Icons are for the birds. And mountains, and lakes, and tribal people.

[jackshoegazer]

As requested by the exquisite antarcticlust, I present a collection of icons from National Geographic's Photo of the Day Archive.

SAMPLES:



01. 02. 03.

04. 05. 06.

07. 08. 09.

10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21.

22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30.

31. 32.

Comments

[xxxdirtyblvd.livejournal.com]

these are wonderful
especially 2, 3, 23, 27

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Excellent shoices :)

[angeldvsu.livejournal.com]

awesome as always!!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[maesstria.livejournal.com]

Oh!I love your icons.They are always interesting.:)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I appreciate that.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Excellent work. You should do more series like this in the future. I love how you took these images and made them your own. I'll definitely be using some of these, and I especially like:

1,3,5,10, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, and 32. ::whew!::

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot :)

Yeah, I was skeptical because I didn't think I'd be making them my own, but I managed :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

You dork, you can't post these both in YOUR journal AND your journal community! :) That defeats the purpose. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sure I can. I post it in my journal for the people who read my journal and I have every other post in the other icon communities linked to the post in iconomicon, so everyone, all the strangers are directed to the community, not my personal journal.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

So what's the point of your flist being a member of iconomicon?!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I suppose there isn't one. The community is mostly to keep the icon people from flooding my personal flist if it's icons theyre just interested in. I might phase out icon posts to my regular journal eventually and just mention in my "here's what I'm up to" posts that I've updated it.

[omnedai.livejournal.com]

what is that effect you use on most of them?
i don't know how to describe it.
maybe you just alter the hue a bit?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Basically. I use a four-layer hue adjustment. First, I use a very, almost-black dark blue on an exclusion later, then above that, a olive-to-black gradient on soft light, then a tan-to-black gradient of soft light, then top it off with a light blueish/violet color burn. It makes a lot of the colors really POP and gives some photos that 70's polaroid look. I lurve it :)

[laboli.livejournal.com]

snagging #3 (yay, pinguens) and #16. Wonderful icons..but then again I am not surprised :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) Enjoy you aminals :D

[laboli.livejournal.com]

I was hoping you wouldn't catch on to my "i" and "e" mishap. Why can't English be spelled like Spanish? *angry fist*

[happymama04.livejournal.com]

NEAT!!
I always look forward to your icon posts!!
I took 10,12 & 32!!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I love 10 :) It turned out so much better than I thought it would!