Nostos-algos - The Desire To Return I've spent the past two Sunday's exploring the back roads in Southern Colorado, and was thrilled at each new discovery of another piece of Colorado history. I have always been fascinated by history, historical events and buildings, and aside from from my mo
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03/29/2010
Another Fun Toy - Shape Collage - And It's Free! I came across this in a search for a free and easy collage maker for a website I'm working on, and wanted a collage for one of the pages. It is incredibly EASY, and the FREE version has some fun goodies to play with. It's called Shape Collage
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03/26/2010
Rum-running in Colorado? You Betcha! On Sunday, with beautiful weather in the forecast, I headed for the hills. Just outside Trinidad, Colorado on Hwy 12, I came across this old market with a very old truck parked right up against the front door. It's been there for a long, long time. Maybe th
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03/24/2010
Protea Proteas, also known as Sugarbushes, were named after the Greek God Proteas, because like him, they change their form. They are of an ancient family, whose ancestors were present over 300 million years ago, and are thought to be one of the oldest groups of flowering plants. They were f
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03/21/2010
Stuck in a Rut? Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers (1879-1935) Born William Penn Adair Rogers, Will had a colorful life. He was one of eight children raised on a ranch in Oklahoma by prominent, part Cherokee parents, and became a skil
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03/19/2010
The Orton Effect - Dreamy Image Making The Orton Effect is a technique in which the resulting image has both very high, and very low detailed area within the same photo. First used by Michael Orton, (thus the name), the effect has a dreamy, artistic, and somewhat surreal feel to it. The tec
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03/17/2010
The Hayman Fire - Eight Years Later On June 8, 2002, a Forest Service worker burned a letter from her estranged husband in a campground fire ring within an area designated for 'No Fires' due to a long period of severe drought in Colorado. Her action resulted in the largest wildfire in the histo
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03/14/2010
The Facebook Bandwagon OK. I finally climbed aboard. I've been fighting this, kicking and screaming all the way. Where on earth does the TIME for all this come from? But Rain Camp convinced me that this is the way to take things to the next level. So, not wanting to be left in the dust.... Fo
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03/12/2010
Get Your Google Juice Here! I had to get up at 5AM to be in Denver for Rain Camp this morning. No small feat for a girl that stays up late and sleeps in - and likes it that way. I was surprised how many people are up and about, and even out on the roads so early in the morning. What are they t
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03/09/2010
Photographic Compostiton - Negative Space My recent post on Smoke Art got me thinking about 'negative space'. So, what is it? Negative space is that area around an image that is 'empty' and surrounds the 'postive space', or the subject. When negative space surrounds or outlines the subject
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03/05/2010
