Is it mere coincidence? Here on the blog, I spent much of last week reminiscing about the old D-Series, and today Synaptic releases 3 lenses and two films from the D-Series, and a new shareable disposable-type camera. (Life in LoFi wrote about the lenses & filters here; I’ll share my first roll from the new …
Tag Archives: Hipstamatic
Texas Discovery Gardens – the whole story
I’m not sure if the butterfly house is part of the Discovery Gardens or merely adjacent to them, but several companies have written indexes and algorithms to search this fancy Internet thing, and seeing as I’m a professional researcher, I guess I can go find out…
Texas Discovery Gardens – Bokehmatic!
Thanks to a Groupon, Hana and I found ourselves at the Texas Discovery Gardens over in Fair Park a couple of weeks ago. The weather was beautiful. I shot a roll of film that I’ll share at some point, and otherwise rocked Hipstamatic—my old standby—on the iPhone 5. I’m going to stretch the posts out …
More Play Please
Just a picture, a multiple exposure taken early this morning in the parking garage of the new office with Hipstamatic. I sometimes forget how much fun just playing with the phone can be. Is it just play? Am I just playing into the camera app’s program? Can I do more? Can I subvert the camera’s …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 12 (pt. 4)
Landing And then I was home. Alhamdulillah. It was a good trip, and as I said earlier, I was glad to get home. But boy was there a strong difference in scenery.
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 12 (pt. 1)
Homecoming Day: pre-boarding and boarding All good things must come to an end. And so did my trip to Costa Rica. Not that it wasn’t a good trip, but it wasn’t a holiday, and I was definitely ready to come back to my darling, adorable wife. I got to the airport the usual 3 hours early… …
12 Days in Costa Rica: Day 6 (pt. 2)
Sunset over las escuelas After work on Friday, Miller (one of my new coworkers) invited me out to dinner with his wife and daughter. May Allah reward them for their hospitality. Just before Maghrib time, I walked up to the top of his street and took a couple of pictures. This one with the couple walking …
