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Aamora chose Feb 2012 to spread iPhoneography ❤

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Aamora contributing member Peter Voigt, an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark, is our official Doodle-King.. View his website, his JPG Magazine profile, circle him on Google +, or visit his aamora contributions.

Jerusalem Scarf Fashion

by Peter Voigt

A scarf can be many things . . .

A means of oppression; upholding of gender roles.

A natural part of daily life.

A way of avoiding unwanted attention.

A way of creating mystery & intrigue.

A way of preserving & defending cultural identity in foreign, sometimes unfriendly, surroundings.

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Aamora member Peter Voigt, an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark, is our first & official Doodle-King. View his website, work at JPG Magazine, circle him on Google + or visit his other aamora contributions.

Aamora Friends,

Thank you all for being with us

through out 2011!

Echoes

by Diane Peterson, John Linton & Peter Voigt

Trio Collaboration in Aamora’s Project Triptych:
Diane Peterson, John Linton & Peter Voigt

Note: Triptych Example: 550 pixels width x 1060 pixels tall

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American photographer Diane Peterson is an aamora.com member living on the northern prairies of Idaho using a collection of analog & digital cameras. View Diane’s work on her website, her blog, at holgaville or aamora.

John Linton is aamora’s floundering member living in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the state with the biggest name and smallest size. View John’s work on his Flickr stream, JPG Magazine or aamora.

Aamora member Peter Voigt is an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark & our first and only official Doodle-King. View his website, his work on JPG Magazine, circle him on Google + or visit his aamora contributions.

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Anita

by Peter Voigt

Aamora Project Triptych: Solo in Photography 
Aamora Contributing Member: Peter Voigt with Anita
Note: Triptych example = 550 pixels width x 407 pixels tall

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Aamora contributing member Peter Voigt is an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark; Peter’s the first & only Aamora Doodle-King. View his work on his website, on JPG Magazine, on Google + or aamora.

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Triptych in Photoshop Tutorial

by Peter Voigt

"Anita" original image

A Photoshop tutorial for a single image, divided into three panels & adding drop shadows.

Getting started, open your image in Photoshop. Under View verify checkmarks in all the Snap To options.

Follow the steps below to transform your image into a similar triptych to the larger one you see below.

"Anita" three panel triptych

PLACE VERTICAL GUIDES 

Placing vertical guides at one third and two thirds on the original image

1. Select View; New Guide, 
2. Choose Vertical; enter 33.33% in Position; 
3. Place a vertical guide at two thirds (entering 66.66% in Position)

SELECT PANEL CONTENT

1. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) 
2. Decide content of first panel by pointing curser to the upper left corner of the panel & drag out. Keep the mouse depressed while pressing the space bar; move the selection up & to the left, make sure the selection starts precisely at the upper left corner (it is OK to move it a little past the left side of the image and a little above the upper side of the image as the outside of the image will not be selected when the selection is done). Keep the mouse depressed & release the space bar, and continue the selection downwards and to the right, until it snaps to the the first guide and the bottom side of the image. The full first panel for the left side should now be selected.
3. Now add a new layer containing the left panel: Right click inside selection; select Layer via Copy. Repeat these steps with the middle & right panels. For each panel, make sure that the background layer is selected before choosing Layer via Copy. (You can remove the guides as we don’t need them anymore: View -> Clear Guides).

LAYING OUT THE PANELS

1. De-activate the background layer by clicking on the eye sign to the left of the layer icon. You may also delete it if you don’t want to keep it in the file (but remember to save the resulting file under a new name if you don’t have a copy anywhere else).
2. Select the Move Tool (V), select the layer containing the left panel & click somewhere inside the left panel; Hold down the shift key; press the left arrow key 4 times to move the left panel to the left; Select the layer containing the right panel, hold down the shift key and press the right arrow key 4 times. This moves the right panel 40 pixels to the right.
3. Since both the left and the right panel have now been moved outside the canvas, we extend the canvas as to show the full width of both panels: Select the menu item Image -> Canvas Size, select pixels in the list to the right of the Width field, make sure that Relative is checked and that Canvas extension color is set to White;
4. Enter 80 in the Width field, since we have added a total of 40+40=80 pixels in the width. The full width of the the left and right panels should now be revealed.
5. Now, we extend the canvas further, as to put a 40 pixel border around the whole image. Repeat the previous step, but now enter 80 in both the Width field and the Height field (same settings in other fields as before). This expands the canvas a total of 80 pixels vertically and horizontally, adding 40 pixels on each side. (Of course the two previous steps can be combined by calculating the total canvas expansion needed in each direction. This two-step process just makes more sense to me).
6. To check that the borders around each picture have the same width, zoom well into the picture, and count the small squares of the opaque background in both the horizontal and vertical borders. Zoom out again.

