When I heard that my friend Ash we'll have a surprise party for Ash, celebrating his 40th birthday, I immediately knew what do I want to bring him - a T-shirt with a mosaic of 40 of his pictures and a big number 40. I already had many of his photos from last dozen blurry ears we worked together, so only thing I was missing was photos from younger Ash, and his wife Roomi happily provided that.

Look at this photo, squint your eyes, and you should be able to see big 40 in the middle of the photo. Intentionally blurry, like a vision of an old man, the photo subtly shows what happens with years. :)

If you ever want to play with mosaics, check out Andrea Mosaic software. It is great! I rarely use it, but when I need something similar - there is more options to fine tune your pics than you want to use. This time I still ended up manually adjusting a few things, but at least it gave me initial setup.

I did many T-shirts in the past, but I still managed to make a fair number of mistakes. There were technical issues with printer drivers getting lost, even after a fresh installation, with twice mirrored paper, iron-on papers behaving differently, ... All together I printed 7 times before it turned out similar to what I have imagined. I even had to go to the store twice. First to get extra shirts, and 2nd time to exchange them for a proper size. :(