325 - Ride the Network

Day 325. Again with the grid of images, I really do like the effect of using Diptic to assemble parts of a larger image into a fragmented composition. These images are part of the Sydney rail network, flipped, mirrored, aged, effected, filtered.

292 - Suburban Circuitry

Day 292. I installed an extension for Chrome called Earth View from Google Maps. It brings up a beautiful high-res satellite image of some random place on earth each time you open a new tab in Chrome. I like it. When I opened it tonight I was shown a picture of suburbia and it looked a lot like an electronic circuit board. That visual connection inspired this little grid of images.

What if this planet is really just one big giant organic computer? What if our movements on it are just an organic equivalent of electrons flowing through a circuit? What if the earth has been signed by Slartibartfast? What if Douglas Adams was right?

073 - Playground Textures

Day 73. It's easy to overlook the interesting things in our daily environment. For today's daily create I wandered around our school playground and took 9 photographs with my iPad mini looking directly at the playground from above. While taking these perpendicular shots I was looking for interesting textures and shapes and patterns. I then arranged them into this 3x3 grid using Diptic to create this final result.

There is something about grid layouts that really appeal to me, even going right back to my days at art school in the 80s. I often found myself coming up with visual ideas that were based on grid layouts. Not sure why, I just like them.
I want to offer a hat tip to Ross Wallis for this idea. Ross is a fellow Adobe Education Leader from the UK. He mentioned this idea to me several years ago at an Adobe Summer Institute in San Jose and he was originally making these photo grid designs using InDesign.