July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia above, spreading out across the garden. Today they are shining in the sun.
On a sunny day
Flowwers turn their faces up
Basking in the light
189/365 Geraniums flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC asked us to use digital erasing to remove a phone from an image. Now, once upon a time this took skilz, but with the new tools in my Android phone it’s far too easy. I took a pic of myself holding my phone and automatically loaded up GIMP to edit it out. But then I remembered the Android ‘magic eraser’ so I used that instead. I will say that it sort of upsets me that it is so easy to do – but it consoles me that it’s not perfect – the corner of the picture it’s filled in doesn’t actually look like that.
If I’d had more time I’d have done more with the cut out image, but it’s a work day and I had a long list of things to get done. So here it is. Original, GIMP edited and Android edit.
removed flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
For today’s TDC we were directed to the Random Animal Generator to see what we could generate. I got a phoenix,
random-animal-phoenix flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Himalayan Balsam flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
A great TDC today:
We’ve all heard of Lynn Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves and are probably familiar with the pictorial representations that accompany it.
As Lynn says, commas (and other punctuation marks) do make a difference. Choose your favourite grammatical faux pax and create a visual representation of it.
I decided to take the unpunctuated “Let’s Eat Grandma” and doodle a shocked old lady. Here she is.
Grandma, shocked that her grandchildren can’t use punctuation.
Grandma flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
For TDC5284. Flora the caring puffin with her puffling and some lost cranes
Care Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
For TDC5282. Disco Cat
Disco Cat flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC is to design a pencil:
Design and draw your own pencil. It doesn’t have to be a standard No. 2 or anything like that. Give it a unique exterior design or give it 3 contact points. You decide!
Here’s mine – a six pointed pencil so I can draw from 6 directions at once.
Hexapencil flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
RSPB Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
