water web
July 26th, 2008
A tiny web down close to the ground collected drops of water, much to the disappointment of the spider clinging to her very wet web
Rain on windshield
July 26th, 2008On a recent trip to Houston I took a number of grab shots. It is surprising what you can record just shooting through the windshield.
Here’s another still shot- 
And a couple of the Houston skyline (it was unusually clear last week)
One of the best things about the digital camera is that there are no wasted shots, it costs nothing but a second of time and every once in a while the grab shot pays off with something you could have gotten no other way.
Abrupt Shoulder sign
July 11th, 2008
More like no shoulder, and it would indeed be a cold shoulder if you drove off into the river.
This is along the south fork of the Clearwater River, up the river from Lewiston ID
falls magic
July 7th, 2008Palouse Falls is one of those magic places. In this video you get just the essence of the falls.
You could spend a day or even several days looking around and watching as the changing light of day changes what you can see of the falls.
This picture of the rainbow(fallsbow) gave me another lesson about light and exposure. The right setting for the rainbow left the waterfall over exposed. Perhaps later I will work with that a bit in photoshop.
Please click on any of these photos for more similar stuff in Flickr.
I am still sorting and organizing to try to get the best of the bunch from our trip to Tekoa, Wa. I ended up with more than a gigabyte of pictures and video clips. This is the good news bad news of digital. You may never miss a shot because of running out of film, but you may never find it again with so many. After all this I really do want a dslr, so that I can compose the picture more easily through the viewfinder when the lcd monitor is just not readable in the bright light.
sunset
June 21st, 2008
farm equipment framing a sunset near Tekoa, Washington
and a picture of Tekoa mountain. tried the panorama setting on the camera, as you can see in a couple of places I should have used a tripod.
Space View
June 14th, 2008
This was the end result after playing with the pictures below. It all started with a shot upward in the atrium area of a local hospital. After opening the atrium picture in Photoshop I opened a new file with double the dimensions of the original. After dragging the photo onto the new file, duplicated it 3 times flipping each new layer to end up with four ajoining tiles.
The center looked like it ought to be a window so——— On future projects besides saving at strategic points I am now feeling the need to make some notes on the process so as to have a recipe of sorts for the next time.
From bottom to top the pictures below are some of the stages Space view went through before the final form.
Annika Birthday
June 12th, 2008Annika got to blow out her two candles and a few more for Opa, but not 68. Actually I got to help blow them out.
Here is one of the birthday babies (65 years ago)
The two birthday kids together(below)
And the smallest of the birthday kids
A good time was had by all.
before the altar
June 12th, 2008
This really started out as several photos. I think I may have to start taking notes, although even if I had notes or could remember all the processes I doubt that I could replicate the picture. It is like most of what I produce, a thing of the moment. Some of the art is, I believe, in being ready when by chance the moment has come. This back lit caladium is evidence of that- Back lit Caladium
The sun was going down and the back light last for 20 seconds at most.
Even a construct like Before the Altar is a matter of chance and being ready when the moment comes.
birth of sun
June 2nd, 2008
This started out as a patio stone. After running several filters doing and undoing things, finally got to something that looked like alien planet mountains. Made a new document twice as wide as the original, drug the stone into the new file duplicated the layer and flipped on horizontally.
the sphere and other forms were added with various filters. the blend if was used along with the history brush to bring it all together
galaxy
June 2nd, 2008
In a recent conversation I said that if I had had a digital camera, a computer and photoshop 50 years ago I would probably be retired from a graphics business now.
Instead I am kind of following the suggestion from a bumper sticker “it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” Perhaps rephrased to read, “it’s never to late to follow your passion.” So I have in effect retired to a graphics business, and that in the end may be better than retiring from a graphics business.
It is not without reason that one of the tags for this piece is “just for fun.”
