10.24.2005

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Don says

Lately we've helped wire a garage for a clothes dryer, done some sound system work for the Cowboy Church in Llano,

The Cowboy Church, Exterior
The Cowboy Church, Exterior.

The Cowboy Church, Interior
The Cowboy Church, Interior.

fixed some rain gutters, some cabinet shelves that were falling down, and a broken door frame.   We haven't had time to work on the new computer desk we're building for ourselves but we have managed to stop long enough for Lisa to take a few snapshots.

Lake Buchanan
This beautiful photo of lake Buchanan
was taken near the boat ramp, here in
Buchanan Lake Village (where we live).

Don and Lake Buchanan
Lake Buchanan, Llano County Park, Buchanan Dam, TX.
See that shiny spot on the back of my head?
  Lisa calls that my "solar panel".

As I write this, I've got this issue (11-1-05) of my ezine very nearly finished and we've also managed to spend several hours working on our computer desk.   We've building it almost entirely from scrap lumber I've accumulated.   Granted, it won't be fancy but it'll more than do the job and won't look too terribly bad either.

Lisa says

We've been attending the Highland Lakes Computer Club (HLCC) meetings monthly, as well as the sub-group Digital Graphics group meetings, also once a month.   For a limited time, one member, Ken Lapham, a digital graphics expert has been giving classes in Photoshop once a week and it's been a pleasure to attend.   The other day we were discussing photo restoration and the we discussed making a portrait "too perfect" by making both sides of a person's face symmetrical.   I'd just done an experiment in that vein when Don and I found a picture of Jerry Lewis (taken by photographer Eddie Adams) on the web.   I took the original, enhanced it in DC Enhancer (freeware from Mediachance), then mirrored the two halves of the face.   The results were artificial, eerie and kind of cool.   This may be the result of a misspent youth.

Photo of Jerry Lewis, taken by Eddie Adams     Same image after DC Enhancer
Eddie Adams' original is on the left.   The image on
the right has been through Mediachance's DC Enhancer.

Left side of face mirrored     Right side of face mirrored
I say these don't look like Jerry at all.
What do you think?