Assignment:

Using Google image search or another search engine, find a photo of a dragonfly or group of dragonflies. Find a photo of someone relaxing (or use a photo of you relaxing :-). Place the dragonfly(s) and the person in a "forest" setting.

Make the ending image size 800 pixels width (the height will vary for each). Save for web as a .jpg, and be sure to compress under 100KB.

Attributions

• Swedish Pine Forest.jpg by Nick Lott and released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
• Man-relaxing-in-the-grass 8954-480x359 (4811108310).jpg by Emilian Robert Vicol and released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
• Dragonfly ran-103.jpg by R. A. Nonenmacher and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

Assignment: Using various tools (paintbrushes, patterns, selection tools, etc.) paint a simple "lake" scene. Size it appropriately for displaying on the Web.

This is what the California State Capitol Building looked like on New Year's Eve 2014. The state Christmas tree, with it's beautiful star tree-topper is on the right.

This was taken with my very special Christmas present, a new Nikon D5300 camera with kit 18-55mm and 55-300mm lenses. I also have learned how to stack images in Photoshop, and this image is a stacked collection of 5 images in total. These were taken at ISO 2000 with the telephoto lens at at f/10 @ 1/20 sec; f/4.5 @ 1/160 sec, 1/80 sec, 1/40 sec, and 1/25 sec to give a variety of exposures for the stacked result.

ART 320, 2013-11-04, Project 4b, Asymmetrical Balance, Complementary Colors, “Twilight at HarbourTown Lighthouse, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina”