we’ve all heard the phrase “you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.” i wonder if the same goes for wives? emily and i are both musically inclined, her with singing and piano and me with guitar. i know she has dabbled around with some chords and such in the past, but i wonder if i could teach her to do something like this….
this week i want to hear what you have to say. are there any cool tricks you know?
winter haven is truly a different culture than i was familiar with in lakeland. i had the experience this morning of being able to really dive into the winter haven lifestyle and eat breakfast with a friend at a dive quaint restaurant and engulf myself with locals and their ways. we both ordered the biscuits and gravy, to which a question arose. before the order was placed the waitress was asked if the sausage gravy was good. she looked at us as the gears in her head began to move. this woman seriously pondered the question, to which she confidently answered “yeah, it is good.”
a few minutes later our food was ready and we started to eat. for my preference, the gravy wasn’t white enough. definitely not your standard sausage gravy. now get this, our waitress came over and asked how it was. that is a pretty standard question in most eating facilities but she coupled it with “i’ve never tasted it.” i wondered, for several minutes, how she could earlier say that it was good and then comment that she had never tried it. its like people who say they don’t like cole slaw but have never actually eaten any.
the point during breakfast that really stuck with me in my initiation into eastern polk county was centered around the gentleman sitting at the table directly in front of my field of vision. upon finishing his meal he removed his teeth, used his lips as a cleaning device to remove stray morsels of his breakfast delicacy and then dipped them into his glass of water (i assume it was water) to rinse them squeaky clean. with a quick shake they returned inside his mouth. i kid you not.
after bearing witness to this we decided it was probably time to head to work. On our way out we were left with a simple phrase from our waitress. “come back and see us” she said as we walked through the exit. these words rang in my ears as they transformed into “y’all come back now, ya hear?” the strangest part of all is that i can’t wait to go back.
i have a huge ad due today at 5:00 pm. its the biggest ad i’ve done and its in a national glossy, full color magazine. its kind of a big deal. i’ve been fighting deadlines and working with very little information/pictures. a company we hired flew some aerial photography and sent me the proofs late in the afternoon. i picked the one that was going to be best for the ad to show all the property and this is what i had to work with.
as you can see it was a little hazy up there that day. this didn’t really leave me with a good photo to use for my ad so i did a little color editing, added some highlights and shadows, corrected the hue, and added some photo filters to rebuild the aerial so that i could use it. here is what i came up with.
not bad huh?
how can people advertise saying “bringing you the technology of tomorrow…today!”? if they are doing it today doesn’t that make it today’s technology, not tomorrow’s? please explain this to me so that i can be a more informed member within the advertising industry.
no. i’m not talking about a song by the offspring, or eggs for that matter. it is very rare that i will discuss politics in the public eye. in fact, i never thought i would, however, i feel like this may be an interesting topic, maybe even thought provoking. my question is this - how can you have a government structure that is suppose to have a separation of church and state that also has all, or at least the majority, of voting precincts at churches? for the life of me i just can’t wrap my mind around this. question arise for me, such as 1) does being in a church give people guilt about what or who they are voting for 2) how do athiests feel about having to go to church to vote 3) is this even constitutional?
i think that if we are going to hold government voting within the walls of churches we should at least do it right. say for instance you go to vote and your local precinct is a catholic church. i say, instead of voting in the social hall go into the sanctuary. you’ve now eliminated the need for voting booths. just line everyone up in a line and they can vote in the confessional booth. maybe if you vote at a protestant church you can get a communion wafer on your way out instead of a shiny sticker.
i know that i’m being a bit over dramatic about the situation, but i find it rather ironic the way our system works. i’m not trying to offend anyone or change your mind, i just wanted to throw that out there as something to think about as we enter this campaign season.
this week i will be discussing the benefits of using the shadow/highlights adjustment that can be accessed under the image tab on the tool bar. this image adjustment can be very helpful when dealing with an image that is either too dark or too bright. i come across a lot of people who use the burn and dodge tools to add lighting details to photos, and although this can be a method to add shadows or highlights to an image, it is rather ineffective and can be more trouble than it is worth. the image i have chosen is one that is too dark and needs a little more light in it.
with the image open, select the image tab on the menu and then adjustments. from this drop-down menu, select the shadow/highlights option. this will bring up a new dialog box in which you will be able to add and take away light. make sure that the “preview” box is checked so that you will be able to see the outcome of your editing. i like to show more options so that i can really tweak the settings to get the best effect. the sliders are pretty self explainatory, so just play around with them until you get the effect you are hunting. you can also tweak the color correction, to help bring back some of the natural colors that are lost from the original image. when you are finished just click “ok” and you are done. this is what i came up with. hope you’ll be able to use this trick some time.
september has some big this to offer my friends, this year especially. i like to think of september as the gateway to the fun season. here are a few things that will be of highlight to me:
• ) i get to take a weeks vacation with my wife and get away from everthing
• ) the first day of fall begins
• ) the season premier of the office
• ) i will be wrapping up my first year at my new job - october begins year two
and as i said, being the gateway to the fun season means that halloween is right around the corner. i better start planning on how i can scare little children. halloween leads to thanksgiving, which leads to christmas. its a triple threat of holiday bliss. with september here, is there anything that you are looking forward to?
hey guy! i’ve been waiting a couple of weeks for this day. my new september wallpapers are up for all to use. just go up to the wallpapers tab at the top of the page to use them. this month we have a darker wallpaper about death, but it helps to remind that in death there is victory and a new beginning. the other wallpaper is my tribute to apple computers. i took some liberty in creating the new apple logo, kind of an evolution of sorts. i hope you guys enjoy this month’s art.
