On this #WhatISaw Day 49, at least we know it wasn't Rudolph, a dark and empty parking lot reflects the lights, I must remember Tuesdays, a lilac storefront and a festive bouquet.

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reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip. This solar plant, SEGS VIII at harper lake was dramatically expanded in 2013.

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

#WhatISaw Day 10 - memories of my beloved grandfather, who died on Remembrance Day 1969. He was my best friend.

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reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

#WhatISaw And it's December! Day 31! - Graffiti by the back wall, who on earth can read this??, buskering at Vancouver City Centre, nicely lit food truck, me and @fabfrugalvan at happy hour, and honouring World AIDS Day

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CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip.

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

On this #WhatISaw Day 5/2016, I gazed into a puddle and felt I was on a precipice, sat in an almost empty bus, discovered a living room OUTSIDE the thrift store, and came home to two chillin' cats.

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reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip.

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

abandoned federal minimum-security prison in the mojave desert. CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip.

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"The Return of Spring" by Jack Beal (1999)

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + alienskin snap art.

CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip. This solar plant, SEGS VIII at harper lake was dramatically expanded in 2013.

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

cherry creek jw marriott. denver, co.

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

all the people i know who take pictures for a living would tear this photo apart but i don't care, i like it because i like you

your huge, pretty eyes

and i like the focus on your shoulder in this picture and i like the shadows on your tshirt

i was nervous to take your picture

i'm not ever nervous to take anyone's picture, really

but i felt silly, i felt like i should put my camera away and hold your hand instead

talk to you instead

i almost said something pretty incongruous but my body caught me from saying it milliseconds before the clumsiness falls out of my body to pollute our aquarium

the birds of illinois are relatively similar

to the birds of ohio

my stomach is so annoying

it is freaking out, you are in the room

"for once you are in the room" my brain says and my stomach says back, "be quiet, things could be a lot worse than not having someone you like a lot in the room too often" and my body says "please shut up and enjoy this and just think about this, please, and try to concentrate on this" and my brain says "no way" and my stomach says "good luck with that"

what do you think of these paintings

what kind of art is your favorite

we stood holding each other in the museum in front of a little boy, he seemed apathetic to the situation, i thought he was so cute

there were little models of buildings made out of toothpicks in plexiglass cases next to us

and we walk around the city with my best friends from home and with your nice sister who i've just met, i haven't seen you in a long time and i think we were both nervous about how to act, i didn't kiss you at first for so long, waiting for the right time

my brain says, "you're even prettier than i remember"

my mouth says, "you look nice"

and my body says, "ok, where do you guys want to go next"

and i am freaking out, as usual

we are sitting next to each other on the subway train

my head says, "what does this mean, oh my"

my body says, "your head on my shoulder feels so nice"

and my mouth says, "ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha. and explains to you concisely why i like baseball"

and my head says again, "i wonder so many things about you"

and my stomach says back, "there are a hundred things i like about you"

and my body says, "please calm down"

you kissed me in strategic places on monday morning

my stomach said, ".....oh"

and my head said, ".....oh"

and my body said, ".....oh"

i hated it when you had to go

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reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

On this Day 4/2016 of #WhatISaw, it was a snowy morning in Vancouver, tire tracked are etched into the ice, and celebrating #nationalspaghettiday 😊

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dried-up baseball diamond at an abandoned federal minimum-security prison in the mojave desert. CLUI (center for land use interpretation) desert field trip.

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this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

Montréal police officers, since working without a contract since 2007, are not wearing their uniforms; instead, blue jeans, shorts and red union caps. Doesn't help their cause that there is a great deal of negative publicity surrounding them regarding their bad and intolerant behaviour (putting it mildly...)

this image originally posted in 2007, reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + alienskin snap art.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + alienskin snap art.

reprocessing old files with current software. fuji finepix F30 6MP point-and-shoot, processed in lightroom LR4 + PTLens + photoshop CS6 + nik color efex + alienskin exposure 4.