Motel
Shot taken May 13, 2011, on iPod touch 4 - Wallpapered December 20, 2011
This was taken on a drive on the way home from my community college in May 2011. I can't quite remember exactly why I snapped a photo here, but I ended up going back to it some months down the line after I began making desktop wallpapers from photos I'd taken, and after playing with this one it turned out to be a nice fit.
After the inconsistencies introduced in "Leafy", I decided to use 2x2 pixels for all my wallpapers to make it easier for resolutions that did not easily divide by four. This was the first picture in which I adopted this new technique, and I still run with it to this day. (I even made a 4x4 version of 1920x1080, but quickly remembered the 1680x1050 fiasco and changed my mind on that one.) I also extended the range of resolutions I covered again.
This is easily one of my favorite photos, especially of my early bunch. Kinda wishing I had a better camera than the iPod touch at the time, but such is life. It's also the oldest photo I've worked with, predating my idea by five months or so!
The above text was written on May 11, 2021, with the design of this gallery. The following text was my original commentary on the DeviantArt submission, as well as in a forum post, before I started including it in text files:
Taken at the Raven Motel in Media, PA. Applied another Atari 800/Commodore Plus 4 palette (and dithering) to this image.
I've doubled the resolution of the base images compared to my past wallpapers. This is to keep the 1024x600 and 1680x1050 versions consistent with the others.