Posts Tagged: hipstamatic

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6
Apr 12

Rider

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Horse tack has a sense of elegance, strength, and poise to it. It goes with the sport I suppose.

Between the leather, the cotton, and the horse hair, (and if you’ve ever been to a barn, the aroma in air) the experience of being around horses a full body experience. There’s so many textures, smells, and emotions to experience.

Saber is back and in a healthy condition after recovering from his injury. He is back to work trying to regain his athletic shape of years prior so he can begin jumping to his potential. Congrats to him and Brittany for getting through it all in one piece.

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Apr 12

Time: Sunset

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I haven’t worn watches much in the past, but it has become something I’m starting to enjoy lately. The styles have started to interest me but almost more importantly is their utility.

It’s easier and not rude to look at your wrist instead of pulling a phone out of your pocket.

I have noticed that a majority of the instances that I grab my phone is to simply look at the time; and I’m sure many other people have a similar pattern. The drawback to that is the way you can be perceived when you’re on your phone all the time – disconnected, isolated, and your attention is away from the present and those around you. Frankly, it’s a bit rude, especially when surrounded by people you know or even worse, when you’re at work and need to be a professional or a leader.

Since I’ve been wearing watches, the phone stays in my pocket, I’m more attentive or entertained with what’s around me, and can even tell the time a little bit quicker.

So, stop texting and smell the roses.

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9
Jan 12

Smile More

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It starts in your head. If you start to think positively, you carry yourself positively. Then you begin to speak positively and eventually start acting and interacting positively with others. Soon enough, you begin to be known as an overall happy person and others start to be spirit-lifting around you. Good things happen from there.

Smile more. It’s contagious.

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16
Nov 11

Toilet Courtesy

Signs don’t go up unless there’s a problem.

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26
Oct 11

Pinhole-esque in a Digital World

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This whole mobile phone photography revolution is wonderful. We can make quality images with predefined aesthetics while on the go. The basic rules of photographic quality still apply here though – a good photographer can make a great photo out of poor equipment and a bad photographer still makes bad photos even with great gear and presets – but it has brought at least moderately interesting image creation to the masses.

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10
Oct 11

Dames Point 2

Here’s another shot of the Dames Point, only this time, from on the bridge.

Hipstamatic and my iPhone enable me to take photographs that are otherwise more difficult or impossible with a larger camera. Ironically, 35mm film-based cameras were the small cameras “back in the day.” but now, 35mm based digital cameras, like my 40D, is a large camera by today’s consumer standards. So, the iPhone is the compact always-there camera of the modern day.

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Sep 11

“This Is Why Baseball is the Greatest Game…”

I just witnessed one of the most stunning and exciting nights of baseball so far in my lifetime.

The title quote comes from Tim Kurkjian, quoted again here:

“That [has] to be the greatest games played in one regular season night in the history of baseball. We played 200,000 games in the history of this sport and there cannot have been a regular season night quite like tonight.” -Tim Kurkjian, ESPN

Baseball is a lot about stats. They track everything. But when you’re in the moment and on the spot, stats have little importance. The only thing that does matter is what’s in front of you and what’s about to happen. That is the marvel of baseball. I just witnessed a sub-.200 hitter hit a home run to tie the game in the team’s potential final strike of the season. I just witnessed a team come back 7-0 to win their most important game of the season and win in extras.

That sounds like a life lesson. But what do I know?

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16
Aug 11

Back to School

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This is my first time in 18 years when I don’t have to prep for the upcoming school year. I didn’t have to sign up for classes or buy a parking pass.

It’s bittersweet; there’s no homework due, yet a lot of projects going on.

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Jul 11

There’s One in Every Crowd

There's One in Every Crowd

Yet another trip to Walt Disney World (hey, gotta make that annual pass worth it) leads to more photos to add to the pile.

This one’s an instant classic. There never ceases to be at least one guest that says “screw the heat, the crowds, and hell, screw the standing!” So, they lay down. And not just on the sidewalk that they’ve been camped out on for an hour and a half for a parade that’s going to last for fifteen minutes while they eat their popcorn, cotton candy, sodas, hot dogs, french fries, brownies, and ice cream while holding onto a balloon and getting irritated at their kids (breathe), but in the air conditioned entry way to the gift shop.

I noticed several employees, even managers, eying her laying there but didn’t say anything. It’s either that extra accommodation of tolerating it, or maybe it’s just policy to not make people move.

I suppose in her defense, she wasn’t really in the way of anything. But it goes to show you the luxuries people take when they’re on vacation – as if they’re the only one.

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18
Jun 11

Show-Off Peacock

Show-Off Peacock

He just liked to be the center of attention.

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