For the MyLot Queen of Kaleidoscopic Designs
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
May 13, 2016 11:54am CST
Two quick things here - This may show off my ability to read the guidelines (Don't post stuff addressed by name to a MyLotter), and to maybe start a little competition in the way of kaleidoscope-making.
I made a composite image of several garden flower "kalli" views. You can get a better look at the thing if you click on it - but I suppose you already know all about that clicking stuff.
I used a program called "GimPhoto" (a freebie) to make the kalli images and another program called "PhotoScape" (also a freebie to glue them together.) I got both of them from the aggregator website called "Sourceforge dot net."
I hope that you all will like the images and that our buddy, the REAL kaleidoscope queen here on MyLot also likes them.
By the way - the flowers in the images were all grown by my bride of several years. No way could I grow the things. My gardening thumbs are like two big toes on the ends of my two non-gardening hands. About all that I can do with flowers is to make photos of them after someone else grows them.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
14 May 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - Your garden is so nice that making view of it with the least of cameras would be an easy task that everyone would appreciate. As to the "Queen of the Kalli Pix" it would be safe to bet that anyone who has been on board MyLot for more than a week would know who it is. Hope it stays that way for many years to come.
I told my bride that I would try to grow a "peetunia" but that this agriculture would have to await the next giant rainstorm around here. So - guess where the thunder and lightning hit this evening...
Regards, Gus Kilthau 
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
27 Oct 16
@Ceerios I have no idea, Gus and Janet, @jaboUK who the 'Queen of the Kalli Pix' would be. I'd guess rebelann except she seemed excited when I said I was looking for how I did these some time ago. Now I don't remember which program I did use to make a garden picture kaleidoscope. I remember doing it, but that's about it.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
14 May 16
Nice ... I like these collages ...
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
14 May 16
@Ceerios oohh yes I know... I'm a photo nut...and love taking photos of flowers and making them into collages ..
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
14 May 16
@sueznewz2 - Ms Susan - Flowers look nice most of the time, especially when you can get a look at lots and lots of them all at the same time.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
14 May 16
@sueznewz2 - Ms Susan - Really nice pix of those tulip flowers. You are blessed with a good eye and a fine camera in front of it.
There is a good image splitter program (a freebie) that you can D/L from sourceforge dot net. Its name is "PosteRazor." You can use it to get multiple images from a single image with which to "paste together" the multiples into a great big wall poster using a small printer. I use my 30-dollar Canon printer and it works just nicely. The largest poster I ever made thus far is one that is made up from 25 separate 8.5x11 matte photo paper printouts. I stick them together with dual sided sticky tape and then fortify the backside of the papers with regular sticky tape. PosteRazor (the splitter) works best with "tiff" images, but it also works with jpegs.
Have fun - Gus Kilthau
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