Tia, Mago Elf Liam, Nem-nem Niamh, Lil' Bug, and I. (kid names are aliases)
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//Transcribed; Note 1: Please, let us know your’e leaving before exiting your dwelling. [I don’t know who wrote that note; I suspect “Mago” did. I’ll ask my kids, and leave it a mystery to you.] Note 2: Dear Moma, I love you as much as a baby bunny, but please don’t forget the hats. Love, [“Nem-nem”].
One more note to follow in another post, later.
![Note 1: Please, let us know your'e leaving before exiting your dwelling. [I don't know who wrote that note. I'll ask my kids, and leave it a mystery to you.] Note 2: Dear Moma, I love you as much as a baby bunny, but please don't forget the hats. Love, [Nem-nem].](http://home.ussins.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Notes-on-the-door-from-Ussins-front-door-notes-1-and-2.jpg)
![Transcribed: Dear Moma, I love you as much as a baby bunny, but please don't forget the hats. Love, [Nem-nem].](http://home.ussins.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Notes-on-the-door-from-Ussins-front-door-note-2.jpg)
//Nem painted this. Click the thumbnail to open a giant-resolution original, free for personal use.
It was accepted for entry and won a few Juror’s Awards in the Children’s category at the Provo City Library’s annual homegrown art show in 2016.
It’s really, really hard to get a faithful film representation of art that has a highly textured surface–faithful color, intensity, brightness, and a good balance between shadow to show texture and light in the shadow so that the former three aren’t obscured. (I wonder how well Google does this with their friggapixel scans of hallowed art works.) Maybe it would have been easier if I started with studio light instead of sunlight 🙂 This composite from many photos (from two different cameras) is my attempt.
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//This cute fella captured our hearts–after he was bound to die by spraying 🙁
Nem cooed at this image. I captured it by moving the spider to the driveway. With the last of his strength he turned toward the sunset, which gave me better light, and since he wasn’t moving, I could set the camera to the nearest manual focus and nudge it as near as possible (angled via tripod mount) to get his eyes in focus.
//Against all odds.
Fabulous photo, Steve.
//Overdue for posting.
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Tia’s work. Originals recovered (re previous post).
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//Here’s some artwork Mago did using a painting program on our computer. He’s also described and named these, which you’ll see in the captions. The captions also link to full size images.
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Also, here is something he created at pbskids.org.
I know I had several other creations of his lying around in files somewhere, but can’t seem to find them at the moment. I’ll post them if I do.
A technical digression.. [spoiler]New rule: don’t upgrade unless you know you need to. I’m in a habit of automatically upgrading WordPress plugins when prompted to via the dashboard. The new upgrade to the SimpleViewer Gallery plugin (sv-gallery) stopped displaying galleries, and stripped down adjustable settings (how to designers decide it is better not only to automate everything, but to completely prevent users from manually setting anything? Are not the science fiction stories about evil robots taking over the world warning enough?). It took me a few hours of frustration before this dawned on me (both that it was an upgrade and a broken one). Fortunately I had an old copy of the plugin (this and so many other experiences with data gone bad (or missing!) – this is why I back up everything). I deactivated and deleted the plugin, uploaded the old one, put the settings back to what I want – and blammo! Everything back to normal. So: Do. Not. Upgrade. Unless you have good reason to believe that not upgrading may be the cause of problems. But keep backups – whether you upgrade or not.[/spoiler]