Day 279, 365 Day Project

A simple but elegant image of leaves in the fall. Shot with the iPhone and finished with minimal post processing in both Snapseed and Camera+ Pro.

Day 278, 365 Day Project

I've had this Conch Shell for years as a souvenir from a trip to Hawaii. I have always loved the texture and the shape of the rings the circle the shell. I knew when I shot this image with my iPhone that I wanted to do it B&W and so that was the first conversion I did and then I softened the depth of field using the grunge tool.

Day 277, 365 Day Project

Walking out of SAIT down a stairwell I had walked many times before I felt a pull to snap an image of the stairs with my iPhone. When I got home I brought the image into Snapseed and straightened and cropped the image added some grunge and burned in the top right corner. This image I have titled "The Dark Stairwell" and I like the abstract look of it.

Day 276, 365 Day Project

Image number 4 in the Vehicle Face Plate series. Although I have just started this series I have found that the best face plates also need interesting grills in front of them. So not any face plate will be added to the series. it will have to have some character to go along with the vehicle as well. Shot with the iPhone and processed in Snapseed.

Day 275, 365 Day Project

Fall is here, the harvest is in, and Thanksgiving is just a week away. An abundance of vegetables await and I snapped them in the bin at Safeway this evening with the iPhone. Decided to use Instagram for the post processing tonight as it was the only app that gave me the look I was going for.

Day 274, 365 Day Project

Out taking a walk around the house on a beautiful fall evening and I noticed this lovely shadow being cast by the bolt on the rusty light pole beside the pathway. Out came the iPhone and I got down close and snapped a few frames. The texture was awesome as well and I love the angle I was able to achieve. Processed with Snapseed afterwards.

Day 273, 365 Day Project

My wife recently picked up these flameless candles from Costco and added them to a holder we have that she places beside a little totem to "Our Lady of Health Vailankanni". It comes from a Shrine in Tamilnadu, India where three apparitions of Mother Mary at Vailankanni occurred. This is also unique since it is one of two only icons where Mother Mary is shown wearing a sari. Centuries of devotion to Mother Mary both by Hindus and Christians have evolved an amalgamation of practices borrowing elements from both religions. It is said that the portrayal of Virgin Mary as a curer of illness and a victor over all demonic forces is seen by local Hindus as an artribute equivalent of Hindu Goddess Mariamman. The practises include bathing in the sea, shaving heads, walking on knees or rolling in the shrine as a ritual.

It is also common to find traditions of offering a candle in the shape of the respective ailment- a heart in case of cardiac complications, a liver in case of jaundice, lungs in case of tuberculosis and so on. In case of the ailment getting cured, many bring with them small gold and silver replicas of parts of the body that has been cured to donate to the church. Devoties clad in orange (or saffron) robes.

Some times offering are sent in sealed bottles or big hollow bamboos duly closed and thrown in to the sea with the address of the shrine written on them. Such offerings are believed to reach the holy spot. (Information from Wikipedia)

I thought this might make for an interesting image using the candles so I took them down to the studio and photographed it using Camera+ in the iPhone. Very little post processing was done on this image.