Merging Images

Project365 Frame 073 Mar 14, 2013 1200 hrs

I have this photography application on my iPhone that would let you merge and blend two images together for that ghostly effect. I was playing with it and noticed that adjusting the intensity of the images I could actually fill one image with the details of the other. One picture I got of a flowering bush full of little flowers filling another macro image of one of its flowers. I actually like the resulting image.

Habemus Papam Franciscum

Project365 Frame072 Mar 13, 2013 1100 hrs

The date 3/13/13 is a very significant day for billions of Roman Catholics (including me) around the world. We have a new leader in the person of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He now assumes the name of Pope Francis in honor of St Francis of Assisi. There are a lot of record firsts on this day. Pope Francis is the first Latino Pope in the history of the church, the first non-European pontiff and the first Pope ever to use the name Francis. Today also marks the first time that there are two living Pope in the Catholic Church: the new Pope Francis and his predecessor Pope emeritus Benedict XVI who resigned his position effective February 28, 2013. Pope Benedict still retains the title of the Pope and the style of His Holiness.

In honor of the new Pope, I posted this collage of pictures I took directly from the tv broadcast monitoring the conclave of cardinals at the Sistine Chapel to elect the new pope.

New Green 2

Project365 Frame 071 Mar 12, 2013 1300 hrs


Using my micro lens attachment, I shoot this picture of a new sprouting leaves on a tree signifying that Spring season is really here.

New Green

Project365 Frame 070 Mar 11, 2013 0800 hrs

Waking up early this morning on my second day being off from work, I went to the gym for an early workout and Zumba session. Its been two weeks already that I've been irregular with my Zumba and my weight training. As I arrived in my gym's parking lot, I noticed that some trees have grown some fresh leaves already. Spring is really here. Armed with my iPhone cam, I got some pictures but I think this one that I posted is quite dramatic in terms of its composition as I used the leaves and branches as the frame but I left a bunch of fresh leaves focused and the rest of the image blurred. Keeping in mind the Rule of Thirds and having the leaves on silhouette against the bright sunlit parking lot. I used the phone's flash to illuminate the leaves in order to capture its green color. I think I got the little green.

Stratosphere Tower

Project365 Frame 069 Mar 10, 2013 0800 hrs

Driving home from work I happened to get a glimpse of the Stratosphere tower in the distance. I took a picture of it using the telephoto lens attachment to my iPhone. I tried to zoom in a little bit the image of the tower trying not to shake my hand. The worse thing was that I was inside my car so I was recording the image through the windshield glass of my car. The car by the way was at rest waiting for the "go" traffic signal so there was added stress there.

Snow Capped Mountains

Project365 Frame 068 Mar 9, 2013 0800 hrs


It's been raining in Las Vegas for almost two days already and when I left work this morning, I noticed that the mountains surrounding our valley were snow capped specially towards the North-West of the valley. The weather is cold and with light showers, I tried to take a picture with my telephoto lens attachment. Unfortunately, an electric post was also in the picture right at the middle so I used a photoshop to take it out. So far it served my purpose and the electric post was literally erased.

Dripping Goodness

Project365 Frame 067 Mar 8, 2013 1200 hrs

Last night during my break from work, my co-worker gave me a delicious looking cup cake. It had some caramel dripping over its icing with some green candy shavings. Tasting it was more delish as I initially thought. I had a real sugar overload last night.