{"id":600,"date":"2011-10-08T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2011-10-08T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T20:56:25","slug":"when-a-pictures-not-just-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"When a picture’s not just a picture."},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to have a Blackberry that I was rarely without — I’ve moved on to Android land because the last 3 Blackberries I had were basically pieces of junk, locking up, etc. One had a camera that would only take blurry pictures. What to do?<\/p>\n

Well, one option is the run the phone over with your car, but that can be messy. One day, at lunch, I snapped a shot of the diner counter where I was, and, of course, the focus was way too soft to be of any real use … that is, until I thought about being artistic.<\/p>\n

Why not let Photoshop turn it into a sketch? Worst that could happen would be that I had a completely unusable picture.<\/p>\n

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Instead, I was presented with something that was far better than I could have imagined. I liked it so much in fact, that I had an 8×10 made of it, and it was displayed in my kitchen art gallery for a while (and even was mentioned back in June).<\/p>\n

That’s one of the myriad reasons that, regardless of how poorly a photo may turn out, I never discard them. You never know what you may open your eyes and see one day.<\/p>\n

Silver Blue, who says “I am a camera.”<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/iaac.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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