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  • Making A Picture Frame From Dilapidated Fence Pickets

    Weird Wood – Part 5 of 5 As you may recall, this series began with Working With Weird Wood: Preface. After reading that, you may be asking yourself, “What happened to Parts 2 through 4 of this series”? After all, I did publish the promised preparatory article Thoughts On Mat Layout and Part 1 of…

  • How To Make Your Beveled Edges Look Like A Continuation Of Your Image

    When describing our canvas gallery-wrap optionslink, we mention that the technique we use, the digital stretch wrap, creates an optical illusion. For any given amount of stretch, there is a particular “illusion angle” at which the sides look like an unstretched and uncompressed continuation of the frontthe math. Figure 1 shows that angle for various…

  • The Photographers’ Choice Award:

    A Draft Proposal For A Supplemental Award For Festivals Judged By “Old School Art Snobs” Old-school art snobs are highly educated and trained art professionals who, among other things, believe that if it wasn’t around by the end of the nineteenth century, it can’t really be called ‘Art’!” Background Many of the finer art festivals…

  • Our Newest Image: ‘Cedar Key By Sea’

    I finished this image on the fourth anniversary of the day we took it (no, that’s not bragging – just coincidence). But it is the third image we’ve introduced (see Introducing “Royal Terns” and Cedar Keys Lighthouse: A New Gigapan) from the fateful day that I ruined Nancy’s best camera and lensstory. We finished our…

  • Our Last Festival Of The Season

    The 36th Annual Melbourne Art Festival will be open from 9 am to 5 pm both Saturday, April 24, and Sunday around the north lake at Wickham Park in Melbourne. This will our sixth year participating in this festival and the fourth year at this location. This festival is free to the public. Besides the…