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Friday, May 16, 2008
When my sister graduated last weekend it was quite the event. That's me snapping one of hundreds of pictures of her from the day. To celebrate, I made her some congratulation balloon tags.
For Lauren's baby shower, made these seed packets to go with the favors. Since she was born early she had her shower after her birth and got to be featured on her favors.
Looking back at that project gave me an idea.
I designed photo seed packets that can be used for wedding favors or baby birth announcements. The project seems timely because spring always seems to bring lots of weddings and babies.
You can download the templates here and there are also step by step instructions. It helps if you have photo editing software, so you can add the pictures before you print them out.
I wrote a post on 1000Words about Around the Table Panoramic pictures. I think it's a cool way to take pictures of your friends and family when you are gathered around a table together. Check it out and leave a comment there of what you think.
We went to watch Lauren get her pictures taken again for spring. I was excited to see the bunny come out. Lauren liked him too... when he stayed in this basket.
When he hopped out of his basket... not so much. Even though she loves Oscar and Stewie, a freely hopping bunny was terrifying and was to be slid quickly away from. Back into a corner preferably.
Today on 1000 Words I wrote about the partnership between Kodak Gallery and slide.com. You can now access your photos on the Gallery to make slideshows on slide.com.
We had a blast at the George Eastman House OSCARS party.
Oscar had a special t-shirt to wear for the occasion.
He came toe to toe with another Oscar.
Everyone had to stop and pet him. I mean everyone.
The band played "Who let the dogs out?" and he went out onto the dance floor. Everyone was taking pictures of Oscar and a lot of people wanted their picture taken with him.
He is going to be really difficult to live with now.
I forgot to link to my pictures from my NYC trip. I have them on My
Gallery. There are some pictures of the amazing Christmas
display windows at Lord&Taylor.
I don't want to push Christmas before it's time, but here is something you will want to start early so you have it ready for the first of December... a Photo Advent Calendar.
I love advent calendars and wanted one that was personalized. So I created this house design in illustrator and the template for placing the photos behind it.
You can download the pdf's to make your own Photo Advent Calendar on 1000 Words and more detailed instructions for making it.
You can open a window for each day in December and see one of your favorite photos!
I also made an Oscar and Stewie back panel so you could have a Pug and Cat Advent Calendar if you don't have time to fill one in with your own pictures. Or maybe you just want a cute Pug and Cat Advent Calendar. You can download this panel at 1000 Words too.
Back from Vegas and looking at the pictures. We stayed at The
Paris Hotel and had a nice view from the room window.
I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I am getting good at the
"hold your arm out as far as it will go" self portrait technique. You can see the rest of my Vegas pictures on My Gallery.
Did I mention Maroon 5 was playing at the Palms the last night
we were there. *sigh* So close, yet so far.
Oh... and I am booking another flight to Vegas this very moment... for CES in January. That's a lot of Vegas.
Last week I realized that two of our local museums had
similiar themes. The George Eastman House has an exhibit of Lucha
Libre! Masked Mexican Wrestlers....
This was too much of a coincidence for me so we had "Mexican
Museum
Night" with our friends. We hit both exhibits and then when to
Salenas (newly
renovated) for dinner.
I love taking pictures with statues when I find them. And I like making the people traveling with me pose with them too. Here are a few I found in Boston.
The frogs near the frog pond in Boston Commons.
Make Way for Ducklings in Boston Public Garden.
Giant Mayor Kevin White at Faneuil Hall.
Red Auerbach at Faneuil Hall, Mayor James Curley sitting and standing at Curley Mall.
When we were riding around on the duck tour, I noticed tortoise and hare statues in Copley Square. We didn't have time to walk back over there, so I missed them. Boo.
Kodak Gallery Scan Van came to our office building this week! The Scan Van is equipped with high speed Kodak scanners that can scan pictures in seconds. It is amazing how fast they work. I had two hundred pictures scanned in ten minutes, and that is with stopping to tape small pictures to a larger piece of paper, wiping off the scanner after my dusty pictures went through and color correcting a few pictures. After they are scanned they are uploaded to the Kodak Gallery.
If you have shoeboxes full of pictures, the Scan Van is the answer to your prayers.
