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Well, "ugly" is a four-letter word...

My geography professor at Ohio Wesleyan has used his GIS class for the past several years to address issues of bike trails in Delaware County, including this one, in order to assist the local planners of these things. I didn't realize that Delaware County was one of the final pieces. The pressure's on!

All right, I'm in. Now to select the times to skip out on the conference and see the sights. :wink:

In case anyone doubts ColDay's divinity, he not only deleted my posts, he also blew out my whole connection to the internet before I had a chance to re-post this last night! As I command respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position, I am the alpha and the omega. I am the Lord and Savior. I am...ColDayGod. - The Legend

I've got nothing. My parents moved to the Dayton area in 1978(?) when my Dad was in the Air Force at Wright-Patterson. During this stay my sister and I were born, then we moved away in 1984, and then back again in 1991. So, uh... one time my dad was chided by a woman for the dangerous act of carrying my sister (as a baby) across the street downtown near Rike's. There ya go- downtown shopping!

[insert rude, abrasive bitchslap here] - ColDay

OY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - ColDayMan

It's definitely... interesting, but I don't like it much. I think it sticks out like a sore thumb in the renderings. Something a bit more subtle would be nice. But I won't have to look at it every day, so if it's what Louisville really wants, then go nuts. :-)

Good to know! I don't take a whole lot of pictures on film these days, but I do have a bunch of slide film to use up, so I'll have to make sure I'm careful. It's a pain! (Clone stamp, bit by bit.) Here's the best I've done in removing power lines. Imagine three wires running right across the skyline.

Speaking of book signing, I checked the books out from the library the other day, and I just noticed that the urban one is a signed copy. I wonder how that ended up in the Wisconsin Historical Society stacks.

I've never really paid much attention to that clock. Looks fantastic!

When I was bored one Sunday at Ohio Wesleyan in the fall of '04, I met my parents at Hocking Hills. I really forget which area the following took place in, but it was the first place we stopped. Starting out on the trail takes you down a number of steps that descend through a tight gap between rocks, leading into one of those gorges bounded by pretty steep cliffs. Arriving at the bottom, we encountered some activity surrounding someone who we can only guess had fallen and probably broken something. We never could even see if this person was a man or woman, because the victim had been so bundled up by the time we got there that we could hardly see who was underneath. Anyway, rescue people were already there. Although this is not far from a parking lot and such, the only access is either down the stairs through the rocks, or across some trails from somewhere else. The solution? Haul the person right up the cliff! I have a lot of digital pictures that didn't turn out because of motion blur and things, but here are scans of three slides that came out okay. Near the bottom. The victim is strapped in the yellow thing, of course, and the rescue guy is attached. Back at the cliff face. Almost at the top. Yay! No more pictures, but they made it to the top without incident.

One thing that comes to mind is some housing units recently proposed on three of the corners at First and Patterson. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6986.0

Thanks for the replies so far! Rob, perhaps we should start a church? :-D MayDay, thanks for that tutorial; I hadn't discovered that method. Sometimes I have used the Lens Correction filter to adjust things like that, although it often seems to require further adjustment with transform tools to get it right. C-Dawg, I was hoping you'd pop in here since you're the main resident film guy. (Although I'm sure Rob has plenty of experience with his scanned Archives.) I think the importance of getting the picture right in the first place is much greater with film than digital; I find Photoshop adjustments much less effective on scanned photos, but then that might have to do with the scanning technology I have. Not that terrible digital photos can be saved, but there seems to be more room to improve them after the fact. ----------------------- Is there anyone here who has mastered the art of blending layers for a kind of composite shot? It's something I've messed with, and I'll show you what I have done, but I don't really know what I'm doing and was wondering if anybody could teach this subject. What may be my only example is this. A picture of Madison's "skyline" across the lake at night. The capitol dome is bright white and extremely well-lit, while the rest of the buildings... not so much. (Another good example would probably be including the moon in a night picture.) So, a picture with the buildings decently exposed makes the capitol way too bright and without detail. Without moving the camera, I take a picture in which the capitol is all right but everything else is too dark. (Shadow/Highlight does not seem very good for fixing a night shot like this.) So I open both images in Photoshop, put the dark on one top of the bright one as a new layer and position in properly, then go to the blending options in the layer properties of this new layer. Here's where I don't understand what I'm doing. The configuration shown seemed to give good results, but I don't really know what it means! Can anyone explain? I know that it made my "dark" layer blend with only the brightest parts of the other layer, but I don't quite understand those sliders. Anyway, after doing that and making a couple routine adjustments, my result is this.

