the standard hotel, hollywood ...

last week, will be back next week, but the standard was an interesting hotel to stay at. comfy bed, obscure furnishings, bright bold colors, it was great ...







manual stitch ...


most interesting of thermostat dials ...

i am a little nuts ...

i might start a new blog, just based on nuts, but for the time being here's a start. i found these nuts on the street, a whole slew of them, so i picked myself up about 5 of them. they sit on my desk and people can come in and build things or play with my nuts. i figured i'd take a picture of them today ...

one other thing, not sure why i'm getting vignetting today, i think my circular filter that i'm too lazy to take off the lens is screwing around with with the picture and cranked up the blues ... bakka.

f/2.8 @ 50mm, 1/3sec-exposure, iso200, -2/3ev; minor color correction in ps.


(btw ... i have an hdr comp that will add later to this post once i get home and can process on my macbook) - addendum ... tried photo merge to hdr on the macbook, and did not like the results. seems i will need to re-shoot without any filters applied (i.e. stop being lazy), the filter further increases the vignetting as the images are merged.