This is an image from my Puerto Rico trip archives. I always wanted to do something with this image of a girl with her umbrella and her father but always hesitated because the sky behind them was not what I wanted. I took an additional photo of the landscape behind them that I had taken moments before from the same spot and combined the two to get what you see here. I just love the moment that was captured here so unknowingly and I am happy to finally share it with you here. Enjoy!

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I was inspired recently by a few photos of a city taken with a Lomography camera of some variety, a Holga with alternating color filters I believe. I don't have access to one of these cameras but I do have a few photos from New York when I was up there a few months back and a copy of photoshop so I thought I would pay homage to this style of photography. While I was messing around with the photo I ended up adding a bit of fake tilt shift focusing as well, in my own way at least. I thought that it ended up pretty nice so I figured why not post it for everyone to use. The title is something I found jotted down in my notebook and It seemed appropriate because of the disrepair of the building here...

Since I am being so open with the fact that the whole mood within the photo was done in post production I will show you what the original shot looked like, pretty lifeless I thought. Anyways, enjoy!

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(note: the image here is not a desktop, its just the original)

There is a trick within the desktop making world, at least on the mac side of things, where you are supposed to give a desktop image a weight to the right side of the image, not the left as you see here. Supposedly because the Mac OS has always gone with aligning system icons in the finder on the right side of the screen you should always take care to make mac desktop images left heavy. For the longest time I followed this rule but as of late I have found myself ignoring it more often than not. I feel as though if you keep a tidy desktop then this should not be to big of a deal. When I take a photo, I frame it t he way I do for a reason. In a western train of thought your eye, while looking at an image or a page or a screen, generally starts looking from the top left because you are trained to do so when you learn to read and write. This means that an image may feel awkward if the balance lies on the left of an image. I know that there are times when the movement in a photo or a specific subject may require you to bend this impulse a bit but generally I seem to prefer the right weighted image.

Actually, I have reason taking a liking to sticking a subject right smack in the center of an image, interesting in a minimal kind of a way because it restricts the movement in the photo. The image here is interesting because if you notice the weight of the subject feels like it is the wood in the bottom right but you could just as easily pick the dancing flame in the center as your focal point. It splits your attention in a way. If you have a moment and you have read this far then leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on the matter, composition is such an interesting thing to me and makes or breaks a photo in my eyes.

So, at any rate, here is a photo of a fire in my fireplace. The first one of the season in fact. Enjoy!

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Condos are popping up all over town, this is a building being converted so the insides are being gutted to make way for living space. I never shoot architecture it seems so here is something close(ish). Gotta love that sky...

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