Yesterday marked my three-year anniversary for this blog! In tribute, I made a glass “3” … digitally. I found a pretty glass bottle, took a picture of the bottom, and used Adobe Fresco to manipulate the image. The original number on the bottom of the bottle was 08, which I masked off and enlarged, then erased bits until I had a 3. Adding a few highlights and blending helped bring out the number, while still looking like it was pressed into the glass.
Oops. It has been so wet that I have not ventured down to the valley to check the trail cam in two months. There were over 900 pictures on the camera and the batteries were almost dead! There was also a round yellow spider egg sac situated right over the camera lens.
Luckily, the occlusion was deposited only about a week ago, so there were plenty of pictures without a giant fuzzy spot, mostly of raccoons, cats, opossums, and armadillos, with the occasional leg of fox or coyote.
I tried taking a picture of the morning mist as my eldest drove the school run. In situations where I can’t ask the driver to pull over so I can compose a shot, I tend to aim, hope, and take as many frames as I can. The brilliance of digital is that I can then go back and delete anything not worth saving. Sometimes everything in a sequence gets dumped. But never have I seen a ghostly skull in the sky. I had to scroll back, a what? Not a cloud formation, not a ray of light. What is in my photo? I won’t keep you in suspense, this is not that kind of blog. It turns out the “skull” is the reflection of the back of my camera in the car window, with its evenly sized and spaced dual lenses. Still creepy.
Critters and Craft 