My wife recently took this iPhone picture of me and I put it online with the caption, “Me and My Grandpaw.” It got a bunch of likes and two comments. Both pointed out the closeness of the color of my jacket and my buddy’s fur. When I saw the photo, her alert (and cute) face stood out.
You never know what folks see when they look at your photo. It may not be what you saw.
Doors make interesting photos.
I found this one to be intriguing. It made me think about what interesting information is within.
How many people have sought help from the other side?
How many people were happy with what they learned?
How many people were saddened with what they learned?
I wonder. Do you?
A relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln came to New York City to deliver a speech on February 26, 1860 at Cooper Union. Earlier that day, he went to the Brady Portrait Gallery to have his picture taken. According to Lincoln, his speech and that photo helped propel him into the presidency. Many newspapers reported on the speech and used that picture of Lincoln. Here’s the famous portrait…
Instagram is that site for folks to post lots of selfies and other silly pictures, right? WRONG.
Instagram is what YOU make of it. You can make it your exclusive place online…with pictures and TEXT. Yes, lots of text! You can literally write blog like posts on Instagram by creating a group of images and uploading them together. Seth Godin is a master of this. Here’s one of his examples.
The first image acts as the title to draw interest. The rest is all text to explain the idea.
Do we really need a blog, Twitter, and/or Facebook anymore? Is Instagram enough? I wonder.
While looking through old photos I came across these flowers. It was taken on November 25, 2007. They made me smile. The photo doesn’t comply with the rule of thirds. There are no leading lines. Sometimes, we look too carefully at a photograph. Sometimes, it’s just nice.
I don’t usually use expressions like fastest, easiest, and cheapest but today is an exception. When it comes to preserving family memories there is a way to do it that fits those three criteria. Create a Blogger site. Blogger is a site created by Google. It’s free. You can add pictures as well as text. You can add to it whenever you want. Although it’s supposed to be a blogging site, it’s actually whatever you want to make out of it.
Try it if you want to preserver family memories.
My wife likes to shop in Wegman’s supermarket. It’s a very interesting place to spend some time. During a recent visit, I came upon what might be an interesting background for a PowerPoint slide. If I blur it a bit…I think it will be perfect for a presentation I’m going to do on garden photography.
Back when Mathew Brady was taking portraits of celebrities like Abraham Lincoln, they used very toxic chemicals and few precautions. Today, we can create pictures that look very similar in a click or two. Here’s a black and white selfie I took using my iPhone and the TinType App. No toxic chemicals needed and it only took a few seconds to create.
I’d love to take credit for the careful posing of these three Pugs. I can’t. They just decided to lean on each other. I was there at the right time and in the right place…ready to take a picture. Happy that I did. This photo was taken about 15 years ago. Although Camille, Teddy, and Ruby are gone…their memories live on in pictures.
It’s usually a good idea to have people in focus when you take a picture. However, it sometimes doesn’t matter. This photo was taken at my son’s wedding. Although I’m not in focus, I still love the photo. Memories that are out of focus mean just as much as those that are carefully in focus. 🙂
