Not Exactly the Hot Seat

It's been a while since I did a two-fer Sunday, so here's a shot taken this past Wednesday out at UBC just shortly after the end of the work day.

I've been in a bit of an "embrace the monochromatic" kind of mood lately, as I suppose you can tell...

This shot had a horrid yellow colour from the light shining on the bench. I tried to correct it, but ended up with far too much blue everywhere else (the complementary colour to yellow) and wasn't happy with that. Then I tried the black & white thing, and after a little playing around with the channel mixer I finally got a version that I was happy with. I've actually been meaning to post this for a couple of days now but just don't seem to have gotten around to it, hence the double-shot tonight.

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Things Left Behind

Haven't posted a monochrome image in a while (lets face it, I haven't posted much of anything), thought that this image was well suited to this treatment.

No idea how long the mug had been there. Surprisingly, I didn't look inside the mug to see how much rain water had accumulated. I'd be nice to think, though, that it'll sit there, undisturbed until the person who left it there comes back.

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A Place to Sit in the Shade

It's been a real spring-like week for weather (i.e. all over the place), even though it's not spring yet. This afternoon was quite wonderful, maybe better than Sunday was, while much of the period between has see-sawed between cold, windy, rainy and sun.

Decided to have a little fun with this shot, taken after work today - there are all sorts of tools and techniques available in Photoshop that I've never really explored and thought this would be a good image on which to try a few things. Not sure that I could duplicate it again if I had to, but I'm not going to worry about that. I'm satisfied with the way this came out this time around.

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