A Few More Pics from the Dog Park

I went ahead and edited some more pictures from yesterday's outing to the dog park. All of these are edited with Snapseed and were captured with my Note II.

Cherry Creek State Park given a, what I hope is, an old timey vintage look.

Charlie being Regal

Rufus, Being Rufus

Charlie in the Creek

Rufus Trying to Figure Out What's so Important That I have to Kneel down in Front of Him With My Camera

Cloudy Afternoon at the Park

Rufus Found a Crawdad (well, I Found a Crawdad, but Rufus Took it From Me and it Pinched Him)

More Cloudy Skies and Sandy Shores

Rufus

I Already Posted This Image, but in Color. I like the BW as Well.

At the Dog Park

For the first time in weeks I brought Dumb and Dumber to the dog park. They're having a blast however neither one of them wanted to model for me. Plus this Android's camera is slow.

Here are a couple of shot of the two dogs, edited with Snapseed, for your comedic pleasure.

Rufus Hating the Camera in his Face

Rufus in Black and White

Looking Down on Charlie

Charlie Sitting Pretty

After the Flood

Here are a couple of pictures from the hail storm that rolled through eastern Denver/western Aurora, CO this afternoon.

The water in this is actually a park that flooded with more than 6 feet of water height, going so far as to cover signs and guard rails. The sidewalks were, and are, underwater, however the water covering the playground has since receded.

As always, these were edited with Snapseed.

Rufus looking for ducks, or something else to kill

The mist forming from the warmer water hitting the cooler air, with a old photo twist

A young girl separated from the playground by flood waters

Rufus of the Mists

Google+'s New Photo Editing Features

Google decided to roll out new old features to their cloud photo editing options. To be honest, I'm not sure if they retired PicNik or just buried it somewhere else, but the new features are desktop (well, Chrome-top) versions of their popular on-the-go Android app, Snapseed. Why Chrome-top? Apparently the feature is not available unless you're using the Chrome web browser, or presumably the ChromeOS.

 Maybe the Picnik features are still available to other browser users? I'll have to check and update this post.

To find this feature, using Chrome, log into your Google+ account. On the left hand side, choose Photos and then a photo. Once the individual image is open in the lightbox, there should be an Edit option on the top row above the picture. Then edit away... just like Snapseed.

Here's the first image I decided to test this feature on and below I'll post the image from when I edited this with Snapseed on the go many, many, many moons ago:

Originally, I edited this image using the Snapseed app on my Note II.

And here's the unedited original Android shot:

Fire in the Sky

I went out to catch something completely different from this, but once I saw the rays of light shooting up under the dark clouds, I couldn't help but turn the camera towards the mountains.

That darker straight line is the Cherry Creek Dam and those mountains are more than 30 miles away.

Where the dam meets the water, off to the left of the image, is the Cherry Creek marina and if you zoom into the image you can see the boats floating there as they spend another night tethered to the piers.

I really wish I would have known the sunset was going to be this magnificent as I would have sought out a better view. As it was, this was a happy accident. My only wish was the dam wasn't in the image. However, the walk back to the truck plus drive time, would not have given me enough time to catch this with the rays shooting up and out like they are and that made all the difference between this sunset and hundreds of others.

An Evening at the Dog Park

I didn't bring my dSLR to the dog park and I really wish I had considering the amazing sunset I witnessed.

These were taken with my Android and edited with Snapseed.

I especially love the one with the last ray of sunshine escaping over the mountains, red against the bluish clouds behind.

Sunsetting

Here's another sunset in Colorado. Why? Because we've been having some great cloud work during the evenings and I've been wanting to get great pictures of the sunsets.

These are Android shots, edited with Snapseed.

Public Art

Grabbed this picture of aome public art at the Aurora (CO) municipal complex. This is actually one half of a sundial.

As nearly always, this is an Android shot edited in different ways using the Snapseed app.

Sunset on the Lake

Took the dSLR out to the lake today and grabbed some sunset shots. These are the Android pictures I took with my Note II and edited with Snapseed.

Hopefully sooner or later I'll get the pics off the Pentax and edit them for sharing too.

Surrey Ridge

I know I haven't posted too often recently, but I also haven't been taking too many pictures lately.

Oops. I've just been in a funk and not feeling artsy. I apologize.

These were taken yesterday near Surrey Ridge at the Douglas Co. open space dog park. The one image (and since I'm posting this mobile I have no idea which one it is) is grainy on purpose. I added grain to the image on purpose but might have overdone it a little.

What do you think?

[Edit: looks like it's the middle one]

A Walk With the Dogs

Here are a couple of shots from this morning's walk with the dogs over at Cherry Creek State Park. The day is overcast but not the greatest light especially considering I was shooting with my Note II (also the device I'm posting from).

I wanted to bring my dSLR and tripod but trying to hold on to two leashes while setting up equipment didn't sound like fun to me.

As always, these mobile shots were edited with Snapseed for Android.

Old Chevy

While out walking the dogs this morning I ran across this old Chevy truck. Well, not really a  truck so much as station wagon.  Since I've never seen it before I decided to go ahead and grab a couple Android shots while it was there.

I treated the picture and two separate ways both using Snapseed. One is basic black and white and the other I added a sepia style tint to give it an older feel.