Push forward!

Spotted this scrawled on an old sign next to the Hollywood Reservoir.  The colors are all natural; I just bumped up the contrast a little bit.

Tiny waterfall at La Jolla Shores

This is way down south, past the Marine Room.

Jack jumps again

Jack jumps again, this time on the rocks.

Jack jumps

Jack jumping at the La Jolla Shores on Christmas Day.

Fallen tree

A big branch fell off of a tree across the street from me.  

Sphinx sky replacement

Here's a picture of the Sphinx I found online:

 

For fun, I took out the sky and put in a starry night sky:

Wee!

It's a shame that it's so hard to get actual night shots of the Sphinx since, being a feline, that's when it's most active.

Final project for Photoshop

Alrighty, here it is.  My final project for my Photoshop 101 class.  The assignment was to find a movie poster and recreate it from scratch.  We had to change all of the words and use original pictures, but still make it look as much as possible like the original.

I chose this awesome poster for the movie Futureworld (1976). 

Here's the orginal:

 

And here's my version:

Thomas in Texas 2006

I found some old Hi8 tapes when I was home for Thanksgiving last weekend, dug out my old camcorder, and popped one in.  Here's a still I extracted by taking a macro photo of the camcorder's LCD screen that shows me in Kilgore, Texas on July 3rd, 2006.  Look at that dapper fellow!  

The picture kind of looks more like it was taken 50 years ago.