Fallbrook Shutters Photo Show

As all of you know by now, the FB Shutters 3rd annual photo show will be at the Pinnell Gallery in November. The Blue Heron is going to be out of town quite a bit this month so I have volunteered to help get the show off of the ground.

Here's the schedule:

Thursday, November 1. Drop your work off at the Gallery between 10 AM and 4 PM. The owner, Jennifer, should be there to receive it.

The frames will be hung by a wire securely attached to the frame. No alligator clips. Please write your name on the back of each piece, the name of the work and the price you would like to sell it for. Remember, the gallery takes a 40% commission. If you do not want to sell a piece, write "NFS" on the back.

Friday, November 2, 10 AM. Hanging. Jon Harwood has volunteered to help Mike Reardon. If you have time, please drop by and give us a hand.

Saturday, November 3, 4 PM to 7 PM. Artists reception at the Gallery. You may be asked to bring some wine or an appetizer.

Take down of photos. At the end of the month, to be determined.

Questions: Contact Mike Reardon ( Sano Guy) 760-217-2744; mike.reardon@sbcglobal.net

ADOBE ALCHEMY

Where the Plastic Flowers Grow

Clothes seller, Long Beach swap meet

I am leaving for Spain this week. Somebody should meet with Jennifer and make sure that everybody is on board. I would make a checklist if I were you. Good luck and have fun everybody.

GRAFITTI

Out at Sunset

Lytro

A really great friend recently turned me on to this 16gb Lytro light view camera. F2 all the time. 8X optical zoom. The light view camera reads the entire light field instead of a single focal plane. The picture saves to what is called a living picture file. You can sharpen any point of light in the image capture, leading to a lot of different possibilities manipulating depth of field. You can continue to refocus perpetually.

As a point of example I focus here on both the flower and the motorcycle on the same shot. Not a great shot but sufficient for purposes of illustration. I have just started to mess around with this thing. I think that it will be pretty cool.

Lytro, Inc. is a light field camera startup company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng, a light-field photography researcher at Stanford University. Light field photography (also known as plenoptic photography) captures all the available light in a scene going in every direction. It works by breaking up the main image with an array of microlenses over an image sensor. The camera software then uses this data to determine the directions of incoming light rays.

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ANOTHER KITTY

KITTY

Self Portrait with Hummingbird