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Christmas is getting closer!

And I made plans to finally get together with Erica!!!

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playing with shadows and dim light.

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My head has been feeling pretty stopped up and pressure is pushing against my temples and eyes. I think I am getting cedar fever, but who knows. I always have something going on with my respiratory system. So, here is a representation of what my head feels about 95% of the year.

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Do you remember those little picture puzzles that you would have to move around to get the pieces in the right place for the picture to form? That's kinda what i had in mind when I did this one. I kinda wish I could print it out and make one to see if I could solve this puzzle.

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Christmas is so close. I can't believe how quick time is going. I've been in my twenties only 6 years, but it seems like I've only been experiencing that for half the time. I'm starting to feel like the "old" crowd. That's the strange part. I have kids coming in to Vulcan to rent movies and they see our painting of Gizmo on the wall. I hear one girl comment to her friend how cute our furby painting is. NOOOOOOO! It's a sad day when 18+ year olds think that gizmo is a furby.

Anywho, still waiting on placement information. I hope to god they give me exactly what I want. If not Kyoto, Osaka is just fine. Or anywhere near Osaka. I won't take anything less. Maybe. We'll see.

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Going along with yesterday, I needed a break today. The most I could do today was roll out of bed and take a picture of me and my camera. The one thing I am proud of though is that this is the first and only photo of me and my camera in the mirror shot. Lots of self portraits are of people in a bathroom holding a camera to take a photo of themselves. I'm guilty of it. I think everyone is. But, in my 365, this is the first blatant camera in your face shot. blech.

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In hindsight, this is lame. I really don't like my 100th picture. I was obsessed with Egypt as a kid and wanted to be an Egyptologist forever. Thinking of putting my face on Isis as a good idea turned out to be a bad idea. Well, lesson learned. This photo is lame and I need to put my thinking cap on for future pictures. My quality has been lacking because i've been in a pretty bad creative slump. I've been working non-stop and the first thing I think of when I get home is sleep and not my pictures. It shows in my photos. I'll try to pick up the slack.

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I got a new 50mm lens. It wasn't intentional either, which is strange. Stephen is getting a new 7D camera for christmas and he's going batty buying all these extra things for the camera. (He's mostly using it for the video function, not the still camera function)
So, he bought a 50mm lens but somehow bought two on accident. I went ahead and got the lens as a christmas present from him in exchange for a 1TB hard drive. So, it was more of a trade off than a christmas present. Whatever. I love the lens.

This was taken with that lens, but Stephen hated the bags under his eyes. So, he asked me to photoshop them out and I went a bit batty. Now I feel like this is a bit overdone and waxy looking in a way. I don't have a good photo of us really and this is as close as I'm probably going to come.

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A lady does have to put her face on in the morning. :)

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This is my great-great grandmother's necklace that came over with her when the emigrated from Germany. Researching the name and similar necklaces, I found that it's a sterling silver production company called Handarbeit. It was manufactured between 1880's to the early 1900's. I love this necklace. I shouldn't wear it just in case I was to lose it. I should keep it safe. I love having family heirlooms.

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I've found the biggest christmas lights! :)

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Dexter is one of my favorite shows. This season (4) has been great and so I kinda just decided to cut myself up. Weird? yes. I found a tutorial that showed how to do this, but honestly he made it so much more difficult than was necessary. So, I took my own route and did it my own way. It turned out almost exactly like the tutorial, but it seems I cut in half all the steps needed to do it. Since my background is black, I also didn't need to be as conscience of my background compared to his white background.

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This one was weird to do. It was really easy, but one step required I do a gradient overlay on a mask layer. And it didn't work. I could not figure out what to do. The background is supposed to be a lighter shade of black with the white rain falling a bit more naturally. Mine looks obviously faked. Meh. It was my first try. I'll try again someday in the future.

Sin city Danica?? Not quite.

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Papa has an old 3D camera that he has entrusted to me for it's care. It's an awesome thing. The case is original and I really wish that the film still existed so that I could test out the camera. I don't even know if it works anymore, but it sure would be cool to find out. The thing has so many contraptions on it that it'd take me some time to figure out how to do it.

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I need to figure out how to save the files so they don't lose their detail. This picture has a lot of contrast detail, especially on my face that has gone away from resizing the picture.
Oh well.