Photograme

Sitting at my desk this afternoon, I tried to figure out what kind of photo to make of myself for my Nikon Digital SLR Challenge entry. What to do... What to do... Sooo, I put the camera on the desk & pointed it up slightly to get this. I cropped it a little after running it through Topaz Adjust 3 times, on 3 layers, for luminosity adjustment. I like what it did. Anyway, I don't have time to spend on another self portrait so this will have to do.

 

[edit – 7 March]: I’ve had some inquiry regarding how to pronounce the title of this little photo. So, in an effort to enhance lucidification & obfuscate ignoritude, here is a guide in the style of John Cleese’s edification for Callard and Bowser:

 

PHO: As in “fe fi FO fum, I smell chocolate and want to have some.”

 

TOG: As in TOGgle. Either it is, or it isn’t. But in this case it most certainly may be.

 

RA: Remember when you got that awful fruitcake? You tore off the holiday paper thinking it was going to be something very special, and it turned out to be that small inedible fruitcake? Yes, that one. Well, if you were quick about it, and the time for gifting hadn’t passed by, you probably wrapped it in some new paper (or if you were very clever, in the same undamaged paper it came in) and sent it along to someone you didn’t much care about. Yes, RA is like the RApidity with which you got rid of that sticky cheap gift.

 

Lastly, then, is ME. That should be easy. It isn’t you, it’s ME in the photo. It is a self portrait after all.

 

So, all together, PHO as in “fe fi FO fum,” TOG as in TOGgle, RA for Rapid (short version), and ME as in ME and not you.

 

Thank you.

 

Done