I am an avid reader of quite a few photography and photoshop blogs. One of the people I follow closest is Scott Kelby. He is a photgraphy and photoshop genious and not to mention a savy business man, but I digress. I was reading his blog today and he had such a good post I had to include it here.
This doesn't look too bad!
OK, so yesterday I heard from a friend that it was reported that the government spent an estimated $360,000 for that “Photo Op” debacle which had the President’s 747 flying low over New York City (good plan!), escorted by a fighter jet (luckily the President wasn’t on board).
I heard what they wanted was a shot of Air Force One (of course, it’s only called Air Force One if the President is actually on board, so we’ll just call it “Big Blue and White 747″) flying over the statue of Liberty with Manhattan in the background. There were probably more cost efficient ways getting that image, and so in literally less than two minutes I hacked together the composite you see above in Adobe Photoshop CS4, using a background from iStockPhoto.com and an official White House shot of “Big Blue and White 747″ from their web site.
Now, here’s my plea to the White House. Rather than spending $360,000 somewhat foolishly (wink, wink), whatdayasay we work out a deal?
I’m trying to raise money for furniture and household appliances for an orphange in Kenya (run by Americans), and I’d be happy to actually take 90 minutes (or more; whatever it takes), and really do the compositing job right, and all you have to do is buy a freezer for around, say $360. You can keep the other $359,640 or give it to GM.
Anyway, by next weekend my schedule will have freed up, so if you’re interested just drop me a line here or call my cell phone (you know the number).
I will spare you my thoughts about how this is another example of the current administration spending our money for absolutely ridiculous things but just know I am mad about it! At least Scott Kelby thought of a good way to look at it, and his picture looks pretty good!
I promised to upload a few more movies a long time ago and never did. So today I took some time and made a new movie which is a series of video clips we have taken over Adelyn’s life. This video shows some of my favorite moments with Adelyn. For example I love watching her wake up and stretch and lying on the ground and talking to her in complete nonsense. Also, she is almost three months old, and is just starting to roll over. It is the cutest thing because she wants to roll so badly, but when she can’t make it she gets really frustrated. She can go from her tummy to her back, but can’t get going the other way. You will see her attempts to roll over near the end of the video. Thanks for visiting our blog; I hope you enjoy this movie.
I received this in an email today and it made me laugh. I do not know who wrote it or where it came from but it was worthy of a post. After watching the BCS bowl selections last night I was a little dumbfounded as to their logic. Reading this little excerpt made the whole process make a lot more scene.
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work–including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule–our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking.”
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated “The US only had two major victories–Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren’t influenced by head-to-head contests–they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event.”
German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said “Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks.” Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn ’style points’ to enhance Germany’s rankings. Hitler protested “Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces.”
The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented ” France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2.”
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.
I know that we cannot do a playoff, due to school schedules and other various things, but this BCS stuff is ridiculous. Why is Utah #6 playing #4 Alabama when #3 Texas is playing #10 Ohio State? I would think that #3 would play #4, but apparently not. Go Deutschland!