I had a lot of fun looking though my albums and pulling out pictures (no shoeboxes for my pictures) Here are pictures of myself and Aaron as babies. We were both pretty tubby, but I think I win the best hair prize.
Me in my natural element... behind a birthday cake. Aaron grinning away as usual.
I had a few of my parents and family. This is my dad when he was a little boy and a group shot of my mom with her mom and her siblings.
Here one of my parents when they were dating... heh heh and one of my mother with her sisters on the day she left Korea to come to America.
I am so glad I have these images digitized now. I only wish I had more pictures that are at my parents house to take to the Scan Van. You can see more of the pictures I had scanned in my Gallery.
I'm not sure where the Scan Van will be next but when I hear where it will be going I will post it here.
The George Eastman House gave out 100 Ansel Rocks! t-shirts to promote
the Ansel Adams exhibit. There is even a flickr
group for picture of people in their t-shirts.
We just became members of the GEH. I don't know why we didn't do it
sooner. I really like going to The Dryden Theatre. Right now they are
running Audrey
Hepburn Wednesdays.
This morning Kodak's building #9 was imploded and I had a
front row seat. I have seen buildings in Vegas implode on tv, but this was my
chance to see it in person. I took pictures while Aaron shot video.
There was a countdown, a series of boom boom booms, a long pause, the
building crumpling in on itself and then a billowing dust cloud rolling
across the parking lot. Wow!
I just got all 225 beach pictures uploaded and my vacation
feel like a distant memory. At least I can enjoy the pictures.
I can see we spent a lot of time going for morning walks,
collecting shells, poking dead washed up sea critters, watching the
dogs run around like nuts and sitting very still while the wild horses
strolled past.
Here are the pictures in all their glory on my Gallery.
I just read about a wedding tradition called Trash the Dress.
The idea is after the wedding you pose for pictures in spots that will
completely ruin your wedding dress. "Trash it. Get it dirty. Get it
wet. Roll around in the mud. Drench it in the ocean. Totally trash
it."
I don't think I could trash my wedding dress... my mom made it
for me, but some of the pictures are amazing
and they look like fun.
Chuck and Tina took Lauren to have her picture taken so Aaron and I tagged along. I wanted to be there because I heard there were going to be bunnies involved. There was only one bunny brought out and he nearly got his stuffing squeezed outta him by an overly enthusiastic one year old.
Still, it was great fun to watch Lauren's parents dance around with stuffed animals, whistling and clicking to make Lauren smile. And as you can see... the results made it all well worth it.
I finally uploaded my Through the Viewfinder pictures for the World Through the Viewfinder Day group on flickr. I used my two favorite subjects for my pictures. They are so good at sitting laying still for the camera.
I missed the cutoff for judging but that is okay because I am actually a judge myself! There are so many great shots... it's gonna be hard.
This morning Tina and Lauren joined us for breakfast at our favorite diner (Jim's Restaurant). I took "across the table" pictures of all of us this time.
In an attempt to slow down, Aaron and I have been trying things like eating breakfast together at home. Friday mornings we go for coffee together before we go to our respective offices.
When we are out like this... the two of us... we pass the camera across the table and take pictures of each other. We have done it enough that I have a Flickr set of just Across the Table pictures.
We had our first snow storm last night. When I came outside this morning everything was bright, white and clean. Soon the roads will get slushy and dirty, so I took some pictures of our street right away.
(Click on the image above to see a larger version.) I never get tired of the panoramic stitching feature on my camera... some of the houses look crooked and wonky but I like them that way. Below is one third of a panoramic... you can see the yellow house fell on a seam.
I was a lucky girl because Aaron drove me to work today. You can see him in the first picture brushing snow off his truck.
I learned that when it is 5º you don't want to leave your mittens off too long while shooting pictures of your snow covered street.
All of the Las Vegas strip is a photo opportunity. I took a few shots... all probably taken thousands of times... but if you want to see them... I uploaded them to my Gallery.
On New Years Day, Aaron and I continued the tradition we started the year we were married and took our pictures in front of my Grandma's refridgerator.
This year we had Stewie to add. I think it looks like he is saying " I like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne."
