Design Assignments 473—Otherworldly Distortion (1 star). Take a picture of a geographical location on earth and try to alter or distort it to make it seem like its from a foreign dimension. This was a fun and easy assignment. I started with another photo I took yesterday in the mountains of Virginia. With Picasa, I ...

Yesterday, Dave & I took a drive from Fredericksburg to Lexington, Va. It was a beautiful day for that scenic drive. On the way back, near sunset, we stopped at one of the established “scenic overlooks” along I-64 near Afton Mountain, outside of Charlottesville. Here we found the VDOT Workers’ Memorial. This monument, built solely ...

I tried a different approach this week for blogging my Daily Creates. Instead of blogging them one at a time, as I completed them, I am showcasing the whole collection here this week. I have been twittering the Flickr links each day but I will probably return to blogging each one separately in the future ...

Visual Assignment 13— Averaging Concepts using Flickr (3 stars).  This is a really cool way to make an abstract piece of art. The instructions for this assignment called for using the first 50 images produced on a Flickr search to create an “average” image. The end product reminds me of an abstract watercolor painting! I ...

Visual Assignment 129—Cropped Signs (2 stars). I’m finding these assignments a lot of fun. They really challenge you to look at things differently, creatively. The thinking about it, trolling for an appropriate sign and planning the execution was a little time consuming, but I was thinking about it all day, all week, looking around as ...

Visual Assignment 24–Troll Quotes (2stars). Okay, true confessions time: I have a celebrity crush on Sam Elliott. Despite the fact he’s more than 30 years my senior AND older than my dad, I find something about him sexy as hell. No Sean Connery for me. Sam Elliott all the way. If I only had him ...

Visual Assignment 44—Album Cover (2 stars). This was a fun and fairly simple project that I could do on my lunch hour at work. It also gave me a good opportunity to try a few free web-based photo editors. For this project, I used FotoFlexer (www.fotoflexer.com) In keeping with the instructions of the assignment, here’s ...

Greetings from Camp Magic MacGuffin and Bunkhouse 2 (aka Wäscälly Wäbbits)! Sorry I didn’t write home sooner; I started my journey a little behind schedule and got lost along the way. I am happy to report I arrived safe and sound, albeit a little frazzled. I am slowly, but surely, getting up to speed with ...

Cloudy Canine, a photo by chanda0703 on Flickr. You’ve met Duke is previous photo assignments. Here’s Gracie. Cloudy and out of focus. Had to play with the camera a bit, using the fish-eye lens and be quick to beat the focus feature. Took me a while to get it but I had fun trying! TDC148 ...

Raging Rappahannock River, a photo by chanda0703 on Flickr. TDC Stone, Water, & Clouds. The Rappahannock River was rushing fast this morning from all the recent rain. Great spot at “the Rock” that shows the bend in the river. Beautiful day, angry river. TDC147