Instagram-ish...

So, my dear friend Jamie over at Scissors and Steam asked me to do an Instagram 366 -- who knew this year is a Leap Year? -- with her.  Well, I do not have an iPhone, and Instagram is not quite available to the geeks like me who use the Android OS.  Alas, I had to say no.

But, this got me thinking.  Android has many apps in their Market.  So, I found a Camera app that allows me to edit my photos on the fly, Camera360.  This is not a review of the site I just linked to.  If Camera360 is an app you would like, please check out your android market on your phone.  Do not download apps from unknown sources.  Just a general bit of good advice -- from my techy husband, actually.

That being said, I downloaded this program from my market-place and have been playing with it.  It's super fun!  Here is my first photo:
   (I'll post more about this project at a later date)

The camera app has this Tilt Shift filter that allows me to auto focus on a particular part of the photo and it blurs the rest.  I didn't know this was even a thing until I started talking to my husband about it.  I also edited this photo in Picnik on Picasa.  Which is where I store my not-yet-published photos.

So, all things considered -- and I do mean all -- I believe I am going to participate in the 366 photo "thing".  I think I'll do as Jamie will be doing, though, and post a compilation of photos once a week, so I am not bombarding my lovely readers with photos every single day.  The above photo will act as number 1/366.  And this photo -- being that it actually is the second day of January, 2012 -- will be number 2/366

Even though it took a few days after X-mas for it to arrive -- lost in transit, apparently -- I got Jon and I Nerf Guns as a gift.  And we played with them New Years Eve for a while.  And now, I'm finding these little disks everywhere in the house.  Made for a fun evening, though.  Guess we'll be finding these things for years! 

Happy Day-off-Monday,
~j.b.