Painted in Pixels

Okay, these were my favorite part of the whole aquarium.

That’s all, folks!

A few more shots.

Come back for part 3; I’ll be featuring the favored jellyfish!

I’m alive; however, this isn’t a post of apology, this be a picture post. Enjoy!

More coming later. Maybe.

I found the cloning tool on my photo program! So, I tried it out quickly tonight…

Basically, I just removed some of the grassy weeds that were distracting from the focus on the wildflower. I realize this cloning job isn’t perfect and at that, there’s not a whole lot of change to see anyway, but what do you think?

before after

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And sadly, in other news, my weekly rendezvous to Barnes and Nobles, cool photo shops, and Sonic have come to an end. My brother’s and sister’s concert band program is done for the year, and that was my only time in the City (okay, more commonly known as OKC) with the car all to myself. I’ll miss it all: two hours by myself to pour over web design, photography, graphic design, and theology books at Barnes and Nobles, chow down Sonic’s 99 cents breakfast burritos, and discuss camera lenses with a sales man who knew just about as much as I did. (Which wasn’t much!)

Me [pretending to be serious]: “Dad, will you buy me a Canon Rebel camera?”
Dad: “How much is it?”
Me: “Only like $890…”
Dad [sarcastic]: “Sure…as soon as I get my next paycheck, I’ll go out and buy it.”
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Little sibling, overhearing the conversation: “Dad, will you buy me something?”
Dad [wary]: “What?”
Little sibling: “A piece of gum.”

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Of course, my dad was kidding about the camera. I shan’t be getting any new photo gear anytime soon.

But I did buy something else tonight. *squeals* I can’t wait until I can tell you what it is!

A few days ago I found a very interesting article from Smashing Magazine. They posed 5 design questions to 35 great web developers and came up with this:

[http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/20/35-designers-x-5-questions/]

I haven’t read through it all, but it looks like there’s lots of valuable information, including plenty of CSS tips. For that matter, the entire Smashing Magazine (looks more like a blog to me) looks informative and helpful!

Hmmm…looks like the beginning of a list of helpful links to add to my ever growing sidebar.

This is kind of cool. I was impressed, anyway. I certainly don’t know how to ‘pet a moose’. Nice work, Matthew. Do want to do one of me riding an elephant?

I just spent a few minutes browsing Word Press themes….hmmm. I wonder why? And that’s a secret.

Things to note:

1. You can’t google anything about WordPress without coming up with something about a certain Alex King that held some WP theme contest once. This cracks me up, ’cause I know another certain Alex King myself, and he’s never hosted a WP theme contest, though, I do believe he made his own WP theme at one point.

2. The questions are: Start with something pre-made, pre-painted? Or be original and paint my own? Pixels are fun to work with.

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes#Get_New_Themes(there’s plenty of themes for you!…)
• http://tomorrows-laundry.com/2007/02/23/four-blank-wordpress-themes/(this is handy if I decide to do my own)

3. I decided black is an excellent color to have a photography blog on.

4. I also just decided I really don’t think I have time to design a theme myself. O, o, o. Decisions, decisions.

I could always buy one: $$$
(Just kidding, I’d not do that, but they do have some vivid WP photo templates there.)

Oh, but why would I want a WP template anyway? It’s not like I have any web hosting or anything.

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Has anyone done their own WP theme?
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