In this version i used the field blur option in photoshop to slightly blur the background cityscape. I also used it on a couple of the distant house roofs and water.

I also used the jpeg version instead of the png24. This reduced the file size from 907.1K to 122.9K of the jpeg.

The image I chose for this was the .png24. Looking at the three images – the jpg, gif, and png – I didn’t really see that much difference on the screen. The gif colour seemed a bit better, while the png seemed smoother. I could just be imagining that. It is not a big screen. For whatever reason, overall I thought the png looked ‘about right’.

Instead of doing actual drawing sketches, I was collecting images (as I found them and thought of them), cutting them out and just placing them in random little collages and the idea formed that way. There was some development while I was working on the final image.

While thinking about living in an environmentally sensitive way – growing food, solar panels, recycling, water tanks etc. – I read a quote by Ansel Adams.

‘It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.’

Thinking about this, I realised that while government continue to live in denial and people talk about living in an environmentally sensitive way, we continue to vote for morally bankrupt leaders focussed on middle class populist ideals, build unsustainable and insensitive structures, consume unsustainable products, support multi-national  corporations and economic rationalism.