CCLXXXI: Foreground Interest

View Cropped
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Trypto: atmospheric perspective is yummy
Trypto: chomp
Trypto: I will eets it fer dinner
Trypto: I think a slightly better composition would have been to crop out the yellowish shrubbery in the foreground and those two tufts of tree on the right
Lani Kai: I like the yellowish shrubbery
Trypto: fine, have it your way
Lani Kai: although I do agree about the tree on the right
Trypto: it doesn't really match the color scheme of cool colors though
Lani Kai: I think it makes the foreground pop more
Trypto: I dunno why you'd want people to look at the foreground
Trypto: it's much nicer for their eye to be drawn into the line of the valley and into the clouds

CCLXXX: Uncultured

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Trypto: do you remember that wispy thing in Prince of Egypt that goes around and kills all the first born sons?
Lani Kai: no
Trypto: oh, well that's the clouds in your picture look like
Trypto: why have you never seen the movies I ask you about?
Trypto: you need to give me a list of movies you've seen
Trypto: for me to make references to

CCLXXIX: Boring

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Trypto: I think you should get better at choosing which pictures to post
Trypto: you aren't picking the most interesting ones, in my opinion

CCLXXVIII: 8th Grader

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Trypto: my sister had a parakeet once
Trypto: named Tequila
Trypto: she was in 8th grade
Trypto: my sister, not the parakeet

CCLXXVII: Zomg

© Trypto

Trypto: zomgzomgzomg
Wisp: zomgomgwhat
Trypto: zomgzomgnothingzomg
Wisp: zomgomg
Trypto: zomgjustzomgsayingzomghizomg
Wisp: zomghitoyoutoozomg

CCLXXVI: Untitled

© Trypto

Trypto: I think things are more beautiful when they're dead
Lani Kai: oh, like the dead banana slug
Trypto: ok, maybe just plants

CCLXXV: Daisy Chain

© Trypto

Trypto: so you don't like it?
Lani Kai: it's OKAY...I like the use of the other flowers to fill the space
Trypto: your mom uses other flowers to fill the space

CCLXXIV: Magic Bean

© Trypto's brother

Trypto: my brother took this picture when he was in Chicago
Lani Kai: where is he in this picture?
Trypto: he's standing next to the girl with her hands on her head
Lani Kai: bottom, center?
Trypto: that's one, yes
Lani Kai: oh, I see what you mean

CCLXXIII: Heretic

© Lani Kai

Trypto: you can't fool me with your silly camera tricks
Trypto: I know the Earth is flat
Lani Kai: oh, well this is how normal people see it
Lani Kai: I don't know about you
Trypto: lies
Trypto: I think the Inquisition will be very interested in this heresy

CCLXXII: High Sky

© Trypto

Lani Kai: green sky...
Trypto: that was actually pretty much what it looked like
Trypto: I didn't change the color balance at all
Lani Kai: weird
Trypto: it was in Berkeley though, so who knows
Trypto: up there, even the sky is on drugs

CCLXXI: RIP Jiminy Cricket

© Trypto

Trypto: I suppose I should find something to post

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Lani Kai: what is that in the background, carpet?
Trypto: yes, it was on the stairs
Trypto: I'm not sure whether it is more disturbing that my house is infested by crickets, or that it also has giant spiders who eat them

CCLXX: Blast from the Past

© Trypto/Lani Kai

Lani Kai: here is a sample page from the upcoming Colorburn book, to be published when we get off our lazy bums and finish making the pages
Lani Kai: each page is hand-crafted with precision and care to the highest standards

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Trypto: lovely, although I believe that jpeg is out of date
Lani Kai: what did you change?
Trypto: the thumbnail was shifted slightly so its edges fall directly on the gridlines
Trypto: and naturally the highlighting has to be adjusted as well

CCLXIX: Breadsticks Revisited

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Lani Kai: the co-blogger has been absent for some time now

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Lani Kai: the blog's one-year anniversary is coming up on August 29
Lani Kai: don't miss out on the festivities!

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Wisp: I can't tell if this is delicious or disturbing
Wisp: looks like Play-Doh

CCLXIII: Obscure Camera

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Trypto: that's a camera?
Lani Kai: it's a twin lens reflex
Trypto: meaning?
Lani Kai: well, the top lens is the viewing lens
Lani Kai: it's sole purpose is to project light on the viewfinder
Lani Kai: the bottom lens is used to take the picture
Trypto: what does the little red x do?
Trypto: is that the self-destruct button?
Lani Kai: that's the flash synchronizer selector
Lani Kai: it needs to be set to X if you're using a modern flash unit
Trypto: or if you're going to use it as a bomb
Trypto: I always knew you were a terrorist

CCLXII: Freedom Hair

© Trypto

Lani Kai: there are moth larva in Japan that look just like that
Lani Kai: they have poisonous hairs
Trypto: Japanese caterpillars are evil
Trypto: this is a wholesome American one, I'm sure its hair is harmless
Trypto: they're freedom hairs

CCLXI: Pretty Ugly

© Lani Kai

Trypto: I dunno, that's kind of ugly
Lani Kai: you're kind of ugly

CCLX: Brilliant

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Trypto: that looks like the house in Peter Pan
Trypto: well, I guess they're both Victorian
Trypto: the picture is a little bright
Lani Kai: it was a bright day
Trypto: that is only tangentially relevant
Trypto: after all, you've posted pictures taken at midnight which looked like it was afternoon

CCLIX: Tilted III

© Trypto

Lani Kai: dare I say it's tilted?
Trypto: YOUR FACE IS TILTED
Trypto: these steps are actually visible in the last picture I posted

CCLVIII: Free to a Loving Family

©Lani Kai

Trypto: a little bit tilted, but otherwise I like it
Trypto: and there's a free bicycle
Lani Kai: the image is not tilted
Lani Kai: the building is

CCLVII: Silly

© Trypto

Lani Kai: it seems tilted just a hair
Lani Kai: but otherwise I like it
Trypto: just rotate your monitor
Trypto: it's not that heavy
Lani Kai: oh, why didn't I think of that?
Lani Kai: silly me