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Trying to rescue these shots I took in Tokyo a couple years ago with my Canon Power Shot. I didn...

jensketch — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:23:13 +0000

Trying to rescue these shots I took in Tokyo a couple years ago with my Canon Power Shot. I didn't want to carry around my Rebel xTi that I had at the time. I'm glad I didn't -- it was perpetually 95-100 degrees and 100% humidity (August in Tokyo. Wow. And I thought North Carolina was bad.) The PowerShot tucked nicely in my pocket.

I want to go back to Tokyo and tour around Japan more, just to get better shots!

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Wow, this actually made me tear up a little. I'm really sappy though :D (I love it) This is ...

jensketch — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:18:17 +0000

Wow, this actually made me tear up a little. I'm really sappy though :D (I love it) This is quite moving - really well done +Google+ well done indeed.

Thanks, +Andrea Rossi for sharing this. I hadn't seen this one. The voice is Sherlock's own Benedict Cumberbatch who is also going to be the voice of Smaug in The Hobbit. (Coming out this December)

He's got a really wonderful voice. So sonorous and resonating. Love it!!

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I know, I know, a freakin' quote image. I apologize. But this one isn't trite. It is m...

jensketch — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:42:43 +0000

I know, I know, a freakin' quote image. I apologize.

But this one isn't trite. It is my own truth.

It feels good to read truth. Stephen King called it the Ecstasy of Perfect Recognition.

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She's almost at her goal. +Catherine Morgan is going to shave her head for charity! The hai...

jensketch — Sun, 27 May 2012 20:58:17 +0000

She's almost at her goal. +Catherine Morgan is going to shave her head for charity! The hair going to Locks of Love (they make wigs for children with cancer who have lost their hair because of Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy).

Very selfless thing to do - but she's not at her goal yet. Let's make it happen and #fckcancer

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Played Pathfinder yesterday. Yes, these are my pink dice. :p I have purple dice, too, but thes...

jensketch — Sun, 27 May 2012 14:14:06 +0000

Played Pathfinder yesterday. Yes, these are my pink dice. :p I have purple dice, too, but these pink ones are sparkly :)

I play two characters, twin sisters; a Witch and a Magus.

In a fight with Ogres, I was complaining that my Witch is usually relegated to Healer but we were doing alright in the fight and I finally got to use a damage spell.

I took out 4 at once. Ohhhh yeahhhhh.

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People are really bored in the Winter :D

jensketch — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:28:22 +0000

People are really bored in the Winter :D

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So we're not really great every time about bringing the trash to the bin. I mean, it's o...

jensketch — Sun, 27 May 2012 01:32:46 +0000

So we're not really great every time about bringing the trash to the bin. I mean, it's only over the rail of the deck but... well, whatever :p

So, we had some little raccoon go tearing through it and I guess they found the Mother Lode because the next day we found these little raccoon handprints all over the deck. They had eaten the rest of the bag of marshmallows, this one last one remained.

I imagined sugar-drunk raccoons heading back out to our natural area, licking their little fingers.... haha :)

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This is about 7 years old this photo, another one I found when organizing and importing my Photo ...

jensketch — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:42:54 +0000

This is about 7 years old this photo, another one I found when organizing and importing my Photo archives onto an external drive.

It's not perfect - it could be sharper, but I really liked how the colors and light swirled and moved in the sky, kissing the clouds and warming them with the sunrise. There is a lot going on in that sky :)

Tybee Island, Georgia

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So admittedly I may have shot myself in the foot with switching to Lightroom on my PC (another pr...

jensketch — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:59:40 +0000

So admittedly I may have shot myself in the foot with switching to Lightroom on my PC (another proprietary thing, hahahaha don't think the irony isn't lost on me) however, since most everyone uses Lightroom I can't be screwing up too bad.

Besides, I've begun to start using and creating User Presets and they are pretty much exactly like Photoshop actions. And it's all much faster.

So I'm thinking, if I don't need to do anything with content-aware, editing can be done much faster just in Lightroom. In any event, finding old photos I've never published was fun - and it was even more fun to fiddle (even if it was only a JPG!)

Tybee Island, Georgia.

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So, wow. Bad news. I forgot about my iPhoto library and my Photo Booth library. Honestly I rem...

jensketch — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:48:11 +0000

So, wow. Bad news. I forgot about my iPhoto library and my Photo Booth library. Honestly I remember thinking that I was shit outta luck because of Mac's proprietary bullshit that you can't really export it without a lot of hoops to jump through. And while I saved all my old photos on external drives through the years, I lost some, too.

Right now I'm feeling pissed at Mac more than myself because of how they limit you. It's a really difficult thing to get your photos out of iPhoto/PhotoBooth. Windows doesn't do that.

But good god I made a big mistake and I feel a little empty inside. I probably got 99% of my data -- but that 1% will haunt me.

I'll never make that mistake again - and by that I mean I'll only upload my photos to Windows machines. Sorry Mac. That's a fail.

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