Devotion

Every evening she would take in the crisp, sea air. Every evening he would follow.

The official entry for the "These Shoes" contest. After about an hour of brainstorming and discussion, we agreed on the photo, the title and the caption.

The runner-up caption: "No, Boynton, I distinctly said 'kippers.'"

On the Beach Revisited

I went back to the beach with Concetta. This time, the picture idea was all her's. Loosely based on the work of Jack Vettriano. After learning of his art, I've discovered that I really like it.

The first image was an experimentation with color, or the lack of color. I pulled out the female form, made the original image gray scale and overlaid the colored female form. They sky had a little help, as well.


The second image uses color to extremes. I darkened the sky and put highlights on the water. Of the two, I like the second one best.

I have to thank Concetta again for all her patience. She stood around for over an hour while I moved my camera around and clicked away at anything even remotely interesting.

Just one parting shot. While I didn't think this last one was a good candidate for the "These Shoes" contest, I did think it was a very nice picture. The only editing was some color correction and a crop.

By the way... If you think I am making the completely wrong choice with these pictures, pleas, please, speak up.

Am I Blue...

To prepare for Hair Fair 2008, Barbara changed her skin, removed all her clothing, hair and all attachments. She broke down in tears when she realized her lovely shoes had to go, too.

Yes, I know, I took a bunch of pictures with Concetta for the "These Shoes" contest. I just wasn't happy with my editing, yet. I also didn't have any time today to work on it. So, I threw this together to meet the deadline.

On the Beach

Lacking the option of going into SL, I sat down to work on my latest image for the "These Shoes" contest. Again, I enlisted the help of my wonderful, smart and witty friend Concetta.

Now all I need is a cute caption. Oh, yeah, and a couple more hours in editing.

Hair Fair 2008

Today I managed to convince my friend Concetta to strip down to her underwear, take off all her attachments, including her hair and accompany me to Hair Fair 2008. After a short time, wandering with our silly walks, we each rezzed a cube, sat, and began the true process of shopping.
I must admit, when you're standing there in your Hair Fair 2008 skin, or some other simple skin, you just growl when you see someone moving about with full prim hair and prim shoes.

I was pleased to see a large prim moving past with no less than five avatars aboard. A regular Hair Fair tour bus!

Please, if you're serious about Hair Fair, do us all a favor and take off all those attachments. You'll do yourself a favor, too.

Now, for the truly horrible news. Back at the island, while sifting through my pile of free goodies and demos, there was a horrible accident. That's right, there has been an electronic death in the family. My desktop coughed once, fell down and died. We're pretty sure that the power supply has kicked the virtual bucket. My wonderful tech support is out to find a replacement right now.

On another note... I am currently unable to get into Second Life. It keeps telling me something about log-ins being disabled. Of course the LL status page has nothing to indicate why this is. ((Edit: Of course, if you check the Grid Status it does tell you that things are happening. Not that I can log in, though.)) That means I have no wonderful pictures for you.

As soon as I can get back in-world, I'll take some pictures and post them on my Flickr feed.

Big Hair - Big Star

She had the hair, the clothes and the shoes. Only one more hurdle to that rock star dream... talent.

This is my entry for the Adam n Eve "These Shoes..." contest. It's no Pacific Vale shot, but this is my first try. Just so you don't think I'm bothered by Pacific's fame and (shoe) fortune with the Adam n Eve contest, those socks are Pacific Vale specials.