It's all in the Presentation ...

I was laying in bed this evening reading my book of the day, half listening to Gary's TV show when Ryan walked in the room:

Ryan: "Mom, why is my new bed on your computer screen gently nestling on a softly lit, brown glowing, celestial orb-like thing? Sort of snuggling on a radiant brown beaming creamy alter world? Have you taken too much of your morphine?"

Lori: "Funny .... no on the morphine. To answer your convoluted (yet full of lovely descriptive words) question ... I was bored."

Gary has been all industrious again, while I wile away reading a wonderful book and I decided to document his newest creation. But this seemed so BORING:

Thus the lovely photo above of his bed, minus the garage, and no matter how Ryan describes it, it is just: Top Layer: his bed with the background cut out (feathering at .3 pixels), with a 'Drop Shadow' added (-140 degrees, Strength=3.0 pixels, Depth=4.0 pixels) & Bottom Layer: a radial gradient using the 'foreground to background' option (dk brown & cream respectively) with the Mode=Overlay, Opacity=100%, and 'Reverse', 'Dither' & 'Transparency' checked. This all smoooshed down into one final layer and a .jpg file created ...

NO glowing, NO beaming, NO orbing, NO celestializing ...

Just a lovely presentation of his bed that he is taking back to his apartment in Austin in a week.


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Shot a photo of the moon this afternoon with my new 'Buddy' workhorse of a camera - my new Canon PowerShot SX210IS, thought we needed to spend some time together, get to know each other a little better. I though this shot was pretty decent, for being ... like as far away as the moon and all ...

And as for 'Presentation':

"OH, MY - WHAT A CUTE DOG!!!"

Might be the title of this photo, but in reality, with the background in, you can see that Gary is strangling her by her collar and yelling at her for literally (while out catching a Frisbee) running under the back tire of a car backing out of its driveway ... so "IDIOT DOG" would be more like it!

And I just might be making Gary sound too harsh - WHICH IS NOT THE CASE! Our freaking dog just about got herself run over and would you look at the look on her face while she is being cussed out? She's all: "CAN WE FRISBEE AGAIN, NOW, PLEASE? PLEASE?"

Like I said ...

It is all in the presentation ...