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Grabbed the photo below with my Android and edited it quickly with Snapseed. I liked the black and white treatment of this image the best. Below is the original image:

I woke up this morning to the internet not working. Not just the wifi, but a CAT5 connection wasn't working, either. Just another reason why I disagree with this whole "move to the cloud" movement we've been in for a couple of years now. So, I tried writing in Libre Office, I had problems sitting still long enough to complete a thought. Having only a handful of hours sleep will do that to you. So, I decided to open up some old unprocessed RAW images and convert them to JPGs since I still have actual software natively installed on my computer. Then I chose an image and ran it through NIK Software Silver Efex Pro. While the image turned out fantastic, when I went to save it, Nik overwrote the original JPG. That sucked. Anywho, here's a waterfall from a few months ago. Waterfall in Black and White

Orange Kitty in #BlackandWhite Taken just a few minutes ago in #BW mode on my #Pentax. Kitty was not happy being my model, less so than the dogs quite possibly. I keep trying to get photos of his teeth because he has two sets of upper fangs (canines. Seriously, are they canine teeth on a cat?), but he almost never smiles. He's ten years old and this is his third home. From what I understand, he belonged to a family and when the parents broke up he went with the father to live with his brother. The cat's owner either (1) moved back in with his ex-wife or (2) found a new girlfriend to move in with. Regardless, the cat was left with his brother. My roommate met the brother a bar who told her he was trying to find the cat a home since he didn't really want it around. So, she took it. She calls it "Butters," short for "Butterscotch." I call it "Orange Cat" because it's orange. It had a completely different name before.

So weird. #GooglePhotos made this #autoawesome for me from a photo I took about an hour ago. When I "Saved" it to my photos and then tried to share it, Google Photos couldn't download the image for sharing. I tried four or five times, each one resulting in a failure to download image message. So, I used the three dot menu in the upper right hand corner of the Photos app and selected "Save to Device." Well, that worked perfectly fine. It downloaded and here we are. #blackandwhite #bw #monochrome

Abby sleeping in #bw. #dog #monochrome

Rufus got a (much needed, if you ask my roommate) bath yesterday. He's all shiny and soft now. And fluffy. So very very fluffy. So, naturally, I took pictures. This is one. #dog #photography #blackandwhite #bw

Grabbed this shot while out walking the dogs earlier today. Couldn't figure out how I liked the edit best: color, black and white or with the green tint. What do you think? This is a mobile shot edited with Snapseed.

Grabbed this little gem while out walking my dog. Once again I didn't have my dSLR on me and had to grab this with my Android. The image is of a dead tree's branches reaching for the sky. This was treated with Snapseed, as usual for photography on the go.

Google decided to roll out new old features to their cloud photo editing options. To be honest, I'm not sure if they retired PicNik or just buried it somewhere else, but the new features are desktop (well, Chrome-top) versions of their popular on-the-go Android app, Snapseed. Why Chrome-top? Apparently the feature is not available unless you're using the Chrome web browser, or presumably the ChromeOS.  Maybe the Picnik features are still available to other browser users? I'll have to check and update this post. To find this feature, using Chrome, log into your Google+ account. On the left hand side, choose Photos  and then a photo. Once the individual image is open in the lightbox, there should be an Edit  option on the top row above the picture. Then edit away... just like Snapseed. Here's the first image I decided to test this feature on and below I'll post the image from when I edited this with Snapseed on the go many, many, many moons ago: Originally, I edite...

While out walking the dogs this morning I ran across this old Chevy truck. Well, not really a  truck so much as station wagon.  Since I've never seen it before I decided to go ahead and grab a couple Android shots while it was there. I treated the picture and two separate ways both using Snapseed. One is basic black and white and the other I added a sepia style tint to give it an older feel.

Yes, I know, more pictures from on the go, but hey, what are you going to do? Cameras are fairly prevalent now. These are just a couple of shots from walking my dog yesterday afternoon. We hit the Sun's light and clouds just right and to be honest, I wish it had been one of those walks where I brought my dSLR. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't bring it and usually when I don't I wished I had. Thank the gods for cell phone cameras! Such is life. The first shot (if they show in order) is of the clouds rolling in from the south  the second is of a tree highlighted by the afternoon light with the clouds adding texture to the sky and the third is my roommate's dog resting his head on my lap.