Parkway Tolkienesque
I'm dabbling in Photoshop. No, I'll be honest: I'm immersed in PS at the moment, because I've sent myself back to school. With abundant thanks to my benefactor, in a kind of barter, J has recently sent me a three DVD set of Photoshop tutorials, and I've almost completed twenty-something hours of the BASIC disk--the first time through. I figure after I've watched and taken notes three times, something useful will stick.
Until then, I'll be making stupid mistakes, like the one above. But hey--sometimes accidents cause novel creations that persist because they show unexpected desirable features.
I had clicked off "constrain proportions" as I worked on getting this Parkway Panorama ready to print and sell (he said hopefully.) And so to my horror, my 180 degree wide expanse of mountains got smooshed up into 30 degrees of view, piling up the little knobs and rises into a scene resembling the Shire. And I sort of like the potential here. I think of this place in Tolkienesque terms at times, and think of myself as a very tall Hobbit. May the hair on my toes never fall out.
Comments
I could say something about a skewed perspective on the world...or maybe a pithy comment about how crowded and squeezed-in your little bit of heaven is becoming but I wouldn't do that. Nah. Not me. Or would I? (Note use of indecisive question mark at end of sentence).
Doug
Posted by: Doug Thompson | June 27, 2005 8:26 AM
I think it's a great shot.
Posted by: Sue | June 27, 2005 8:39 AM
Ahh, fred, these three weird dudes, tall, thin, all dressed in black with helmuts and all, riding black Harleys, came by looking for you. When I said you weren't here, the leader muttered something about giving you a ring. Thought you should know....
Posted by: fredR | June 27, 2005 8:58 AM
The hair on my toes is standing up. I love it!
Posted by: polly | June 27, 2005 2:17 PM
Wow, ain't it fun!
Posted by: susan | June 27, 2005 2:33 PM
I'm slogging through the Dreamweaver MX 2004 "Missing Manual" CD tutorials...dazed and confused.
Out of bread crumbs, send help. %^P
Posted by: BJ | June 27, 2005 5:26 PM
Great shot of the Shire, Bilbo!
Posted by: Carl | June 27, 2005 6:01 PM
Fred, I was wrong. Seems they want you to give them THE ring, whatever the H that means...
Posted by: fredR | June 27, 2005 6:12 PM