Category Archives: iPhone camera fun
a license plate on a parked car caught my eye so I put my car in park and jumped out, ran around the front and over to the right and snapped a picture for my friend. horns are honking (among other gestures) and busy people are crazy — they have places to go. I know. so do I.
it was worth traffic distractions to get this shot for my friend — in hindsight, the effort gave us a good laugh, even if the wrong numbers rendered the photo moot (her love is an A-10 pilot.) I can’t keep those A- and F-plane number sequences straight. the Cs are easy, they come with word associations (Nightingale, Tube of Pain, Willing & Able etc.)
if you are a BMW aficionado, live in Northern Virginia and fly an A36, let me know and I’ll get you a print.
you’ll need:
beautiful blue-eyed blond friend with flawless skin who tolerates incessant picture experimentation (other looks and personalities may be substituted with varying results)
iPhone snap the pic
PS Mobile because the iPhone tends to render skin tones darker than I prefer, I use this app to bump up the exposure by one stop
ShakeItPhoto “Polaroid for your iPhone” or, the most fun I’ve had with a camera since the fourth grade
you’ll spend:
(after materials gathering) about 2 minutes.
you’ll have:
fun!
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Sitting in a crowded parking lot today, waiting, I spied this:
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February 11, 2010 - 3:28 pm
i was always told that i would have been automatically accepted into this sorority since my initials are KKG.
February 13, 2010 - 12:11 pm
of course!!! nevermind that you are beautiful, talented and very fun to hang out with, your monogram would have made it a given! plus, since I’m older than you, I was already in, so of course you would have been heavily recruited.
no school! and the streets I need to get us to a matinee have already been plowed.
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February 3, 2010 - 10:52 am
the perfect tucson sunrise and the perfect virgina snow day all in the same week. not bad.
February 3, 2010 - 11:06 pm
totally worth the trip just to get this cameo appearance from you on my blog! thank you for lunch…
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February 9, 2010 - 10:25 am
oh damn! i totally thought i was looking at the Star!! and i just downloaded the wildcat app. who would have thought that would look so awesome!
February 9, 2010 - 10:38 am
I know! they went broadsheet and it totally threw me. I was walking on campus that first day, looking to pick one up and passed by it how many times before I figured it out.
I love the app! I want one for my blog.
It was upstairs, a window table for two, second from the left, looking out over Bisbee when she knew for certain: she was going to marry this man. (If he ever asks; he kept her guessing just for sport.)
Fast forward 15 years, he’s at home enjoying the snow with the kids while she gets a long weekend away with her best friend from kindergarten. Thank you, Carlos, for Bisbee. Then and now.
Mrs. Robin and I had planned a dinner date at Cafe Roka tonight, but it’s closed until February for renovations. A picture from outside was the best we could do.
[photo by RLC]
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January 31, 2010 - 10:28 am
Great pic!
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Lewis Nelson - Just happened across your blog as I want to learn more about photography… but as a veteran, I had to let you know that most of the A and F planes also have names… A-10 Warthog and the A-36 Apache (an old plane which I think was post WW-II but maybe caught the tale end of the war?), the F-15 Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, etc. However, I would imagine that the plate above refers to the Beechcraft A36 civilian aircraft… a bit more likely than the A-36 Apache
Not trying to prove I’m smart or anything; I just love military aviation!
christine - Mr. Nelson, thanks for stopping by and sharing your love/knowledge of military aviation! How could I have possibly overlooked such an endearing nickname as Warthog???
No seriously, you are absolutely correct, I need to expand my limited-to-cargo vocabulary to include all those wonderfully coined fighters, and I appreciate you helping me out. I think you nailed it on the Beechcraft, I hope someday the BMW driver pulls up this post and introduces him/herself.
On another note, if there is anything I can do to help you in your journey to learn more about photography, please don’t hesitate to ask! Here’s some of what I have started already:
http://christinegacharna.com/blog/photo-101-table-of-contents/
Very best regards…