Weekend Update

Yesterday I skipped posting to my two blogs. Today I'm posting directly. Usually I write the posts with a text editor and then upload the posts from the file folder of the editor.

I connected my camera to the laptop with a short cable this morning for the first time. That went well. Without copying the photos from the camera to the computer I was able to upload several photos to my Facebook wall. I hadn't tried this before. One of the photos was a kaleidoscope of an Iris in our backyard. The kaleidoscope was created using the photo editor installed on the camera. One of the photos was of a butterfly on a weed in our backyard. I took this photo for Melva yesterday. I used the camera editor to crop the photo before I uploaded to Facebook.

Long time genealogy friend, Darlene Bacon, is sharing some tombstone photos that she and her husband took several years ago at a cemetery in Monroe county, Ohio. The photos are available to collaborators in a Photos folder on my Box.net account. Darlene is the first person I granted Editor status to any of my Box.net folders. We are both learning as we go.

Mr. Dickie

12 Jun 2011

Found CDs

Melva found two photo CDs of shots I had developed at Walmart. This morning I copied the photos from the CDs to my thumb drive. Then I rotated the shots that were taken in the vertical format. Most of the photos are of Melva's Sun Bonnet Sue applique quilt and of the flowers and bushes in our yard. I don't remember which cameras we used to shoot the photographs. I can tell one of them was a Kodak disposable. Those photos are often quite grainy.

Today I'm going to post HotLinks to Search Engines on my Henthorn Website News. Using Google isn't the only way to search the Internet. The results are often surprisingly quite different.

Mr. Dickie

Corel Print House Photos

We live in a small house. There isn't enough storage space. When I try to clean up some of the clutter things often get worse. After the clean up something will be out of sight and out of mind.

This afternoon I was in the basement looking in a box where I stored about twenty CDs that pertain to computers. One of the CDs I found in the box was for the Corel program Print House. When I read the back of the CD I was surprised to see that the CD has at least 1,000 photos in the JPeg format. I brought the CD upstairs and spent about an hour looking at the photos with the HP PhotoSmart Essential program. I'm very impressed with the professional quality of the shots I found on the CD.

Now that I've located this set of photographs and the set of 200 I looked at the other day on the Corel WordPerfect Suite8 CD I'm wondering what projects I can do that would make use of some of these shots.

Here's one of the photographs from the Flowers folder.

Mr. Dickie

Swirls

This afternoon I've been having some fun creating a photo album of "Swirls." I used the Corel Photo House program to create the photographs from photos that I modified using the "swirl" and "vignette" functions of the program.

I hope you enjoy this sample image.

I'm fascinated by the toys we have available to entertain us.

Mr. Dickie

Awesome Beauty

Here's a photograph that I found on the Corel WordPerfect Suite8 CD.

There are over 200 photographs on the CD. I selected some of them and copied them to my 4GB Cruzer thumb drive.

From time to time I'll share some of them in posts to my various blogs.

Mr. Dickie