Comments on: My aunt’s Maple tree right now… https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:11:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SteveS https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27448 SteveS Sun, 06 Oct 2013 13:32:59 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27448 Nice looking tree. My wife wanted a maple for the autumn colors so we planted one called Autumn Blaze 3 years ago in the front yard. Still small but doing well and producing many leaves for me to pick up. The trunk is growing straight so I think we will remove the 2 support post along the sides of the trunk after this winters storms. Nice looking tree.

My wife wanted a maple for the autumn colors so we planted one called Autumn Blaze 3 years ago in the front yard. Still small but doing well and producing many leaves for me to pick up. The trunk is growing straight so I think we will remove the 2 support post along the sides of the trunk after this winters storms.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27420 TB Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:43:40 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27420 <p>It's just a rush job.</p> Mostly the "stamp" tool, that takes a nearby piece of background and paints it over things. Very useful for work that isn't going to get a really close look, or fairly low resolution. Backgrounds with geometric patterns instead of random "fractal" ones like clouds or leaves are harder. Taking the wires off the front of the house took a little "cut and paste" and matching. Best work is when I do a photo myself, and can photograph the foreground objects and then shoot the background separately from a fixed tripod shot. Then it's just layer work and erasing. In movies, computers do this stuff almost magically. It’s just a rush job.

Mostly the “stamp” tool, that takes a nearby piece of background and paints it over things. Very useful for work that isn’t going to get a really close look, or fairly low resolution.

Backgrounds with geometric patterns instead of random “fractal” ones like clouds or leaves are harder. Taking the wires off the front of the house took a little “cut and paste” and matching.

Best work is when I do a photo myself, and can photograph the foreground objects and then shoot the background separately from a fixed tripod shot. Then it’s just layer work and erasing. In movies, computers do this stuff almost magically.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27419 Jody Fri, 04 Oct 2013 03:54:45 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27419 My Aunt and Uncle are peculiar....like their niece. I was going through a really bad time in my life ten years ago and stayed with them for two weeks. They saved my life. I was treated like royalty and their kindness still brings tears to my eyes. They are 85 now. I love that house and the people in it. :) My Aunt and Uncle are peculiar….like their niece.

I was going through a really bad time in my life ten years ago and stayed with them for two weeks. They saved my life. I was treated like royalty and their kindness still brings tears to my eyes. They are 85 now. I love that house and the people in it. :)

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27418 FrankC Fri, 04 Oct 2013 03:20:52 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27418 The crop got a lot of it but still some things that look very hard to me. The lines in front of the trees look hard to take out. I would think it has to be cloning but I doubt I could pull it off as well The crop got a lot of it but still some things that look very hard to me. The lines in front of the trees look hard to take out. I would think it has to be cloning but I doubt I could pull it off as well

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27417 FrankC Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:01:37 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27417 I reminds me a lot of my grandparents home in Amory MS. No Maple but a nice Magnolia in nearly the same place. I reminds me a lot of my grandparents home in Amory MS. No Maple but a nice Magnolia in nearly the same place.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27416 DanS Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:52:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27416 Yeah, I'm an old pixel counter from way back. Yeah, I’m an old pixel counter from way back.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27415 TB Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:44:33 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27415 Nah. Ten minutes. Maybe fifteen. Nah. Ten minutes. Maybe fifteen.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27414 DanS Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:43:25 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27414 Someone's got too much time on his hands. Someone’s got too much time on his hands.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27413 Jody Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:42:03 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27413 Thanks Tom! ...a couple of awesome people live there. This is about a mile from where I grew up. Thanks Tom!

…a couple of awesome people live there.
This is about a mile from where I grew up.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/03/my-aunts-maple-tree-right-now/#comment-27412 TB Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:33:50 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38859#comment-27412 Too many lines? Here ya go. <img src="http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Aunt-Bettys-Maple-tree_wireless.jpg" alt="" /> Too many lines?

Here ya go.

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