Running... Again?

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  If you know me you know there was a time about 10 years ago or so where I was running. A lot. At least 5 days a week and at least 5 miles a run. I wasn’t training, I wasn’t preparing for a race or a marathon. I just found myself enjoying the time spent running. I wasn’t obsessed with numbers, but I kept track of them all and liked seeing improvements in time and distances. It was good physical health and mental health. Then I tweaked my knee. Not bad enough that I couldn’t walk on it, just a tweak that told me I needed to back off of running for a little bit. So I decided on 2 weeks. At the end of 2 weeks I aborted a run very early as the pain was still there. 2 weeks became 3, became a month, became 5 years. 
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Weekly Photo Projects, Week 22

Week 22: Technology
Some #Autoawesome
For all the photos I had taken recently I felt sure I'd have something I could use for both projects this week. I was wrong, and Thursday evening (+Project 52 B&W is due on Fridays) I was scrambling for something for the theme of Technology. And by scrambling I mean looking through my library looking for something that wasn't what I used for +Weekly Photo Project 2013 that I just convert to black & white and call it a day. Then I remembered Auto-Awesome, one of the new features in Google+ Photos that recognizes certain types of photos and automatically does things to them. In theory it is able to recognize shots that can be stitched together to make a panorama, bracketed shots to make an HDR, and shots that could be made into an animated GIF, which is obviously what I did. So I took a picture of technology then let technology automatically make the final picture. I was impressed with it, even if it is kind of a weak photo in general. It took me awhile to figure out that there needs to be a minimum of five shots before Auto-Awesome will do its thing, but once I had the 5 shots in an album it took maybe five minutes for G+ to recognize the type of photos and for it to make the animated GIF. Sadly Auto-Awesome seems to be hit or miss; I still have 3 bracketed shots waiting for the HDR treatment from 2 weeks ago. If the photo isn't animated, please have a look at it here: http://goo.gl/XG6e9

Week 22: Bokeh
Rosey
For +Weekly Photo Project 2013 our theme was Bokeh. Bokeh is the area of a photo that is rendered out of focus either on purpose for artistic qualities or due to technical reasons. Not all lenses (and cameras) give off the same subjective quality of bokeh, and my lens, I feel, gives a more harsh distracting quality of bokeh, at least for this shot.


You can view my Weekly Photo Project album here.
My black & white project album here.

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