“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

Commencement address by Steve Jobs,
CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios,
delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.

How will these dots be connected? I really don’t know.

Lewiston, Idaho & Clarkston, Washington
Confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers

This is my first post to Planet #photogeeks. I’ve come across some pretty interesting little imagemagick commands that I’ve applied to the above photo. Dr Drang at “And now it’s all this” got me started with all this.

I’ve always wanted to be able to add a 1px black border to my images. On the web I’ve been able to do that with the “border=1″ html tag. Sometimes that was a little messy for whatever reason so adding the border to the image is neater. Here is the simple command to add a 1 px border to an image.

convert -bordercolor black -border 1x1 input.jpg output.jpg

I also added the little watermark and I’m going to work on something a little more elagent. Here is how I did it.

convert -size 100x25 xc:none -gravity center -stroke black -strokewidth 2 -annotate 0 'willsimpson.org' -channel RGBA -blur 0x3 -stroke none -fill white -annotate 0 'willsimpson.org' +size input.jpg +swap -gravity south -geometry +0-2 -composite output.jpg

Here is a link to a YouTube video show just what can happen when just one person strives to change the world. Crank up the sound and enjoy! Another bodhisattva in action.