Recent works (traditional art) from school

Hello just as a short post I'd like to share some of the artwork I did this past semester. I haven't had a lot of time to jeep up with this blog or my graphic design work, because I have started working a full time job. So I will try to keep up as much as I can. Today I will share with you my self portrait that I painted using black and white acrylic paint on a piece of cardboard.

Progression Drawing

I had to do a progression drawing for my fine arts class. I chose to do an apple, although this class is driving me crazy since it's taking away from my digital class work I must say it is allowing me to knock the rust off my old skills. Below are picture of the apple and then of my drawing, not too shabby at least I got an A on it.

Flower Screen Printing

Flower Screen Printing

So a few weeks ago I mentioned I was enrolled in a plant science class, and that I would have a chance to do a screen print of a flower. At first I thought I would not be able to do it because I was originally suppose to work on Fridays, but they started me out for the first few weeks working on Tue and Thursday. The screen printing is going on this Friday, I hope to post the end result on here. This will be the first time I will do a screen print of any kind, so I hope it turns out good. I have a friend who runs a screen printing company who has offered to teach me, if I come up with a design, problem is I haven't had time to make one since he offered. Maybe this will give me more confidence and motivation, to get on it.

And here it is!

Its been 2 months and I have neglected this blog. At least I have a legitimate reason I have started the fall semester at school taking 4 classes and working 2 days a week at a hotel. So you see I really haven't had the time.

Anyways this is the end result of my screen print I called it " The Coral Queen " since the color is coral and the flower I used was Queen Anne's Lace. I haven't got around to the T-shirt thing with my friend either, but I still hope to one day.

Summer Time Flowering Plants

Summer Time Flowering Plants

Well this may seem like a kind of funny title, however it is the name of the class I started taking today. Even though this class is about plants, it also involves photography and the drawing of flowers I observe in the wild. the professor also told us that we will have a chance to screen print one of our flowers, which I plan to take full advantage of, since I've wanted to learn more about screen printing for a while now. So I do not have any pictures or drawings yet but I plan to post them as I go along. This could be fun or it could be a painI guess I'll just have to wait and see.

It's been awhile

Like the title says its been a while since I've posted anything to my blog. There are a few reasons for one my in-laws visited from Brazil for about 3 weeks from late April to mid May, and the second reason would be I started going back to school on the 19th of May. I did manage to get some photos taken at a little car show, which I posted a few of the shots to my Flickr account. If you haven't checked it out yet you can see it here Flickr be sure to fave a few and if you have a Flickr account please feel free to follow me, I try to upload a variety of pictures and am steadily building up a nice collection of shots. So hopefully I'll have more time and some more interesting news to report on, but for now I that's all I got. Thanks for reading.

Google+ Oddities Part 2

Oddities Part 2

I just wanted to add one more thing to my earlier post about the strange ways of Google+. One of the most annoying things about G+ has got to be the way they require you to post. I understand their theory and principal of sharing certain things with certain circles and communities. However what I don't agree with is that if I want to share with multiple communities I can't and on top of that when I go through the process of sharing with multiple communities it shows up every time in my feed. For example if I share a photo with 10 different groups the same photo will show up 10 times in a row in my feed. This is just not a problem for me that is annoying on my own feed, but also annoys me when I look at someone else's profile and have to scroll and scroll just to get to their next post, because G+ finds it necessary to show me that they shared the same pic with 10 different communities. 

So my advice for G+ is.... STOP IT!! 

I really don't have much time to get into the next subject on my hit list, which would be about the way G+ handles pictures, I'll save that for part 3.

Google+ and its oddities

Google+ and its Oddities 

Okay first of all I'll just say that I'm not going to go too deep into this, since it's 11:22 pm and I don't plan on being up for much longer. With that being said let me start with Google+'s number of views thingy (that's the scientific name :) ) I only have 112 or 113  followers on G+ but it says that I now have over 281,000 views, Wow! you'd think if this were true I'd have more followers. Instead it makes me feel like a zoo animal (if it's true, and I think not) people just come by and look at you and then keep walking day after day. Hell if 10% would have added me I'd be doing pretty good on the old internet. 

