I engage in a constant search for great free photos to use as featured images for my blog posts. I used to love sxc.hu but the site etiquette for “free” photos strongly encourages you do what the photographers want and link back or acknowledge where you have used the image. No problem if you are […]
Blogsy Is App of the Week
I don’t really know why it has taken me so long to try out and sing the praises of Blogsy, the multi-platform iPad blogging app. My life would have been so much easier the last couple of months had I been using it rather than the WordPress App or direct web access to the WordPress […]
E is for Errant Equivocation
I was an errant equivocator today. Instead of writing I dilly dallied and delayed writing this post and other pieces while I contemplated moving this blog to triplebottomtimes.com (Don’t ask!) I even created a header for it. But then as I usually do I quit doubting myself and the wonderful name I have here at […]
Graphic for a Viral Shop-In
I created this image/graphic so I would have a badge to use on my blogging site in support of the Shop-In to thank J C Penney for keeping Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson and not caving in to small but loud protests about naming her their spokesperson. Also if you do participate this Sunday, […]
Photo Similarities Between the Times of the Great Depression & Great Recession
Spent some time today looking at National Archive photos and Wikimedia Commons pics and found these parallel pics. Dorothea Lange’s photos of the Dust Bowl, Migrants in California, and the general sadness and despair caused by land abuse and economic abuse seem oddly contemporary.
Graphics
I’m back in graphics mode! I just love what I can do for myself when it comes to making or finding the right image. It took a while to learn the basics, but I consider it time well invested. I learned how to manipulate images, create textures, and how to find out of copyright […]