Field Trip

A truck ride and a trip to the pet store.  Life is good for our new pupper.

Relaxed

"Ahhhhh, dis is the life!"  We adopted a pupper this evening.  He likes the comfy furniture.

Bananas for Bananas

Another one from the circus.  The circus is so glitzy and glamorous, that I decided to go rogue on this one and stick with black and white; except for the delicious, juicy bunch of bananas that this 7500 lb lady could hardly wait to scarf down.  As far as she was concerned, there was no noisy audience, no bright lights and no human on her back – just bananas.  

Ribbony

This afternoon we had the opportunity to go to a small circus show at a local arena.  

Today I'm wrapping up a 5-year project.  Since May 17, 2017, I've been giving my blogs 1-word names that end in "y" that sounds like ē, expanding this requirement in the past year or so to be any word that sounds like ē at the end, singular or plural.  I decided a while back to end that requirement today, May 22, 2022.  It doesn't mean I won't use them; it just means I won't tie myself to that anymore.  Over the years I made up some words, but most were found using my trusty Merriam-Webster thesaurus and unabridged dictionary.  Yes, "ribbony" is in the unabridged dictionary. 

Clearly

 Today is a complete Techie Corner day.  

I bought a couple new image editing programs.  I typically use Lightroom, Photoshop, and On1 Effects, but recently I got sucked into a Facebook ad for some new software by Topaz Labs.  I was skeptical at first, but they offered a free trial so I couldn't refuse.  

I was fiddling around today with their program called Gigapixel AI.  It's software to upsize photos, but it also does a fantastic job of revealing facial detail.  Today's image is part of one I blogged on a couple of weeks ago.  The one on the left is the best I could do with what I had.  The right is a couple of clicks in Gigapixel AI.  I could probably have smoothed out some of the facial features in image one if I had felt like it.  But the hair!  How did they manage to get it to look like hair again with individual strands?

I really like what it can do, now all they have to do is figure out how to translate that fine facial detail into fine detail for the rest of the image.