Arena Station glass
Riding UTA’s TRAX line for a Photowalking event has to be one of my better ideas – just about the time I got cold (40°F), another train came along and carried the twenty-five or so of us to the next station. We did walk four blocks on this ‘walk, from the Temple [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Rainbow at the end of TRAX
PhotoTRAXing
Public art at the 9th East TRAX station (Canon G9, Adobe Camera Raw)
I spent all of 2 minutes and 10 frames scouting for tomorrow’s photowalk, um ride. Thanks to UTA for letting us bring our group on the train. If it rains/snows, we’ll have a place to duck out of the weather.
We meet [...]
Fill and opacity
Photoshop screenshot, 100% opacity, 100% fill
In my discussion on the color burn/dodge and linear burn/dodge blending modes, I showed how those modes exhibited different behavior based on whether the regular opacity or fill opacity was reduced. That oddity, however, is not the primary purpose of the fill opacity slider. Why have two opacity [...]
Karen the saddle-maker
Custom saddle-making
The Desert Caballeros Museum hosts an annual exhibition of cowgirl artists, called Cowgirl Up! I saw the 2007 show, but it wasn’t up last month when I was in Wickenburg for Gold Rush Days.
After I made the photos I wanted, I had some time to kill before my next appointment. [...]
Cowgirl Casual
Boot bouquet, Blue & yellow #1
I generally agree with Thoreau:
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
However, if I am going to learn to ride a horse, I need appropriate footwear. These boots are mine, purchased last month in Wickenburg from a lady saddle-maker named [...]
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