About My Holiday Cards

Cards from Christmas's Past

Every year about this time, I rack my brain for an idea. A new message and image to convey in my annual greeting cards. Well, it started off harmless enough. The first year I drew a picture of some of my favorite Disney characters. Then I did the Muppets. Then I tried some Christmas scenes before moving into more abstract things. If I had enough memory available on my internet accounts, I would scan the other images in, but alas... I should also mention that it is tradition that my cards not look too polished. This is mostly because I have no artistic ability whatsoever. Also contributing to the general shoddiness of my cards is the fact that I always wait until the last minute to put them together.

This year's card

This year I decided to do something a little different. Since, my drawing ability gets worse every year, I thought I would try something with a computer touch. I have taken a lot of pictures during my travels the last few years. One thing that I have enjoyed doing is taking three or four pictures at a site and trying to piece them all together into a panoramic shot of some sort. This was the premise for these photos.

Priene was the last stop on our last sight-seeing tour in Turkey this summer. I was sitting at the theater (I happened to find a home page about the theater...) with my friend Eric very tired from a long hot day. I suddenly got the wacky idea to take three pictures with me in them and piece them all together (hey-it seemed like a revelation at the time). So I ran around the theater and had Eric take pictures of me.

When I got the pictures back, I realized that it didn't turn out so great. I was missing some holes of the full scene and I was almost too small to be seen. I scanned them into a computer and tried to cut and paste the holes up. Anyway, the result is not too spectacular, but I had fun trying. Some day I will create a true work of art, then who'll be laughing, eh?