Swami's

We made it out to Swami's on Saturday, but it was a little over an hour past low tide so we didn't have too much time out there. Jennie captured a nice shot of a seagull in flight and also found two interesting looking sea slugs. The shot above was enhanced with a partial use of a LOMO script found here.

*Update: Apparently the good tide pool area is to the left of the stairwell down to the beach. We went right. I'm gonna have to go back soon.

desaturated

Here's something handy: Converting Color Images to Black and White

Apparently converting images from color to black and white isn't as straight forward as you would think (or as I thought, anyway). Back in the day, I used to just convert my image to grayscale mode and be done with it. Then I became more "sophisticated" and desaturated the image before doing any of the levels/contrast tweaks. And now I've been led to the link above.

I was a bit skeptical at first, thinking that this was some roundabout way of doing something I already knew how to do. But I tried it out against my methods and I was soundly defeated. Ah, the lessons we learn...

transform and roll out!

Have a gander at the Optimus Keyboard. The three button mini keyboard is available for pre-order this week (so says the site) for $100. After April 2nd, the price is going up.

$100. 3 buttons.

Geez. Makes you wonder how much the full-size keyboard is going to cost.

But MAN I want one. I want one so bad it hurts. It hurts inside me.