It's been quite some time since I've posted here on the blog, and I have a few minutes this morning to get caught up. The biggest online...

"Another Set at Club Noir de Mer" My fascination with variations on the film noir aesthetic continues, mostly placing the tropes in an...

Here we are in a new year and big things are afoot at the Lazy River Design Works store. The last time I posted was mid-December, and...

Yesterday, I wrote a post on social media and here that outlined as many of the arguments against AI-generated imagery as I could think...

I just started using the AI art engine, Midjourney. I have many thoughts, but as always I am short on time. While I'm processing and...

The original source photos of the plates used to make these designs were posted on Pixabay by tunaolger. One of the few drawbacks of...

Keen-eyed observers will have noticed by now that much of my creative output has a certain finish, a look or style that is present to...

Taking photos with Rowan of Hawaiian shirts and bucket hats from the Lazy River. Merchandise IRL via print-on-demand and dropshipping.

My last post asked you to "Please stand by" because of working on the new online store. And, it turns out, with good reason. I'm very...

Yep. I've decided to take the plunge and open a stand-alone, print-on-demand, dropshipping online store, a site with its own name and url...

I spent some time in my last post, What Do Magnum PI, Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys, and Hunter S. Thompson Have in Common? talking...

A big part of my overall plan to create a sustainable income stream from my creative work is figuring out what products I want to sell....

My Great Big Europe Trip of 2005, referenced many times throughout this blog, had the explicit goal of collecting as many photographs of...

Win an original WhyTheAlgarve t-shirt! My amazing wife, Lisa, suggested recently that I hold a contest and give away a free, original...

As I recently wrote when I posted the above image on Facebook, "I think I'm narrowing in on something." I'm discovering (well,...

One of the techniques I have been spending a lot of time with is what I have been calling "cartoonification," the process of turning a...

Anyone who likes to mess around with digital images and image editing and who also doesn't want to steal intellectual property is always...

Alone in Kyoto Photo by Simon Jowett, published as Public Domain in the Creative Commons via Flickr. Here is his description: "Today I...