Day 306 - Curled Up

As you might have noticed, I post pictures of my dog when I haven't had time to take a picture during the day.

Today's picture is an HDR shot made from a single RAW image, which is something I always wanted to try. Seems to have worked well, but when you zoom in, it also brings out a lot of the graininess from the low-light conditions. By the way, to tonemap the shot, I used a new web tool I discovered: SimplyContrast.

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Day 305 - Photoshop Control Spray

No offense to Cheryl Burke, but I have a distinct suspicion that what makes the person in this photo so unnaturally skinny may well be Photoshop, not an ominous appetite control spray. Perhaps, if they wrote on the box how disturbingly photoshopped many photos of alleged "diet models" are, that would spoil people's appetite much more thoroughly than any diet product ever could.

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Day 304 - Trinke Spaten

Lass dir raten, trinke Spaten! -- If this truck was painted in German, this would almost feel like Munich!

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Day 303 - Not the Real Leaning Tower of Pisa

Looking for its own fifteen minutes of fame, this water bottle decided to imitate a famous landmark. It tried out a few of them before finally settling for the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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Day 302 - Ghosts

Tomorrow is Halloween, but ghosts are already everywhere... woooooo!

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Day 301 - Steak

Tonight's dinner was a delicious episode of "Beef, done right" at the hands of morgamic. This is 1.8 pounds of grass-fed top sirloin, paired with a nice, 2009 Côtes du Rhône red wine. Mmmmh.

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Day 300 - Napoleon Dynamite

Today at Mozilla: The annual Halloween costume contest. Meet Napoleon Dynamite (Chris More), winner of the second prize and my personal favorite.

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Day 299 - Yaaaawn

Quick photo of the doggie with yesterday's fisheye lens still attached to the camera. The giant nose and the big yawn just crack me up :)

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Day 298 - Christmas Lights

Yes, this is a picture taken today.

Yes, these are Christmas lights.

Lit up Christmas lights.

On October 26.

I kid you not.

(Update:) And no, they are not mine.

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Day 297 - Double Rainbow

That's some powerful orange juice we got there at the office. It even contains a double rainbow! If it was me, I'd also include some unicorn. Though then, it would be neither vegan nor kosher, which might harm the target audience.

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