The Letter C

C is for camera.

C is for capture.

C is for caught.

C is for contrast.

C is for click.

C is for conversation.

C is for collation.

C is for compulsion.
C is for create.

What would your C be for?

Joining in with The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers

Me Right Now - The Gallery

It's a rare day that you will see a picture of me on my blog.
I am normally the other side of the camera, but Tara at Sticky Fingers laid down a challenge to take a photo of myself right now.
If I were to take a photo of myself RIGHT NOW you would see me hunched over a keyboard, squinting because I forgot my glasses and hugging a cup of tea.
However, only a matter of minutes ago I was like this:

almost dancing with delight at my thrifty purchase.
The Joseph (JOSEPH!) cardigan I am modelling was found in my Age UK charity shop this morning. Whoo Hoo!
Happy!

The Gallery - Phone Cameras

Can you remember the first time you ever took a photo on your mobile and how amazed and excited you were?

I can. I was in total awe of the technology and took photos of so many things. The quality was pretty poor back in the olden days and you had to seriously squint to recognise what or who the photo was of. But it was still gobsmakingly cool!

On my mobile I have the built in camera which has loads of effects and filters you can edit your pictures with. I didn't even realise you could do this until one evening when I was a bit bored and started playing.

Then I discovered RetroCamera, a free app for android phones, with which you can choose between several retro cameras including polaroid, The Barbl, FudgeCam and my favourite Little Orange Box. It automatically adds an effect to give the impression of a picture developed by that old camera. So many of my photos on the blog are taken using this app.

Then came my discovery of Picnik.com, the free online photo editing programme which you may *ahem* have noticed I quite like and have a weekly linky Snap Slappers along this theme *wink wink*.

Then came January 1st this year and I decided to start a 365project.org album where I take a picture a day for the whole year (yes I know there are 366 days this year but this site has been going a few years). I started following a few fellow photographers and noticed someone using the Vignette app. I knew the effect from picnik but this app can do so much more including.... drum roll please...  double exposures.

Playing around I took this (these) photo of The Princess and then double exposed it by taking a picture of our floorboards (as you do) and then (as if that wasn't enough) added the Vignette filter to it, and then (pauses to catch my breath) decreased the exposure a bit. Phew. All on my mobile phone. What will they think of next? You'll be telling me you can talk to someone on my phone. What's that ringing noise?

I'm off to see what pictures my fellow bloggers have been taking on their mobile phones at Sticky Fingers - The Gallery. Care to join me?