My first painting

When I said I was taking a painting class, freyjakj asked when I was going to start posting some of my paintings.
Well, we finally did a painting that wasn't just a color theory study, so here it is!

Cleaning up

Working at the photo store made me think that I really needed to get the sensor on my digital camera cleaned. Since I work there they would do it for free instead of charging the usual $50, so I got it done yesterday.
The way to check how dirty a sensor is is to open the aperature way up and take a shot of a blank light-colored wall. Then you take the picture and open it up in Photoshop. Open levels and hit auto levels. This will make any specks of dust on the sensor show up.
This was what mine looked like:


Now that it's been cleaned it looks like this: