Tinted Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

While picking up a few things at Lowe's Home Improvement stores today, I found these cool colored CFL's from Sylvannia priced at $4.97 each. I couldn't resist.

I posted this black and white candle holder a few weeks back and it has become my favorite model because it looks cool and gives a great reference point since it is white and black. I've got to come up with a name for him. I was thinking "Face" or "Floating Head", but haven't decided yet. So the face is white and the back drop is yellow card board in all of these shots.

Anyway, here's one with just black light.

One back lit in red.

Back lit in red, front lit with green.

Another one back lit in red.
Again, back lit in red, front lit with green.

I had fun trying these out. I know I won't use them often, but they do give me an interesting option.

A Journey Of A Different Sort

My brother gave me a years worth of memories as a Christmas present, a set of journals, one for each month of 2010.


It's very motivational. This set of empty memories to be filled has spurred me to live a bit more, notice the little things, and write it down.

Hot Shadows

The scotch bonnet pepper packs serious heat, 100,000 to 350,000 Scoville units. By comparison a jalapeno is only 2,500 to 8,000 Scoville units. Even it's shadow is spicy!


Stay warm out there.

Fun With Tequila

I should just drink the stuff but where would be the fun in that?

I was getting ready to make a tequila marinade for steaks when the light of the late afternoon sun caught my eye and I had to play around a bit. There were no special effects or lighting. Just the tequila, a window, and the sun.

Shadow Shot Sunday

Walking through my room I saw a strong beam of sunlight and immediately thought of this cool candle holder a coworker gave me for Christmas. I ran downstairs to fetch it and set it up so the sun would back light it.

The Afterglow

I have been feeling so unimaginative lately. But there is one scene that has caught my eye, night after night. I kept thinking, I should try to take a shot of that one day.

The scene? Just one of those ordinary everyday kind of things, the afterglow of the compact fluorescent light bulbs when I turn off the bathroom lights each night.

I played around with the settings and ending up catching it best with about a 20" shutter speed. I'm sure the neighbors where wondering what in the hell I was doing, turning the lights off and on for about 15 minutes straight. Then again, what the hell where THEY doing looking at/in my bathroom window? Perverts, I should call the cops on them.

After that, I was having so much fun, I took a shot of this glow too.....

A space heater in the basement.

Sometimes I look for inspiration outwardly in so many other places, people, and things when all I have to do is look around me.

Stay warm.

Upside Down From There

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular

To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends

"Ana Ng"
by They Might Be Giants