That takes me to my next point, I don't understand how some people have such a large amount of followers. There are a few types of these people, 1. People who just post random things they find on the net (looks like Tumblr users to me) 2. They have a lot of followers and yet haven't posted anything in over a year or more, or they've posted like 10 things over 2-3 years. Like I said I'm not going deep into this right now, but I may come back and edit this post to add more, but for now that is enough on the followers thingy (again its scientific)

One more thing before I go, another funny thing about Google+ is that Photographers are some of the most popular people. Now that is just awesome since I love photography and design in general. Well just a few things I felt like saying today, and to the few who read this I say thank you! 

A nice little article about SEO

Hello everyone, today I just want to share this article I came across on Zite, here that gives some tips about what photographers should do to increase their visibility on the web. To be a little more specific to help your site show up higher in the search results on Google. One of the tips involves linking, which I have done here, although they will not be linking to my blog( because I have the exact problem they talk about, and that is not being known, I'm trying to work on that) but that's okay hopefully someone will read this blog, and in turn link back to my blog ( hint hint) anyways give it a read, I really think it has some useful pointers and is not too awful long of a read.

No Bueno

No Bueno

Well I put out some flyers, around town haven't received one nibble yet. I am going to design a new one and try again, but time is running out on my idea of freelancing instead of getting a part time job. School starts on May 19th so after that it will be too difficult to keep up my efforts. I paid for an on Facebook for my side company Photo Saver (check it out and like my page please) which got me a lot of paid views but not one single person contacted me about it. I think that in the case of that page I need to educate people a little more on the services I provide. So I will continue to try, because I will never give up, however there is some good news, the weather here is finally starting to improve, which has given my motivation a boost.

The Next Challenge

Well well well, the 30 day challenge has ended now it's time for a new one. Although this challenge will not have an actual updates, unless of course I land a job. So I just gave away my challenge which is to get my first design job. I've printed out a few flyers just to test how well they work, if I don't get any response from this first small batch, I will redesign the flyer and run another test until I nail the one that gets the most attention. I have ordered business cards from Vista Print ( I know that's kind of lame but I'm broke) the really bad thing is my wife was convinced I didn't need a backside to my cards. Okay she doesn't get it! (I'm a designer with a janky business card) But what am I going to do it is her money that I'm buying these things with. I will say this, as soon as I do get a few paying jobs, I will order some proper business cards!

That's all I have for now its not much I realize that, but to the few people who may read this, I thank you! Stick in there with me, and one day I will have some better news, I'd love to share my experience's and projects, I just have to figure out how to get the ball rolling.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #30 - Finally I Need a Drink

I Need A Drink

So this is it #30 in the 30 day black and white photo challenge, it only took me about 2 months to complete ( thank you Mother Nature!) I took this photo with my cellphone, and I thought this would be a good ending photo for this little experiment. I have learned somethings, mainly that I am not a dog and I need some color in my life! I do love love B&W photos but I know that I would go crazy if it was the only pictures I could take (good thing it's 2014) I struggled to complete this task and I didn't get to use all the cameras I planned on using, although I did post pictures that were taken by some of my old cameras, so I guess it evened its self out in the end. Anyways I don't know what I'm going to next but I do know that it will be something in color! 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #29 - Outside the Palace

Outside the Palace

This a shot of one of the statues outside of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. I took this photo with my cellphone. Vegas is an awesome place not because of the reasons most people give, but for the fantasy it makes you feel like you're in. 

 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #28 - 2 Bones

2 Bones

These two dolls were at my friends wedding, and I thought they were pretty cool so I took a pic of them. While searching for a pic to use for this challenge I thought " Bones are white, and the groom has on a black suit, that should work!" 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #27 - Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels

This photo was taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a few years ago using My Sony DSC-HX1.

There is not a whole lot that I can say about this picture except that life sized Hot Wheels are pretty awesome! 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #26 - Tornado Damage 2 The Rebirth of Coney Island

The Rebirth of Coney Island

This is the 2nd picture from the tornado damage that hit my city back in November 2013. This is really great to see, because this my friends is one of the greatest places to eat in the entire country. The business Louie's Coney Island has been in my city for decades, and they are famous for their BAKES, look it up to see what I'm talking about, or just click this link here. And  here is another and while I was looking for these links, I saw that the business has been here since 1937. I love it and can't wait until it is open again here is a pic of the reconstruction, taken with my Nikon D5100. By the way I took this while at the red light.

