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Harley’s Stare

dale — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:43:45 +0000

2010-3-6_harley-eyes, a photo by littleredplanet on Flickr.

What do you reckon my cat Harley was thinking?

Playing with the Guitar Gods

dale — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:56:35 +0000

If only I could play like BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn or Eric Clapton!

Dwelling In the Desert

dale — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:31:49 +0000

“What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity — for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In Transition …. Hard

dale — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:32:26 +0000

“Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.”

Jump to Orion

dale — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:12:53 +0000

Willow on the trampoline with a new Hubble Space Telescope shot as background.

Where's that pot 'o gold?

dale — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:40:06 +0000

Willow and I were getting into the car to run down to the store when we spotted this rainbow. I love how rainbows dip right down into our valley. You can really see the end of a rainbow!

Little Bits of Sunshine

dale — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:55:04 +0000

Today my daughter Willow was jumping on the trampoline. She quietly slipped her water bottle in and began jumping throwing water everywhere. I snapped a few picts before taking her in from the cold and changing her water clothes!

If Dreams Die

dale — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:06:21 +0000

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

New DeviantArt Portfolio Slideshow

dale — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:47:22 +0000

I’ve had an account at DeviantArt.com for a couple of years now and have not used it much in the past 12 months. I started digging around there this week and notied they have made some nice upgrades. I really like this embedded slideshow. Click the ‘expand’ icon along the bottom of the show (as you move your mouse over it) and you’ll see a very classy slideshow of my featured gallery. Let me know what you think. Also, if you have a DA account, touch base with me there.

el hombre cielo grande

dale — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:46:18 +0000

I decided that it had been far too long since I had pulled out the ol’ camera and took some shots. I walked around this morning with my daughter and took a few experimentals. While editing them on my favorite editing software, the GIMP, I accidentally choose the Threshold option. This gives a very stark black and white image. I was impressed with how the stripes on the shirt contrasted the other elements in the composition.

I decided to use the threshold edit and layer it with an alpha mask and a circular gradiant. This pulled in color and gave me a great color and texture contrast. If all this sounds like goobledy gook and you wouldn’t know your GIMP from a lame Pimp, then check out the GMIP tutorials located on the site here. The second part of this tutorial explains the threshold tool and how to use it.