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Rain or merely sweet, sweet Falcon tears?!?!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Poking Langley, tagged , , , , , on January 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Do not trifle with Julia Myers (12). (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Do not trifle with Julia Myers (12). (Shelli Trumbull photo)

A fourth quarter comeback. A huge Wolf win. The Falcons pushed to the brink of playoff elimination.

Tuesday night was big for the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team, as its players stepped up and stormed back, firmly stepping on their Langley rivals in what is likely the final time the two hoops squads will meet in Cascade Conference play.

With CHS planning to leave the 1A/2A league behind and join a new 1A division of the Olympic League, the Island schools may continue to meet in years to come. But, if they do, it will be in non-conference games (and, possibly, the postseason).

So, what better way to go out than sweeping the season series with a 48-38 win?

Well, I can think of one other way — taking a Shelli Trumbull photo and tweaking it with photo-editing software (http://www.picmonkey.com/).

Why? Cause it amuses me. And sometimes that’s all you really need.

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I have WAY too much time on my hands!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf junior Wynter Thorne, posterized. (Original photos by John Fisken)

Wolf junior Wynter Thorne, posterized. (Original photos by John Fisken)

Oscar Liquidano

Oscar Liquidano

Jae LeVine keeps the beat. (Robert Bishop photo)

Jae LeVine keeps the beat. (Original photo by Robert Bishop)

Julia Myers

Julia Myers (foreground) and Amanda Fabrizi. (Original photo by John Fisken)

CHS football coach Tony Maggio

CHS football coach Tony Maggio

I could do this all day long.

Ever since my sister, Sarah Kirkconnell (http://www.gazingin.com/) introduced me to PicMonkey (http://www.picmonkey.com/,) a web site where you can craft all sorts of things out of photos, I have run amuck.

It started with a nearly 60-page picture book that I made for someone, a film noir-influenced tale of hard-bitten private eyes tracking a missing dog.

The real life femme fatale got back her wayward doggie, then got a book to remember the surreal 36-hour adventure of those who went searching for the fluffy pup.

Today I tried out the “posterize” feature on the site and the five “works of art” above are my creations.

They use photos originally shot by John Fisken and Robert Bishop, and pay homage to my one true life-long love — the movies.

Sweet, sweet time-wasting…

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