GIMP Intelligent Background Eraser

Here’s a plugin for the GIMP that you can use to erase the background.. a Windows .exe is included, and source but not a Makefile. My interest doesn’t extend to writing one unfortunately!

Gimp plugin for “intelligent Erasor”
replace the selection with an interpollated background. If the border along the selection is relatively continuous, i.e. a pretty boring background, then this tool works as an erasor.

School Days in Mennonite Country

The author has 3 nice photos in this photo essay although his concerns in the last part are something to think about – is it an invasion of privacy and immoral to take these photos? I don’t think so, but I thought the photos could have been much better if the author had been able to photograph the kids from the front instead of shooting their backs and arousing suspicions.
Street photography is almost always difficult and add to that, on a “lonely country road” I can’t imagine any kids who’d stop to have their photograph taken by a stranger..