'm famous and gone I want it to be as unembarrassing as I can manage.

Two recast lines and and extra from The Legend of Shallal:

"Her hand was tingling. High tones sent her thoughts dancing. She felt her exhaustion racing away like a wave headed back to the ocean. "

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