Justin's First Post

My first post! Also, my first pic of the day is up <--- you can view a full gallery of photos (more to come soon) by clicking the photo button above. I missed yesterday, but unfortunately we didn't do much... mostly just watched the Monk-a-thon on USA and played with Tilly's new iPod among other boring, uneventful things. Not really the best way to start the picture of the day thing, but oh well...

I'm not sure if I'm going to leave detailed daily posts about my photos or not yet. I'll give it a try for the first little bit and see how it goes.

Today's (1/2/09) pic-o-the-day was taken at about 10:45pm in SLC with a Nikon Coolpix L3 (0.7 sec at f/3.2). We were hanging out with Scott and Amanda after getting some Indian food when it started to snow. We stayed inside most of the evening, but decide we should check out the weather to see how it was going (i guess). I realized I hadn't had a chance to take any pictures today since i left my camera at home and went to the restaurant straight from work. So i thought I'd shoot a few as we took a very brief walk to a park nearby. I saw these signs getting blasted with snow and thought it would make a good shot. The street lights and the falling snow added a pretty cool effect, and i think it would have come out better had i used a tripod for the longer exposure. I took the photo into good ol' photoshop for some minor touchups. The original was slightly yellowed by the street lights, so there's a little bit o' color correction going on there with an added vignette effect.