ADD WHITE BACKGROUND 

We’ll now create a white background to frame the panels.

1. Select Layer -> New -> Layer… with default settings (Color None, Mode Normal, Opacity 100%). Drag the layer down below the three panel layers. Select Edit -> Fill… and choose White as fill color. Press OK.
2. There should now be a nice 40-pixel border around each panel. Of course the same principles as above can be used to make a wider border and/or maybe have an outer border which is wider than the inner spacing between panels.

ADD DROP SHADOWS 

We’ll now add a drop shadow around each panel, lifting them off background. 

1. Select the layer containing the left panel; 
2. Click fx in the bottom of the layer window and choose Drop Shadow…
3. In the pop-up menu that appears; Place a check mark at Drop Shadow

CHOOSE THE FOLLOWING DROP SHADOW PARAMETERS:

Blend Mode: Multiply
Opacity:75%
Angle: 45°
Distance: 10px
Spread:0%
Size: 16px
Noise: 0%
Stroke: Checkmark
Contour:(1st option)
Anti Aliased: No Checkmark
Use Global Light: Checkmark
Layer Knocks Out Drop Shadow: Checkmark

CHOOSE THE FOLLOWING STROKE PARAMETERS:

Size: 4px
Position: Inside
Blend Mode: Normal
Opacity: 100%
Fill Type: Color
Color: Black

In general, make sure there is a checkmark at Preview when you set parameters so you can see the change on the resulting drop shadow as you experiment with different parameters (I mainly experimented with Drop Shadow parameters Angle, Distance, Size, and the Stroke parameter Size).

Now copy the drop shadow settings from the left panel layer to the middle panel layer: Alt-click the fx symbol in the left panel layer and drag it down on the middle panel layer.

Repeat the previous step with the right side layer; A subtle drop shadow will surround each panel.

Your triptych is now done! 

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Aamora member Peter Voigt is an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark & our first and only official Doodle-King. View his website, his work on JPG Magazine, circle him on Google + or visit his aamora contributions.

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Birds

by Peter Voigt

Aamora Project Triptych

Solo in Photography

Peter Voigt with Birds 

Note: Triptych example = 550 pixels width x 1628 pixels tall

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Aamora member Peter Voigt is an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark & our first and only official Doodle-King. View his website, his work on JPG Magazine, circle him on Google + or visit his aamora contributions.

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Aamora Friends, please help us welcome

Photographer Peter Voigt

as an aamora contributing member

Many Aamora friends already know the name Peter Voigt. Peter was crowned, The Doodle King back in February 2011 when he essentially stole the show in our contest.

Peter went on to becoming an active member in the Aamora Annex project and was inspirational in the original thread of ideas which led to the beginnings of our Aamora Carnival Project.

Peter is an amateur photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark. We welcome  Peter’s inspiring ideas and photograpy and we are especially glad to say we now have our very first & official aamora.com Doodling photographer member.

View his website, his work on JPG Magazine. You can also circle him on Google + or visit his ongoing aamora contributions.

Welcome Peter!

Aamora Project Carnival
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We posted this image and invited you to submit words to go with it. We are more than pleased with the response – from new faces and aamora members and old friends. We haven’t chosen a “winner” – if we get enough comments below about which one(s) you like best, maybe there’ll be prizes!

1. Iliena Bosu  New Delhi, India iliena.bosu@gmail.com

Some More Contemplation

So many things I already know,
So many things I am yet to learn about.
So many memories I shall always cherish,
Some sad ones too will hold out.
So much that needs to be forgotten.
I am still to forgiven by so many.
Move on one more time,
Without fearing any.
To love again and yet again,
I want to be born yet again & more.
Each time, my love dies a woeful death,
I want to be there to mourn.
So many tunes I left half hummed to learn some song anew,
So many feelings I let go by just to hold on to few.
I have but one life now,
There is so much more that needs to be done.
Touch every heart, to begin with, bring hope to others, for one.

…..

2. F3lixP Coimbra, Portugal f3xpgm@gmail.com
As I walk along this street
I realize how this world
Became a positive chaos,
Everyday it’s a new challenge,
A new experience.
Being who I am,
A wavering dynamic creature,
Every step that I take,
It’s a piece of art.
This is my perspective,
This is my reality
Within a dreamy living.
Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr

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3. Evelyn Nave evelynnave@gmail.com
Dagmar,
Her overnight bag held tightly
In her outraged fist,
Walked out of his life as
Swiftly
As he’d walked into hers.
Married. Of course he was.
The married ones
All make the best boyfriends.
Not for the first time,
Nor the last,
She considered switching teams.
She might have better lucks with girls.

…..

4. Llorenç Rosanes

She was limping because the world was limping under her feet and she was trying to balance it with every step.
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5. Jim Ford
I have
Rushed
Through life,
Only stopping
Now and again
To wonder.