B&W Photo Challenge Day#25 - Tornado Damage 1

Tornado Damage

Back on November 17, 2013 an F2 tornado ripped through my city here is a picture of one of the buildings that got damaged. I'll post a link here for a little more info on the damage if you're interested.

Pretty crazy stuff, but one of the most amazing things is that nobody died, so that is always a good thing. I shot this photo a few days ago with my D5100. My next photo will be of another business that was damaged and now they are rebuilding.

 

 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #24 - Old Bike

Old Bike

Wow I finally got a new picture! Since I've had to resort to using old pictures, that I had on my computer, and this was never the plan. So this picture I took outside of Wal-Mart using my Galaxy Nexus. I really wish I had a better camera and a better background to deal with but hey it is what it is, and at least it's new.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #23 - Snake Bite

Snake Bite

This photo was taken at the Cincinnati Zoo, the camouflage of this snake was pretty wild in color, but I think it's even more scary in black and white. I hope to never run into this snake, I hope I run it over with a car, because I know I wouldn't see it. And if I did see it near me,I would probably die! Not from the bite but probably from a heart attack! Shot with my Sony, gradient map, and sharpening done in Photoshop.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #22 - Coming Home From Chicago 2008

Coming Home

This is the joy of living in the Mid-West, after driving really slow for over an hour and almost crashing, from listening to Eli Manning's ESCAPE in the Superbowl. I finally got a chance to stop and clean off my window and wipers. My wife took this photo, and I think the blur is a nice touch, reminds me of a book cover. This is another photo taken with the HP PhotoSmart Mz-60 (I never planned on having so many photos from this camera, but that's just how it has worked out) 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #21 - Jerome Christian Church

Jerome Christian Church

A photo taken at my local county fair, back in 2009. shot was taken with my old camera (HP PhotoSmart Mz60.)  This is not a real church just a mock up of one that is a near by town named Jerome. Now the little town of Jerome is more famous for its haunted graveyard, than its church but hey you can't invite ghosts to the fair. This is probably the first time the town (or as I call it a village) has been talked about on the internet. As far as the the graveyard being haunted, I'm not sure but I have been there at night and it is very creepy. You should know that this town is in Indiana if you have read anything about me on this blog, so if you want to look it up and see if you can find out more information, just Google "Jerome Indiana Haunted" and you'll get the scoop. Anyways here's the pic of the little fake church.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #20 - Sue the T-Rex

Sue The T-Rex

This was shot in Chicago, back in 2009 of good old Sue the T-Rex. I converted to B&W in Photoshop, using a gradient map. I removed the date from the bottom left corner using content aware, which didn't come out that great and as you can see I didn't fix it (hey it's my challenge my blog) I got lazy didn't feel like messing with matching up lines clone stamping, etc... 

Thank God I only have ten more days (actually ten more photos because I've past the month mark, but hey you get it.)

Tumblr?

Tumblr?

Tumblr, stylized in its logo as tumblr., is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.^[4][5] Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.

As of February 7, 2014, Tumblr hosts over 170.2 million blogs.^[2] The company's headquarters is in New York City.

I got this definition from Wikipedia  

What the hell is microblogging?

Maybe I'm out of the loop?

Maybe I'm not that cool?

So I am not on Tumblr, but I have been looking at a lot of posts on there thanks to the app Zite. Don't get me wrong I like it and think that there are a lot of cool things on there and maybe it's just the posts I've been seeing but it seems like it should not be considered a blog site. I mean it might as well be Pinterest, because all I see is a bunch of pictures that are by other people and they re-blog them from other users, really no original content, and definitely no writing. When you "like" something they call it notes which is kind of funny to me. And let me just say there are a lot of strange people on there that like a lot of strange things; don't get me wrong I like some of of it because I'm a little strange too, but we all are. I would probably join if I thought I had time, it just gets too overwhelming to try to keep up multiple Blogs and sites. I have a hard enough time keeping up with this, backing up pictures between Google drive, Sky Drive (One Drive), Pinterest, Facebook, Deviant Art, Flickr, as well as some others. That is about all I have to say about this for now, although I won't rule out that I won't join someday and if I do I'll let you know.    

