Posted on August 14, 2007

• I’ve posted an updated render of “River Valley” this morning. I decided this new version was stronger than the first so I moved the original to the Pickle Jar. I tried to improve the mountains in this version and I’ve softened the cloud layer. I was happy with the foreground so that remains unchanged. Which do you prefer?

Posted on August 11, 2007

• Added a new wallpaper, “River Valley“, to the gallery this afternoon.

  Jessie and I took Ian to the Field Museum in Chicago earlier this week to see the dinosaur bones and “River Valley” was inspired by a mural I saw in one of the nature exhibits. I wasn’t attempting to recreate the mural per se, rather I was inspired by the composition (close elements on the right expanding to a wide vista). I hope you like it.

Posted on August 10, 2007

• I’ve added a new animated wallpaper to the collection this morning. The animation is based on my “Campfires” wallpaper and depicts a spinning globe with city lights on the night side.

Posted on August 7, 2007

• I’ve added dual and triple-screen versions of “Of All Places”. I spent a little extra time on this one trying to make sure the cave walls on the right and left of the screen weren’t completely black.

Posted on August 5, 2007

• I’ve posted one more revision of “Of All Places“. I’ve changed the ripples back to how they were in the original (but sharpened the reflections) and removed the wayward tree root.

• I’ve registered my RSS feed with Feedburner (which is now a part of Google). Part of their service is they will provide an email notice when I update my RSS feed. Now those of you who miss my email update list can register an email with them and get an email delivered to you whenever I update my RSS feed (which is basically whenever I post a news item here).

  I really like the simplicity of running an RSS feed, and I never liked the pitfalls of running large email lists (hundred of bounced emails, unintentional spam blacklisting, etc) so I think this is a good compromise. Post below if you have any questions or comments.