A friend challenged me to identify the most artistic photo that I have taken with my cell phone. Uggh. I've taken *so* many pictures. I did identify some that I thought were artistic. Some are collages of photos that I took at the same time
It seems that chiaroscuro strikes me as artistic
Too bad this first one was with my old phone. The light caught the fountain in an incredible way.
Posted by Anne Barschall on Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Posted by Anne Barschall on Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Posted by Anne Barschall on Tuesday, September 24, 2019
A professional photographer got really excited about the center one in this collage.
Posted by Anne Barschall on Thursday, October 22, 2020
Link to the mushroom photos
https://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2021/03/some-more-photos.html
Some photo editing
It's actually only some of these that I really like, e.g. the panoramas of the pond.
I've taken so many photos of these mountains. This might not really be the best one.
News from 2019
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So I want to learn more of the Creative Cloud Software. I am working on Adobe Illustrator recently.
Also I got a new pen & tablet device for Christmas, because my old one no longer was supported under Big Sur. I find it supremely annoying that Apple does this: rendering software and hardware obsolete with operating system changes. I hope that the Biden administration is going to do something about this.
Also, I was given a challenge to create some artworks using a set of colors from existing art.
This was the set of colors that I got using Color Slurp. There were some that were fairly close to each other and almost duplicates, but I kept them, anyway. This was a good exercise for me, because my professor in my 2D animation course wanted me to learn about working with color palettes, but I was resistant. I really liked this group of colors though.
7C6633 (khaki)
290000 (dark brown)
2A110A (reddish brown)
E9D5BA (cream)
130601 (black)
8F2A00 (dark red)
561700 (darker red)
88736B (light grey)
4E3B32 (grey 2)
3C2823 (grey 3)
1F1914 (grey 4)
1E130B (grey 5)
DA915F (coral)
916217 (ochre )
1F1209 (almost black)
882E00 ( reddish)
56220B (another brown )
Actually, the colors that I thought were grey were sort brownish or mushroom.
These were the things I created so far. Think that my friend who gave me the challenge to work with these colors may put something like the top 2 up on his wall, which I find exciting
I got some more junk mail this morning. I decided to write a long handwritten letter to them with all my complaints about them and their meaningless surveys and the issues that I really want to see addressed. I'm recreating that letter here, with a few things edited or added.
I have already contributed. I am not contributing again I'm tired of getting dozens of requests for money every day. I'm tired of these idiotic surveys that don't accomplish anything meaningful, because they're just broad Hallmark type stuff that any Democrat would agree with. I'm tired of being treated in this impersonal, mechanical, dumbed down way.
I'm very angry about the disinformation that the Democratic Party seems to be responsible for distributing about Tulsi Gabbard. I'm angry that, by excluding her from the debates, you kept the debates focused almost entirely on domestic policy and not on our horrendous foreign policy that has kept us engaged in counterproductive, disastrous, bankrupting regime change wars.
American people clearly demonstrated for support of both Trump and Sanders that the majority of people do not want foreign policy as usual the military budget needs to be cut DRAMATICALLY
By keeping Gabbard out of the debates, you allowed the most hawkish candidate to rise to the top.
As to legislation, you don't even mention some basic items that I think are very important:
1. The current limit on HSA contributions is less than the out-of-pocket maximum for my insurance. That doesn't even take into account glasses and dental. The limit on HSA contribution should be *at least* the out-of-pocket maximum on my insurance.
2. I lost my health insurance under ACA, because ACA did not allow the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) to be considered as a group. This forces me to buy insurance as an individual. Major cancer centers like Sloan Kettering (MSKCC) won't take any insurance that an individual can purchase. This forced me to get cancer care from incompetent providers miss my recurrence for nine months due to malpractice.
a. The NYSBA should be allowed to be a group
b. Hospitals like MSKCC that will not take any insurance that individuals can purchase should lose their not-for-profit status with the IRS
c. There needs to be a public option
3. Our Social Security numbers have been compromised by hacks. We need new Social Security numbers. We should be able to get new Social Security numbers like we can get new credit card numbers and no one should be able to offer credit cards without the users photo.
4. I am constantly plagued with scam phone calls. I cannot block the numbers, because the numbers are spoofed. Spoofed calls must be made illegal immediately. People making unsolicited Robo calls should be considered felons and given STIFF penalties.
5. Addiction is a disease, not a crime. Drug abuse should be treated with a medical model, not a criminal model. The field war in drugs must be stopped.
6. (thought of this later) Trump fired a whole bunch of inspectors general. These federal employees should be protected from random firing by the president. They’re too important.
