Sunrise at Virginia Beach, May, 2019
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 13 2019
Here’s a photo from Virginia Beach at sunrise in late May, 2019. I used a dark black and white filter when taking the photo, but everything else is natural.
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A couple of moose in Alaska
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 28 2019
Here are two moose that I came across one day in Alaska.
A house I once called home
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: March 26 2019
This won’t mean anything to anyone else, but while cleaning stuff off of my phone just now I ran across this photo of a house I once called home.
Training polar bears
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: February 24 2019
When training an adult polar bear, it’s important to let their cub eat on your leg. #protip
(I don’t remember the original source of this photo.)
The white van, Talkeetna, Alaska
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: January 24 2019
I think this white van has been parked in Talkeetna, Alaska, for as long as I've been living and visiting there.
Two moose fighting in Palmer, Alaska
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January 24, 2019 - 2:51am
Two moose fighting in Palmer, Alaska.
Painting of a church, La Fonda hotel, Santa Fe, NM
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: November 11 2018
As I continue to work through photos, this is a photo of a painting of a church, which I believe I saw in the lobby of the La Fonda hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bleeding heart (on a Buddha Board)
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: November 4 2018
I was going through old photos recently and found this “Bleeding Heart” drawing that I made on a Buddha Board back in February, 2015. FWIW, Buddha Boards seem to make good Christmas gifts. I got this one as a Christmas gift in 2014.
Giving unconditional love is really hard
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: July 22 2018
Last night I watched an episode of Father Brown where Mrs. McCarthy was judgmental about something her god-daughter did. (She was the girl’s godmother.) In my mind I thought, “Wow, she sure is judgmental and intrusive in the girl’s life.”
Then this morning I woke up and saw some photos on Facebook involving one of my young relatives that made my skin crawl. When I saw the photos I realized I didn’t know them at all, and I hated what they were doing. I wanted to grab them by the ear and yank them out of those pictures.
So it turns out that giving unconditional love is really hard when you see people you care about doing things that you think are really stupid.
A gallery of 130+ Gimp filters/effects examples
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: February 18 2019
There are times when I work on images a lot with Gimp, and then there are times when I don’t work with Gimp for a month or two. When I don’t work with Gimp a lot, I tend to forget about all of the different things I can do with. Therefore, I have created this page as a “Gimp special effects cheat sheet” page to help remind me of all the cool things I can do with Gimp effects.