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On Thursday 10 August 2017, the last full day of activity in the daisytrail gallery, there was an event.

The event was a wacky races style race from Nottingham to the Mall in London, though by way of anywhere in the world.

I contributed a sequence of images, and I am now conserving them in this thread.

I started at around 9:00 am on Thursday and finished around 1:00 am on Friday morning, at various sessions on the computer during the day.

I did not have the story preplanned, it just developed as I went along, with only one or two future images in mind when producing a particular image.

I present the story here with asterisks separating pictures so that readers may muse on the story as it unfolds if they wish, perhaps trying to think what they would have as the next picture if they were trying to continue the writing of the story.

William Overington

Saturday 12 August 2017

A total of fifteen images.

I managed to include into the story another suggested story of a trip to the moon.

Most of the images are from CraftArtist digikits.

The three images of the Space Cruiser I made from a Space Cruiser 3d model from ImpactPlus 5. I changed the colour and made three images each by rotating the 3d model within the ImpactPlus 5 scene space and then exporting a 2d image from ImpactPlus 5 with a transparent background, the third image also including the image of the moon. ImpactPlus 5 dates from 2004, yet here it is in use in 2017 on a computer running Windows 10. I applied the images within CraftArtist 2.0 by using the Insert Photo From File... facility of the CraftArtist 2.0 program.

The font used is Goudita SF Bold at a 36 point size.

I really enjoyed producing the images and uploading them among other images that were being produced by other people who were also posting images of their own for the race.

A memorable experience.

William

I will try.

The tortoise from SteamPunk Emporium.

The signpost from CS London Landmarks, used three times, in one image with part of it blanked off.

The balloon from SteamPunk Adventures.

The Elizabeth Tower from CS London Landmarks.

The Eiffel Tower from CS Parisian Spring.

The grass from next to the Eiffel Tower is from CS Parisian Spring.

The flying machine from SteamPunk Adventures.

The medal from Sports Day 2012. That is intersting because that digikit was mentioned when the race was being suggested and it was a free digikit and I downloaded it as a result of it being mentioned.

The pyramids from SteamPunk Adventures.

The Dodo from SteamPunk Adventures.

Antarctica is from CS Manhattan Winter, where it is a rather smaller piece of ice with land beneath it.

I used the technique of starting with the first CraftArtist project and then commencing each subsequent image with a Save As... from the previous CraftArtist project, thus keeping the images available and also keeping the line of lettering in the same place. After each change of the text I centred the lettering object horizontally on the page.

For one caption I used two lines of text, so for the next image I copied the text object from the image before that so as to keep the vertical alignment of a single line caption the same as before.

William

Thank you.

I need to point out that although I suggested an event, the specific ideas for the format came from at least three other ideas from other people. Alas I forget exactly who suggested what.

One suggestion was a journey to the moon.

Another suggestion was for a race around London ending in The Mall, but where to start.

Another suggestion was that the race could start in Nottingham, yet could go anywhere in the world on the way.

Not to forget that I had the idea for an event at all from the fact that someone had suggested a virtual trip to the seaside some time previously and that had happened some time previously.

So what happened was very much from a mixture of ideas from a number of people.

Which was good as it was part of the happy friendly community of the daisytrail forum and gallery.

William