When will it
All be complete?
One day midstride
It became so clear,
When you walk off your feet.

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6. Leanna Lomanski
The fall of a step, heavy with despair
The catch of breath, in thick morning air
The beat of a heart too weighty to bear
The death of love.
All is forgotten; Nothing is forgotten
All is forgiven; Nothing is forgiven
Hurry hurry now, no turning back
No opportunity taken for reconciliation.
View more work on her website

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7. John Linton
The Bench
The Kid sat there every day since he’d quit Goldman Sachs, thinking about what had happened. He’d followed the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs run by Carl Levin and Tom Coburn and read their 650 page report, Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Collapse. Now he was sitting on the bench reading the Rolling Stone article The People vs Goldman Sachs with a smile on his face as people walked by in a blur. Mike Taibbi could rant all he wanted about the criminal behavior of upper management at Goldman Sachs…The Kid doubted anything would come of it.

The article closed with: “This isn’t just a matter of a few seedy guys stealing a few bucks. This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it. But the prominence of this bank and the high-profile nature of this confrontation with a powerful Senate committee makes this a political story as well. If the Justice Department fails to give the American people a chance to judge this case-if Goldman Sachs skates without so much as a trial-it will confirm once and for all the embarrassing truth: that the law in America is subjective, and crime is defined not by what you did, but by who you are.”

The Kid got to thinking…Maybe it was time to take that nest egg he’d taken from the Old Man, nurtured at Goldman Sachs, and use it for law school. With what he knew about the workings of Wall Street he was sure he wouldn’t have trouble finding a job working for the New York State Attorney General and he was sure that Wall Street would still be up to its old tricks.

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8. Peter Voigt
ESC  
It was never you
Who made the choice
To turn away
And just be free.
It was the daemon escapist
Who always gets to run the show
When the people pleaser has had Enough!
Suppressing who you really are Into the numbing light
Into the soothing rhythm of the night.
The daemon claims his prize
And all is bliss for just a little while
No one will ever really know the you who struggle with the two unless you choose to end the fight by pleasing only you.
I wish you well and hope that somewhere along the way you’ll have the strength to be the person that you really are and thus be truly free

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9. Aaron Schwartz
Lament
It’s not a stage:
No sanctity.
We’re not players:
No skill.
We’re not strutting:
Out our time:
No time
No time.
Iambic trophes can never show us how
The world comes in and takes us all away.
Pentameter our fingers not our soul
Do not pretend that words describe the way.

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Founder of aamora.com, Aaron Schwartz, is a photographer, actor, lawyer, writer, and flaneur based in Toronto. You can view more of Aaron’s work at his website, on JPG Magazine, or on aamora.com.

Aamora.com member Peter Voigt stole the show in our first doodle contest. Peter’s a photographer from Copenhagen, Denmark. View his website, JPG Magazine, circle him on Google + or his aamora.com contributions.

John Linton is aamora.com’s floundering member living in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the state with the biggest name and smallest size. View more of John’s work on his Flickr stream, JPG Magazine or aamora.com.

Welcome to our first installment of

The Aamora Carnival Project

Word’s spreading and we’re no longer going to be able to keep our project under wraps. Yes, planning is in the works for an Aamora Carnival. Some of you following along on facebook have seen a glimpse of what’s in the mix for this international carnival of all carnivals.

{Guy Like Me by Jolie Buchanan}

Is this thing for real?  Is there really going to be an Aamora Carnival? Just where can a guy like me sign up? (see below) …

{Bond Street Clown by Jim Ford}

There can’t be a carnival without canned clown …

{Masks Too by Catharine Amato}

We’ll need masks too, only 10 euro in Venice …

{Costume by Sonia Adams Murray}

We’ll need costumes …

{Carnival Food by Aaron Schwartz}

and food vendors, lotsa food vendors …

{Carnival Flower Baskets by Peter Voigt}

We’ll bring in some flowers for the carnival …

{Ferris Wheel by Gail Anderson}

and we’ll need fun rides; everyone loves the ferris wheel …

{Sweet Ride by Skip Hunt}

and various carnival trinkets and knick-knacks …

{Carnival Religion by Danielle Kelly}

{Big Balls by John Linton}

Stay tuned for our next installment …

Aamora welcomes guest submissions for the ongoing Carnival Project in the form of photographs, videos, artworks and/or writings. All submissions will be taken into consideration for publishing.

For submissions: Forward inquiries to aamora.com@gmail.com
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Aamora contributors to Carnival installment #1: Jim Ford, Jolie Buchanan, John Linton, Danielle Kelly, Aaron Schwartz, Peter Voigt, Gail Anderson, Catharine Amato, Skip Hunt, Sonia Adam Murray

Aamora Project Carnival – 1
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