DAY THIRTY!!!!!!!!!!! (pictures)

HEY YOU GUYS! It's finally day thirty! (I guess in reality it's day fifty-something, but who's counting?) Today is another picture edit day.

I started with this, and then I wished it had more colour, so I did the magical saturation thing again.

I really like it! I'm not sure how it looks on my computer versus how it looks on your computer, but to me it looks wonderful. (I learned that computer screens can drastically affect how a picture looks.)

Anyway. That's it. No big bang or anything.

Overall Highlights: being creative, making magnets, having a few inspired novel-writing days, whiteboard, and bookmarks.

Overall Lowlights: stupid japanese papercraft boxes, stupid menswear bunny, stupid laptop bag, losing inspiration for my novel, resorting to Ikea picture frames, and not actually completing this challenge within the desired timeframe.

Day Twenty-Eight: pictures

Hey guys! It's totally the next day after my last post. I am super good at completing the goals I set out for myself, and thirty days is a completely manageable time frame in which to complete something!

Ahem. Excuse #1: I moved and started a new job. Excuse #2: I only got a camera yesterday. And here's what I did with it!

This is outside my classroom. I have the best view in the entire world.

Then I used Picasa from Google to make it more blue and also increased the saturation. From what I can tell, increasing the saturation makes the colours stand out more. (Don't quote me on that. I don't know anything about photography or free programs you can download to edit your pictures. Mostly I'm just like, "Hm, I'll slide around this little knobby and see how it makes my picture different!")

Then I decided that I didn't really like the playground on the side, or the apartment buildings, so I cropped it.

And there it is. I don't know - I was all super keen to get a camera so I could take pictures of how beautiful it is here, but I quickly came to realize that if you don't have a lot of money to spend on a camera, what you see and what you capture on digital film is not the same. Oh well, at least I was creative! Yay, me!

Day Twenty-Eight Highlights: finally taking pictures of my spectacular view.

Day Twenty-Eight Lowlights: figuring out photo editing programs, trying to compress pictures, lacking follow-through.

Tomorrow: more pictures, probably! I might just take a bunch tomorrow and the pretend it was spread out over a few days, since I thought that this post would be day twenty-nine. WILL THIS NEVER END.

Day Twenty-Seven: pictures

I don't know if you've noticed, but I appear to be taking this "every day" thing pretty loosely right now. I keep forgetting to be creative, and then sometimes realizing I was indeed creative after all accidentally, and sometimes not. I remembered that when I was in Whistler I really wanted to make soap, so I am going to investigate how to do so and maybe churn out something genuinely creative in the next three days... we'll see.

Anyway. For today, I have some pictures that I took! I have all these friends who are super good at taking pictures and are making businesses out of it, but don't go expecting anything Polly Photographer about these ones. My parents and I were in Sechelt for the day, and my dad was gallivanting around the rocks with my dog and I was left with the camera for safekeeping. It's a lot more fun to take pictures with a giant camera that makes the old-fashioned click-click sound when you press the button, so I took a bunch of pictures because I liked the sound. These ones are the best.

This one is my favourite. There were arbutus trees everywhere, and I love arbutus trees. They are so smooth! Plus I learned from an informational sign that sometimes arbutus trees look just like regular trees with rough bark, and then they shed their winter skin and become smooth and awesome. Like ninja snake trees!

These are arbutus trees mid-shed. Camouflage bark is gone, next step: peel.

There were a million purple starfish everywhere!

The ocean was so sparkly.

Day Twenty-Seven Highlights: cameras that sound old, arbutus trees.

Day Twenty-Seven Lowlights: nothing, really. It was pretty awesome.

Tomorrow: soap? I don't know. I'll try, though - I promise.