This is a small break from the farm series which is an adorable desktop of my mom's dog oscar. Another desktop for the dog lovers in the audience and I'm sure there are a few. Nothing like a wet nosed sleepy dog to get your awwwwwwww reflex going.

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In the morning these flowers bloom to greet the sun. As the day moves along so do the flowers as they close for the night. For those of you who have been long time visitors you may recognize these flowers from a couple desktops of this type of flower growing up a stalk of corn.

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I had an image from my farm series that I wanted to mess around with in photoshop and this is it. It was a really simple shot snapped off while sitting in a chair out on a porch in the morning but it seemed like such a cool little work of art that seemed like it would be fun to mess with later on. I decided to take a super minimal approach to the image simply because thats how I was feeling when I made it a few minutes ago while listening to a really calm Susumu Yokota album that I picked up on emusic recently called Sakura. The name of the image was named after the first song on that album if you care to know. I see a lot of artists/designers hopping on the trendy looking vector graphic train that have all sorts of elaborate intricate little details and hidden messages in japanese or some techy looking font and I've been through that a year or two ago back when I started making desktops because thats what I thought people wanted but I soon realized that I should simply stick to what I feel like looking at. Anyways, long story short, I decided to take a really simplistic approach to this one and post it as is but also post a photoshop file with layers from the desktop to let readers with photoshop to take it and make their own version of the desktop. I've never tried anything like it before in the past and thought I would give it a shot sooo...

Along with the standard .jpg file I also have available below a photoshop version of this image in hopes that some of you readers will download it, remix it, and send it back to me to post here along side the original. I know that I don't have too many readers who are active on the comments or own a copy of photoshop but I thought it would be fun to give it a shot. To give an example of what you could try is using other images of you shot to layer in with this one or try different colors or shapes or arrangements or whatever. Just take it and make it your own somehow. I just ask that if you come up with something you like then please mail it my way using the contact form on the site or my email for those of you who have it. I suppose thats all for now. Enjoy!

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Anyone care to guess what this is? I can't remember what they are called, something to do with electricity I believe. Whatever it is it caught my eye with its color and shape. I loved the way the blueish color was cast down onto the wood of the post it was sitting on. In retrospect, my only regret was that I didn't tighten up my aperture a bit more than I did to get the whole objet in crystal clear focus. Anyways it makes for a really interesting desktop I think. Enjoy! (the name was taken from a Jaymay song of the same name which you can find over on iTunes if your curious)

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This is the first in a series of desktops featuring photos taken out on a farm just south of Charlottesville Virginia where I will be shooting a wedding in a couple of weeks. I drove up to check out the area and go through details of the big day and while I was there I had the chance to shoot with my new lens and there was plenty of interesting things to sneak in photos of. This first image is for the food lovers out there, more specifically garlic lovers. Picked straight from the garden the garlic was out to dry and with the late afternoon sun coming in through the window it was just itching to have a photo taken of it.

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I know that simple long exposures are not really all that technically hard to shoot, especially as odd and random as this one here, but something about this shot seemed to scream desktop to me. Maybe its the colors and the composition that drew me to like this one. It was only one out of a couple of them I shot like this while sitting in the back of a car one night but I thought it came out better than this type of shot usually does. Maybe I will look back on this posing and wonder why I added it but thats the way it goes in love and desktops. The name of the desktop was taken from a Dixie Dirt song from one of my favorite albums of 2005, Pieces of the world. (Also, I know the preview here is pretty heavily compressed and is not looking all that good, I had to do this to keep the file size down. I promise the full version is much smoother than this)

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This is the desktop that I previewed in the blog a few days ago. It is a bit different than the preview, not as bright and a little smoother. This was shot at a place called hanging rock which I was camping at last week. Because I stayed the night I had the chance to hike up my favorite trail there to an observation tower at the top of a mountain to watch the sun set. Unfortunately it was pretty cloudy out and so the view and sunset was not what I had imagined but It was pretty amazing in it's own way because fog was blanketing the hills below which made for a really beautiful landscape. So the photo just wasnt up to my standards really so in to photoshop it went and it got the city of light treatment which people seemed to like so I figured no one would mind if I used that style again. Enjoy!

Note: The title came from an Elliott Smith song from his first solo release called Roman Candle. My favorite version of the song however is an acoustic live version that I have lying around which Id be happy to share with anyone interested.

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If you read the description to Last Call You may or may not realize where this was shot. It is on top of an observation tower at the top of a mountain. Something about this shot hits me in a personal way. Part of it is a reminder that It had been so long since the last time I had been out hiking on my own and it was nice to get out on top of the world and gather my thoughts in a place not so distracting. I could go on more about this but lets jsut say it has more of a personal meaning than other shots I put up here. Also you may notice that I wore sandals up there which I regret doing, they are not really all that appropriate for a mile and a half hike up the side of a mountain, who knows what I was thinking. At any rate, I hope you all enjoy this desktop as much as I do.

Note: The title is from a Vetiver track off of his latest album which I have been meaning to feature in the blog for some time now.

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This was a vertical shot that I took of a hiking trail that I decided I wanted to make into a desktop and the best way to turn a vertical shot into a horizontal one was to simply flip it and make an abstract image out of it. Although its a little strange it still holds a nice feel to it. I've noticed that this cheeper lens that I bought to replace my somewhat damaged Canon 50mm f/1.4 does not handle depth of field as well as I would like. the Bokeh Is not as smooth as I am used to but what can you do eh? I may just have to get used to not having auto focus around and go back to my older lens. Sorry, don't mean to float off topic there enjoy the desktop!

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This is a desktop added by request. It is a shot of a stack of amps which are covered in rust that had fallen from the celling after being flooded with bass the night before during BAPLab. Enjoy!

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