Imagery

No matter what situations life throws at you....

No matter how long and treacherous your journey may seem..

Remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

1. Should I get a dog.....?

OR...2. Should I have children?

After seeing Danny's Tiltshift artwork, I thought I'd investigate what it was all about, and found it can be done with any digital image using GIMP. I did not have any aerial type photos, so I tried it with some of the Disney pics.
Before GIMPing

After GIMPing

The technique is simple, so I'll include it for my own reference, if nothing else.

Layer - new layer (transparent)
(on Mask) Add Layer mask
(on Mask) bi-directional Blend from focal point north
Mask to selection
(on background) Filter->Blur->Gaussian
Color->Hue Saturation - to taste
Color->Curve - to taste

The earthquake was right in the area where the giant pandas live. Most pandas in this area were rescued, and particular attention was given to the babies, all the pandas were scared. The photos were taken right after the earthquake and during rescue effort care. All the pandas were released back into the wild and it was noted that all of the bears stayed together.

First photo - typical concrete & stucco facade. The wall starts to take on a 3-dimensional appearance. Eric in his element, 30' off the ground. He does most of the artwork by himself &researches, paints and designs each project from scratch. His wife Kathy, also an artist, serves as project manager.
Third photo - Finished product

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The river shown in the photographs is the Caño Cristales, which is located near the town of La Macarena in Columbia, South America. The river, world famous for its colorful display, has been called "the river that ran away to paradise", "the most beautiful river in the world" and "the river of five colors".

During Colombia's wet season, the water flows fast and deep, obscuring the bottom of the river and denying the mosses and algae that call the river home the sun that they need. And during the dry season there is not enough water to support the dazzling array of life in the river. But during a brief span between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right, the many varieties of algae and moss bloom in a dazzling display of colors. Blotches of Amarillo, blue, green, black, and red - and a thousand shades in between - coat the river.

The part of the river where the colorful blooms occur is quite isolated and is not accessible by road. Adventurous tourists can now fly into La Macarena and then make their way to to the river site on foot as part of guided tours. The site was effectively closed to tourists for several years because of guerrilla activity in the region along with concerns about the impact of unregulated tourist traffic. However, the site was reopened to visitors in 2009.

So far, some 1,000 people have visited Caño Cristales, including around 100 foreign tourists.

The tours will follow four clearly marked and authorized paths and one is no longer permitted to stay overnight or cook, as this was ruining the area previously.

If you are an owner of a dog that belongs to a 'dangerous breed' category and you also have a child or a visiting small child please take this as a warning.

Don't leave your dog with a small child unattended under any circumstances!!!

Only one little moment was enough for the following to happen.

These men are installing and setting solid steel pillars in concrete to stop vehicles from parking on the pavement outside a sports bar in downtown Jozi.
They are now cleaning up at the end of the day.

How long do you think it will be before they realize where their vehicle is parked?

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse , France without a single hour of airtime.

Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.
The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having Read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 Really is.
The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in thecockpit because they had All 4 engines at full power.
The aircraft computers thought they were trying to take off, but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc..)

Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.
This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.

The computers automatically released all the Brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward.
The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.
The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new Aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Muslim Arabs.

Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
Airbus $200 million aircraft meets retaining wall and the wall wins
As has been stated before..........."that's why God gave them camels"!

Source: Google street view of 75th Street Brewery, Kansas City, Missouri.