On This Day

I wanted to upload a photo I had taken on this day last year, but apparently I hadn’t taken any.  Way to go past me!  However, while pouring through my iPhoto library I found a photo I added on this day and it has a bit of a story!  I added this photo to my library on 19 May 2009:

Yes, it is supposed to look like that.  It’s saturated and contrasty and rather awful.  I blame it on the MacBook I was using at the time.  And exhaustion.  I had originally mutilated this image in January/February of last year to to showcase the logo which I proudly made for this site.  The outcome was this:

Apparently I cut back on the blur, but spared no contrast or saturation.  This remained my masthead for quite some time until I grew to hate the template I was using.  It was too dark and didn’t feel very welcoming so I updated the template to the lovely and more sparse one you can see here now.  After getting the new theme up and running I ran out of steam.  By the time I got around to updating the default masthead with my logo I had upgraded my OS which caused me to lose compatibility with several older programs I was using and had loved.

(The theme you see now may or may not be the one I’m talking about here for those of you reading this post in the future.  For those of you who travel about in blue boxes which are bigger on the inside, you also may see something dramatically different.  If you are viewing this at a time/place/dimension where I’ve made some very different stylistic choices, please just imagine a very simple white background with black and greyish-blue sans-serif typefaces.)

This week I finally started to get set up on my iMac and quickly mashed together the red thing you see at the top of the page.  I took that picture with my iPhone and Hipstamatic a while ago and I liked the red color.  I’m not totally sold on it for the long-term but we shall see what happens.  Any thoughts on the one below?  Do you like it better or worse than the current spicy red thing?