Office Tribute to the Utah Trip

Recently, I printed a very nice photo I took of Delicate Arch in Moab, UT. In front of it, you see a 1:18 scale model of the motorcycle I rented for the 2008 trip: a denim silver Harley Streetglide. I was able to find this on Overstock.com for $30, which is about 1/3 what they cost new.

My dad loves brick-a-brack in general, and office chachkies in particular. He has several minature V-Rod motorcycles in honor of his 2-wheel ride in DC.

Gotta Learn Photoshop

Photoshop is a powerful tool, and it has always intimidated me. I made the above photo a million times better in about 10 minutes. Here's what I did:

• I "erased" two people that were in the picture. Really, I just erased them. They used to be in the lower left corner in the distance, but now you can't tell.
• I cropped the photo to panoramic dimensions. This is easy.
• I used the "magic healing tool" to clean up some bird poop. Yes, that's right. I literally erased three giant plops of white ugly guano.

I might work on this photo and blow it up for my wall. Pretty cool.