I was taking photos of the sunset and couldn't figure out why the color was coming out so blech on the camera.

It took me a few minutes to realize that it was because I had sunglasses on. So I decided I would just take the photo through my sunglasses, so you can see how it's better that way.

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rain a/k/a textdrivebys.com says:

great picture!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Vidalia says:

uh...yeah, right...that's you. always lookin at the world through rose colored glasses.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Michael - B [deleted] says:

Wow. Great idea. You should sell 'Sundown Glasses' on one of Florida's beaches, preferrably the keys. People will buy them, I'm sure.

Great picture, awesome idea and really funny. Thanks for sharing this picture!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

dannebrog says:

heh. excellent. sometimes inspiration for cool art comes from unlikely sources.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

cmrowell says:

This technique is pretty widely known about. Funny, though. The last few photos from my contacts that I've seen doing this were similar, they just thought of it out of the blue like you did. I like that you got the sunglasses in the shot, too.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Zervas says:

fancy
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

patrick73 says:

filtration 101..
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

wskrz says:

Awesome! Very nice!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

estacey says:

that's awesome! i did the same thing a while back with my glasses, but all the pics came out too dark..
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Radio_Head says:

Hey you just made the Interestingness page. :) Congratulations.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

tangi_bertin says:

Montage très intéressent. Les nouvelles lunettes de james bond :-)
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

cmrowell says:

Great about being on Explore. I had to come back and favorite this. It just looks so cool.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

celticman53225 says:

Great idea and perfect execution. Fabulous result!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Crashworks says:

That's why B/W photographers sometimes put color filters on.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Oscar Cheng says:

Oh, wow, it is so creative an idea to use sunglasses! Great shot!!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

bizzlenj says:

try a UV filter
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Malingering says:

on a point and shoot?
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

joewilsondallas says:

Mal. You'd better watch it -- I was just on the Explore page, looking at all of the 'artsy shots', and making the appropriate art patron/Fourth of July verbalizations (oooooooooohhhhh.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh) when I suddenly spied THIS shot (very very nice) and I thought to myself, "Very, very nice. Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh."

But then - I saw YOUR NAME as the artist.

So please -- don't tell me that you've 'gone artsy'. (Doctor, she's GONE ARTSY!)

I mean... I've got more flower photos just here on Flickr than I can eat. So, pleeeeeeeease don't forsake all your global voyeurs out here. We've paid damn good money to view your fine street work. Ok, ok. We HAVEN'T paid you any money (yet), but I'm thinking that I WILL be one of the very first to buy your first coffe table photo book:

The Ridiculous-People Coffe Table Photo Book That Really IS a Coffee Table. With Legs.

I knew you 'when'.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Malingering says:

Don't worry, I doubt it will happen again. Unless I get an SLR. But speaking of 4th of July verbalizations, I just found this... an oddball in my photostream... www.laist.com/archives/2007/01/01/happy_new_y ear_la_from_...
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

The Wombat~! says:

Tee Hee.. I use sun glasses as filters all the time :)

Happy New Year Mal
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

joewilsondallas says:

Mal,

1. Of, course I was kidding about 'what you CAN and can NOT photograph'. I think that EVERY photo that you capture is somehow fascinating (HOW do you DO that?) -- and I DETEST the Flickr critics who say rude things on blogs, such as: "I like how you had a sun in your shot, but I would have preferred if you had, instead, shot the moon. In Bora Bora. In the snow." So, pleeeeeeease, don't think that I would ever ever ever tell YOU what to do. I wouldn't do that, unless my butt were cold, and I thought that your Uggs could warm it up.

2. Did that 'Laist' web site just STEAL your shot? I'm getting concerned that our Flickr photos are just an all-you-can-eat free stock-library for digital thieves.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Malingering says:

I am considering taking photos of Uggs and breast implants through my sunglasses, just so I can end up in Explore more often.

LAist blogs my photos, I think, so that's okay. But I did find some people online who stole my photos, claimed them as their own, and then entered them in a contest. Oh well. At least they didn't win. Ha!

I am very surprised no one said that ugly white car ruins the shot, which is all I can think of when I look at it. I am also waiting for people to suggest to crop here and there and change the iso and get a better camera and take some photography classes and join Greenpeace. I'm just waiting. It will come.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Malingering says:

actually, I just checked and I'm not on explore anymore. I've been replaced by photos like this.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

wskrz says:

That's pretty sad. I'd kill to get on Explore more than just once, and that gets up?

Even sadder is that someone favorited it.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

cmrowell says:

The ugly white car ruins the shot. Kidding. Actually, it is just part of the street scene and low enough down to not be distracting.

I've noticed that some users get accolades and photos favorited no matter what they upload. I've long since stopped caring.

I thought I saw this in your Scout page yesterday, but not the day before. They come and go in the beginning and eventually settle down.

Weird what shows up in blog searches. Put your flickr id in the search below (maybe add "flickr" as well). I had no idea some of my photos were blogged.
www.technorati.com/
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Yun Ping says:

Neat!!!! Cool effect
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

S.M.K.1219 [deleted] says:

Everything looks better with rose-colored glasses.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

nightmares_n_fairy_tales says:

~I SNIFFED out this wonderful image!
You deserve this nose worthy award!
Please ADD your
Impressively beautiful
photo to~

Impressed by your Beauty! (Invite only images)
Please tag your photos ImpressedBeauty

--
Seen in the interestingness archives. (?)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Malingering says:

The saddest thing is that of all of my photos, the only one that is #1 (and has remained consistently in explore over time) is a totally stupid photo that I don't even like.

www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/2006/05/24 /
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

n¡k*. says:

buenisimoo!!!! greaat!! coooll!!!! =D
me encanta
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

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