Alex on Treasure Island

It's my birthday. This is Alex. Blah blah. Photoshop.

An angel for today

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I've not had the greatest week. The worst in a long time, perhaps ever. *sigh* 

Here's a picture I took on St. Patrick's Day in Oakland.

Quan Yin

Hearse for Halloween

From Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The pareidolia will drive you crazy.The faces! The faces! The faces will drive you mad! Aaaaaaaa!

Garden Spirit 1

Rural Graffiti

Preening Swan

A curvaceous and fecund mourner, she flowed with milk and honey.

Mushroomlandia

The moment of take-off

From my recent adventures in falconry.

Chinatown Random

wings

Minerva

Reason #1331 I love this girl

I can say: "Let's trespass through a vineyard, hike up a field of mustard flowers, you take off your dress, and I'll take pictures," and she'll do it.

One of my most favorite pictures, ever.

My favorite photo, ever, until I took the one of Evie and Bella last October anyway.

As taken:

With Photoshop:

I don't know which I prefer.

Waterspirits

Wanted to be creative tonight, resorted to old photos since neither muse nor opportunity were forthcoming.

Goddess Athena

I hope she doesn't mind I'm posting this on my blog but I'm kinda proud of it. I'm especially proud because the minute prior I took a picture of myself in shadow and she said, "Oooo! Take one like that of me!" and I was afraid I couldn't because A) I was drunk and B) it was an accident. Seems I pulled it off. I Photoshopped her a little bit but I think it looks fantastic as it adds to the mysteriousness of the composition.

Flora Louise

I've got nothing better to do today except try not to be sick, might as well look through pictures and practice being better friends with Photoshop.

So here's "Burlesque Me" from the other night. The wig is named Flora Louise after Louise Brooks.

I was on a platform behind a stage that was ordinarily a guy's bedroom. I set the camera on his bed and ran really fast across the room against the wall before the ten second timer went off. [I was by myself and a little drunk while I did this, which would explain why I forgot to make sure the camera didn't take itself off of monochrome for the first shot. I usually don't like myself in color. ;0]


This was the second shot, and I put the camera back on monochrome. In this one post-production, I fixed Louise's hair, the skuzzy ends of my lace gloves, and removed a wristband and also an annoying spot on the wall behind my head in Photoshop:

I hate Photoshop, but I think I did okay with it. :)

Practice, I guess.

I'm sick again...and playing with Photoshop.

I am going to try to post things a little bit bigger provided they don't run into the column on the right. I meant to do that at the start of January (new year, clean post start date) but forgot.