Blue Marble 1
September 1998

I like to look at the graphics in my net cache and play around with them.

This first is a variation on my 'Houses on the Internet' graphic. I call it "The Blue Marble". When I showed it to my son, he casually mentioned that I could get in trouble with copyright laws by using net graphics.

Blue Marble 2
September 1998

So I went to work creating something from scratch.

"The Blue Marble 2" is created totally with Microsoft's Image Composer and its built in options and dingbat fonts I have on my computer.

The Solar Flares
December 1999

I found at the discovery channel's online site a camera that takes ultraviolet pictures of the solar flares. As soon as I saw the image I knew that it had great possibilities as a graphic. So I took the original green sun image from December 16/1999 and played around with the saturation and put my creation together.

Earth Quilt
January 2001

I came across 'the sunrise over the earth' graphic from the movie 'Space Odyssey 2001' and had to try out making it into a kaleidoscope. At a craft TV show I saw somebody use that idea with patterned paper and now I wanted to try it out on the computer.
I scanned a graph paper circle and cut out 30, 45 and 60 degree segments. Then I superimposed them onto my graphic and cut that out and then duplicated it until it made again a full circle. Next I cut out the center of the new graphic and placed the original image into that center.
I liked the graphic so much that I had to take it a step further and by putting it through some filters and reassembling it I ended up with a 'virtual' quilt.