So I made it to the Top Three in the Oregonian’s Photoshop contest! I am posting this larger one here so you can see more detail if you want to.
I did add a couple more “voodoos” to this version (in the two cars in front of the last motorhome), so that there are an even two dozen! (The 24 includes the M&M doughnut on the side of the truck.)
(Click to enlarge)
It’s kind of a fun way to call attention to the traffic problems in this area! A couple of years ago I explained the problem this way.
Here is my original photo. While the backup is caused by the bottleneck in Dundee, these cars were actually in Newberg (2 miles away), and not moving.
Here are my other two contest entries:
The Oregonian’s web site OregonLive has a Photoshop contest on right now. Having a free evening, and recovering from the Ducks loss in the Rose Bowl today, I decided to enter it! (The prize is a dozen donuts every month for a year!)
The elements:
It had to include at least one of the images provided by VooDoo Doughnuts in Portland. I chose these two:
I then picked a photo from my iPhoto collection. This is one I took at the Yamhill County Fair’s Monster Truck Show that we went to in the summer of ’08.
The result:
Here is the picture that I submitted. I entitled it, “Cutting Monster Doughnuts”
Caption: Voodoo knows how to cut donuts!
Here is the link to the actual image.
Yesterday an ex-co-worker stopped in at the office. Bernie worked with me about 8 years ago as our production manager, and now works for a company that services press rollers.
I love it when old friends stop in. It’s always fun to see people that used to be on “the team.”
Well, one of the things Bernie commented was that my beard “sure had turned gray.” (Hey — I don’t picture myself that way yet — I still feel 20-something, you know?) So, after he left I looked in the mirror, and… it really is true! Time has been passing, and I realize (again) that I am not the young grasshopper that I used to be.
Just for fun, here’s what I looked like when I started working in this building back in 1995.
The same way that I looked up to the experienced veterans that I used to work with (Dick Eichenberger, Dan McCracken, Dennis Headrick and others) and marvel at all the knowledge and experience they had — I realize that now I am the “masta” that other younger workers learn from.
Come to think of it, I am actually beginning to resemble the small figurine that sits in a potted plant on the desk behind me. Deanne gave me the plant with the little man sitting in it quite a few years ago, when I had a client that jokingly called me “masta preenta” every time he came in. (This was even before I had gray whiskers!)
So I am beginning to look like the old man…
… and he is beginning to resemble me!
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