Category: Photos

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.

Yesterday, I helped my trainer move some furniture that is due to go to a charity thrift shop this week. Arnie, her young cat, immediately checked out the displaced arm chair.

Ice fog lasted until about noon yesterday, frosting everything exposed to the cold air.