This weekend, Jack and I took a quick trip to the area in Texas where we used to live. We drove down via Kansas and Oklahoma, and drove back through Texas and New Mexico. Despite the Kansas route being completely interstate, the Texas route is much faster.
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No photo today. You might want to check out the photoblog at bestyearofmylife.com instead.
I used “The Gimp”:http://gimp.org to make this example of Faux Postage from yesterday’s photo.
I took a walk with my trainer and her dogs yesterday. We saw some small white flowers and I mentioned I had never, to my knowledge, seen an anemone growing wild. Five minutes later, we found this little beauty. This seems to be the prairie anemone, also known as the “pasque flower”:http://www.und.edu/org/soaringeagleprairie/pasqueflower/, also known as the windflower.
On March 23, my youngest nephew, Laurie’s and Marty’s son Finnian, officially became a member of the family.
In Photointegrity, Tim Bray discusses his philosophical approach to enhancing and altering his digital photos before publication. I’ve thought about some of the same issues, and, like Tim, rarely go beyond cropping and color correction because I want my photo to approach what I thought I saw.
All cats should have their own jungle.
Yesterday, I worked out how to make mandalas from photographs using “The Gimp”:http://www.gimp.org/. I started with the instructions for making mandalas using Photoshop at “Earth Mandalas”:http://www.earthmandalas.com/how/. This mandala of six spokes is based on a “photo of my shamrocks”:http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/002566.html that I took in February, unlike the “mandalas I made last year”:http://www.stardel.com/dmnindex.htm which had five spokes.
