The first of these is the one I wanted to show last week. It shows Bobby Ray (B.W.'s brother), his wife Jennifer, and their daughter Belinda as they would have looked prior to their move to the farm. At the time, their home would be in Pineville, NC, a suburb between uptown Charlotte and the South Carolina border (and where James Polk, 11th president of the United States, was born in 1759). As seen in the caption, the montage is set in their last day living in their comfortable, spacious home before they moved in with their distant relatives. The home and truck came from files left for me by my teacher, Brady Poirier. The license plate is a mockup of a North Carolina state license plate I found online; the motto "first in flight" came from the state's Kitty Hawk being the location of Orville and Wilbur Wright's pioneering airplane flight in 1903. Barefoot Photography and Video is a self-contrived company with an interesting story. The "owner" is one of B.W.'s aunts, Ola. She started it in the pre-Rapture days as a young adult and ran it for a number of years. However, thanks to a resurrection body, she now acts like a 12-year-old but still owns the business!
Up next, I go back to the "Handy Jam." Here, I have assembled 11 people related to family patriarch Handy Barefoot. Their names are in the caption; in case you can't read them, they are Lollie, Allene, Labell, Annie, Popeye, Ralph, and Noah Jr. on the top row; and Elma, Becky, Brookie, and Beth on the bottom row. The picture is set on the afternoon of the event, during a break between the talent show and the start of the formal dinner party. It was a case of fitting their heads onto bodies from a picture of unknown models left in the folder by fellow Photoshop teacher Shelley Richey, who teaches Photoshop at night twice a week. Elma and Beth are two new characters; Elma is "played" by Arkansas real-estate agent Beverly Baldridge and for Beth, I brushed a new skin color from another photograph on top of the original picture. (I have placed that picture, that of an unknown cowgirl, below the main montage.) "We be jammin'" comes from a line added to "Lean On Me" - originally recorded by Bill Withers - when the reggae group Club Nouveau re-recorded it in 1983 for its only hit.
The final picture is the first using a image I created in 3D. Using such objects is easier in version CS6 and above than in previous versions, and here I turned an ordinary rectangle into an inner tube. I then made a duplicate and placed "half-uncle" Bryson and "half-niece" Belinda in the family's pond on a beautiful summer day. (Bryson and Belinda do not have any actual common parents; Bryson's mother married Belinda's grandfather after Bryson died the first time. They would be uncle and niece if they did.)
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