Take on more? That is the question?

Maybe

Maybe not

B&W Photo Challenge Day #19 - Scurvy

Scurvy

Yes I know that this is a very strange title for a post but you'll see why when you look at the picture. This is a guy I worked with, back when I was a taxi driver, he chose this as his nickname for a motorcycle club. I won't tell you his name but his last named kind of resembled Scurvy, and I think the fact that he is missing teeth may have helped too! I'm not making fun of the guy I just think it's funny, he's actually a cool dude, and hey I think this picture is pretty neat too. As far as what I did to this picture I used a Gradient Map in Photoshop this is my new preferred method of making colored images into B&W, since I can get a more pure black and white image instead of that kind of greyish looking crap that I usually end up with. Shot this about 4 years ago, with my Sony DSC-HX-1.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #18 - Mug Shot

Mug Shot

Now I know what you're saying " what's so cool about a mug?" Well to be honest absolutely nothing, but I just thought it was a little more interesting than just a shot of a product. They say you should try to change your angles or perspective when shooting, well I wasn't going to lay on the floor or climb a ladder in the middle of Target! So I tipped the mug over and made sure I had the others lined up behind it to create some repetition and symmetry. This photo was taken with my Galaxy Nexus, and then tweaked in Snapseed.

Photo Saver Page Launch

Photo Saver

Today I launched a page on Facebook which you can find here https://www.facebook.com/PhotoSaverBiz  it is the first branch of my refocus Graphic Design business or you might call it a Jump Starter to my freelance career. I am trying to gain a bit of a fan base so if you would, please like it and share with your friends. I enjoy fixing photos and making them look good again, at the same time I'm not trying to take advantage of people either like a lot of the other businesses that provide this type of service. For example I think that it is insane to charge people $35 for one picture and that is actually a low prices considering some places charge by the hour with rates as high as $200 Hr! That's just craziness I don't really have set pricing system but it will be way cheaper than these crazy prices. Depending on the amount of work that needs to be done to each photo the prices will vary, but I will quote you a price before doing any work. 

As for my other services I provide, photo CD/ DVD's set to music, for example I made one for a funeral (which I know is not the happiest thing) but there are good things like Birthdays, Graduation, Weddings etc. VHS to DVD conversions (another costly service at other places) I know a lot of people have old movies (home or Hollywood) that are just sitting there collecting dust and at the same time rotting, well I can help you save those too! Anyways please like my page and use my service, really I'm here to help not only preserve your memories but also your bank account. ( don't get robbed by these other guys!)  

B&W Photo Challenge Day #17 - Muscle Up

Muscle Up

Although this photo is not of the highest quality, since it was taken with my old HTC EVO, I still believe it looks better in B&W. I have learned that you can save or at least not make them seen so bad or boring by converting to B&W; I knew this before my little challenge, but now it just reinforced it in my mind. So maybe the next time you look at a B&W image just think what it would look like in color and I bet at least 50% of the time the photo would not look even half as cool as it does in B&W. Well anyways hers the pic I shot at a car show about 4 years ago in my city.

Got Muscle?

 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #16- Photoshop Rescue

Photoshop Rescue

Okay so this post will be a little different than my other posts during my challenge (a little longer than 30 days, but hey I'm trying) I will first post the original photo of me and my wife, in which I ruined a good picture by closing my eyes ( have no fear Photoshop is here.) I used a different picture from the same night, although not in the same location (inside) but that didn't matter that much because I was going to convert it to B&W so not much to worry about when it comes to white balance/ skin tone etc.

So I basically ripped one of my eyes off of a photo and then just duplicated it and put into the picture I ruined! So here we go 

Original

As you  will notice in the next few pictures I also cropped them, to get rid of the annoying old people that help ruin my shot (it wasn't just me!) Just kidding I like old people (just not in my pictures, okay I'm done another joke.) On to the fixed version.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #15- Planets in Chicago

Planets in Chicago

Photo taken up in a museum in Chicago, with my old HP PhotoSmart Mz60 (8MP with 6X zoom)
but it was a decent camera for the time mainly bought because of it's zoom compared to other similar cameras.

