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The current splash page. Not sure what to do with Orbyn.com, to be honest. It's getting a lot of spam and I'm pretty much moved over to Typepad, but I'm holding on to it for sentimental value (and through laziness) at the moment.
Current State Forester, Larry Biles, shakes the hand of the future State Forester, Jason Hartman in front of the Kansas Forest Service sign.
1. 20110401, 91/365 - Whitstable, 2. pie pops, 3. Biggie Stars is done done done done DONE!!!, 4. Certo Dolly Super-Sport, 5. too much, 6. on impulse, 7. Happiness is .... a star quilt, 8. Wonky Baby Stars - the elephant star, 9. YIP.074 on my table, 10. Pump Jockey finished!, 11. mini peach pies, 12. hoot!, 13. improv block., 14. Japan Earthquake, 15. ., 16. 166:365
Het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and opened in 1885. In 2013 and 2014, it was the most visited museum in the Netherlands. It is also the largest art museum in the country. The museum has 8,000 items that can be seen by those who go to it.
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These are some of the books I'm currently reading.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Fiction and Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hellblazer Volume 7: Tainted Love by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Closed – the world is currently closed due to Covid-19
If someone had told me six months ago that social separation, self-isolation, and quarantines would be the norm, that pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, gyms, leisure centres, parks, museums and all non-food shops would be closed, that there would be massive shortages of food and medical equipment, and that there would be rationing in place, that all non-essential journeys would be banned and the roads would be empty; I would not have believed them.
Yet, here we are. I am amazed at how stoical most people are being and how we support each other to keep our spirits up. New friendships are being forged as communities rally together, helping those less able for whatever reasons.
Thank you fellow SOTD members for making this group a safe haven and providing some sort of normality in the midst of all this craziness.
Background of the photo:
With Covid-19 and this image in mind, I went out in the car the other day (before the Lockdown) looking for a large shuttered door to photograph (while still practising social distancing, of course). Original image in comments.
Back in Photoshop I removed the existing sign above the door using the Content Aware Move tool and Clone tool, before darkening the image using a Curves layer. I added the neon sign using a Neon font imported from the internet, adding the glow via Layer Style.
On a new document I created the closed sign, adding a texture to make it look less perfect.
Finally the world map was overlayed onto the door using a feature called Displacement Maps.
The original wooden maker has been replaced and this is what his headstone looks like now. He passed away February 27, 1916 at the age of 40, while fighting in the first World War. His resting place is in Belgium. Before my own grandfather passed, he was able to make the trek to visit his father's resting place. Unfortunately, he never got to know his father.