Wandering

Photo Walk for Exercise, Fairview Heights, Illinois

"Hope I can find my way home!"

While on my Photo Walks for Exercise, I have begun collecting a pictorial record of the various signs I pass along the way. Here's my first entry.

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via the Photo Transfer app. I used iPhoto to soften the original background image and apply a black and white filter to the final composite.

ArtStudio was used to trim the signs from the respective photos. The signs were individually layered and merged with the background image in Superimpose.

ScratchCam HD added the final filter color effects.

UFOooo!

Photo Walk for Exercise, Moody Park on Longacre, Fairview Heights, Illinois

While walking through the park late one night, I was startled by an unexpected noise. While reaching for my trusty iPhone 4, I spun around just in time to witness, what I can only explain as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, this rotating disc pictured in the photo. And, no, the disc is not one of those soon to be unidentified objects that folks my age call a CD.

(Disclaimer: Actually, it wasn't late at night. I'm usually in bed shortly after dark. And, some "slight" post-processing might have been involved.)

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via the Photo Transfer app. I used iPhoto to crop, adjust contrast, add spot lightening and darkening, and select a black and white filter.

Snapseed was used to add additional spot lightening and darkening, along with the tilt-shift and center focus filters. ArtStudio was selected to provide brush strokes and spot blurring effects.

I returned to iPhoto to further adjust the black and white filter, and finished with TouchRetouch HD to clone grass in the foreground.

This second photo is the original, unprocessed image.

Wrath

Photo Walk for Exercise, Swansea, Illinois

With our extremely hot and dry summer, the news is filled with stories highlighting the low yield expected with this year's crop. As I saw this corn field while walking, I reflected on the ramifications.

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via Photo Stream. Using iPhoto, I added a black and white filter and adjusted the contrast.

Majestic

Photo Walk for Exercise, Day 4

O'Fallon City Park, O'Fallon, Illinois

This majestic tree stands in the O'Fallon, IL city park. The angle I tried to capture placed the sun directly in the photo, so I decided to use it to my advantage. Being extremely uncertain regarding the amount and type of post-processing I prefer, I am experimenting with the various photo apps downloaded to my iPad. 

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via Photo Stream. Using iPhoto, I added a black and white filter, followed by making high and low contrast copies. The copies were layered and slighted adjusted in Blender, prior to adding a ScratchCam filter for the final color and texture.

Seesaw

Photo Walk for Exercise, Day 4

O'Fallon City Park, O'Fallon, Illinois

I'm assuming I can call this a seesaw, although this contraption, which I expected to snort and blow smoke, looks nothing like the wooden planks used during my youth.

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via Photo Stream. First, I added a filter with the Glaze app and then processed with iPhoto for contrast and color saturation.

1860

Photo Walk for Exercise, Day 3

Pleasant Ridge Park, Fairview Heights, IL.

The front door of the Kinsella family home, circa 1860, stands ever vigil in Pleasant Ridge Park. This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 with the native camera app and processed in iPhoto on the iPad.

Aged

Photo Walk for Exercise, Day 3

Pleasant Ridge Park, Fairview Heights, IL.

After all the "hot" weather we've had this summer, a few brown leaves remain clinging to this otherwise barren tree. This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 with the native camera app and processed in iPhoto on the iPad.