This photo had a time stamp on in, which I removed in Photoshop, then desaturated it and did some tweaking, not the highest of quality photo, but I am hoping to break out the good stuff soon and be able to take some originals, since this picture is from May 2009. Anyways here ya go!

I actually forgot I had this camera !

My Flickr Photostream Link

Flickr

In one of my last posts I mention that I'd be posting about my Flickr account. Well today is the day, You will find out that I do not have that many photos posted  (compared to other people on the site) this is only because I am pretty new to the site. You will also notice that you will find most of the phots from this blog, however there are plenty of others that you have not seen yet (like one's in color) since I'm in the middle of my B&W challenge, I figured you may need to see a little color from me. 

Just one quick note before I post my link, I must say that Flickr is beautiful and I really enjoy the layout. This was a nice surprise for me and probably will be for others who haven't checked out Yahoo products recently ( I was one of those people) I guess Yahoo still has a little MOJO left ion the creative/ design tank. 

Here is the link to my Flickr check it out frequently since I plan on adding photos on a regular basis.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/refocusgd/ 

B&W Challenge Day # 14 - Open Doors

Open Doors

This photo I took at last years Oktoberfest here in my city. The photo was taken with my trusty Sony, and then I tuned it up using Photomatix Pro, which usually I like to use for creating HDR photos, but in this instance I used it to make this photo into a B&W image. The photo has seen a pretty good response on my Flickr account as far as page views go it is one of more more popular ones. Speaking of my Flickr account I have just recently joined so I do not have a lot of photos on there yet but I will be posting a little something on here soon about that. Anyways back to this picture...... here it is!

B&W Challenge Day #13- Two Ugly Birds

2 Ugly Birds

This was a shot I took at the Indianapolis Zoo back in 2012, shot with my Sony DSC- HX1. Originally shot in color, I converted it in Photoshop to B&W and did some tweaking.

B&W Challenge Days #10, 11 and 12 - TJ Maxx Trip

Still Waiting

Well the  weather here really hates me this year and is really effecting my abilities to complete my challenge. Like I stated in a previous post I have resorted to converting some of my old images to B&W, however these three photos I was able to take at my local TJ Maxx. All three were taken with my wife's Iphone 5s I decided to not do any editing on these just to see what some untouched Iphone pics look like, overall I'd have to say they are pretty good (damn you Apple, always good at everything!) I am an Android guy myself but hey you use what you got, and in this case the wife's phone did a pretty good job. Here's to hoping the winter ends soon (of course we are getting another 9 inches tonight!) 

B&W Photo Challenge Day #9- Pole Position

Pole Position

So due to the fact that this polar vortex has destroyed my ability to take any photos; I have resorted to using old pictures I have taken and converting them to B&W. I can't take this cold, -7 outside with -25 wind chill factor, plus I really don't think this is good on any camera. So since it's so damn cold, I've decided to post a pic from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ( if people haven't caught on I live in Indiana) since that reminds me of a good and warm time of year. This shot was taken with my Sony DSC-HX-1, I desaturated it in Photoshop and made some adjustments. Just remember 54 days until Spring!!!

B&W Challenge day #8 559's

559's

Another exciting shot of  something in a store(sarcasm is my specialty) Once again this photo was taken with my cellphone, then heavily filtered using 2 Google Apps. Not a lot more to say about this one, other than my annoyance level is continuing to grow. SPRING CAN NOT GET HERE SOON ENOUGH!!!

B&W Photo Challenge Day #7 King James

Okay I know it's been a few days,and mainly thanks to this weather I have not been able to take pictures of anything not of anything that cool so I have to do what I have to do and that is take pictures of random things in stores or around my house. I think I said that was what I was going to do anyways, since I can see the future, not really but anyways this photo was taken with my trust cellphone the Galaxy Nexus. Matter of fact the next few posts are with that camera as well because I'm not going to expose any good camera to this hell (-25 windchill factor) I think not!! 
So this photo I took inside of Sam's club while..... guess what??? waiting for my wife Oh the theme continues! As you can see I heavily tweaked this bad boy in some Google Apps, then just cropped it some in Photoshop.

B&W Photo Challenge Day #6- Wet Fit

Wet Fit

This is a picture of my car after being in the snow (because it's snowing again!!!) her name is Gloria and she is a 2009 Honda Fit with a mere 37K miles on it, and I love her, so I figured she deserved a little action in my challenge. I took this photo with my 

Nikon D5100 18mm , ISO 800, 1/4 sec. shutter speed, no flash.

