London’s Big Ben appears in today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #60 is:

When Danielle and I went to London for about 24 hours, we had no idea we’d be able to see nearly every landmark. It was pretty awesome to be able to achieve it all. I think all we missed was the Tower of London. (And a leisurely stroll along the Thames) I love this shot of Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster, and the Thames and it’s currently on display in our dining room.

Waxy Top 200 Photo

photo #61 is:

The only reason this photo even made it into the ranks of the Top 200 is that it was featured on a website talking about how to remove candle wax from a carpet. That led to 474 views in one day! And hopefully some of those looked around my photostream and became followers of my photography.

I’m not quite sure why this is a Top 200 Photo

photo #62 is:

I think the flickr description sums it up best:

While putting some lotion on Danielle’s back, it looked to me like the way they prepare cakes at nice restaurants. I hadn’t purposely tried to do this, so I *had* to photograph it!

Again, Photojojo brings my most “interesting” photos from a year ago.  All of these from the tiki party.

Another surreal Top 200 Photo

photo #63 is:

It took forever to get the Photoshopping just right for it to look this good. In the end, lighting kinda messes up the effect, but I think it’s my most meticulous surreal photo.

Today’s Top 200 Photo might melt your popsicle!

photo #64 is:

In a very strange role reversal, I was the only one out of myself, Danielle, Dina, Daniel, Marlene, Brian, Ho, and Lauren who knew this girl was dressed as Katy Perry from her “California Girls” music video. Usually I don’t know jack about pop culture. I’d seen the video on youtube because it was the explanation behind someone’s flickr photo idea.

Last time I blogged about Mass Effect, I had just finished up with a planet where a plant was controlling everyone. After that I did my first real tour of my ship to go talk to all the people who had joined my crew.  I got to sneak up on Ash talking to her sister and learned she had a crush on me.  I decided to nip that in the bud because I found her personality annoying compared to Liara.  I also found out about her background.  She was religious, but I wonder if Christianity has survived in the Mass Effect world or it’s something similar to that.

I’ve spoken about Amarok’s Dynamic Playlists before.  Despite my best attempts, I couldn’t quite get it to work correctly.  However, Amarok 2.4.3 has revamped the dynamic playlists engine and interface, so I wanted to check it out and see if it worked better as well as testing out some of the new features.  For one thing, they changed the interface to more closely match the interface for static playlists.  See:

Here’s my latest photojojo!

Another self-portrait in today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #65 is:

Another entry in my 365 Projec t. This time I was using my wide angle lens to play with perspective effects.