Just a fun Friday entry for my 365. Rox had just thrown the toy for Lexi and struck pose when she noticed I had my iPhone pointed her way.

I took out a little boat and some people bobbing in the water using the Brushes app and then ran it through CameraBag to give it some fun color punch. Happy Aloha Friday!

Just a fun photo for today's 365, taken at Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. I was walking to the car, looking for something interesting to shoot and noticed how much the light poles in the parking lot mimicked the palm trees that surrounded them. The problem was there are SO many palm trees at Aloha Tower that it was difficult to find an angle for a clean shot. Quite a few people were looking up trying to figure out why I was waking around and crouching down while pointing my phone toward the sky.

Yesterday, Sunday, was my first full day to just work creatively in our new studio in Haiku, Maui. I haven't yet shipped any of my canvases or panels to paint on from Oahu, nor any of my tools with which to build them. But I had two tables an an iPhone...

I love the show, NCIS, and have a mildly perverse fascination with alien abductions and stories of Cold War government / military experiments. I had these in mind when creating this "clone" photograph.

I also got a TON of exercise running up and down the stairs and hopping up on the tables and getting positioned before the 10-second timer on my iPhone app fired off the shot using the GorillaPod app.

Once I had several shots of each "position", I transferred all the photos to my iPad. I used Brushes to layer and composite the images, Iris Photo Suite to add texture and vignetting, and CameraBag for additional flavor. I have over a dozen different final edits of this shot but this is currently my favorite.