Green Solo cup. I fill you up.
Happy Superbowl Sunday, ya’ll.
Ok, ok. There was only lemonade in the cup. And we were celebrating a friend’s birthday with the game on in the far background. I’ve been inspired by red solo cups for years. This cheery green one just begged to be photographed. Photo Copyright 2012, Karen Fayeth. Taken with my iPhone4s using the Hipstamatic app.
I was so impressed by a Hipstaphoto I saw in December where a photographer had used an Olloclip to capture a snowflake, that I just had to go out and purchase one of my very own.
After the Christmas holidays, they were on major backorder, so I wasn’t expecting my new iPhoneography device until February.
I did a little hop click of my heels when it arrived this week.
Super!
Between moving and the deluge of new projects at work, I haven’t had a bunch of time to play with the glass lenses and ingenious clip for my iPhone.
Yesterday, I sat in the work cafeteria slumped in my chair trying to get in some nutrition, and my eyes landed on this tableau:
Well, the light was nice and the shakers were interesting. So I decided no time like the present.
I dug the Olloclip out of my pocket, slid it on the iPhone, and took some quick snaps.
These aren’t well composed and in some cases, focus is a little wonky.
And yet, I’m deeply impressed.
These three shots were all using the macro lens:
Red pepper flakes. They almost look like jerky. The light streaks are from the sun bouncing off the ridges in the shaker
Pepper that looks like grains of sand.
Take this photo with a grain of salt
So far, I’m digging the Olloclip. I still have to try out the fish eye (though I’m not really a fan of fish eye lenses) and the wide angle. Honestly, I bought the Olloclip for the macro lens, so I expect the other lenses won’t see as much use.
I think the quality of the Olloclip is a bit better than the Macro Cell Lens Band (reviewed here) mainly because it’s made of actual glass and not plastic, but I find the lens band more portable.
Either way, they make delicious looking macro photos. Time to explore!
Happy Friday ya’ll.
It should be noted that I paid for the Olloclip myself and that this review was not solicited, nor was I compensated. I’m just a giddy fangirl and proud of it.
All photos Copyright 2011, Karen Fayeth and subject to the Creative Commons license found on the far right column of this page.
My employer inhabits a lot of super large office buildings and I have to say, all in, it’s a pretty nice space.
I’m often impressed at the investment made in actual artwork. It’s not that usual drab office decor, but actual artwork. Paintings, sculptures, mixed media stuff. Really wonderful and thought provoking works.
I consider myself something of an artist, so I like to stop and take a look, really look, at these wonderful additions to my work life.
Not long after I started, I had occasion to be up on one of the high numbered floors of my building. There is a super duper large conference room up there, and it’s perfect for big negotiation meetings.
On that floor, in the open area where you wait for our notoriously slow elevators, there is a particularly large painting.
So one day, I was feeling the euphoria I get after pulling off a huge meeting. I hummed a happy tune while waiting and waiting for an elevator car.
My eyes naturally went to the painting. It’s not my favorite style, but I looked at it really close to understand what the painter was trying to say to me.
Here, I’ll let it speak to you too:
Well, so, I kept looking at the thing. My eyes were irresistibly drawn to the middle of the canvas.
You know…this part.
That inner voice of mine, the one that gets me in trouble, started giggling like a Jolt cola infused Beavis and Butthead.
“Dude,” the inner voice said, “That looks like a uniboob.”
For my male readers who may not understand….a uniboob is what we ladies call the effect that happens with some of the “shelf” tank tops and some bathing suit tops. It’s where the boobs are sort of smushed together and, well, it looks like you have one big boob.
Generally, we ladies like a little separation to the assets.
But c’mon now, am I wrong? That’s a uniboob, right?
So I snickered. And giggled. And guffawed.
Dude, there’s a nipple painting at my job! *snork, chortle*
I mean, look at this thing! That’s totally a nipple!
I let the giggling go on a while, but then that OTHER inner voice, the one that’s all responsible and mature and stuff admonished me. “Would they *really* hang a nipple painting at this large, important and serious company? I think not. Grow up!”
Inner Beavis and Butthead just kept hooting and hollering.
So then responsible voice said “let’s look at the tag and see if the title of the work tells us something more.”
I looked. It tells us a lot.
The painting is called “Mother”.
Yup.
There’s a big mommy uniboob painting prominently displayed on one of the executive floors of my place of employment. *giggle, snort*
That there’s your art appreciation break for the day.
You’re welcome.
Today’s Theme Thurday theme is: produce.
So let’s produce the produce! (<- see what I did there?)
Photos taken in my cafeteria at work with my iPhone4s and the Hipstamatic app……and in the middle of an extraordinarily busy day.
Theme Thurday waits for no BossMan, no matter how demanding.
Today at lunch, I took a quiet, solo walk on the walking path near my office. Since my walking partner was too busy to come along and my iPod battery was tapped out, it was just me alone with my thoughts.
A dangerous combination.
Being without distraction makes me more observant of everything going on around me. For example, the blue nosed ducks that have arrived as the weather turns colder. The squabbling Canada geese. The flatfish skimming the bottom of shallow waters in the lagoon.
And the humans. Oh those wacky humans.
As I rounded one corner of the path, I saw two guys in business suits taking photos of each other. They were standing by our iconic tall building with the company logo on top. This is a not unusual sight, really. In fact, I think for some of my coworkers in Asia, having a photo from headquarters posted on their internal directory page is a badge of honor.
Since so many people have that photo on their page, everyone is trying to get the different, quirky and odd take on the same photo so they can stand out a little.
This came to mind as I noticed one of the guys posed awkwardly with his finger pointing up. The other was splayed out on the ground, almost in the water, camera pointing up, coaching his subject “a little to the right…a little up…a little more…”
I know what they were doing. They were trying to replicate that cheesey internet meme where through the magic of perspective and photography it looks like someone is holding up a bridge or touching a seventh wonder of the world.
Like this:
Image from homdoc74‘s Flickr photostream
Only with an office building. I have to admit, they weren’t being shy about this at all. They were really going for it. I kind of felt bad for the guy laying on the ground wearing a full dark suit. That’s going to be a weird one to explain when he gets back to the training room. (there’s a sales training going on this week and there are a TON of dark suits wandering around)
I’ll bet the photo will look cool. But the set up looked goofy as hell.
Something akin to this:
Photo from PhotographyUncapped.com