I used a little clip light to the right with a weak 60 watt bulb, I had it clipped to my weed whacker ;) !!

I noticed it did blow out the image a little in the headlight, but it was cold and the set up was shaky. All in all though I think it came out pretty good ( and now I know what I can do different, I will try again when the weather is better. I post processed this photo 1st in Camera Raw (because I shot it in raw) some adjustments I made were to the contrast, blacks, sharpening, and a few more tweaks. I then opened it up in Photoshop and basically did some more minor adjustments, and oh yeah I desaturated  it because I originally shot this in full color. Well enough of the ramblings, but before I go I would like to send a shout out to my few foreign visitors ( that I hope to gain more of) thanks for visiting people of Germany, Finland, France, and the Ukraine.

Gloria all Wet!

B&W Photo Challenge Day #5 Iphone 5s

Doctor Sleep

Today's picture was taken with my wife's Iphone 5s, which has a 8 Megapixel camera. I switched the shooting mode to Noir to take this picture of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep book while in Target ( and yes my wife was shopping again, seems like I theme) I didn't make any adjustments to the photo at all and I'd have to say that it came out pretty well. For those of you who don't know Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining, and not that they need a plug (paper or author) here is a more thorough review of the book by the New York Times  I myself haven't had a chance to read this book yet (because lets be honest, who has time to read novels?) but it sounds really good, I just hope I get to read it before they make it into a movie. Tomorrow who knows what the day will bring.

B&W photo challenge day #4-"Unfiltered Poison on Sale"

Okay today it snowed(again) I didn't get a chance to leave my house, but luckily yesterday while at the mall I did manage to take this shot in Carson's of the clearance table. So just like yesterday this photo was taken with my Galaxy Nexus. The difference with this photo is that, I only used a basic B&W filter, and made no other adjustments ( so I guess it's not totally unfiltered 😋) I'm learning that this challenge will not be as easy as I thought. I said to myself " how hard can it be to take 1 picture a day?" Well how many times have anyone just took 1 picture and say " yep that's the one!"( never for me) Well I guess that's why they call it a challenge.

B&W challenge day #3

Today's picture was taken with the trusty old cellphone, the camera really only performs well in natural light ( and I mean a sunny clear day) my phone the Galaxy Nexus only has a 5 megapixel camera. I had to snap this photo while waiting for my wife at the mall, I took it in a bit of a hurry because another major problem with my phone, is the battery life is just terrible!

Anyways the app I used to post process this little plant pic was Snapseed. I used the b&w filter, made some adjustments to the contrast,and added some sharpening. I also ran it through the HDR filter. Still hoping to get a cool outdoor shot( damn you weather!)

B&W Photo Challenge Day #2 Hand of a Married Man

I call this one Hand of a Married Man. This is my hand, it looks a lot older in Black and White! This was shot with my Nokia D5100 

ISO 200, F/5.6, 1/30 sec. 

That's it for the technical info, but as far as the image goes, I am still getting the hang of my camera. I had the camera on Macro mode instead of manual ( I was being lazy) I did have the camera set to shoot in B&W (as they like to call it monochrome) however for this photo I used the on camera adjustment to make it B&W, other than that no adjustments were made. I promise to try to get out of my house and snap a pic of something more interesting than my hand, but it is winter and I hate being cold.

Black and White

I have decided to take on a little challenge for myself, for the next 30 days I will be taking b&w photos. The plan will be to take shots of various things, nothing in particular but I do want to try to take them with various cameras. I have a Nokia d5100, Sony DSC HX-1, Galaxy nexus, Nexus 7 tablet (with a craptastic 1.3 megapixel camera) and I may even try to snap some with my Apple fan girl of a wife's 5s, and iPad mini. So we shall see how it goes, I'm not promising I'll post a pic a day but I'll try to get them up at least by the week and at the end I hope to post them all. So for the first one I took today with the craptastic Nexus 7 camera a selfie ( since that's pretty much all you can take with it) I doctored it up using a few apps, cause otherwise it would really look crappy. I look So Thrilled Huh???