G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

I'm never going to get anything done today, am I?  Once I get started on these, I find it hard to stop.  Photo by wolfpup2000 .

Playing in the sandbox again.  From a few of my photos of Jensen at LACon 2009.

Still playing....

I may have found myself a new favorite subject.  I love the character of Parker on Leverage.  Plus Beth Riesgraf seems to be a nice person and she loves photography.  When we saw her at one of the Kane concerts in Portland she was snapping away. 

I think I may use one of these if I get her autograph at the Con-Con.


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I played today!

Here are some of my LA Con 2009 photos cleaned up and looking pretty like the boys should.

As much as I loved all the other cons (especially Vancon), really the 2nd LA Con remains my all-time favorite.

Ssshhh! I'm supposed to be Christmas shopping and doing some graphics work for others...but I got lost in J2 land.

Not a bad place to lose yourself in...

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*gulps*

This is the first time I've done anything like this. And I feel I've just barely done anything to try this...but here goes!


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Decided to resurrect one of my LA Con 2009 photos and apply some of the filtering techniques I've learned recently. Still not as good as those I've done with elsiecat's photos since mine are not as sharp as hers.

Thanks to elsiecat and my insomnia of last night I now have a new layout.

I finally figured out that it was that darn black curtain backdrop that was messing with my Photoshop-fu in trying to make headers out of any J2 panel pics. While I liked some of my results, they were all so dark and I wanted something more lively.

So since I couldn't sleep last night...I ended up doing this. And I was very happy with the results. So I played some more to adapt one of them for a new header and came up with this...


It has a transparent background so the background colors you see will depend upon the background of the page you are viewing.

Then I played around with my layout and the final results are below.


Plus I made a shiny new icon to match! And I think this is the first icon I've ever made that I really like. (Not that I've made a lot, mind you.)

I still think I like simpler formats better. However I'm playing around with doing more than just a simple filter and framing. I like some of these better than others.

All the photos used here are from elsiecat 's Chicon 2009 J2 panel photos.

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1) This one above is more the simple style I've been going with.

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I'm posting this because perhaps I may like it in the morning. But right now I'm very doubtful of that. The Js are from elsiecat's wonderful Chicon J2 panel photos.

I wanted to try a header-type format with both Js in it. I wanted them looking at each other. But I pinky-swear that I was NOT going for lovey-dovey or cutsey. But it seemed like no matter what I tried I got either or both lovey-dovey or cutsey. *headdesk* And this is two images that I placed together so Jensen isn't even looking at Jared in the RL photo. Damn man, you have to stop looking at everyone that way.

The black curtains made it more challenging because I did not feel like cutting out the boys from the background. Heh. In the end that would have likely been faster! *g*

So whatever. I give up. I'm frustrated. And I think I have gremlins in my Macbook. Grrrr....




Oh! I did watch SPN 5x10... Should I say I cried? I cried. Damn show. *luvs*

ETA: Grumpy post is grumpy. I made an icon out of this as well. I really don't like making icons. They frustrate me even more because I never seem to put one together that satisfies me and they are so freakin' SMALL! *sigh*

A few more random photos from ChiCon.


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