This is Jack

Today we went to DC to eat at my old favorite pizza restaurant (why would I expect it to be as good 20 years later?) and the Museum of Crime and Punishment. Joe and Tim did crime and punishment and Jack and I went across the street to the American Art Museum and saw the Calder exhibit and much of the rest of the second floor. It was unexpectedly not boring...

This was taken in the courtyard of the Art Museum/National Gallery while we waited for Joe and Tim. I could hold this moment forever. This is Jack.

Photoshop Elements

Wow, isn't this fun? Two of my favorite pictures of my boys - one of Tim getting ready to play the viola, and one of Jack at the beach. Downloaded Photoshop Elements 9 to try out for 30 days. I see this purchase in my future. Its facial recognition doesn't seem as good and it isn't easy to blog as far as I can tell, but I should be able to use Picasa to fill in the gaps.

Spring-ish Strip

When I crop in Picasa, it suggests three options or lets me pick my own. Today, it gave be the photo above. There is nothing spectacular about this photo, or the larger photo from which it came, but it struck me nonetheless because of how one photo divided into so many vertical pieces. The birdhouse, the big tree, tire swing, fence posts, small trees. I would not in a million years have cropped this photo this way myself and I don't know why Picasa did it, but I am grateful.

Viola Collage

Tim's first viola concert and my first set of shots entirely off "automatic" setting.  Used the telephoto on "A" setting.  Not bad for a beginner in a school cafeteria --meaning me, not Tim, he was fantastic.  The water fountain and the wood podium pose some background problems, but I thought the viola and Tim looked pretty good against the blue wall.  And Picasa collage helped me get three pictures in without taking up so much space.  Congratulations on a successful concert, T!

This is everyday...