BeFunky has a generous selection of ” cartooning and digital art ” options. This photo of Henry, while engaged in a Shaving Cream Fight, has been tweaked with two digital art overlays. ) My first experience with photo-editing was with Picasa. It was quite limited and didn’t include anything …
Recent Reads In the past I added Recent Reads to Part One but it has become uncomfortably long. Part Six, this part, will now contain my most recent reads in chronological order BACKWARDS ending with the book I finished most recently. Titles in RED are those which I found compelling. …
In 2017 an amazing story unfolded. It was filled with mystery and tension. It had everything you could every want in a story including aliens and exploding bats. The heroes and heroines had familiar faces and an arsenal of special powers and immense reserves of courage and ingenuity. It …
Introduction to Part Two Part Two Contains some titles without commentary. I will add the commentary as I find the time. This is Part Two of Five lists of books I have read and want to remember for many reasons. Among those about which I have commented are many …
“It was during the virus of 2020 that I made your Photo Stories Gift Boxes.” – Grandma- Do you think there will be a time when we will refer to today in that way? Beats me but it sounds like a good opening for this post which is about the …
I love making little books and have for as long as I can remember. All it takes is a small adventure, any kind of camera and some people. It helps if there is action of some kind but even without it, you can tell a teeny tiny story about almost …
Mortality is about contrasts. We are here to experience them. I love powerful contrasts. Light and shadow. Fast and slow. Up and down. Happy and Sad. Well, maybe not “sad”. Andrew’s mother remembered the bags of birdseed. She had been to the park before. I’ll bet you can hear the …
At first there was Photoshop. It was and continues to be expensive and challenging to learn. Some people think it is cheating to touch-up a photograph and I admit that I hesitated when I started thinking about “touching up” because I didn’t yet know that I didn’t always agree. Then, …
What is a girl to do? That is what I want to know. Within a few seconds I took several funny photographs of one of my favorite people involved in something quite serious while in the background her cousins were rolling around and laughing about things she had no desire …
Giving and Receiving Comfort We all notice body language whether it is obvious to us or not. Sometimes it whispers and sometimes it shouts. The position of our bodies including our posture gives away our feelings, worries, fears, excitements, sadness and joys without any necessity of opening our mouths or …
