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Sedona, Arizona: Cathedral Rock

Red Rock State Park, Sedona, Arizona.

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Shot with: 2 mega-pixel Olympus D-520 camera

Related: Sedona, Arizona: Doe Mountain

Cascade River, again

From the same beautiful day as the last picture: Cascade River State Park, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

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Related: Cascade River State Park, Minnesota

Cascade River State Park, Minnesota

Cascade River State Park, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

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Related: Cascade River, again

Photopost: Minnesota Aspens in Summer

From the same Aspen family featured in Autumn in Northern Minnesota and More Minnesota Aspens in Fall.

My wife thinks I take too many pictures of these trees.

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Previous free aspen pictures were taken with a 2 mega-pixel Olympus D-520 camera. Now you’re getting shots from a 6 mega-pixel Canon SD600. Still taken with the same shaky hand.

Perfectly Cromulent Image Cropping with the GIMP

Make that extracromulent.

I’m guessing that most people with a digital camera or a web site have spent time cropping pictures. There are lots of programs that can do this. Often we start out by using the ones that happen to be installed, and we manage for better or worse with the functionality they happen to have. In this post I hope to show you that the GIMP is a great tool for cropping pictures. I’m sure Photoshop has similar abilities, but instead of paying $700 (or whatever it costs now), why not use the free GIMP, available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and the Mac.

Don’t limp along: get the GIMP.

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The GIMP is the 800-pound gorilla of free software graphics …

Remarkable Free (as in free culture) Photography by Paulo Barcellos

I’ve had it in mind lately to write some book/music/movie reviews about non-free culture, which I have mixed feelings about. This is a site ostensibly devoted to free software and free culture, after all. I may end up writing those posts, along with some hand wringing explanatory notes (namely that I’m all about “free association and assorted miscellany” also), but I have no reservations about pointing to the work of Paulo Barcellos Jr. over at Flickr:

NYC, Blade Runner Style

I’m continually delighted that he freely shares all his pictures under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license. (I’m guessing the older v2 license because that’s what Flickr offers as an option.) This is quality work, and releasing it this way bolsters free culture as we gradually move in …