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Monday, October 11, 2010

From atop my perch

I was perched on the top rail of Hank's stall, hangin' out with the boys as they finished their dinner. Alan went over to get a drink of water. I took a picture of him to see if the light was any good. It wasn't; it was flat and boring. Might as well just put the camera away.

Post processing: 1. Ruler tool and arbitrary rotate to straighten; 2. Crop; 3. Levels adjustment layer to fix exposure and white balance; 4. PW's Boost action at 63%; 5. MCP's High Def Sharpening action at 42@; 6. Linear dodge around edges

But before I gave up, I zoomed out.


It took me a few seconds to figure out what I was looking at. 
Oh. Those are my legs. Interesting. And look. There are George's ears.

Alan finished getting his drink of water, then headed over to George's pile of hay. I used the opportunity to take a group shot. I don't have any pictures of the boys and I together, so this is our first family portrait ... in an abstract, artsy-fartsy sort of way.

Hey, where's everybody going? Wait for me.

12 comments:

  1. You always come up with the most unique ways to take pictures, AND then with the most awesome pictures, but standing on the top rail in flip-flops? Yee gads, I didn't know you were a daredevil too! LOL

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  2. I love shadow shots at the start or end of the day. Fun!

    Nice shadow legs, BTW.

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  3. I would like to have a camera and take pictures of you taking pictures. You can't have taken pictures like you have without a little dirt on the shoes or shirt. To get lower than a chicken is pretty good. But I double check those knees.

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  4. very interesting shots! Um, is your shadow showing flip flops as foot attire in the pen? If so you are a brave woman as you may have to "tip top thru the tulips" ;-)
    signed
    Theresa in Alberta

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  5. Love artsy fartsy. I use to be very artsy fartsy, now I'm mostly the latter.

    :)

    And I TOTALLY thought this was a chicken post. :)

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  6. Just for the record, I was wearing slip-on shoes, not flip-flops. Not much safer, but I had socks on and at least my toes were covered.

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  7. Good editing, makes it look completely different.

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  8. Wow that was unexpected, very interesting.

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  9. You mean I could've used all those pics that had my shadow in them for blog posts? Dang.

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  10. You know it's not so much getting your toes stepped on that I'd be worrying about as not having a very safe grip on that rail in that type of shoes.

    Please do remember you're 7 Miles S of NOWHERE and it may be a while before help arrives if you take a tumble off that top rail and hurt yourself ... and then what would we do without our daily Fantastic Photos fix ?

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  11. Hahaha. I recently did that with a CRAYFISH. Yours is much more artsy though. :-)

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  12. Helpful blog, bookmarked the website with hopes to read more!

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