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Nixon Library: We Did It Again

Went to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA.
Blatantly American, the museum featured no surprises politically. No Watergate here.
What my buddy said, "We've done it again," hit hard. He was referring to the picture above, which shows Nixon explaining an expansion of the Vietnam conflict.

Expansion, surge, two loaded words, that fit perfectly into the American lexicon of one-word pot shots at anything that kills or maims.

This picture backlit slide in one of the displays) has got to be the best in the museum.

Smart Cars Comin' to America

There are as many of these cars in Europe as there are SUVs in the U.S.

What are your thoughts about this car coming here?

If you want one they come out next year and you can reserve one if you pay $99 at www.smartusa.com

Such a deal.

Humans Beware!

Packs of monkeys just outside of Angkor Wat in Cambodia are a hoot to look at. But gawkers beware! You can attract, first one, then two, then dozens if you start handing out bananas.

When I got out of the car to look at all of the human-like creatures, it was a most novel experience. However, they were not friendly.

We ended up having to run away from the car when one got in and took some bananas that I had left there. At the same time a few others took residence up on the roof of the car, then the hood and then on the top of the trunk.

By the time the bananas were eaten and we had walked far away from the car, the monkeys finally left. Whew!

Digital Traveler's Pink Plane Find

A pink plane. Turn your little girl into a pilot. What fun!

Tiki Fun in Photoshop

before


after

Check out the before and after. Usually when you tweak
an image like this where the foreground is dark and the sky light,
you'll have to adjust the foreground so that there's more light.
The drawback is you'll lose the sky because the background
will white out.

To remedy this:

1. Click on a selection tool.
2. Enter a value for feathering in the top menu bar, say, 2.
3. Select the light part of the image. In this case it's the sky.
4. Click on Select>Inverse to switch to get the Tiki selected.
5. Adjust the Levels for the Tiki using Image>Adjustments>Levels.

That's it!

Gotta love this happy guy! He's in Honolulu.