Bars should have bettter photos

So, I like to dabble a little bit in photography. It's pretty fun. I have a roommate Mike, who is a good photographer and a professional graphic designer so I get photo & Photoshop pointers from him. Since I'm totally an amateur and don't have aspirations of doing much professionally, I stick to a pretty simple, but nice digital camera...Canon SD500. It's a slim little 7mp with cool in camera features that allow you to do some sweet stuff with color and motion but nothing crazy. Point is, it's small enough to take with you anywhere you would want, but you can also turn lots of situations into creative p
hotos.

For instance, when I first got it I took it almost everywhere, so when a couple co-workers wanted to go to a bar after work, I brought it in with me. Made a sweet photo too...CHECK IT:

Obviously this photo is about vivid colors that the great lens allowed me to capture with no flash, in a low light situation, but also the motion captured is really killer. Using a low ISO setting and taking series of pictures in burst mode, I captured the two frames that I wanted; the tap up, and the tap down with the barkeep moving a lot too. So when I got home I PS'd it up! I layered the two shots and applied transparency and a mask on the top one. Using a big feathered brush I took out the parts of the top layer I didn't want. Really, the only parts that didn't get masked were the barkeep and the tap.

I told myself, and Mike who helped me, that I was going to attempt to sell this bad-boy to the bar so they could put it up. I think it's the kind of photo that a semi-classy bar like Molly's in The Woodlands would want framed up right by where it was taken. I mean, if I sat down at the bar, looked to my right and saw this photo of exactly what I had just been staring at while attempting to get my 6th round....I would be like "DAMN THAT IS SWEEEET!! What an exquisite bar this is. I shall journey here for my next plethora of libations"

Problem is... I never got around to going back to that bar to sell it.....right down the street from my work, in fact it's on my why home from work, but I just haven't stopped by in the 4 months that I've had the picture printed out. I even had my co-worker Dave, who does wedding photos on the side, print it out in a 8x10 and he did an excellent job. He used some crazy Epson printer that he had to go to classes to learn how to calibrate.