There is a $1 house in my Madison zip, but I didn't list it.

(Sorry if this ought to go in the General Photos section, but I figured this one gets more traffic and might produce better results.) There are many excellent photographers here on the UrbanOhio forum, and I wondered if everyone might share tips and tricks they have for photography in general or for Photoshop, the latter since obviously most photos here are digital and often have been tweaked in Photoshop or something similar. Give us your secrets! Although I'm sure many people are quite familiar with this if they have a new enough version of Photoshop, my little contribution to get the ball rolling is this: Photoshop- The shadow/highlight tool is your new god! (Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight) If you don't know, basically it can be used to brighten dark areas of a photo without messing with the light areas. It really comes in handy for situations when there is a lot of contrast between bright and dark areas of the scene you're photographing. I count on this tool for pictures of shady things on bright, sunny days. For example, I exposed for the sky, not for the buildings, knowing that they will turn out dark. Exposing for the buildings would have washed out the sky, probably making it white. Then, after the shadow/highlight Photoshop magic: Yay! And then some fiddling with colors and stuff is often required, but the awesomeness is done. Just one word of warning: it does cause some graininess which increases the more you brighten it, so don't put your life entirely in its hands. Now it's everyone else's turn. Share your wisdom, even the simplest tips!

Yes, of course that's the definition of the word minority; I don't mean that they're inventing a new meaning of the word or anything. I just mean that the purpose of looking for minorities is as I described, which leads more toward those who are minorities at the national level, (or in any case some broad level), because those are the minorities who are perceived as disadvantaged.

I'm not entirely sure I get what you're asking, but I think my answer would be that consideration of "minorities" in terms of something like employment is not about matching the demographics of the city, but rather is about ensuring that opportunities are provided to groups of people who are commonly disadvantaged in society.

No SSN on my license! Speaking of bureaucratic hassle, apparently when I was renewing my license upon turning 21, they failed to shove some form or other in front of me to sign, and about a month later I got a notice in the mail stating something to that effect and that this somehow rendered my license invalid. So I had to go repeat the process, getting a new license (as opposed to just signing whatever was missing). No big deal, as I was not charged any fees for this second time around, but it seemed strange somehow, and I still have no idea which form was not signed.

Back in Beavercreek, 45434: Most expensive: $799,000 - 5 bedrooms, 5 baths (square feet not given), 3-5 acres Least expensive: $79,900 - 2 bed, 2 bath condo/townhouse, 1188 square feet Least expensive house: $89,000 - 2 bed, 1 bath, 998 square feet, built in 1900 Here in Madison, WI, 53703: Most expensive: $1,775,000 - townhouse, 3 bed, 3 bath, 4326 square feet Least expensive: $109,000 - condo, 1 bed, 1 bath, 640 square feet

I recall watchin a Law and Order episdoe (forget which L&O show) where somebody was at the train station and was about to go to Cincinnati. The thing that crossed my mind was that the poor soul was going to arrive in the middle of the night.

Yay, it's summer again!

Nice! I look forward to more in the future.

Excellent, I'd much rather thank the books than thank you. :-D I now anxiously wait for you to fill in the blank: "Back off, ______"

Well, I figured you be pretty pumped about the rating your city got... Heh... I'm not that easily excitable. :wink: But given their criteria, I can see why Madison would rank highly. Unless familieis are concerned about so-called "family values," in which case they might want to stay away. :-D