I’ve been enjoying the weather here lately. Today I decided to go get myself a burrito for lunch and head to the park that’s near me. It’s a popular park where dogs are allowed off leash so lots of puppies thought they’d try and take my burrito from me.

Tags: neighborhood park, park

I’ll be spending the day hiking here:

The photo is a 2009 picture I took from the same trail. New photos to come after the hike!

Tags: hiking, hiking trail, north bay, San Francisco

I thought I’d share some photos of my dinner which is a rice noodle beef stir fry with ingredients from the Japanese supermarket:

Tags: cooking, dinner, japanese food

Over on Crochet Concupiscence I’m doing a 365 Project where I wear crochet every day and photograph my outfit in a fashion style post. Mostly I’m doing this to show off contemporary crochet but as an aside I want to use this project to get better at both taking and editing photos. I know very little about this but I’m having a lot of fun learning. Right now my favorite free online tool for editing photos is Fotoflexer.

Mostly I just use the editor to make the colors on a photo look a little bit better or to make the image a little bit sharper. But I’m discovering that you can do some really fun art things with this tool. For example, I played with the Pop Art feature, changing the fade on it, to turn a basic image into a fun art image. Look:

So fun!

Tags: fotoflexer, photo editing, photography

Last week I had the chance to go see a sword demonstration over at the Asian Art Museum. The demo was by a well-respected Japanese master of his type who has been practicing the art of the sword for over 50 years. Today’s photo features him with three of his students at that demonstration.

Tags: asian art museum, images, japanese sword demonstration, Photos, swords

Today’s photo is of the well-known San Francisco bar named Savoy Tivoli that’s located on Grant Street in North Beach. What a beautiful building!

Tags: architecture, colorful building, images, Photos, San Francisco, savoy tivoli

I have a series of art pieces up in my room. Each is a photo of an individual that I took out of a magazine. I then glued it to canvas and painted on top of it to change the original image. Today’s photo is a picture of one of those art pieces. What do you think of photos of art?

Tags: art, collage, images, photo, picture

I love taking photos of the fresh flowers that I frequently put in my home. Here’s a new one:

How would you alter this photo to make it better?

Tags: flower, Photos, pictures

I’m really having fun right now playing around with photography that captures reflections in windows and mirrors. This one is a storefront on Grant Street in San Francisco with the reflection of the building across the street included in it. What do you think?

Tags: clothing, photo, reflection, reflection photography, storefront

The photo of the day is back. I don’t know if other people are too interested in this Diary of a Smart Chick feature since nobody responded in the comments when I asked for feedback about it but I like posting photos so I’m going to keep it up for now. Would still love some feedback. Today’s photo is of the Rocketboat that I mentioned in the earlier post today.

Tags: images, Photos, rocketboat, san francisco boat tours, san francisco rocketboat