This gallery is a complete chronicle of my 40th year, starting on my birthday in 2008. I posted one photo each day for a year. The photo-a-day project continues in this gallery here.
June 23, 2008; Day 52.
Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them. I came in last place tonight; I blame luck.
This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely.
The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs.
Raw: Exposure: 1.0
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; 5 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: 10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them. I came in last place tonight; I blame luck.
This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely.
The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs.
Raw: Exposure: 1.0
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; 5 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: 10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
June 23, 2008; Day 52.
Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them. I came in last place tonight; I blame luck.
This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely.
The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs.
Raw: Exposure: 1.0
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; 5 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: 10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
Another Monday, another evening with friends in Portsmouth. It was rainy with thunderstorms expected...perfect for several rounds of Uno. Uno combines the best of poker and Survivor…you win mostly by luck but also by cunning—getting your neighbors to thrash someone else with their crummy cards while accepting that you have no choice but to occasionally thrash them. I came in last place tonight; I blame luck.
This is not my hand; my cards are in the pile at left. I'm somewhat wedged into place to take this shot and didn't notice how off my horizon was. I didn’t feel the need to fix this; the slanting horizon seems to fit this crowd nicely.
The diffuse lighting is mostly coming from my external flash, attached on the hot shoe and pointed at the ceiling, angled slightly behind me. I needed a color balance adjustment to remove some of the green coming from the florescent bulbs.
Raw: Exposure: 1.0
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Color Balance: -10 Magenta to Green; 5 Yellow to Blue
PS: Saturation: 10
PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0