Bull Kelp

Red Car with Shiny Chrome Wheel

Greenhouse Dome

Torpedo Shell

Bluebird Ice Cream Truck

Depth Index D

I got a cheap toy lens for my nice Canon DSLR. It might be useful, but I was mostly disappointed in the shots that it takes. I think that’s mostly because I try to set up my shots and look at all the details closely. I’m thinking I might try setting the display to not show and take my photos a lot faster with the lens. That might fit the picture quality a bit better.

That said, these are a few that I liked.

Mud on a Bench

Brick Towers

ngiS potS

Daisy

Walk

Actually, I think the one of my cat was a normal photo processed with the iPhone app Plastic Bullet. It does a good job of doing the exact same thing as the cheap toy lens.

Below is a track I created using just the iPhone Filtatron app. I started off just playing around with using the app as a delay with my guitar, and then it gradually got into feedback and self oscillation. At some point I hit record, and at another I hit stop. This track is around 12 minutes and it’s fairly modular-sounding and satisfying.

Watch your audio levels. Most sounds come in fairly gradually, but if you jump around, turn the volume down first. Some parts are quite a bit louder than others.

Let me know if you take a listen.

Filtatron 20111219 [ 11:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

West Seattle Sunset

Railing, Kayaks, Downtown Seattle

Sailboat Across From Downtown Seattle

Mostly Wiard Modular

ARP 2600

Electrocomp EML Modular Synthesizer (Huge!)

EML Manual Voltage Generator

This is one of the most interesting synthesizer controllers I’ve seen in a while. It’s pretty much a user definable keyboard. Sequencers often have knobs you turn to select which pitch is played when that step in the sequence is triggered. This is the same thing, but instead of steps, it’s 16 buttons that can be tuned with 16 knobs. It would probably be simple and somewhat cheap to make something like this, and it would give some great playability. I could see having multiple sections to a song, and setting a row of these buttons up to play the melody.

Rockin’ Syntar Solo!

Just wanted to share a few photos from the PNW Synthfest that happened a while back. Honestly, I would have taken more photos, but there were so many modulars, and so many people in the space that it was a bit overwhelming. Don’t think I’ll go to any of the huge music gear shows.

Red Leaves

Yellow Leaves

Red Leaves

Pink Blossoms

Burgundy and Red Leaves

Red Flowers with Furry Stalks

Red Leaves From the Side

I’m putting up a few posts of collections of 2011 photos that didn’t fit into any one category. These are just beachy.

Alki Beach New Years Polar Bear (From all the way back on January 1 of 2011)

Beach Fisheye

Digital Holes in Beached Log

These photos were shot throughout the year using an iPhone app called Hipstamatic. It creates some lovely old school looking photos.

Breona’s Boots (Taken by Breona)

’56 Chevy Bel Air Dash and Keys

Rocks and Water

Leaf(s)

Second & Seneca

Nut and Bolt

Clouds Above Mt. Rainier

Mountains

Rubble Wall

Shoulder of Mt. Rainier Through Trees

Mountain Stream

Angular Rock and Shadow

Mt. Rainier Ice Fields

Bolt on Sign Post

Fremont Fire Lookout From Halfway to Mt. Rainier Itself

(Click any photo to get to a larger version as well as many more photos on Flickr.)