The Original Boy Running Down a Mountain

Paul Totman asked me to post the original photo I used to create yesterday's faux painting, so here it is. I shot this with my first camera in Grade 6. All of the photos from this trip have that same ribbon of red light at the top; I think some light must have leaked into the camera and slightly exposed the film. Or maybe it was a flaw in the lens. Either way, Mom and Dad gave me a better camera a couple of years later.

A Boy Running Down a Mountain

Sometimes it all goes very wrong. I unearthed a somewhat interesting (to me) photo of one of my Grade Six classmates running down a hill in the Badlands. He's too far away to identify. I experimented with the different layers of the photo, wondering if I could make the intersections of the three hills in the original image somehow look more three-dimensional. As you can see, I failed utterly, and instead I have something that looks like a screen capture of an early Intellivision game.

Six Years and Counting

Six years ago today, Sylvia and I were married. Here we are at our early anniversary getaway last week, visiting Dinosaur Provincial Park. Happy Anniversary, Sylvia!