Goofing around in my cubicle

It's not much, but I took a few of these shots in my cubicle at my office. I fooled around with the ghosting thing on my keyboard. Then I tried to take a fun colorful pic of my candy bowl...and I threw my acid reflux medication bottle into the bowl, just for fun :).

Fooling around with forced perspective

Okay, so with limited props and very little in the way of knowledge as far as technique, here are a few attempts I made at recreating a forced perspective. If you've seen the Lord of the Rings films, you'll know the technique of which I speak. My idea was to have Leia appear much farther away from the Stormtrooper bust, but it didn't quite work out the way I wanted. I spoke to a friend on this matter and she gave me a couple suggestions to maybe improve the effect. So, I'll give it another go at some point. The first image (that is the one on the bottom...oy) was taken on the floor and I think it came out pretty well, but my couch is obviously in the background. In the second two, I thought the light worked out better. But you can see the background consists of some towels...and the effect still isn't pulled off the way I wanted. Still, I thought the pics looked kinda cool.

My friend the Heron

I forgot to post these...here are a few pics of a lovely heron that was kind enough to pose for me in the Mississippi bayou.

Pic #11 & #12 (or the end of initial posts, hopefully subsequent posts will have real titles)

I received this very cool candle thingie as a wedding favor (sadly, I was unable to attend the wedding, but the lovely couple gave me a gift bag anyway :)). So, I fired it up and took a few pics of it in the dark. I couldn't get rid of the flare, perhaps an aperture problem. But I had my flashlight out and shot it through the gems in the 'fan' and otherwise tried to just use the candle flame for lighting. I'll post 2 of the better shots.

Pic #10

A few days ago I was watching a documentary about Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and I was inspired. So, this is my lame tribute to Kubrick and the floating pen (ignore the glass, I did a poor job of cropping it out, and ignore the tape...I didn't have any double-sided tape on hand).

Pic #9 (I lost count, but I think 9 is correct)

I like this one for several reasons, first: the fury of nature. It's a seagull in the bayou snatching fish guts. It's also cool because I was able to catch the ripples, plus the colors worked out real well.

Pic #8

Since I like spiders and this pic is what I would call another happy accident, here's a cool spider web/spider pic taken on my porch one night. The camera shake was unintentional, as was the weird ghostly glow...I mean, I totally meant to do that :).