While in Las Vegas Kyle, Rob, and I stopped at a Peter Lik photo gallery.  His gallery in Caesar’s Palace is breath taking (as I stated on Twitter but spelled breath wrong).  I didn’t know he had a gallery in the Venetian and Mandalay Bay, else I would have been sure to fit those in too.
As I was going through my photos from Las Vegas, which I’m still not done publishing yet, I thought of framing them the way Peter Lik does. Â Peter Lik’s framing work is what makes his work so great. Â If he has a photo of bamboo from South East Asia, he actually uses bamboo to frame the over-sized photo. If you’ve never been to a Peter Lik gallery, and you’re a photo nut, please do yourself a favor and drop in.
Then I had a thought. If I’m going to turn some of these photos into header images for my site, why not “frame” them the way Peter Lik would. Â I can’t, without a lot of work, wrap my site in bamboo shoots. But I can, at the very least, change the background color of my site to “frame” the header.
So that is what I’ve now done. Â Refresh this or any page of my site to see some of the color / photo combinations I have so far. Â As of this writing there are 15 combinations ((As soon as I can I will create a page for you to be able to view them all without the need of refreshing so often.)).
Oh, as an aside: By removing that old paper bag background I also slimmed my page load time quite a lot. So there is a double-benefit! Â I think the paper bag background was around 214Kb.
Hi Colin:
It looks really good. I like it. Good color selection!
Great idea, Colin. I love the color combinations I’ve seen so far.
Chris and, well, umm, Chris: Thanks to both of you!
This post would not be complete without a third Chris leaving some props. I like the new look my friend.